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Auburn continued walking and saw a little room with no door. The room looked like a little closet filled with wracks and shelves. A couple of shelves had some weird devices that looked alien to him. Must be something for water. One line of wracks had see-through guns. They look like toys, what could they do he thought to himself. No harm in taking one though... He took one of the guns and searched around the closet for his backpack. After a few seconds he found it to be on a top shelf all wet and soggy. He winced. Not much of his stuff was waterproof and neither was his backpack to begin with. It was next to some other bags, but he didn't bother to even take a second glance at. He rummaged through his backpack and found his airsoft gun was probably completeley ruined. He sighed and put that gun in the wrack instead. It looked like the other guns, except that it had a blue color in the grip of the handle and it was much harder than the other guns. He kept searching desperately, but all he could find was his waterproof flashlight. That'll do him a lot of good, he thought. He threw all his other stuff on the top shelf and put the gun and the flashlight in the backpack and put it on. "Wow, you can barely feel this is even wet at all!" he said aloud by accident. He reddened a bit, embarressed by what he just said.

He continued walking along when he heard some dull thumps. They were so faint that he had to stop walking to make sure he wasn't just hearing things. It was close, but this ship was tricky, so that didin't help either. He started searching for the source of the sound, but couldn't after a minute. He was about to give up when he saw an open door and decided to check that room. Nothing was in there. Just a bed, some clothes and... a notebook? He picked it up and skimmed through it. It was Wynter's! He looked around the room and she wasn't there. Would she be the type of person to leave this out like that? Probably not. He went outside the room and down the hallway the door led out to and saw a crumpled body.

"Wynter!" he yelled. He ran towards her body. She had bruises on her neck. They were bluish and had finger marks on them. She was choked. She was barely moving and he didn't even know if she was concious or not. He saw a little piece of paper next to her and took it in one hand. He rolled his hand into a ball and tried to pick her up. She was light as a feather, but it was hard carrying her in a position that wouldn't hurt her. He walked slowly and dileberately towards the room. She was probably going to hate that is was Auburn who saved her, but she would have to deal with it later. Right now she needed to get to that bed and tell him everything now. He needed to know, or else more people would start getting hurt. "And the little battle between us and those guys wasn't enought, was it" he mumbled to himself.

He tapped the door open and it creaked a little and he made his way slowly into the room. He gently laid Wynter down on the bed and sat down on the floor next to her. He had his back to the bed (bunkbed?) and started reading the note.

Hello my dear Travelers...

He put the papers down on the right of his right leg after reading them and put his hands on his face. Wow. All of them were going to be killed. He added that worry to his mental check list. He put his head up to the top of the bed not moving his hands and gave a big sigh. He was alone with Wynter and she couldn't tell him anything now.

"This is just so screwed up right now!" he yelled. But just then, he heard Wynter rustling around in the bed and weakly say his name. "Wynter! Are you ok!? Damnit" he yelled but started to say everything softer as to not give her a bigger headache than what other aches she had right now. He looked at her for a bit, but then saw she was struggling. That was good. She had a bit of energy. She'd be all right, she just needed rest.

"Hey Wynter, if you need something, just hollar, kay?" He couldn't find anything better to say, so he just went back to his position with his hands in his face just wallowing in his predicament.

Auburn didn't move at all for the first 10 seconds but take in a big breath of air. Afterwards he puffed it all out in one huge blow. He hopped up without energy and squated down next to the bed. He faced away from the bed and patted his back.

"Hop on, Wynter. Your hurt, and no matter what you say your not walking. Try beating me up if ya want, but that's not getting you anywhere but just losing energy. And anyways, I'm not in the mood for complaints, and I'm guessing neither are you" he said flatly as if a very tired person said it.

((Short post >.<))

He turned to glance at her and nodded. He put his arm under one of her arms and slowly lifted her up out of the bed. He had to slouch a little because she was smaller than him. It didn't matter, he wouldn't be standing straight anyways.

"Oh, that thing? Just think of this as all of our death note" he said with the same flat tone. With his other free arm he smoothed his hair back. "Yep, wonder when this Saint Dane guy is going to strike" He read it at least 4 times before stopping thinking that is wasn't the truth.

//is there anyway I could jump in, or should I wait until Hezex posts? //

((I'll post a little later . . . I don't know where everyone went. Hezex needs to post but if he doesn't I'm going to PM him a warning. I've decided that in order to keep this RP moving and not make it such a burden to ge people to post I'm going to start making rules about absences.

If you know that you are going to be absent for longer than a week or two then you need to inform me. I don't need a reason because I like to respect people's privacy, just warn me if you're going to be gone and at least allow someone to use you character in a minimal way in order to keep things going.

If you do not inform me and do not post withing two weeks then I will give you a warning. Three warnings and your gone -- no exceptions and few excuses will be taken. I hope this is agreed and understood, if you have any problems talk to me personaly about it. But, I'll tell you now I'm going to stand firmly next to this plan so don't expect it to change. This is not all that demanding and I'm only doing this because I would like to keep this RP together.))

He sat there quietly for a moment. That was hard to take in, no matter how much of it was proven right in front of him. He accepted it as the truth, but deep in the back of his head, he didn't believe it.

"Well, if "Bobby" is still alive, mabye, it would be a better idea to find him ASAP. Since there are four of us, mabye one of us could go look for Bobby on the other territories while the rest of the... what do you call them? oh yeah, Travelers, can go and do whatever you need to do here. And if you don't mind, I'd like to be the one who goes out to look for him." He said looking her eye to eye the whole time. He was serious about this. He chickened out before, but now he wanted in and wanted a big job to do to finally prove himself worthy... or die trying.