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Rei looked shocked. She couldn't quite grasp Miku's words, It was Yuu? She thought when it finally struck her she knew what Miku meant.
"H-his ghost?" She inquired warily. Miku nodded barely, "I saw him as clear as day." Rei stumbled over to the bed, collapsing completely when she reached it. Miku rushed to her side, "Are you alright? Maybe I shouldn't have told you that…" She shook her head weakly. Her eyes stared blankly into Miku's, wisps of ebony hair drifted across her face. Miku closed her eyes and sighed quietly, she knew Rei was devastated about losing her fiancé, and now that she knew he hadn't moved on to the other side she was probably more heartbroken. Opening her eyes she heard Rei mumbling softly, Miku could only make out some of the words she heard the words: "Sleep, Rite of Stakes, and Open wide…" Miku turned around and quietly left Yuu's room.
"Uhg, why am I so tired?" She questioned, leaning against a wall for support. "Maybe I should rest…" Miku walked to her room, staying close to the wall, just in case. She saw Ruri sitting by her door and smirked; turning the handle to her door she entered. Barley making it to her bed Miku collapsed like Rei did.
"Mafuyu…" She murmured before drifting of into a peaceful slumber.
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Rei was standing outside the strange manor again. "Not this dream again." Rei said softly, inching up the steps. Pushing against the mold, gross door she found herself once again inside the manor. An overwhelming presence loomed in the air, Rei gasped, the miasma was suffocating her.
"I need to get out of here…" She choked. Forcing herself to walk she looked at all the decaying shelves that lined the hall, the light of her flash light shined on something in one of the drawers. Investigating the glowing object she found it was a bottle of old pills. The sound of little feet running caught her attention, but when she looked up she saw no one. Creeping forward, Rei peeked around the corner and saw nothing, continuing slowly she saw someone in front of her, "Miku?!" She called going after her assistant. Her mind was racing, she was wondering why Miku was in the manor with her. The sound of a door opening and closing was all Rei heard, for when she rounded the next corner, Miku was gone, but Rei wouldn't give up. She followed her companion through the door.
"Miku!" Rei was stunned, the room was incredibly large and she could see almost everywhere, but yet again Miku was nowhere to be found. Leaning against the door Rei tried not to cry. The horrors of this mansion were killing her, she was sure of it and the snake-like bruise that the topless woman gave her was extremely painful. The sound of yet another door opening stirred her from her thoughts. The sound of the stairs creaking caused Rei to panic and hide. So she did, under the stairs. The being coming down the stairs was an apparition; he appeared to be a young man with ebony hair and a white collared shirt. "Who?" Before she could finish her sentence, another set of footsteps echoed through the large room and the sound of a girl's voice.
"Brother! I'm sorry, I shouldn't have left you! Brother, wait, please!" Rei gasped, she now knew why Miku was inside that manor, "She lost her brother… Just like I lost Yuu." She came out of hiding and ran after Miku, she reached out her hand in an attempted to grab her, but she only felt the soft fabric of the back of Miku's shirt, but with just that small amount of contact Rei saw things no one should ever have to see.
Miku stood in a small room in the center was a large clock-looking device on the weird contraption was a young woman in a white kimono, she cried out as five men began to turn cogwheels, the maiden was attached to the wheels by ropes, the ropes tightened around the five limps of the girl. Her head, her arms, and her legs. The ropes pulled and tightened until the limbs were torn from the body. Blood covered the walls and device.
"What in God's name…" Rei stuttered stumbling backwards onto the ground. She knew she was going to be emotional scarred for life. "What the hell was that?" Rei stood up and continued to follow Miku and her brother's ghost. She trailed after them until she reached a small courtyard with a huge tree in the middle, around the tree were straw dolls impaled on wooden poles. The tree was giving off a strange aura, Rei walked toward the tree.
"How strange…" She murmured staring at it for a moment, that was until she heard the sound of the door opening behind her and a woman's voice saying eerily, "I don't want to see…anymore."