[Noah, five seconds ago: Yeah we're being quiet we can talk about this in the very public classroom surely it'll be fine.
...yeah, on second thought, no. He looks mildly panicked for a second before attempting to shush Yuzu as eyes turn to them, and then attempts to cover his ass with a loud,]
Yeah, it was in the newspaper this morning, didn't you read it? My mom was talking about it.
[...and once eyes are off of them, he puts his finger to his lips in a shushing motion and shakes his head, resuming his quiet tone.]
Keep quiet about it. There was a public murder here that the non-transfer students know about, but the lunch meat thing... and what happened on the 31st... I'm pretty sure only the transfers know about it, with very few exceptions if any.
[Noah has a lot to explain, and he plans to explain it — better that she's prepared to face the hell in this school than just walk into it unexpectedly like he did. He rolls up the sleeves of his uniform and shows her his forearm, marred not only with battle scars (because Elrios, where he hails from, is extremely unsafe at the best of times) but his wrist marked up with nineteen tally marks.]
All the transfer students have these tallies on their wrists. I... don't know why, but it makes us easy to distinguish from one another, I... I guess. And for some reason, we've been... [He feels sick all of a sudden.] ...we've been the ones going missing and turning up dead some way or another.
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...yeah, on second thought, no. He looks mildly panicked for a second before attempting to shush Yuzu as eyes turn to them, and then attempts to cover his ass with a loud,]
Yeah, it was in the newspaper this morning, didn't you read it? My mom was talking about it.
[...and once eyes are off of them, he puts his finger to his lips in a shushing motion and shakes his head, resuming his quiet tone.]
Keep quiet about it. There was a public murder here that the non-transfer students know about, but the lunch meat thing... and what happened on the 31st... I'm pretty sure only the transfers know about it, with very few exceptions if any.
[Noah has a lot to explain, and he plans to explain it — better that she's prepared to face the hell in this school than just walk into it unexpectedly like he did. He rolls up the sleeves of his uniform and shows her his forearm, marred not only with battle scars (because Elrios, where he hails from, is extremely unsafe at the best of times) but his wrist marked up with nineteen tally marks.]
All the transfer students have these tallies on their wrists. I... don't know why, but it makes us easy to distinguish from one another, I... I guess. And for some reason, we've been... [He feels sick all of a sudden.] ...we've been the ones going missing and turning up dead some way or another.