Thread:Critjo/@comment-31958621-20170717175402/@comment-32585685-20170721161532

Norio doesn't notice Claire right away. But something at the edges of his hearing that shouldn't be there keeps pushing into his awareness. He can't stay fully focused on the game, there's something wrong in the room around him. Something in his peripheral vision? Some sound he can hear? His place of isolation is being disturbed by something he didn't put there. Eventually he can stand it no more and pauses the game to look up at the room and find out what he missed.

Oh. There's a girl there. She's breathing. In the silent room, that was the sound he could hear.

"You're in my room." He says to her sharply, so deep in his own world that he forgets that he doesn't own the room.