Thread Roulette: Explorers

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I don't think Morgan Tonaya or Sayaka Ito are supposed to be wandering around down here on their own.

[Sayaka Ito]

The research laboratories...Sayaka knew this place was likely not meant for people like her, for students, to just wander around in. Especially for people as young as she was. But hey, you only lived once. And besides that, she had to admit she was just a bit curious about this school, at least to a degree. So what better way to learn about it than to explore the areas that one usually did not explore during the day?

It was for this reason that she was nervously moving around the area, careful to peer around every corner to make sure she wasn't about to just run into someone. Of course, considering her recent track record of meeting people, it was likely SOMEONE else was going to be down here to catch her.

[Morgan Tonaya]

Morgan didn’t particularly like the research laboratories. He found them gloomy and claustrophobic, but he supposed there was a reason for all that. He didn’t venture down there too often, preferring to send and receive any messages that needed to go that way through email or through someone else. Unfortunately, he’d agreed to participate in some studies regarding bioluminescence.

No matter how hard he tried to convince everyone that he technically didn’t glow due to his own biology, he was still a person of interest. Light manipulation had been biting him in the ass recently, but participating in a study was better than being blinded and burned. Morgan was marching out of the testing facility when he caught sight of a jet-black haired girl peering around the corner.

“Hey there.” He greeted amiably, smiling brightly. “Lost?”

[Sayaka Ito]

Sayaka was beginning to think that perhaps just wandering down here out of curiosity, and nothing else, was not really the smartest idea in the world. But...the time for that kind of thought had already passed, especially since she was already down there in the first place. If she just left right then...why, there was the chance that someone would come across her.

And if she stayed...well, someone might come across her anyway, so might as well learn more about the school if someone was going to find her out either way. At least, that was what she thought.

Sayaka jumped a little when a voice spoke, presumably to her, and quickly she faced the source of the voice. "O-Oh, um," she answered intelligently, staring at him. He didn't LOOK young enough to be a student here...a teacher? She hoped she wasn't going to get detention for being curious. "I guess you could say that!" she answered, hoping her tone wasn't too high-pitched to give away the half-truth. She was, after all, lost. Just she didn't belong down there was all.

[Morgan Tonaya]

Morgan nodded knowingly and shrugged. “Well that’s fine. It can be a little crazy down here, that’s for sure.” He chuckled. “I’ve been working here god knows how long and I still get lost! Where are you headed, I can try and help you out if you like.”He offered.

She seemed shy, but that had never stopped Morgan before. His demeanor was warm and kind, usually. He tended to be alright with this kind of student. Assuming she was a student, there’s not telling what she was actually doing down there.

[Sayaka Ito]

He worked here...yeah, he was definitely probably the worst person to just run into, all things considered. Sayaka wondered if she could come up with some kind of excuse to just let him leave her alone and let her find her own way back. But...yeah no, all things considered, the young girl did not think she would be able to accomplish something like that at all. "U-Um...well. I..." she bit her lip, wondering what she would say. She fidgeted a little, and then let out a sigh she hadn't even know she was holding it. "I was sneaking around because I was curious!" the girl told him.

[Morgan Tonaya]

Morgan looked a bit taken aback when the girl just sudden admitted what she was up to. He chuckled and shrugged good-naturedly. “Well I’d be curious. I hear there’s a nasty rumor they’re doing terrible experiments on Metas.” He snorted. “Of course that’s rubbish. The reason we ask students not to come down here is that sometimes it can be very dangerous.”

Gesturing down the hall, Morgan nodded slightly. “For instance, I happen to know that down that way they’re doing tests with electrokinesis. Not only could someone who wandered in that way get injured if they didn’t know what to do, but certain people with certain powers aren’t even allowed down that way. It could hurt the testing data.”

[Sayaka Ito]

How was he going to react? Well, that answer was...surprising, to Sayaka at least. He didn't seem angry or anything at all, no, he seemed more...worried if anything else. "Experiments go on down here?" she asked of him, widening her eyes a little. She could only hope that actual PEOPLE weren't used in these experiments, though Hammel did not seem like the type of place to do that at all. She glanced down the hall they were in before returning her gaze to him, a worried expression on her face. She could see where he was coming from.

There was no telling what, say, gravity manipulation might do when it came to interfering with the experiments. Well, maybe they weren't testing on students, he had just laughed THAT off, but it was still kinda scary. "What kinda tests do you do...?" was what she asked.

[Morgan Tonaya]

Morgan chuckled again, scratching the back of his head when he realized he’d made the student a little nervous, Oops. “Yes, testing. Hammel is a research institute as well as a school. But nothing like out of a horror movie, y’know? It’s just regular old science, not creepy science.” He joked, hoping his bright smile would lift the mood.

He blinked and pointed to his chest. “Me? Well I’m just a history teacher, but I’m participating in one of the studies that I…don’t know if I’m supposed to tell you about?” He chuckled again. “Nothing serious. They’re just looking at some side effects and certain abilities. It’s all really boring, actually.”

[Sayaka Ito]

Yeah, she had definitely just overreacted before, thinking that it was all some big scary thing. As if they'd actually perform experiments on meta-humans, there was no telling what some of them could do! So she gave a relieved smile to the man and nodded her head at what he was saying. "I guess I just...overreacted," she admitted, though she did cast another glance down that way before putting it out of her head.

No, nothing more was going to happen. She was positive he was right when he said humans weren't tested on. "Ain't history kinda boring too though?" she had to point out, unable to help her snarkiness.

[Morgan Tonaya]

Morgan chuckled, tucking his hands in his pockets. "Well most people do. Too much science fiction, if you ask me." Not that Hammel wasn’t just a science fiction book come right to life, but still. Not everything could be as horrific as they were in books. “But not here. Hammel is a safe place, for research and learning alike.”

Resisting the urge to sigh heavily, Morgan answered the same question he always had to answer. “Maybe to some people, but that’s just because history text books are boring. History can be really cool if you look in the right places.” He recalled his days as a student when he’d thought the same thing. “And sometimes you really have to look.” He added with a chuckle. Morgan knew his passion wasn’t the most interesting, but it could have been much worse.

He could be a math teacher.

[Sayaka Ito]

Too much science fiction...that was kind of silly. Now, Sayaka wasn't really the type of girl to just like that stuff, but she could appreciate it from time to time. Just because you had too much of something didn't mean it was going to influence how you looked at reality, right? Besides that, reality was plenty strange now that she had the odd ability to manipulate gravity. Sayaka couldn't be sure of most anything now, in face of that. "Yeah...it's safe here. I really like it," she said back to him.

That, at least, was something she could agree with. Most of her experiences here in Hammel had been positive, aside from that meeting with her roommate. But, then, it was inevitable that she'd disagree with SOMEONE eventually. "And...I guess. Just that most history teachers aren't very good at it, you know?"

[Morgan Tonaya]

"That's good to hear." Morgan agreed softly, recalling the brief moment in Hammel's history where no one felt safe. MSAD was long gone, but Morgan was still dealing with the aftermath of the group's dealings. He hardly let it affect his work now, but it had certainly wormed it's way into his social life. Knowing that the students felt safe was reassuring despite all that.

He outright laughed at Sayaka's comment. "Well yeah. I guess there is that." He conceeded. Of course he was bound to think history was cool. He was the teacher! Most student must think he was obviously stuffy and boring and, however big a blow to his pride that was, that was just how it would go. "Maybe if you take my class in the coming years I can change your mind. What's your name?"

[Sayaka Ito]

Sayaka wondered where exactly their conversation might go from there. She had been expecting it to take a very different turn once he learned she was not supposed to be down here, but then again, was he supposed to be down here? Surely teachers couldn't just go wherever they wanted, especially in a place like this. And she couldn't see a history teacher having much involvement with science and experiments and all those sorts of things.

She saved her curiosity for then, however, because asking him a question was really not warranted right now. Especially given her shy nature, she just couldn't bring herself to ask. "O-Oh...my name? Um, I'm Sayaka," she said, wracking her mind for his name. And then she realized, he had never told her it. "You know...you never told me your name, either." she said with a small, playful smile on her face.

[Morgan Tonaya]

"Nice to meet you, Saya---" Morgan stopped, blinking. "O-oh! Didn't I?" He snorted slightly in a fit of quiet giggles. He just supposed everyone knew who he was these days. "I guess I didn't, I really ought to keep an eye on that, huh?" He chuckled and shook his head.

"I'm Mister Tonaya. Morgan Tonaya." He introduced. "Nice to meet you, Sayaka." He finally finished.