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[littlemissnobody]

Characters: Dawn Summers and OPEN
Setting: Dormitory floors, later cafeteria
Format: Starts prose but will match
Summary: Dawn's just woken up and she's not taking this well.
Warnings: None yet

The first indication of this new arrival in the tower is a loud, high pitched scream as Dawn finds the initial sleep paralysis wearing off and falls out of her bed, having been mentally struggling uselessly against whatever had been holding her but suddenly no longer is.

She picks herself up, gazing around the unfamiliar room before her eyes fall on the letter. She takes one look at it and runs from the room, not caring that she's still in the white bodysuit she woke up in and not noticing the trunk at the foot of her bed.

Around the dormitories, therefore, there is a teenage girl running around calling out a single name: Buffy. Finding her now means finding her in a frantic, panicked state because she has no idea what's going on right now.

Later, however, you might find her in the cafeteria, dressed in her own clothes now and sullenly poking at a bowl of oatmeal.

Comments

Dorms

[hoboherooo]

Well, that sound can't be good. Once Eiji hears the scream, he's hoofing it down the hall as fast as he can muster, skidding to a stop once the girl is out in the hall. He raises his hands, and tries to look as non-threatening as he can. "Hey, hey - calm down!"

[littlemissnobody]

Dawn skids to a stop, eyes wide as she sees the stranger in front of her. There are so many things she wants to ask, so many things she knows she should figure out but there's only one question that she seems to be able to focus on now.

"Have you seen my sister?"

[hoboherooo]

"I... might have," he answers, though the look of awkward apprehension he has in saying it obvious. He wants to be hopeful, but hope always has that chance of not panning out.

"I don't know anyone named Buffy, but there's a lot of people here that I don't know very well, so..." A pause. "Assuming that your sister is the person you were just calling out for, that is."

[littlemissnobody]

She nods, making no effort to disguise that she's very plainly scanning the corridors all around them, just in case.

"She has to be here. She can't not be, that wouldn't make sense. It wouldn't be fair."

[hoboherooo]

Eiji swallows, then draws a heavy breath, knowing that more than likely, things are going to be very unfair. However, he'll try to remain optimistic. There's a lot of other people here that have their close friends, or even family. And he has Ankh and the Detective here, so...

"Well, we won't know until we look." He holds a hand out, giving her a small smile. "I'm Eiji."

[littlemissnobody]

She glances at the hand but is too anxious to do anything about it; instead she paces a little once more.

"Dawn. So...so where do we start?"

[hoboherooo]

Should've expected that one. Eiji pulls his hand back once it's clear that Dawn has no intentions of shaking it. "Well, there's a few common meeting areas on different floors. I would say we make our way downstairs to them, check them, ask the people there if they know your sister. Maybe leave a message on the network once we get to the library that you're looking for her, and go on down to the cafeteria."

Dorms

[metawoof]

That initial scream garnered a startled yelp of its own as Echidna was walking through the hallways to approach her room. When the girl still clad in the white bodysuit rushed out however, Echidna dodged out of the way as she ran past, before taking a moment to think and taking a few steps after Dawn and calling for her from down the hallway.

"W-Wait! Hey!!"

[littlemissnobody]

Dawn stops and turns sharply, too panicked to really take in much about the person in front of her.

"I have to find my sister. She'll know what to do."

[metawoof]

"U-Uh--" Yeesh, Echidna was getting mentally flipped around just by this girl panicking. She did take some more steps to come closer though, since she at least stopped. "Who is your sister? I do not know everyone here but if she is here maybe I can help you...?"

[littlemissnobody]

Dawn paces a little, unable to keep still.

"My sister, Buffy. Is she here? She has to be here, it wouldn't make sense for her not to be."

[metawoof]

She watched her pace, a bit at a loss of how to help with that. So she just, kind of stood their dumbly and frowned.

"Buffy? I do not think I have heard of her, but she might be? Why wouldn't it make sense for her to not be here?"

[littlemissnobody]

"Because she can't be gone again."

There's a fierce determination in her tone, perhaps overly determined for her not having a clue about where she is or what's going on but she knows she can't focus on that until she's found her sister - or failing that, someone else she knows but she's less concerned about that for now.

Dorms

[myblueskies]

Romeo saw the girl running around shouting and went to see if he could help her! He guessed she was new, because he had never seen her before, he ran after her.

"What's wrong miss?" He called out to her when he was close enough.

Dorms

[littlemissnobody]

Dawn stops and looks up, determination clear in her expression. "I have to find my sister. She has to be here."

Re: Dorms

[myblueskies]

"Do you need help! I will help you find her!" He knew that there was a chance she wouldn't be here at all, because not everyone's friends and family came here with them. But there was no harm in looking.

Re: Dorms

[littlemissnobody]

Dawn nods, still glancing around the corridors. "Do you know her? Buffy. She, um, she, we don't look that similar but you'd know, if you'd met her. I mean Buffy, not a name you forget in a hurry, right?"

[myblueskies]

"I haven't heard of anyone called Buffy before but I am sure if she's here we can find her!" He grins at her, he had to keep her spirits up if she was new, because it could be really scary here at first.

Okay it was really scary all the time, but when you were new and confused it wasn't nice.

[littlemissnobody]

She just nods again. "Yes. Good. That's okay. M-maybe that just means she's not awake yet, or, I mean this seems like a pretty big place. You could be here and not find someone, right?"

[guiltapalooza]

Willow doesn't find her until she's in the cafeteria, innocently carrying her own plate of lunch and looking for somewhere to sit down. She doesn't do a double take when she sees Dawn-- she screeches.

"Oh my god," she says fervently, shocked out of her habitual Goddess. Her plate of food is set down on whatever table is nearest to her, Willow barely looking at it, discarding it carelessly. Then she's rushing over to Dawn, babbling the whole way.

"Dawnie, it's you! It's-- Dawn! Are you okay?"

[littlemissnobody]

This is the first sign of anyone she's recognised since arriving. Though she understands a little more of the place now, she's still relieved to see Willow.

"I'm okay."

Not that she sounds it, what with the whole dimensional bleed thing going on and the sister still unaccounted for but that won't stop her trying.

[guiltapalooza]

"That is not the sound of okay." She's frowning deeply in concern. "Budge over, missy, you think you can just show up out of the blue and not hug me?"

Willow takes it upon herself to sit next to Dawn at the table, and weasel her way into her personal space, going for that hug.

[littlemissnobody]

Dawn allows it, but she still seems too distracted to hug back.

"I can't find Buffy. I know she has to be here, somewhere, but I've looked and no-one knows where she is."

At that, she finally looks up.

"But you must have found her by now, right? Or-or you could do something, a spell to find her."

[guiltapalooza]

She draws back slowly after the hugging is done, biting her lip at Dawn's insistence to find Buffy.

"Dawn, I... I'd be happy to do a locator spell if you want me to, but I don't think she's here." She should keep explaining, say more. About how this is a place out of time, and she's been here without anyone for months, so it's honestly shocking to her that even Xander and Dawn would show up. She can't expect Buffy to, too.

But Willow can't find the words. She hates that she has to tell Dawn things like this, after all that she's been through already.

[littlemissnobody]

At Willow's comment, Dawn's expression tightens, finding that fine line between upset and angry.

"What do you mean, she's not here? She has to be."