towerofanimus | (no subject)

Characters: Reno and (open)
Setting: 2-12 for now
Format: Um Prose? Whatever is comfortable
Summary: This is Reno's first day and... well, he's a little bit confused.
Warnings: Nothing right now

Reno couldn't move. He was awake, but he couldn't move. Paralysis had happened to him before, a spell flung in battle, a monster stinging him. But never when he'd been asleep. Still, knowing what it was did nothing to slow his heart or block out the thundering in his ears. Those thirty seconds seemed like an eternity to him, trying to keep the panic down. Breathe in, breathe out... there.

Blink, blink. A finger moved. Well, there, now a foot. He sat up and opened his eyes, blinking in the light- it was too bright for eyes used to the dark. Images were blurry, vague. He rubbed his face and that seemed to help.

Now, where was he? He didn't recognize the room, or the- wait, what the hell is this? A white jumpsuit? That definitely wasn't the last thing he remembered wearing. He wouldn't be caught dead in something like... like... this.

Maybe he was dead.

Reno dismissed that thought- it was more likely he'd been captured for some purpose, though he certainly didn't remember getting captured- and looked around. Two letters for him. He ripped them open and read them.

And read them again. It didn't make any more sense than they had the first time. The planet had been saved... he'd been there, he saw it. Now someone was wanting him to believe it was gone? After all they went through?

Still, there was that chill in his spine.

So, where were the others? Instinct told him not to reveal himself to be awake just yet, to see what would happen next, but...

What if the others were here, and in trouble? He got up and padded to the door to look out.

Nothing, yet.

"Hey, anyone there?" He called, not too loudly.

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That fit right in with this crazy place, and it was only getting crazier the more he found out about it. Reno flopped down on his bed, trying to let the situation finally sink in.

"Same," Reno mumbled, before giving Shion a hard look up and down. "You've been here three months? Where'd you come from?"

Shion nodded, "I come from earth... yet I seem to come from a different earth than others. Everyone comes from different worlds and yet many things are called the same. I am from the city of Number 6."

He would be surprised if Reno was from his world, of all the people he had met so far he hadn't found anyone else from a similar place from him, which made him more certain the world had not ended. After all, if you were going to save just one person in a world, it wouldn't be Shion.

Everything he heard about this place, even if he didn't believe it, was setting off an alarm in his head. He was a Turk, he should be able to handle anything that came his way.

...but this, if everything was true, this might just be something he couldn't handle.

"Multiple universes." He muttered, remembering something he had heard a long time ago.

Shion nodded, he didn't understand it. He did not see how it was possible for multiple universes to exist and yet for everyone to end up here. Nothing made sense, everything he had learned could not prepare him for this place.

It was too much, too much to think about, to understand. And it terrified Shion. "Where are you from?" He had to stay focused, keep thinking.

"Midgar," Reno said, without thinking, then he hesitated and thought about it. What exactly would he tell a theoretical alien? "It's a city on Gaia."

"Gaia?" Shion had never heard of it, but then again there were so many more worlds then he could ever imagine. More worlds than even someone like Nezumi could imagine, someone who knew how to imagine and how to think and hadn't be stifled by their existence in a perfect city.

"What is your world like?"

Thinking, thinking and conversation.

Another previously hypothetical question made real. How could he even start to explain what it was like on the Planet? "The sky is blue." Not entirely a joke, either. What was the sky like on other planets? "It's got a number of large cities. Wars, weapons, trees, grass, lifestream, materia. Meteors threatening to crash into it. The plays they put on in Midgar are pretty cool."

Shion listened carefully, he knew nothing about other worlds either. It sounded a little different to his own world. "Meteors? Do you manage to stop them?"

Reno cocked an eyebrow at Shion. The more he thought about what had happened just before the Tower, the more uneasy he became. "There was only one. It was the size of a small moon."

Unspoken words died at the back of his throat. The idea that the Meteor had succeeded destroying Gaia was- it was impossible. He had been there, he saw what happened with his own eyes.

"Do... do you think it hit..." He frowned, the worlds couldn't have ended. But... his own world. What if the Parasite wasps had...

No... surely. It was impossible... He shook his head. "It isn't destroyed... it is impossible. Even if your world was in danger that wouldn't have impacted the other worlds. It is scientifically impossible, such an event would happen on such a wide scale especially for them to end simultaneously which is what they are claiming apparently yet people come at different times and..."

He was babbling but he was scared and nothing made sense...

That had the effect of snapping Reno out of his own thoughts. The turk watched Shion, for a moment before he reached out to touch his shoulder. "Hey, calm down. The last time I was there, Lifestream had taken care of it."

The touch made him jump, but it brought him back to himself and he calmed down a little, trying to still his swirling thoughts. "Lifestream?"

Rubbing the back of his head, Reno chuckled a little. "Heh, don't tell me. Never heard of Lifestream before." That was an extremely curious idea. How did Shion's planet live without Lifestream?

Shion shook his head. "No... sorry..."

"Maybe you call it something else." That had to be it. It was a given that planets were alive, giving birth to the lifeforms that inhabited it. "Some people call it 'blood' of the planet. You sure you don't have anything like that?"

"No... I don't think we have anything like that..." He frowned, remembering the ecology that he had learned as a child. "Do you just mean the way the systems of how living things are connected to each other, through food chains and co-dependancy?"

Somehow he didn't think so, since that couldn't stop a meteor...

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/sobs and curses canon point