daybreakacademy | New York, New York

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New York, New York

Who: Michael and the Drama Club
What: Drama Club class trip to NYC! Gonna see the sights! Absolutely not fight any monsters in the subway tunnels!
Where: A plane / New York City
When: March 29 - March 31
Warnings: None anticipated?

Flyin' High

[The flight to America leaves late - a necessity, given that it's the last day of finals and some students may still have had tests to take. But it's going to be a long one anyway, so sleeping through as much as possible is probably a good idea.

Fortunately, the group has first-class seats. Michael's always willing to spend Daybreak's money, and he's never bothered with human air travel before. He wants the best out of this experience!

This is probably a good thing, because the flight is so, so long. Hopefully you can get some rest.]

Out and About

[We've got a few days to kill in the city!

Michael doesn't want any students going out entirely alone, but he's only one professor and there's a lot of them, so he doesn't mind if people break off to do their own things so long as they're at least partnered up. There's plenty to do in New York, after all! There's no way for one person to see it all during this trip!

Of course, the hotel is also pretty nice, for when you get tired of walking. There's several suites for the students to divide among themselves, while Michael has his own room nearby. It's attached to one of the student rooms by a door which he has very clearly locked and may or may not ever answer. He probably shouldn't be a chaperone.]

Daemons for Ham

[It's time to go see Hamilton! Where did Michael get tickets? Don't worry about it.

He snaps his fingers before the group leaves the hotel, and suddenly you all look like child versions of yourself. Or, at least, what Michael imagines you looked like as children; he only knew a few of you at that time, so he's just making stuff up.]

Now, if anyone speaks to you, you're all orphans from, oh, eight to twelve, and you're dying. Don't take off the illusions, no running - can anyone cry on command? This is important Drama Club stuff.

[And off we go!]

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[Toki waves back.]

We're going to get Minako a dog and a piñata~! You should come; it'll be fun~!

[This is all the context he gets.]

[ Past experience— not even his own personal experience— tells Kano that having alcohol at the party wouldn't be the best idea, up on a penthouse 4059845 meters in the air and somebody is going to get defenestrated. ]

Hm, yep, we're going out! To buy games and stuff! Yuya, maybe we can find starter packs of your cards somewhere? We also need to buy Sorry!! For board games, it's got to be Sorry!

[ THE BEST GAME to be mean to friends, but also it's a little mean to Toki because he's not allowed to shout out "Sorry!" when betraying other players. ]

... A real dog? [Probably not a real dog, but like he wouldn't put that past them.]

Why are we getting all this for--is it Minako's birthday?!

[That's honestly just the most obvious excuse he can think of. Any more personal reasons to celebrate would be way beyond him.

He likes parties though.] Okay, I'll come! I've got money, so we can find some nice things for her.

Any games you want!

[As Toki has interpreted it, he's not allowed to say 'sorry' to Kano, but he can to other people. He also doesn't know what Sorry! is, but if it's the game Kano wants, that's what they'll find.]

No, a stuffed dog, like a big one, but now that you mention it maybe we should get her a real dog! A cute little puppy~! Yes, it's her birthday! Well, it might be, I'm not sure really because I just knew it after I had that vision of her with the gun! I might be wrong, but she's getting a party anyway and we'll just call it the "We're in New York" party if it's not her birthday after all~!

[ It's so nice having rich friends... ]

A real dog might be a bit irresponsible??? It'll have to take the plane ride back with us, eight hours all alone in the cargo, and that's no good for the dog!

[ Also vaccines and registration and microchips and food and toys and it's just a bad idea, don't buy people pets, Kano learned after getting Ellie a lizard and then she left him with the lizard ]

But about her birthday, you're right about it, so rest assured. You can really learn that stuff from your visions?

And we don't know if she wants to take care of one... so maybe we should stick to a stuffed dog.

[And then Minako will go and get a real dog somewhere anyway. Yuya is now thinking about how he needs to buy Minako a gift himself, even if he helps with the party, and almost misses their conversation drifting off in his own thoughts.]

It really came up then... maybe that one was mostly metaphorical?

[He definitely doesn't want to trap a poor little puppy on a plane for that long.]

Okay, no live animals~! Maybe it was, I don't know how that turned out anyway!

[As far as he knows, Minako never had to fight shadow people under a full moon, but no one really tells him what's going on anyway; he's still oblivious to the Hollows for the most part.]

So, I guess I can get that kind of information from visions! Maybe I know so many things that I don't know I know and I won't until it comes up somehow! Anyway! There are things to be done here~! We can't stay in the lobby all day, there's a timetable~!

[There's not, but he thinks it sounds good.]

[ That's worrisome, Toki... But he's right in that there really is sort of a timetable if they want to get thing set up before Minako's birthday, or before she catches wind of what they're doing. ]

Alright, alright, let's get a move on, then~ You got a fancy phone, right? Either of you? To look up how to get where we need to go...

[ Because New York is huge and crowds are terrible and the first thing they should buy is that ginormous stuffed dog so they can use it as a battering ram through the crowd. ]

Okay, okay. Let's go! [Yuya moves to hold the door open once they start going, pulling his phone out of his pocket. He's got a smartphone, they've got this handled.] I can get us directions, unless Toki already knows where to go.

[Toki's challenged by a lot of things, but hopefully not directions.]

[Toki is very much challenged by directions, and also can't read any of the street signs, store names, or subway information. Now that they're on the sidewalk, it's up to Yuya.]

I just know it's in Rockefeller Center, but I don't... know where that is or where we are, really.

[ Lead the way, Yuya... ]

We have to do it like this, though. Here, here, gimme your hands~

[ He says it to the both of them, but reaches for their hands regardless. Going to make a human chain so they don't get lost, and also— and more importantly— so Kano can zone out while Yuya leads their train and he doesn't have to pay attention to anything or anyone. ]

Rockefeller Center... [At lest Yuya can read the signs, and he carefully murmurs the name so he can work out how to spell it.

He takes Kano's hand in a firm grip when he reaches for it, glancing back to both of them--okay, it's a chain of handholding--before returning his attention to his phone as it pops up the navigation.]

There we go! The Rockefeller Center is... this way, so if it's in there we'll find it!

[He tugs as he takes the lead. It being the weekend, the already often crowded streets are even busier. It's probably ideal they cling so they don't get lost from each other.]

[Toki is completely fine with Yuya leading the way and doing all the work. There's too many people and things to look at, much like Tokyo. Distractions everywhere and no time to get lost in thoughts right away.]

Hey, Kano!

[It's a poor attempt at whispering, but maybe Yuya won't hear.]

[ bless our lord and savior, Yuya ]

Hm? What's up?

[ He doesn't even bother whispering, but with his head turned away from Yuya, maybe he can't hear well? If it's a private conversation Toki wants, it really isn't the time or place for it anyways ]

[If Yuya can hear, he doesn't make any indication he's listening. Mostly he's not unless they call for him specifically, because he's busy playing guide and apologizing as he tries to lead their daisy chain down the sidewalk.]

[He glances up ahead at Yuya to make sure he's still focused elsewhere. If Toki ever thought things through, he would realize that no, this is a stupid place and time to ask this. Yet, this is when the thought occurs, therefore, it's when it gets voiced.]

Do you want to stay in New York and not go back to France?

[ That sure takes him by surprise, because Toki doesn't bring up a new thought, exactly. He'd wanted to stay in Germany back when they'd gone to Germany, and he'd wanted to stay in New York after they landed in New York. He doesn't like Daybreak, and wants to run away from it, but there's also so many things he has to do there, that he'd already set in motion, and just abandoning it at this point... ]

Do you want to run away?

[ He answers Toki's question with a question, wanting to know more about why Toki's asking before he says one way or another. ]

[Yuya stops, briefly, squinting between his signs and the phone.

But only for a second before he pulls them right to continue on their way. He's got to make sure his directions are right.]

[Toki doesn't like Daybreak either. He can't stand it; he's losing his mind there. He wants to disappear into the crowded streets of New York and not have to talk to people about real things ever again. He thinks that maybe here, he could escape. He could return to that life of superficial delusional happiness where nothing hurts.]

Yes.

[He doesn't elaborate, because he won't be able to stop talking and then Yuya will get involved somehow and convince him it's a bad idea.]

[ A general sense of it, run away, is what Kano's picking up, and he hums under his breath something tuneless. He lets Yuya drag him along by one arm, but the one holding onto Toki's, he pulls closer until they're walking side by side and he can link arms with the other boy. ]

And you're asking me because you want my opinion of if it's a good idea or not? Or are you asking me 'cause you want me to run away with you? I wouldn't mind.

Both.

[He has fun with Kano, and it would be good to have him around. Somehow, Kano's opinion or validation of this idea also matters.]

[ He should just say "it's a bad idea, don't go," right? Because it's what he thinks— but it's not what Toki wants to hear, probably, and that also matters to him. He wants to run away from Daybreak, but he also wants to be there for certain people, and to have certain people available to him. How complicated. ]

Hm... That's hard, Toki~ There's things I need to get done back in France, after all. But how about this? After all those things are done, let's run away together?

[Yuya stops again--at a crosswalk with a red light, so he's not picking up the pace immediately. Other patrons start to crowd around them as they wait for the light while crowded traffic stops for nobody.]

I think we got lucky, our hotel isn't far at all.

[Toki doesn't have time to respond to Kano before they stop. Yuya's talking about the hotel and people are getting closer. It might be better to continue this conversation later.]

That's great~! Then we have more time to look around~!

[ Oh well. Kano will just ambush Toki in his room tonight or something, before he gets it in his head to run away by himself and then he won't ever see him again. ]

Yep, and it'll make the trips shorter too~ The mall's just over there, huh? Let's go get a shopping cart! I call shotgun!

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