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Cecil had kept running and shouting for Hitsu despite what danger it would likely bring him. He was in a full blown panic trying to find her. Or was this for nothing? Had she really dissipated into thin air like all the other apparitions that they had faced? Cecil wasn't sure but the longer we went without an answer from the girl the more his heart raced.

Cecil barely noted the force that had smacked into his chest and fell away. He almost kept going determined to find Hitsu when he realized after a second that he had ran into a person. Wide frantic eyes shifted to Rook, taking a step back once he realized who it was. There was a manner of uncertainty about the reaction he would get. Last he saw, Rook had been on edge and wanted nothing to do with him. He had ran and Cecil had been left alone.

"S-sorry I..." He looked around hearing the call for help, his brows furrowed with concern. Blood was still dripping into his eye and as carefully as possible he tried to wipe it away. "Y-you're real....right?" He was hesitant to ask unsure if he wanted the truth. Or would he even get it. Not long ago he had felt better, like his sanity was finally leveling back out but this place had taken its toll. After what he just saw with Hitsu he no longer knew what was real.

He thought he was real. Thought. Cecil let that absorb though the smaller man didn't seem to be as angry as before. He was still unsure, shifting uncomfortable as he turned to look down the hall.

"Have you seen, Hitsu? You've seen Hitsu right? I just..." He fumbled for his words letting them tumble out of his mouth as they pleased. "I saw her. I saw her and then she just.." He swallowed hard, pressing a hand to the painful wound on his skull. The wound Hitsu had given him with the bottle. That had certainly been real.

He took an uncertain step down one hallway before back stepping the way he came. Where should he look? Maybe she was outside. "I don't know what h-h-happened, Rook." He shook his head, his body tense. The feeling that was bubbling up felt like it was on the verge of a panic attack. "I left her alone in this place and now...it's all my fault."

It was a wonder Cecil was able to tally the list in his head. "Me, Brie, the doctor." He shook his head still not focusing on Rook just yet. "No, there were two others." He did not recall their names and he couldn't be bothered with trying. There were more important things on his mind.

"She was there. Hitsu. She looked normal," But she hadn't acted normal. No one had since they had gotten here. "God, Rook, I'm losing it. I have to be losing it. She was there. I swear she was there. She hit me with a bottle." His fingers lightly touched the wound that was still seeping down his forehead. "She was there and then...then.." He turned to Rook as he began to approach, eyes still wide. "Then she was gone." Gone, that word had such a sense of finality to it. "She's gone." His voice sounded pained as he said it. "I've got to be crazy right? People don't just vanish. But this place.." He wasn't sure of anything.

Rook was tugging his arm and once he realized why Cecil slowly sank to his knees and had a seat on the floor. His head was throbbing, his vision blurred red on one side but his mind was racing on toward those dreaded 'what ifs'. Being calm was far from any reality Cecil understood right now but he took in a deep breath and let it out slow. Calm, he could play this game.

"It just...didn't seem like the shadows clones we have seen." He sat still while Rook had a look at his head, the gash was shallow but ran from just above his eyebrow into his hairline. "She seemed real, she spoke with us, fought along side us but then she was angry and not herself kinda like.." He trailed off as he glanced at Rook remembering how he had been angry in the heat of the moment. Possessed. It was the only way to describe it. "I should never have left her on her own. We were being chased. I thought I could lure it away from her but what if it went after her instead? That creature with the huge sword."

He focused in on Rook, wincing when he pressed the cloth to his wound. "T-that hurts a bit." He reached up to investigate what his friend was doing, listening intently to what he had to say. "You....you don't remember?" Now that was worrisome, and that worry was clear on Cecil's face.

"You seemed like you just..." He thought about it, thinking hard. What had been off. "Calm. And then later you were angry with me...before you were angry at me." His other hand gently touched the bandages around his waist in memory. "So I didn't....I don't know what to think. Everyone I have run into isn't acting right and that's why I'm worried." He swallowed hard against the growing lump in his throat, dread creeping up again. What if that had been her?

He wedged his fingers in under Rook's hand to take over holding the cloth to his forehead as he moved to get back to his feet. There was a subtle panic growing in his eyes again as he looked back down the hall. He could still hear the subtle whispers. The cries for help. He needed to get out of here. He needed to breath for a moment.

"I'm..going to go outside." He took a deep unsteady breath trying to swallow back the fear over the biggest what if. What if she was dead. Even if that hadn't been Hitsu what had actually become of her? "I need to get out of here just for a little while. I can't-" He shook his head unable to finish and turned to leave starting at a slow pace before he used his long strides to his advantage. His mind was racing, he needed to clear his head.