p class="p0" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"Eventually, Mikasa became restless./spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"Abandoning her backpack, she went to the windowed door that was connected to the block behind theirs and peered through it with an intent of seeking other passengers. Still, nothing greeted her curiosities./spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"While the train slowed and jerked now and then, she had not yet abandoned the hopes that they would soon be at the end of the line. When the tram finally stopped, and the doors opened, no one else boarded then either. One stop down, two to go./spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"Annie adopted the role of partial cell-phone junkie, partial restless occupant. She seemed to be reading over things, all the while continually switching which leg was over which, and how her bangs fell to the line of her face./spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"The woman that stood attentive by the door of their block grew more and more aware of the unease, and was urged to waltz her way over and smooth the blonde's hair to the side, simply so she would stop messing with it./spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"Her own habits even bothered her. Each time she caught herself chewing at the edge of her lip, she reprimanded herself. Anxiety betrayed her will to push down habit. /spanspan style="font-style: italic; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"Something/spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;" was very wrong about their situation. She could not place a finger on just /spanspan style="font-style: italic; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"what/spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;" was wrong, and therefore discovered her paranoia to be ridiculous./spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"The silence between the two that was usually a respectable comfort became awkward. Annie ran out of things to do with her hands, ran out of whatever her eyes had been scanning. She sat there bored and without affliction, turning and prodding at the bland silver ring on one of her fingers. Her own passive observation of the walls and the general interior of that subway became obsessive detail seeking./spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"Third stop, fourth stop./spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"Mikasa exhaled a pent breath as the train slowed for the last time that they would experience. Things would be fine. Annie would take care of the tickets, /spanspan style="font-style: italic; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"as if there was anyone there to be mindful of them/spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment:
initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;", and they could make their way the short distance of a few blocks before their destination would be in their grasp. /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"There was nothing to get so worked up over./spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"Certainly not the lack of occupants in the area. There were many more blocks to the tram. Many more methods of transportation. /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"Another reprimand for her misbehaving thought process./spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"She checked the time on her phone. A dull irritation hit her as her bar continued with the already old greeting of /spanspan style="font-style: italic; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"No Service/spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;". It was a little later than two in the afternoon, and yet the darkened skies beyond still apparent at the glow of the ascending stairs made it seem much later. /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"A few stalling moments in the frame of the doors, and they made their way out to the soaked platform. The stairs oozed down rain water and mud from outside. All they would need to do would be to make a lasting effort of ascending those stairs, and they would be free. Sasha's house was just a few blocks beyond near open forest terrain. /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"Confident in this, Mikasa began to progress in the seemingly final lengths of their journey, only to be held back by a firm tug on the material around her neck. When Annie had managed to get a grip on the red fabric was beyond her, and she opened her mouth with confrontation on mind, until the blonde effectively hushed her, and gestured to the green sign above the mouth of their exit./spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"Sketchy letters read "Welcome to Silent Hill"./spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"The meaning was imprinted./spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"As the two approached the sign, unbelieving of such words, they experienced something immense as their feet threatened to push past the defined barrier such a sign seemed to establish. A mortifying chill that spread down the spine, locking them as they were. Annie shuddered for reasons no words could describe, confident that such vocabulary did not thrive in the world./spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial;
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She continued with a voice of urgency, blinking to wear away the traitorous words./spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;""Right." Annie agreed, simply and without commitment however just as much taken by the strangeness as the other. They counted properly, if she recalled right./spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"Yet just as the other declared, it was the end of the line. There was no further that they could go, as it had always been when crossing the expanse of the terrain just to get from their location to the home of the friend, as very few times as they had utilized the subway. It had been entirely fine the first time they had done it, and the return trip./spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"Mikasa's expression had drawn blank, aside from the tightening of lips as Annie proceeded to propose that they get above ground and assess their location. In spite of rain, it would be best to proceed to another route. They had wasted enough time, and Mikasa was inclined to agree. The strange terror of those words did not leave them as they tramped up the stairs, heavily aware of the continual lack of other human presence./spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"Dark streets and dingy buildings littered on either side of them as they escaped the confines of the metro area, no longer interested in any connection of the route./spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"They stood there, and stood there, evaluating the unfamiliar town./spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"The fear and uncertainty that had been harbored before receded and withered by the open area as they earned a new concentration that was suddenly more realistic. A metro seemed trapping, but as they inhaled the free air, confidence and mannerisms returned to them./spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"Annie bore her eyes into the concrete, tugging her hood up as she passed through the overhang the subway presented. What had once been a soothing wave turned into a torrential downpour, and the blonde was soaked within moments of stepping out into the open./spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"The longer Mikasa stood by the entrance, the more light-headed and infirm she felt – and so she followed the other into the darkness./spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"No cars could be heard in the distance. Nor distilled city noises, nor footsteps aside from their own./spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image:
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"I didn't know this town was anywhere close to our area."/spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;""Neither did I."/spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;""The buses aren't running here for a time, this says."/spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;""Oh."/spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;""We can catch the next metro running from the other line and try to go back a stop."/spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"No notion of comprehension from the blonde, and yet Mikasa knew well that she had been heard. They backtracked the short distance from the entrance to the station that they had traveled, only to be met with a cold and vacant wall where the decent to the stairs once was./spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;""It was right here."/spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;""I'll check further down."/spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;""No." The swordswoman reached out, grasping the fluff-rimmed coat of the shorter female to stop her. "It was /spanspan style="font-style: italic; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"right here/spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"."/spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"Annie looked, truly /spanspan style="font-style: italic; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"looked/spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;" at the blank wall with all the doubtfulness of furrowed brows. She finally hiked one up her forehead, and turned her gaze back towards the other./spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-style: italic; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"Really/spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"? She could almost hear. Mikasa began questioning whether or not she was capable of thinking straight. Everything looked proper, aside from the concrete brick blockage to the entrance. In small red lettering that drizzled, still wet, Mikasa could see /spanspan style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"Stay True!/spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;" contrasting the much lighter surface./spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;""What the fuck?"/spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"Mikasa had snapped her head back in Annie's direction, surprised by the sudden profanity, while said individual did not linger on the scene, but rather pursued the bus stop details once again./spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"She was even ready to option for a taxi at that point, but it went unspoken. /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"The ravenette passed a look to the skies from beneath her hood, adjusting the straps of her soaked backpack. "Let's just find somewhere to go into for now. We're just moping around out here, and I want to find service. Maybe even just wifi and let them know what's going on."/spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;""I think we should – is that a deer?"/spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"It was unlike her to drop from a topic of importance so quickly. Mikasa shot her an odd look, before following the direction that she stared in./spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"Indeed, a shadowy stag loomed down the street from them, head held high in the midst of the bare street. Vacant milky eyes were a dismay to sentience. They glimmered like distant car lights, though there was no moon to be held responsible for such a reflection. /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"While both women upheld that stare for a few moments, they brushed the vigilant being aside from their topic for a moment./spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial;
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initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;", and they could make their way the short distance of a few blocks before their destination would be in their grasp. /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"There was nothing to get so worked up over./spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"Certainly not the lack of occupants in the area. There were many more blocks to the tram. Many more methods of transportation. /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"Another reprimand for her misbehaving thought process./spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"She checked the time on her phone. A dull irritation hit her as her bar continued with the already old greeting of /spanspan style="font-style: italic; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"No Service/spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;". It was a little later than two in the afternoon, and yet the darkened skies beyond still apparent at the glow of the ascending stairs made it seem much later. /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"A few stalling moments in the frame of the doors, and they made their way out to the soaked platform. The stairs oozed down rain water and mud from outside. All they would need to do would be to make a lasting effort of ascending those stairs, and they would be free. Sasha's house was just a few blocks beyond near open forest terrain. /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"Confident in this, Mikasa began to progress in the seemingly final lengths of their journey, only to be held back by a firm tug on the material around her neck. When Annie had managed to get a grip on the red fabric was beyond her, and she opened her mouth with confrontation on mind, until the blonde effectively hushed her, and gestured to the green sign above the mouth of their exit./spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"Sketchy letters read "Welcome to Silent Hill"./spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"The meaning was imprinted./spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"As the two approached the sign, unbelieving of such words, they experienced something immense as their feet threatened to push past the defined barrier such a sign seemed to establish. A mortifying chill that spread down the spine, locking them as they were. Annie shuddered for reasons no words could describe, confident that such vocabulary did not thrive in the world./spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial;
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She continued with a voice of urgency, blinking to wear away the traitorous words./spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;""Right." Annie agreed, simply and without commitment however just as much taken by the strangeness as the other. They counted properly, if she recalled right./spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"Yet just as the other declared, it was the end of the line. There was no further that they could go, as it had always been when crossing the expanse of the terrain just to get from their location to the home of the friend, as very few times as they had utilized the subway. It had been entirely fine the first time they had done it, and the return trip./spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"Mikasa's expression had drawn blank, aside from the tightening of lips as Annie proceeded to propose that they get above ground and assess their location. In spite of rain, it would be best to proceed to another route. They had wasted enough time, and Mikasa was inclined to agree. The strange terror of those words did not leave them as they tramped up the stairs, heavily aware of the continual lack of other human presence./spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"Dark streets and dingy buildings littered on either side of them as they escaped the confines of the metro area, no longer interested in any connection of the route./spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"They stood there, and stood there, evaluating the unfamiliar town./spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"The fear and uncertainty that had been harbored before receded and withered by the open area as they earned a new concentration that was suddenly more realistic. A metro seemed trapping, but as they inhaled the free air, confidence and mannerisms returned to them./spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"Annie bore her eyes into the concrete, tugging her hood up as she passed through the overhang the subway presented. What had once been a soothing wave turned into a torrential downpour, and the blonde was soaked within moments of stepping out into the open./spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"The longer Mikasa stood by the entrance, the more light-headed and infirm she felt – and so she followed the other into the darkness./spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"No cars could be heard in the distance. Nor distilled city noises, nor footsteps aside from their own./spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image:
initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"It was surreal./spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"As Annie raised a burdened head to the sad buildings above, Mikasa meandered her way towards a bus stop map. "I didn't know this town was anywhere close to our area."/spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;""Neither did I."/spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;""The buses aren't running here for a time, this says."/spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;""Oh."/spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;""We can catch the next metro running from the other line and try to go back a stop."/spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"No notion of comprehension from the blonde, and yet Mikasa knew well that she had been heard. They backtracked the short distance from the entrance to the station that they had traveled, only to be met with a cold and vacant wall where the decent to the stairs once was./spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;""It was right here."/spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;""I'll check further down."/spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;""No." The swordswoman reached out, grasping the fluff-rimmed coat of the shorter female to stop her. "It was /spanspan style="font-style: italic; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"right here/spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"."/spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"Annie looked, truly /spanspan style="font-style: italic; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"looked/spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;" at the blank wall with all the doubtfulness of furrowed brows. She finally hiked one up her forehead, and turned her gaze back towards the other./spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-style: italic; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"Really/spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"? She could almost hear. Mikasa began questioning whether or not she was capable of thinking straight. Everything looked proper, aside from the concrete brick blockage to the entrance. In small red lettering that drizzled, still wet, Mikasa could see /spanspan style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"Stay True!/spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;" contrasting the much lighter surface./spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;""What the fuck?"/spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"Mikasa had snapped her head back in Annie's direction, surprised by the sudden profanity, while said individual did not linger on the scene, but rather pursued the bus stop details once again./spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"She was even ready to option for a taxi at that point, but it went unspoken. /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"The ravenette passed a look to the skies from beneath her hood, adjusting the straps of her soaked backpack. "Let's just find somewhere to go into for now. We're just moping around out here, and I want to find service. Maybe even just wifi and let them know what's going on."/spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;""I think we should – is that a deer?"/spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"It was unlike her to drop from a topic of importance so quickly. Mikasa shot her an odd look, before following the direction that she stared in./spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"Indeed, a shadowy stag loomed down the street from them, head held high in the midst of the bare street. Vacant milky eyes were a dismay to sentience. They glimmered like distant car lights, though there was no moon to be held responsible for such a reflection. /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"While both women upheld that stare for a few moments, they brushed the vigilant being aside from their topic for a moment./spanspan style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial;
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