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Noise

It starts as just irritation. A metaphorical crawling under your skin. Things are too noisy, too bright, there is too much happening all the time and you can't take it all in-

Then silence it, make it yours, make it you, take control and destroy what will not submit

It sounds so inviting, a freedom from the noise, but its wrong, its wrong, its wrong and the noise is getting louder, mechanical and foreboding as it sees you, it knows you are there, and it wants to make you apart of it.

Anatawa hitorijanai

For a moment, there is quiet.

You breathe.

And fall through water.

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[Animals look back at him.]

[Chitter chitter]

[Scamper off after a few moments.]

[Soon enough, Crow will find himself at the apartment buildings. They're all a little rundown. Not condemned, but certainly on the lower societal ladder. Once he's clear of the trees, he can also see there is a school not too far away.]

[ Well then.

We are detouring to the school! ]

[Welcome to the school.]

[It appears to be a modern American high school! Currently devoid of any students.]

[ What's an America.

He's gonna check out the nearest room to the entrance. ]

[What is an America indeed.]

[As Crow heads into the school, he'll get a closer look at those overgrown plants and]

[They look like vines from the distance. This close though, Crow can spot the occasional eye on them, looking at him.]

[That's probably fine.]

[But nothing hinders or attacks him and he can proceed to the first room, which appears to be a kind of office.]

[ .....Eyeballs........

That is probably NOT fine. But we are going to look through the office first. Are there any drawers, files, anything of note in here worth looking through? ]

[There are certainly drawers! And they even have files! But they're also the weirdly outlined shapes and thus if there's any writing on them, they cannot be perceived.]

[Though he will find as he interacts with paper-]

[Pop]

[Paper has disappeared into his crafting box as a Material.]

[ Oooh, a Material! Not enough to craft with yet, but that's a solid start. Too bad about the unreadable files, though.

He's gonna leave the room and start going room-by-room, to see if there's anything immediately noteworthy. ]

[He goes from room to room and it is a high school with high school things. Desks, black boards, writing utensils. There's an auditorium, gym, workshops, labs, a computer room and cafetria.]

[All it normal except the computer room does have some jackets in it that are Nonstandard, and the cafetria also has Actual Vines, sans eyes entirely, growing around the entrance to the eating area and the kitchen.]

[ He does see if he can get Materials from the writing utensils, but he stops first in the computer room and tries to turn on a computer. ]

[He can get Chalk, Ink, Graphite, Wood, And Plastic.]

[He turns on the computer and it lights up]

[...to pure purple light]

[ Crow squints at the screen. ]

Aidios, that's bright.

[ All the purple reminds him a bit of Donnie, too.

....he's leaving the screen on while he checks out the nonstandard jackets. ]

[There is a purple dragon on the back and as he touches them]

[Why did he think he could make friends without needing to buy it? He should have known he doesn't have worth to people without being able to able to provide them things to use.]

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[ Crow pulls his hand away from the jacket as soon as he feels that. ]

People like that aren't worth calling "friends." The real ones will cherish you regardless of what you can do for them.

[ Not that it means anything. He's talking to a jacket.

Crow sighs and heads towards the cafeteria, leaving the jacket behind.

(And no, he didn't turn the computer off as he left.) ]

[Will they though]

[Wasting power there Crow.]

[Welcome to the cafetria.]

[There is a feeling...safety is too strong a word. Perhaps security in a more 'secure building' sense over a true feeling of safety.]

[ They will. It's why Crow is trying to keep people at arm's length.

Oh, this is an interesting feeling though. Different.

He's heading towards the kitchen, reaching out to touch the vines as he gets closer. ]

[Material Obtained: Draxum Vines.]

[Honestly, you don't hate the guy. He did bad things to your family, but he also helped you when you needed it and Mikey adores him. You figure it kind of evens out.

He does make you nervous because if you've ever met a person who could make you Worse, its Baron Draxum.

Its funny, the parent you're the most like is the one whose tried to kill your family.]

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[There is a separate voice]

[Its not from the room, its from somewhere Else.]

[We both know you feel things plenty. You can pretend you have no emotions all you want, but eventually you have to face them. You can't just bury them forever. And you know if I have to dig, I will if you won't come up yourself.]

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....Donatello.

[ He'd wondered, with all the purple he'd seen. But now he knows.

He pulls his hand away from the vine and heads into the kitchen proper. He's looking for food ingredients. Can he find the ingredients to craft....

....a Pizza? ]

[...]

[This is, sadly, an American High School Cafetria (in a cartoon logic world) so there are ingredients for a pizza, sure, but the ingredients sure are]

[Suspect]

[Made more suspect in there are more of those vines around, as well as other dubious looking flora. Luckily still no creepy eyes and nothing is pulsing, but its all Dubious Dubious Dubious]

[There are also things along the walls.]

[Papers pinned up about the 'Twilight Realm' and 'Mystic Hand Portals' with copious Math Notes and 'need to talk to Draxum ASAP']

[ Will dubious ingredients stop Crow from making a pizza? Absolutely not. Bonus points here is that he's actually pretty good at pizza baking. Somehow. (It's sweets he's bad at.) (Not that Donatello has ever seen Crow even hint at being able to cook.)

Anyway, if all goes to plan he is gonna make one pizza of potentially dubious quality before checking out those papers. ]

Okay, but where do I find Draxum?

[Making one Dubious Pizza.]

[Good question. It will take a bit of scanning, but he will find something that says Hidden City on it. 'What portal technology do they have? Big Mama does, and it was rather Kraang-y in retrospect, but it seems safe enough?']

Hidden City....

[ He takes that piece of paper and is going to stuff it into his pocket. Then he takes his Dubious Pizza and heads out of the school and towards the apartment buildings that were his original goal.

First thing's first. ]

[To the apartment buildings!]

[Most are distant. Cold.]

[Except one feels Safe.]

[Not security, but Safe.]

[ He's going to head towards the Safe one immediately. ]

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