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❝ — this octave would be too high. maybe if… no, that wouldn’t work, either. ❞ DESPERATELY tearing the paper from her notebook, shaken digits crumple another set of ideas into a compressed ball. a simple trip to retrieve some water from the fountain seemed to convert into gathering inspiration for another song piece ; at one point the redhead overheard information about a music room that harboured a grand piano — unfortunately, locating a directory was proving to be a formidable task, and it was because of this that riko sakurauchi fell upon the decision to return back to her room. sliding in the keycard for a brief moment, golden orbs broadened at the sight of an unknown male that appeared to be of an older standing : even so, impulse and revelation elicited the asian to jerk back, vermilion tresses shifting alongside her apprehensive frame.
❝ y-yes, that is me. be in my care? were you sent to me? ❞ elmer, that was his name, but it gave away no answer as to how he knew of her ; all this tactic has done was birth more query, alas, it is arduous to partake in such a thing when you’re unable to properly form words into a non-elementary like sequence. ❝ ah, please forgive me, I … am unsure what is going on, is — ❞ conscience rings in, recalling the concierge informing that she’d not have a roommate /yet/, is it possible that — ❝ oh, are you — are you my roommate? ❞
The moment words left fair lips, Elmer realised he had made one very big wrong assumption on the girl’s character from the way she carried herself. Rather than elegant and poised, the discovery of a stranger had left her surprised and uncomfortable, shifting about and searching for her words. Rather than Huey, this girl carried more the demeanour of Monimoni, at least when they had all been children. Despite three centuries having passed, he easily remembered each and every moment like it was yesterday.
“ Sent to you? That sounds like I was sent here by aliens to keep an eye on you before they abducted you to make you a specimen. As much as that sounds like a great plot for a story, no, when I checked in, the staff told me that a “Riko Sakurauchi“ would be waiting for me in the room, so I took a shot and got lucky! ”
“ Or well, I might consider myself lucky, but from your look it doesn’t seem to be the same for you. Well, I bet, getting paired up with some old geezer like me must not have been what you wanted right? Honestly that makes things easier for me though, because I think I would have been in trouble if you were some strapping young lady who ended up falling for me. So now that that’s settled, you should definitely smile! Isn’t that just great? You won’t end up falling for me and I have a place to sleep, it’s a win-win situation!”
