towerofanimus | (no subject)

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.

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Maybe we're just all from different dimensions.

[Actually feasible as far as she's concerned]

What's a dimension? [You're worrying him now. But he has to be right, all the adults keep telling him the world didn't end, so it can't have!]

It's, I guess, it's sort of like a world and normally they're supposed to stay separated because otherwise bad things happen, but I don't think this is anywhere in Sunnydale and if it were then my sister would be here so it has to be different.

Well everyone here is from different worlds but I don't know about dimensions. Is Sunnydale where you come from miss?

[She nods]

Yeah, it is. But worlds, dimensions, really it's all just different words for the same thing.

[He nodded as well.] Well the bad people said all the worlds ended so that means all the dimensions ended but I don't think that happened!

Well...yeah. That's what would happen if the barriers were gone.

Why don't you think it happened?

Because... [Because it was too scary to think about, he wanted to believe that it hadn't ended, that they could beat the bad people and all go home.]

Because it can't have, if the barriers were all gone and all the worlds ended they'd all end at the same time right? But I've been here for ages miss and you only just got here!

Not necessarily. Maybe their ritual lets them do it stage by stage. Maybe it's more complicated than- [catching herself] than we might expect it to be.

You... think the bad people made the world end?

I don't know, maybe? It's what a lot of them seem to want.

[At least in Sunnydale]

But if they wanted the worlds to end why did they save us?

Maybe they need us for something. Hard to say no to their demands when we have nowhere else to go.

Maybe... but... they haven't asked for anything they just keep doing bad things!

Bad things? What kind of bad things?

Lots of bad things. I'm not sure if they brought the monsters here but there's lots of monsters, and they made us play a game with candles and a midnight man. They sometimes make people do bad things, they made my best friend kill me once. They turned me into a deer as well.

Monsters are no biggie.

[Though she still looks rather less than thrilled at the rest of it]

Maybe this is just one of those places where these things just...happen. Lots of weird stuff happened in Sunnydale too.

Did you have monsters in your world?

Oh yeah, all kinds. My sister's job is pretty much to fight them and stop them ending the world or whatever it is they end up wanting.

Well if she comes here she can help us stop these bad people too. Then we can all go home!

[She frowns a little at that.]

How can she come here?

Because people come here all the time. Even people from the same world as other people. And sometimes there can be two of one person.

...Really? You're not just saying that?

[She'll deal with the being two of one person thing later. That part's not really such a new thing for her]

Of course not! It happens all the time!

But how? Is there, like, some in-between dimension where they keep the people they don't want yet but might in the future?

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