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‘Uniform, jacket, leftovers, school bag, bag, keys, water, phone, headphones…’ Yuu goes through the list of items as they pick them up. They are one of the last people to leave the locker rooms yet again, having taken the time to change from their chef's coat and check pants into street clothes.
They make a list as they get onto the elevator, ‘get home, shower, ice ankle, laundry, bed’.
They get out of the elevator on the ground floor and head out of the building to an almost completely empty parking lot, sun just setting in the distance, thanking their luck that they’d gotten a close parking spot.
They hear an odd sound from the distance, and look towards the tracks, expecting to see a train coming down, but something else catches their eye. Is that a horse drawn carriage? In the middle of downtown?
It’s getting closer. And it’s not slowing down…
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‘Augh fuck, my head’ the headache woke them up before the noise, but instead of opening their eyes, they decide to turn over and go back to sleep. Their alarm hasn't gone off yet, they don’t need to get ready for class, and it’s better to sleep while they can. As they go to turn over, they notice something off, in the form of slamming their shoulder against a wall.
“Damn, ah shhhh” There shouldn’t be a wall there. They blink open their eyes with sudden alarm, but it does nothing, they’re shrouded in complete darkness. They press their hands over the space around themselves and find they’re surrounded on all sides.
“Nyehehehe, I….ge…a..uni…..” an odd voice muffled through the tight wooden walls, rattling them further, and then a sudden blast of heat shocks them back.
“Shit, shit, shit!!!” They kick at whatever is in front of them, effectively removing the board in front of them, but causing pain to shoot up their leg. “Fuck, shit, bad ankle, bad ankle,” they fall forward and down onto the ground. It takes them a few minutes of cradling their leg and flexing their ankle around before they notice the odd voice yelling more clearly.
“HEY! You’s not s’posed to be up yet. Yeowch, get offa me!!”
Yuu looks towards the voice and sees a… cat? It seems fairly cat-shaped, let's go with that. It’s a grey furry thing with some white patches, large blue eyes, flaming blue ears, a tri-tip forked tail, and a shoddy ribbon around its neck. And it's currently being crushed under Yuu.
“Shit, sorry,” Yuu rolls over and off the odd creature before tilting their head and staring at it again. Did it just.. talk to them?