@psykinetic
When Sou woke up from another nap, he found himself in a big building. Was that some kind of manor? Waking up and feeling lost in an unknown place was something that happened too often lately to his liking.
Whatever, not like complaining will bring him back home. Which was what made him move through the multiple rooms this building had.
After climbing up some unnecessarily long stairs, he needed to take a breather. Ugh, where the hell was even the exit of this place? Even while looking around multiple times, he couldn’t witness any butler or maid a manor like this usually should have either.
Just when he was about to give up and keep on looking around by himself, he finally made out a voice from someone other than him. Once he spotted that person, it turned out to be a small kid at the other end of the hallway. Not the help he was looking for, but better than nothing!
“Hey, kid. Can you tell me what this place i-” Sou stopped in his step to approach the boy any closer once the kid turned around and started to look at him. Not only did he seem rather familiar, but there was also something off about his expression as well. With one of his tiny hands, he was holding one side of his swollen cheek. His eyes looked kind of red too, as if he had been crying before.
“W-wait, er... are you alright?” This was bad! Why was he hurt? To be honest, if he had any choice, he didn’t want to get involved in this. Yet walking away from a boy close to tears wasn’t anything he wanted to do either.
“Did you get hurt?” Now bending down to the boy’s height, he tried to get a closer look at his bruised face. “N-no need to be afraid. It’s going to be okay. You can tell me what happened, you know.” Big words, he had no idea what happened and how he was supposed to help that kid. For now, he at least wanted to get to know what actually happened to him.