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</div><span style="font-size: 26px"><b>Adaleigh Kagano (#077)</b></span><br/><br/><b>Tagging:</b>Akihisa Kagano (<a class="username" data-user-id="9607" data-username="cressray" data-xf-init="member-tooltip" href="https://blackdahliaroleplaying.com/members/9607/">cressray</a>), Jessica Williams (<a class="username" data-user-id="1300" data-username="SilentFairy" data-xf-init="member-tooltip" href="https://blackdahliaroleplaying.com/members/1300/">SilentFairy</a>), All Others<br/><b>TRIGGER WARNINGS:</b>None<br/><b>NOTES:</b>If your character has not been outright listed in this post, please either reach out or determine for yourself whether Adaleigh would pick them out specifically.<br/><hr class="bbc-hr bbc-hr--3"/>"Nuhh!" Adaleigh gasped as she woke with a start. After rolling over to snuggle her husband, Addy had quickly found that she was not safely tucked away in bed as her semi-conscious mind had thought. Instead, she was nearly falling over the edge of the bed to the ground a number of feet below. Looking around her, she saw the intimidating concrete walls that surrounded the largest room she had ever seen, and that was saying something. Where was she? Where was Akihisa?<br/><br/>'No!' She thought to herself as the memories of the call to sign up for the games, the mysterious black van, and the awful smell flooded her memories. Now was not the time to be worrying about where she or her husband were. Based on the number of varying voices flooding the room near her bed, he was probably just somewhere in the masses. What was more important right now was getting bearings on the people around her. They had been invited here to play games but based on the way they were picked up, Addy was left to believe it wouldn't be as easy as it initially sounded.<br/><br/>Relaxing back into the bed, Adaleigh closed her eyes again, listening intently into the multitude of conversations going on. There had to be hundreds of people in that room, the fiery woman determined. Many of them were just as confused as she was, most of them even more so. Some seemed to remember the people who had approached them, offering to play a game in exchange for money, others seemed more triggered by the way they had arrived...wherever they were.<br/><br/>Addy was just starting to shift her attention to another new conversation when she felt the bed shake and heard the metallic rattling of the frame. Someone was inattentive in their climbing of the multi-layered bunk bed. She doubted one person would be enough to knock the bed over for a simple lack of care. Still, she was pretty sure she knew exactly who it was.<br/><br/>"Shhhhh!" The young woman insisted almost immediately following her husband's exaggerated wakeup call. This was something the Celt had gotten too used to, even if she still disliked that he still didn't seem to trust her by herself. He was a protector, a guardian, and that was one of the things that had initially drawn her to him. Literally. The first time they had met, Adaleigh had been getting harassed on a street near the university on her way home from a night with the girls. Of course she had given him a hard time about stepping in for her, but if he hadn't, she probably would have followed in her father's footsteps. Then again, she probably wouldn't be here right now either.<br/><br/>"Hisa, I'm trying to listen." Adaleigh scolded, calling him by the part of his name that meant 'eternal'. He was her eternal, her unending love, the man she was spend the rest of her future with. At least, she hoped so.<br/><br/>Looking around the room cautiously, Adaleigh hoped she would find that no one was paying them any attention. If that was the case, she could go back to listening. She could try to figure a few people out now, while she had the chance. But as her eyes connected directly with the eyes of a brunette girl on the other side of the room, she realized it was too late. Whether it was Akihisa's maniacal search or not, the girl had seen them. She too seemed to be calculating the room, only she seemed more focused on the visual. In Addy's experience, it was more often the words people said when they didn't know you were listening that painted the better picture.<br/><br/>Then again, if she was already caught, she had less time than she thought to dive into the crowd, learn what she could from immediate interaction. After giving a small wave and a smile to the girl watching them, Adaleigh spoke quietly to Akihisa, being sure no one else could hear them.<br/><br/>"That girl..." She started, tilting her head slightly towards Hisa's chest. "Keep your eyes on her."<br/><br/>"Them, too." She continued a moment later, drawing his attention towards the man with the number 003 on his tracksuit and the girl with the eyepatch before pointing out other players around the room who stood out more than the rest. Some, she assumed, would become strong allies. Others, however, might be people they needed to watch out for. Either way, Adaleigh had been taught her whole life how to read people and she was damn good at it. It was her job and she wasn't about to let herself lose these games because she didn't pay attention from the start.