Curriculum 02: The Quiet Place

"Ah-.. Rusai!" she shouted as she left her huddled position to be by his side. It had seemed the tables soon turned, as he passed out so abruptly in front of her. Though, she figured it could be used to fake out the entire situation she knew that when he awoke, she would have no choice but to explain. Looking around, she began to recognize the area and remembered reading about a hidden door.

Standing up she scanned the walls for the hidden clue. After locating the room she walked back over to Rusai and gently brought him into the secret room. As she laid him down to continue his rest she moved over to the corner and leaned herself against the wall.

"I'm sorry, for causing you so much... trouble..." she whispered, not knowing if he could hear her apology or not, as she dozed off to sleep.

Rusai slowly regained consciousness, although he was still groggy and his head was pounding. Looking around, he saw that he was no longer in the hall, but in a room in which he had never seen before. He quickly glanced around and was relieved to find Arie sleeping against a wall. 'What happened to me?' Rusai thought. He then tried to get up and had nearly succeeded too, but in the end he ended up crashing to the floor in a crumpled heap. 'Smooth Rusai, real smooth...' he thought, scolding himself for being such a klutz, not to mention that he found himself unable to get up. He let out a little growl of anger and proceeded to trying to pluck himself from the floor.

Arie lay there, sleeping peacefully in the corner. Slowly she turned onto her other side and as her breathing becoming a little louder than faded out. Her eyes had returned to their former color. Along with her hair retaining it's normal hues.

The room was quiet aside from Rusai's desperate attempts to get up. The reason she had been able to locate the room so hastily was in fact the reason that an officer was about to enter the hall. She was thankful that only the captain and a few others actually knew about the room, but none really knew where it was located. In fact it was pure and simple luck since the transporter was full of identical hallways. Luck had seemed to be on her side that day, though. And so she slept there peacefully and without worry.

'Ow...I need something to grab onto!' Rusai thought, becoming quite desperate. Finding nothing of use to grab onto, Rusai reluctantly crawled back to where he originally was. Rusai glanced at Arie, finding her still peacefully asleep. Rusai couldn't help but feel sleep threatening to overtake him, so he slightly curled up and fell asleep.

Arie's eyes sprung open, as she seemingly jumped in place. She gasped taking a deep breath and looked around, panicking. 'Was it all... just a dream..?' she thought to herself. As her eyes scanned the room, she gave a sigh of relief as she saw Rusai laying down on the floor next to her. Though, she was still a bit troubled.

She leaned back against the wall, holding her heart as to try to halt it from racing. Looking down at Rusai she began to trail into thought again as she gazed at him. She could just run now, and pretend that what he had seen was just a dream. For all she knew they would never see each other again when they finally reached their destination. Yet somehow, she stayed and waited. After all, she was never one to dwell on the past, nor the future.

Crossing her arms over her legs she laid her head atop them and sighed again. 'How is it that he's so much different from all of them..?' she thought. Instead of going back to rest she continued her contemplating as it had been some time since she could think to herself.

As if out of nowhere a shockwave rippled through the ship. Sending her sliding into Rusai as they traveled to the opposite end of them room. The wave had made her hit the wall quite hard and she lost consciousness.