[Cheerfully, Hakkai offers:] If so, they've been strangled. I can't smell blood.
[The next room proves to be more of a storage room, and therefore annoyingly well-supplied with cabinets. One whole wall is set with them, seven feet tall and deep enough to hold two teenagers apiece. Hakkai heads for the nearest end of the cabinets.]
Take the far end, and we'll work towards one another, Niles?
[He throws open the first. Stacked boxes and books sit within, with a few old rolled-up banners crowding the top. Something rustles from a lower box. Hakkai contemplates the fact that, if they have rats, it's not his problem, shuts the door, and moves on. Two little, purple, glowing paws shove their way through the crack, reaching after him as he steps past. It's only a little ayakashi. Hakkai is not concerned.]
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[The next room proves to be more of a storage room, and therefore annoyingly well-supplied with cabinets. One whole wall is set with them, seven feet tall and deep enough to hold two teenagers apiece. Hakkai heads for the nearest end of the cabinets.]
Take the far end, and we'll work towards one another, Niles?
[He throws open the first. Stacked boxes and books sit within, with a few old rolled-up banners crowding the top. Something rustles from a lower box. Hakkai contemplates the fact that, if they have rats, it's not his problem, shuts the door, and moves on. Two little, purple, glowing paws shove their way through the crack, reaching after him as he steps past. It's only a little ayakashi. Hakkai is not concerned.]