Day 56: Intercom, Late Evening

[damned_intercom]

Despite the rough start and the heavier snowfall, the buses managed to stay on route and on schedule. With minutes to spare, they arrived at the gates of Landel's Institute, back to the waiting arms of the military. All pretenses seemed to drop at this point, and the soldiers again took on their patented gruff exteriors. Patients were filed out of

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[quarter_english]

L was pleased to find that he had returned to the room before his roommate. Orihara was still an unknown quantity, and thanks to Aguilar's procedures, some of the supplies that L had collected would be left out in the open. He'd had reasons for choosing to lock certain items in his desk drawer; he didn't appreciate them being moved to a location that other patients could access. From a certain point of view, it struck him as ironic that Aguilar seemed so obsessed with security when he was interfering with L's own attempts to maintain it. No... not security, he corrected himself. His aims are more likely to be discipline and control. At any rate, he cares only about his own security, and that of his men, his goals, not the ability of his prisoners to keep secrets amongst themselves.When he'd understood, the night before, that the serial number assigned to him was alphanumeric code for his real name, he'd been hit by a wave of nauseated horror. He'd covered it as well as he could. Putting him in a dangerous situation, cut off from all

Sorry for the wait!

[predictator]

By the time Izaya reached his shared room after being escorted from the bus, Ryuuzaki had already arrived. In addition, the same box that had awaited him yesterday sat on his desk once more, next to what was supposed to be dinner