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((Wiley but a puppy))
"I don't know of any. Are there?"
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(Who would want him)
"Can't recall any from the top of my mind," Rai says.
Wiley scrunches up his face in thought.
"Neither can I," Raez concides.
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"I mean, people sometimes have celebrations that aren't holidays."
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"Right. But that's not really the point of this talk then, is it?" Raez questions rhetorically. "Though, I am curious whether you've celebrated those as well."
The lift of sorts makes a clinking noise, causing Rai to stiffen slightly and for Wiley to turn his head, but it turns out to be nothing really.
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"Not really either," Dion said, not bothering to pay attention to the noise.
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"You don't mind that either, then?"
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"Nope. But it's nice sometimes."
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"Nice!" Raez exclaims, though like Rai, his voice somehow feels flat despite the injected enthusiasm. "What's the next public holiday, Rai?"
Rai shrugs. "Beats me. Maybe Halloween."
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"You guys celebrate Halloween?"
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"Not really," Rai responds. "I'm usually working, Raez is usually working, and it'd be a public health hazard if Wiley got his hands on so much candy within one night."
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Dion turned his head to look at Raez. "You work?"
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Raez chuckles while simultaneously giving Rai a hard look. Impressive. "Yeah, I guess I do."
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"If you ever celebrated Halloween then I could eat Wiley's candy for him," Dion joked.
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"nO," protests Wiley in a very dignified fashion. "sTAY AWAY FROM MY CANDY."
"Oh boy," Raez says, gesturing to Wiley and nearly poking the other on the shoulder. "You should see how he is when Rai even just brings out a chocolate bar."
"Mayhem," clarifies the cyber agent with a slight nod.
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"Then don't bring it out in public," he continued, "just share it with me in private. I didn't know you bought chocolate bars."
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"He didn't," Raez says at the same time Rai says, "I didn't."
"Bring it out in public, I mean," Raez continues while Rai says the same thing, and then Raez laughs and Rai smirks.
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"Then how," Dion turned his head again. "How'd he find it?"
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"I 'spring out of nowhere'," Wiley says for himself with a defensive tone.
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Dion blew out some air. "As if you expect me to believe that." Before anyone else replied, though, he kept on talking. "But it's a pity that you don't at least celebrate Halloween. I thought maybe I would get to see it. Especially that 'tricky treat' thing that goes on."
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Because Dion didn't allow him to respond, Wiley just makes a face at the other.
"Trick or treat?" Raez asks as an unintentional correction. "What would you--"
The elevator finally stops moving. The door slides open.
"--dress up as?" he finishes, his voice going much quieter in an instant.
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"Well, I dunno, I haven't thought about that. Is this the place at last?"
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Wiley darts out of the elevator, followed by a more nonchalant Rai. Raez waits for Dion to go out.
None of them really talk for a few moments. It's less "crickets" than just general silence.
"There's another floor," Wiley finally says, a grin in his voice. "100 floors down." His teeth are white enough to show in the vast but incomplete darkness.
"So, no other floor," Raez says, crossing his arms loosely.
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((Wait so Raez let Dion down?))
"So is this the place or not?" Dion followed out of the elevator.
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(Think he let him down so they could have a less awkward convo xD may have forgotten to POV that)
"It's the floor, I guess," Rai concludes.
"Exactly." Wiley fingerguns with both hands.
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(Alright ))
"What are we looking for here?"
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"Stuff," goes Wiley helpfully, starting off lithely down the hallway. Somehow it feels like he seems more graceful and at ease here.
Rai glances around, continuing his relative silence. Meanwhile, Raez mirrors that silence, starting off after the chemist. In the dark he seems a lot more threatening, for the blackness around them highlights his considerably imposing build more so than his passive and unprominent features otherwise.
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Dion hurried to stay near Rai and Raez, since he didn't really enjoy dark places. Also it was an unknown location to him.
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"Where are we going?" Raez asks Wiley at some point.
"Where we need to go!" Wiley answers, very helpfully. He reaches a hand out to touch the nearby wall. After a while, lights way down the hallway flicker on, revealing a metallically themed hallway and no visible rooms.
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"And how long till we get to where we need to go?" Dion added.
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"As long as we need!"
"Helpful as always," Rai observes.