one | am i alone?

[riflesandtea]

Characters: Mami Tomoe and anyone!
Setting: Room 3-01 and then the dormitory floors/living areas
Format: Starting off in prose, but i'm up for anything
Summary: Mami trying to find people she knows and also attempting to make friends!
Warnings: none!


It's a little disorienting here. It's a lot of new information to take in, all at once, and...

Well. She doesn't trust quite as easily any more, in those who say one thing but present other complications.

At least the collar doesn't seem to hurt. It's simply there, glowing a soft violet, and she has to wonder what it's for.

She leaves her empty room after a small amount of time, leaving the two letters she'd received neatly folded on the bedside table, and she is soon wandering the dormitory hallways, looking for any sign of familiar names or faces.

Comments

[beknightedheroine]

..she's still not really gotten over what happened in the art gallery the other day, but Sayaka's going to give today an honest try. That's what Jin was really saying she should do, right? Don't dwell and just keep on going and surviving?


She waves to someone as she walks past them in hall, feeling friendlier already.

Wait a tick.

That's Mami.

hold on lemme amend this to 2/??

[beknightedheroine]

But... is it really? Sayaka rubs at her eyes, and double takes--

3/3

[beknightedheroine]

--yeah, she's still there.

That's...

...not possible, right...?

[riflesandtea]

She almost doesn't notice who she's waving back to, and then her brain prods her sharply and she stops.

Ah, that's-

"Miki-san, is that really you...?" She's polite as ever, even when she's obviously startled. (Fighting with her against Walpurgis Night still hasn't stopped her from addressing literally everyone except Kyoko by their last names, either.)

[beknightedheroine]

"Mami, you're--"

Dead? Looking a lot better? Supposed to be dead? In a horrible, horrible place? _{Let's not forget the dead...}

Sayaka, for her part, looks like she's seen a ghost, but fights through that to race over. Now that they're actually within a couple feet of each other, Sayaka's tempted to prod her or something - whatever 'is it real' test she can think of. Oh, wait.

Sayaka pinches her own cheek.

"You're here. Really here. ..um, and it's really me!"

[riflesandtea]

Well, she was almost dead. That counts, right?

She kind of laughs a little when Sayaka pinches her cheek, although she doesn't dismiss the look on Sayaka's face she had when she first saw her.

"Ah...Miki-san, you're the same as ever. How have you been?"

[beknightedheroine]

"Me? Ahahah, well~! It's been a pretty okay day for me! Yesterday nothing happened, the day before that kind of sucked, but then doesn't matter now, right? How about you? ..Been here long?"

She is not technically lying in any of what she just said, which is how Sayaka manages to say it to Mami's face.

[riflesandtea]

Just kind of giving you a Look. The kind of look that is mostly shared by mothers of every sort, anywhere, that suggests "there is something wrong. i don't know what it is, but i will do my best to find out".

"Oh, no. I haven't been here very long...I just woke up, actually. How about you, Miki-san?"

[beknightedheroine]

Ack. That look says nothing but trouble. Chagrined, she doesn't try any doubletalk when answering this time.

"Um..muh, months... I've been here a couple of months."

[mutab1e]

While Mami was wandering along the hallways looking at anything and everything, there was another individual walking down it as well; however, he seemed to be looking at his feet, not at all looking where he was going. In accordance with Murphy's Law, it wasn't hard to predict what happened next; he simply walked right into her.

"...A-argh! Sorry!" He promptly took a few steps away from Mami, drawing his hands to his sides. His eyes seemed to be screwed shut behind the double-shaded glasses. "It's my fault. Sorry."

[riflesandtea]

"Ah-"

Bumps are had! But she doesn't seem to mind; she just smiles, waving a hand in reassurance.

"Ah, no, it's all right. I'm fine."

She notices that his eyes are closed, which is odd if he's walking around...

"Are you all right...?"

way to be socially competent, equius /weeps

[mutab1e]

...Oh.

Welp.

To be honest, he had jumped to conclusions and assumed she was a highblood troll, in which case he would really have to cower and wait for a beating. Obviously that wasn't happening now, so...

"...I... thought you were someone else," he said. "Sorry."

oh, equius. don't worry she will mother you like she mothers everyone

[riflesandtea]

"No, no, it's fine..!"

She pauses for a moment, like she's considering something.

"Ah, if you don't mind me asking, what's your name...?"

She's very polite, at least. And seems honestly friendly! So that's something.

yay for mommy mami \o/

[mutab1e]

"Equius Zahhak." At the very least, he was able to meet her gaze again. "...Who are you, then, human?" He didn't mean 'human' as a derogatory term -- or, at least, it didn't sound like it.

[riflesandtea]

"Ah, I see." She smiles, and curtsies politely. "It's nice to meet you, Zahhak-san. My name is Mami Tomoe." She stumbles over the pronunciation of Equius' last name, just a little, but she hides it fairly well.

She's curious about his appearance, and how he isn't human; he looks a lot more humanlike than the Incubators (but a lot of things probably looked a lot more humanlike than the Incubators, to be honest. she doesn't have that much experience with extraterrestrials), but she holds back her questions.

[mutab1e]

He blinked at the odd way she addressed him. The suffix he could wave off as strange human culture (and he completely missed the stumbling over his last name), but... "There's... no need to call me by my surname. You're a human, so you don't count as part of the hemospectrum." This neutrality took some getting used to at first, but the alternative was screaming at everyone for being "DISGUSTING FREAK-BLOODED SCUM", and that always struck him as undignified for people who didn't even have other blood colors anyway. "...A-anyway. A pleasure to meet you, too."

[riflesandtea]

"Even if I don't have to, I'd like to be polite...but if you don't want me to, then I won't." She sort of nods, and then seems to pause again, considering his words in her mind.

"If I may ask, what is the 'hemospectrum'? Is it part of your culture?" It takes a bit of control for her not to automatically add a "zahhak-san" to the end of that sentence.

[morituramfides]

Jin was sitting in the hallway with some notebooks and a few books. He wasn't really used to researching without his computer, but he had to make do right now-- not that he figured he would find anything in these books. This was kind of a stupid idea.

He looked up from his crap however when he saw Mami walk by and-- hm. He peered over his glasses in thought, before standing up and abandoning the pile of useless reading materials, going to catch up with the blonde girl. "Hey-- You know anyone named Miki?"

[riflesandtea]

She slows in her walking as soon as Jin calls out to her, and stops completely to reply as he catches up.

"Miki-san..? Yes, I know her..."

[morituramfides]

"Do you know anything about Grief Seeds?"

Yep he's just gonna get straight to the point. Sayaka wasn't looking too good last time he saw her, so the sooner the better.

[riflesandtea]

"Ah? Yes, I do...is this about Miki-san's Soul Gem?"

She is immediately on alert at that, looking more worried (and she has much more reason to, since she knows what Grief Seeds prevent through draining despair.)

[morituramfides]

"Yeah," He said with a nod. "The other day she was freaking out and her gem was almost all black. Said she needed Grief Seeds to fix it, but no idea where to get them."

Unfortunately, the suppressants hadn't been a very viable alternative, but seeing as Jin was pretty sure Sayaka couldn't keep a cool head, they had to figure something out.

[riflesandtea]

"Ah, that's difficult...Grief Seeds only come from Witches, and there might not be any here.

Her gem was almost all black...? That's very dangerous."

She tuts a little, almost absentmindedly, adjusting her hair in a way that suggests it's a habit to help her think. Normally she'd drink tea or prepare it, but it would be impolite to do so now.

[morituramfides]

Witches, huh? He had no idea what that was. But apparently they were hard to come by. Maybe they were like Shadows that dropped special things?

"Yeah. More black than the first time I saw it." A slight shrug. "What happens when it's all black? She lose her magic or something?" She had been worrying about using up her magic the first time he met her, so maybe....

hay mumi-san

[vvvroom]

An older teenage boy was just coming back from the lower floors, heading toward the living areas and looking rather tired. Maybe he was exploring? Who knows! Either way, it wouldn't hurt to ask...