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May. 29th, 2008 11:29 am![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png)
When Suki and Rei return to the subway platform after that afternoon's salvage run, the rest of the survivors are gone.
The two girls arrived several weeks ago, escaping from the monsters and the destroyed city above to take shelter in these underground tunnels. Here, they found natives of this world's Tokyo—the unlucky ones, the ones who had been unable to escape—hiding out, clinging to each other and to the faint hope that they might still be rescued. It had been many days since anyone had left the tunnels, the pair quickly learned, and none who had ventured out had ever returned. As such, those that remained were all pitifully starving to death when the girls found them.
Unable to leave the terrified people to their inevitable demise, Suki and Rei started making trips to street level in order to gather supplies and keep them sustained. Through the course of these daring raids the warrior and the priest have developed a grudging respect for one another: Rei, Suki confesses, knows her way around the city and can be counted on to tell when the danger is at its worst, and Suki, as Rei has learned, always comes up with ways to get them out of tight spots. Though neither of them will admit it aloud, they make a good team. A team the survivors have counted on, and hailed as heroes.
Which is why, now, the lifeless platform gives them bewildered pause.
The two girls arrived several weeks ago, escaping from the monsters and the destroyed city above to take shelter in these underground tunnels. Here, they found natives of this world's Tokyo—the unlucky ones, the ones who had been unable to escape—hiding out, clinging to each other and to the faint hope that they might still be rescued. It had been many days since anyone had left the tunnels, the pair quickly learned, and none who had ventured out had ever returned. As such, those that remained were all pitifully starving to death when the girls found them.
Unable to leave the terrified people to their inevitable demise, Suki and Rei started making trips to street level in order to gather supplies and keep them sustained. Through the course of these daring raids the warrior and the priest have developed a grudging respect for one another: Rei, Suki confesses, knows her way around the city and can be counted on to tell when the danger is at its worst, and Suki, as Rei has learned, always comes up with ways to get them out of tight spots. Though neither of them will admit it aloud, they make a good team. A team the survivors have counted on, and hailed as heroes.
Which is why, now, the lifeless platform gives them bewildered pause.