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Tenchyu steeled himself as he stole a glance at the other freshling with him, Ali. They..well, they weren't exactly friends. They were more...what was the word. Acquaintee? With one another. A friend was someone that somebody spent a lot of time with. Tenchyu only knew Ali from the classes that they shared at school.

So why would he, Tenchyu, be somewhere out of the classroom? Why would he go out?

Well--that was simple. He had made a bet and now had to go through with it.

There was a house not a block or so away from the academy that had always looked creepy and broken down. Students murmured about it being possibly haunted, with each other daring the other to go in. A few courageous students, or who didn't believe in beings like ghosts ventured their way in. He didn't hear about any of their stories coming back out. Tenchyu, being the more "logical" mind, thought that nothing eventful happened. They walked in, walked out, no big deal. But that wasn't what others thought. They thought of ghosts, the supernatural, spooky happenings. Things that would make a strong nightmare shudder.

They had to get their kicks somehow. And in a way, it gave Tenchyu an idea to exploit on such a dead day. A weekend, there was nothing to do. No class to attend.

He might as well rope a student into going into a haunted house. Tenchyu turned the knob on the well worn door, it's window cracked and broken. It gave way easily, opening with a loud creak that he was positive the rest of the neighborhood would have been able to hear. He let Ali go in first, nearly bowing as he held the door open for the other freshling before walking in himself.

The place sure was dark. Tenchyu coughed. And dusty. "Do you have a light?" His kumiho eyes couldn't see in the dark very well. The door might have been nice to have open...just to filter in light. The freshling moved to it, jiggling the doorknob. Locked. "I---guess we're stuck here." he ignored the weird feeling that crawled up his spine like a centipede. "Do you want to explore?"

Bright light. Tenchyu squinted as his eyes were illuminated with nearly blinding white, his hand moving to cup and try to block some of those artificial rays from the beam. It was worse than staring into the sun on a hot day. At least he could see when it wasn't in his eyes. "Could you..not point that at my eyes?" he narrowed his own, slightly peeved.

At least he pointed it elsewhere. A sigh overcame Tenchyu as Ali told him to follow if he wanted to have some light. Did Ali think that he was in charge of this night? If so, he was sorely wrong. Tenchyu wasn't about to let someone dictate what he was about to do.

His shoulder's sagged before he started walking towards the other freshling. But he might as well follow him. Might as well keep to the light. There was still money to be had...Ali and he just had to find an exit after spending some time in this dump. It was easy peasy. There was probably a broken window or another door that they could just walk through in another room.

"I'll follow you." he conceded. "Can't have you swallowed up by a ghost now, can I?" Although, he didn't believe in that sort of creature. Ali was bound to believe it. So down the stairs he went with him.