Sunny Explorations [Aiko/Sam]

Sam reached back and put a finger up infront of the girl. Gesturing for her to be silent as she slowly crouched her way through the sewer, and took several moments to survey the area, only to pause as she crouched down and took a look at some piping along the sides. Her fingers gently running along the metal before her brows knitted together.

And then her gaze drifted tot he ground and she noticed the remains of a shattered bit of .....metal? She crouched down, gently picking up a few pieces, and paused as she ran her fingers over a twisted bit with a little sliver through it. A dial.....

"Welp, mystery solved. But what a way to go..." She murmured softly, her voice distorted by the mask before she nodded up to the pipes along the walls. Reaching up and gently running her palm over the pipe, showing an absolute mess of holes of different sizes going through the pipes.

"These pipes were corroded. If I had to guess. Some ...hollow or something got into the sewers. And ....either intentionally or accidentally. Caused holes to be eaten through the pipes here. Water and sewage built up here. And Gas." She pointed out, indicating the rather large gas lines. "Gas built up in the sewers, and then eventually started leaking up into the city. They probably had to evacuate overnight. Anyone who wasn't fast enough just suffocated and dropped on the spot. The place must have been uninhabitable for a few years." She murmured softly, slowly standing back up straight and shaking her head. Her mind shifting back to the bodies they'd foudn in the alleyway. Then, she turned to look at Aiko.

"Let's get back topside. I don't wanna poke arond too much down here. There may still be pockets of gas." She noted softly, gesturing for Aiko to follow her up the ladder. A rather brisk pace up the rungs before helping Aiko up and out onto the street, where they would finally be able to peel the masks off. A sigh escaping Sam as she took a moment to shake her head, then turning to Aiko and smirking a bit lopsidedly. "Gotta say, not what I really expected. I half thought we were going to have some monster lurking around here. But I imagine with all the people driven out or dead, there's probably not been anything for a hollow to eat around here in years."

Once the pair of them were back up to the surface and removing their masks, Sam couldn't help but raise a brow ever so slightly at Aiko at their choice of descriptors. Certainly she wouldn't have considered the issue mundane. Especially given the corpses. And who knew how many other corpses lay hidden throughout this city. It had more or less been a disaster. But she decided not to worry too much about that.

"Fair enough. Even so... that should just about do it. I don't think we'll have to worry about anything else around here. So we should head back out. Sorry the trip turned out so uneventful. but even so, I'm glad you tagged along to back me up." She noted, a slight ring of appreciation in her voice as she gestured back the way they'd entered the place.Unless Aiko had another reason for them to keep looking about, there was no reason not to head back out. It'd be a good half hour walk to make it through the street and back alleyways. But even so, she still planned on picking the girl's head once they got outside the gates again. She still had a few questions for this odd lass.