They didn't really know why this meeting was set up or why Habit would even consider it for a second, but here they were. They walked down the hallway and opened the door they were instructed too.
They closed the door behind them as they stepped inside the room and looked around. They spotted a table in the corner with a person sitting at it who couldn't have been much older then themself. The person smiled at them tiredly and gave a small wave,
"Hi. I'm Declan, are you #019?" Ness gave a nod in response as the person run his hands through his hair and motioned to one of two chair across from him.
Ness sat down and eyed him warily which got a silent brow raise in return.
Declan cracked his fingers individually by pressing down on them before speaking,
"Okay, let's hope to this yeah? I'll be telling you some of the basics on how all this works" He waved his hands around as he spoke before he set them back on the table and messed with on of his ring fingers. Ness could tell easily that it was broken.
"What do you mean by 'all this'?"
"The trials. Habs told me to fill you in, no idea why, but here we are, so that's fun. Anyway let's start off with a simple question: how old are you?"
Ness was taken aback by the sudden question, but didn't want to upset the person across from them so they answered truthfully.
"Just to give me an idea of what all you've dealt with I guess. How many rabbits are in your trial?"
They paused, not knowing if they should answer the question, but did so anyway because of their previous reasoning
"Damn that sucks, it's harder to get away with things when working with smaller groups. Did you include yourself in that five?"
Declan tiredly rubbed the palms of his hands over his eyes in response, a grimace tugging at his lip scar.
"Shit, you really are a small group." He rubbed his hands together as he continued,"That's fine, it just means you'll have to be more carefully. Okay okay, how many entities do you have? Is the dog involved?" He questioned, gently tugging at the hair on the nap of his neck. Damn, he really couldn't be still, huh? Oh well.
"Counting Habit there's three, and yes the dog is there too."
A look of contemplation crossed Declan's face as he processed the info and asked yet another question.
"Who's the third entity? Is it the talk faceless dude?"
"..No? They are someone named Argyris."
Declan tilted his head in confusion and stayed quiet for a few seconds, running the name over
"Don't know who that is, but okay. Are they violent? Do they make threats and then don't make good on them?"
"No? They have been violent but it wasn't by choice
"That's shitty, but I dunno how much time we have so I'll give you some basic survival tips:
The woods is dangerous, don't go there. If you have to go in them keep an eye out because they can have some really good supplies, and if you are getting chased you can run into the woods to lose your chaser and double back. It's risky, but it's very effective if down right.
Also, if one of the other rabbits is attacking you and you can't kill them for whatever reason, you break their legs. It'll obviously immobilize them, but it'll also put them at risk so keep that in mind. Pushing Hab's buttons, or any of the entitles' for that matter is a very bad ideas especially since your in a smaller group." He paused for a second longer before continuing, "bleach can work as disinfectant for both objects and wounds, but it's not the best idea to use it on wounds if you have other options-" His rambling stoped abruptly as the door opened, revealing a short brunette figure. They looked around and Ness and Declan with raised brows.
"Who are you two?" They asked.
"I'm Declan, this is Ness" He motioned to Ness in a quickly jerky manner before he waved the new comer over.
"Take a seat, I'll fill you in-"