'"So what? We just sit here, While we free fall?" Meracle questions Reimi, tilting her head as she looks curiously at the two vacant seats within the drop pod "Yes but it''ll be fine, look." Reimi approaches the seats before them, she places her hand on the strange U shaped metal bar extending out from the seats headrests, it's a over the shoulder restraint, similar to what you would find on a rollercoaster.

"Once you sit down you pull this safety bar down and it hold on tight to it, it will keep you safe once we start the drop and won't let you out til we land for your safety." Reimi moves the restraint up and down as she speaks to Meracle, demonstrating how the device works. "Wait, you mean we'll be stuck in those seats?!" Meracle exclaims upon hearing Reimi's explanation, continuing "That doesn't seem safe? What if there's an emergency and you need out?" Meracle starts backing up towards the exit but bumps into the pods control panel by mistake and something makes a beep noise.

"It's okay Meracle, really. These seats are super safe, you'd rather be strapped into them in an emergency, trust me." Reimi says with a reassuring smile "Why don't you try it out? It won't lock you in until we engage the lock on the control panel."

"Alright...but you have to sit down with me!" Meracle says with confidence pointing at Reimi, "Okay, okay I can agree to that." says Reimi with a giggle as she takes her seat and pats the empty one next to her, Meracle slinks over and places herself in the seat beside Reimi.

"Ready? Grab your restraint and pull down on three, okay? One. Two." The pair grab hold of their shoulder restraints "Three!" and pull them down swiftly in sync as they stop with a clunk on their chests. Meracle grips the metal bar, feeling how the shoulder restraint firmly presses her into the seat, she understands what Reimi meant now about feeling safe in this.

"This does feel pretty secure...Alright I'm convinced lets..." Meracle stops as she tries to push the shoulder restraint away from her but finds it won't budge "Hey Reimi, it's stuck!" she turns to Reimi who is also struggling yo get her own restraint to move before looking over to the control panel and seeing the lock symbol has lit up "Oh, I think you must have bumped into it earlier when you backed up..." Reimi says in sombre tone "The pod also isn't due to launch for another few hours and we sneaked down here to get an early look, guess we better get cozy."

The pair sit in their seats, trapped by the over the shoulder restraints as they wait in hopes someone finds them, or for the appointed drop time. At least the restraints feel good pressing against them they think to themselves.'



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