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You were tempted to shoo Kiara over to Kanna's room but on second thought, she'd probably be better off in whatever hidden lab is hidden under the manor.
"Casey, Max, go check KANNA's bedroom. Lock the door when you arrive. Just in case." You point where it is on the Clovers makeshift map. Down the west/left hallway, then a turn to the right, then up a flight of stairs. You decide to be a bit paranoid and just in case?
You plant the old potted plants by the foyer windows, messing with the angle until they might look like heads in the distance. You're only doing this out of paranoia, though. "Rest of us will be checking out the lab."
Max narrows his eyes into small slits, "Alright. But next time we split up, I want to be with you or Benjamin."
"Fie? Thy loyal knight isn't suitable enough companionship for exploration???"
"No- It's not that! Really!" Max tries her best to keep up a smug smirk. "I just like being with them. That's all."
"Aw." She likes hanging out with you? That's adorable. "I'll take that into account, sure. Now. Kiara." You plant a hand on the android's shoulder. "You ready for some more weird bullshit lab exploration?"
"You bet I do! Imagine the stories I could spin about this place. A spooky abandoned lab hidden underneath an old manor once owned by a rich corporate family?" Her LED eyes develop a rosy pink tint to them. "Oooh. Prime real estate for a story."
"Ya know, Kiara, I gotta say," Clover is staring daggers into Kiara. It softens once he realizes she probably didn't mean any offense. "Mighty feels like no one could care. Ain't there a buncha stories like that? Shitty horror movies or somethin'?"
"Yeah, no offense Kiara, but I played like a dozen games with that plotline during the weekend." Benjamin smacks down Kiara's plan in a lightly dismissive tone. "Weird abandoned manors are super overused in stories these days."
"Aww. C'mon, surely we can make some spin on it. 'Mysterious manor found in D-Corp! What secrets of Clover Guan, owner of the illustrious Clover Suite, are hidden inside?' sounds exciting, doesn't it?"
Seath snorts, "You're making it sound like he did something really bad here. D-Corp isn't in the news much unless it's about us fucking up."
"Yeah, Kiara, I rather not have my allies arrested. Thanks."
Kiara's mood immediately deflates once she actually processes that, yeah, that sounded bad. "I'll workshop the title! C'mon, let me have this. A palette cleanser after what I had to see."
"Forsooth! Clover, think about it! Perhaps we could draw more customers to your suite!"
Clover scratches his chin. "Mrh. Only if you 'workshop' this idea with me, Kiara."
"Deal!" Kiara mimics snapping her fingers.
"Aww." You lightly nudge Kiara. "Being buddy buddy with the cowboy now? Forgetting about lil' ol me and my stories?"
"Pfft. I could write like four mini stories out of the stuff you're doing, I wouldn't forget about you. But cowboys are so cool..."
"Wait, huh? Thanks?"
"Fair enough! Can't blame ya."
