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[ There's a perfectly ordinary hallway that branches off from one of the main, leading to a downward staircase. If one were to walk down, they would notice how the walls and stairs themselves are decaying, changing as the steps go down from the regular floors and ordinary wood to stone. It leads down, not too far, to a long series of underground tunnels. Mostly man-made, but with natural formations as well. The sound of water running can be heard to the left and loud, scraping footsteps to the right. Which direction would you take? ]

[ooc: open post because I'm bored. Choose anyone. ~~From KH, anyway.~~]

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[The scraping one. At the sight of the blood, Larxene gets her knives out. She continues in that direction as quietly as she can manage.]

[ohnoes. In that case, she'll be coming across more blood further down. Looks like something's dripping.]

[Larxene never got the memo about curiosity.]

[Apparently not. There's a few larger smears along her way, a couple bloody handprints, too. Eventually, she'll come to a very dark room, and two figures on the ground. ]

What's this~?

[Larxene approaches the figures, still holding her knives out cautiously.]

[One of the figures is leaning over the other, and abruptly straightens. Once the light hits, Larxene will see... the older female Riku, her mouth dripping blood, and a rather disemboweled double.]

[What the shit is this?]

What the shit is this?

[Riku stares at her, then gives her a flat look and holds a hand up for peace.]

Not what it looks like.

Uh...

[Larxene drops her knife hand to her side and just stares some more, baffled.]

[Riku rolls her eyes and stands up, wiping most of the blood away with her arm.]

That thing hit me in the face. I wasn't eating it.

Uh-huh.

[She doesn't look remotely convinced.]

And the blood in the hall?

Mostly not mine.

[She wipes what blood there is on her hands onto her jeans.]

[She'd kind of hoped there was someone direly wounded around here that she could painfully finish off. :(

Hey wait, something doesn't add up.]

You dragged it all the way here, then stuck your face in it?

[Pooooor Larxene. Riku looks unimpressed by your skills of deduction.]

I didn't drag it. I was fighting it.

[We'll just say she's a little loopy at the moment. Blame hormones?]

Oh.

[She grins, looking at the corpse.]

Not bad work for a Riku.

Really? And that's not even my best work.

[She wipes more blood from her mouth, until it's more or less clean. Maybe they should head back toward that water.]

[Larxene is getting a closer look at the body, first.]

So what's the story?

[She shrugs. The body looks identical to her, other than the wounds and the fact that it's dead.]

I don't know. It just showed up and tried to kill me.

It's sad that that doesn't surprise me.

It's the dressing room. I'm not expecting much. Come on, I want to wash my face.

Go ahead, or did you have something else to say?

[Since people making cryptic or impossible comments about her seems to be a thing, lately.]

Not really, but I wouldn't turn down conversation. Plus it seems like traveling alone down here is an invitation for trouble. But if you want to go exploring, be my guest.

You say that like I can't handle a little trouble.

[She straightens up too quickly and pauses for a moment with a hand to her forehead, a little lightheaded. Nothing like accidentally undermining your own argument, eh?]

Or are you asking for a bodyguard?

[It's probably going to piss her off when Riku laughs, huh?]

No.

[Yes.]

What's so funny?