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[evocation]

Characters: Ahri and you!
Setting: The dorm floors
Format: Action to start, I'll match
Summary: Ahri has just arrived at the worst possible time.
Warnings: None? Gross flirting maybe?


[When Ahri wakes up, her immediate assumption is that this is some sort of summoning gone awry. The paralysis isn't too far off from the side effects that can occur when a rookie summoner practices, but this certainly isn't a room she recognizes, and no botched summoning can change her clothes. The note is what convinces her that this isn't some mistake, and after rummaging around in her trunk and changing her clothes, she peeks out into the hallway.

Nothing looks familiar, which is unsurprising if her mysterious rescuer is telling the truth, but also intensely worrying. Her ears flick forward inquisitively, and she can't help but wonder why no one was here to explain anything when she woke up. Honestly, it's rather rude!

It looks like she's found herself in some sort of living space, but if her captors aren't going to give her any more information, maybe there's someone else who will. So Ahri heads down the hallway, sticking her head into every open door and knocking at the closed ones.]

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[knifehands]

[ she hears the knock at her dorm bedroom, peeking open through the crack and hissing ]

What do you want?

[evocation]

[Wow, rude! But Ahri is all smiles.]

A little help, if you wouldn't mind!

[knifehands]

Why should I?

[ she's opening the door now ]

[evocation]

Why shouldn't you?

[orphans]

[opening the door as... angrily as one can open a door. with one hand, yes

and oh fuck gross it looks like a human. INSERT BLATANT ELEVATOR GLANCE HERE, he'll wordlessly judge her until she speaks first.]

[evocation]

[Wow, no one here has any manners. Ahri returns the favor by looking him up and down, too. Weird as hell, though honestly those... Fins? And horns are pretty cool. And if she ignores the gray skin, he's actually cute!]

Aren't you going to say hello?

[orphans]

[by which you mean DEVILISHLY handsome!!!1]

That would imply I felt any sort 'a inclination to form an acquaintanceship with you. Did you need somethin'?

[evocation]

[She smirks, ears flicking forward.]

Of course you do. But that isn't the point. I'd like to know what's going on.

[hystericull]

[It takes a loooong time for there to be a response at the door. Eventually, though, there is one, and in the newly-opened doorframe stands a rather unkempt troll boy. He's wearing hideously over-sized clothes and a distant grin on his face as he stares down at Ahri. He says nothing, just smiles and smiles...]

[evocation]

[She was about to leave, actually. Hey, it's another weird gray person! This one is much creepier, though. She's thinking she prefers the pompous one.]

Hello.

[hystericull]

[The expression on his painted face fails to change as she greets him, although he does give a friendly wave.]

Heyyy, crazy little ear motherfucker!

[He hesitates for a second, giving his room a once-over.]

Uhh, sorry... ain't no one here but me at the fuckin' moment.

[He'd never seen her before, she was probably here to visit Ghirahim or Romeo?]

[evocation]

[NOPE. She looks utterly confused.]

I'm looking for someone to explain this tower to me.

[beknightedheroine]

"Just one second!" Is the hurried response to the knock on the door, though a second later it's proven to be a lie.

..Sayaka, for her part, is attempting to dislodge several swords from - well, various places around the room. She'd given up on going anywhere or getting anything done elsewhere in the tower, and just settled down here in her dorm room to see if she could wait out the whole soul-gem-feels-like-it's-too-far-away thing. Out of nowhere, she'd sort of... hemorrhaged swords? It was magic, of course, but she wasn't transformed and she hadn't been trying to use any magic at all, which is why she was too surprised to stop them from lodging themselves into the walls.

And if that's one of her roommates knocking at the door? She would really like to get rid of those swords before they come in.

[evocation]

Ahri waits. And waits. And hears disconcerting sounds, and struggles between the urge to open the door and figure out what is happening and her survival instinct. She decides to compromise.

"Are you alright?"

[uprisings]

[It takes a bit for anyone to get to the door. And when he does there's a sort of awkward moment where he opens the door while apparently standing too close to it and bashes it on his horn]

[...so the door slams shut and there's the requisite ow ow fuck from the other side]

[evocation]

[Wow what is even happening? She pauses, then knocks again. At least she's pretending to have manners?]

[uprisings]

[...well the voice fades fairly quickly and then there's some shuffling around for a bit. AND THEN FINALLY the door opens again for real and there is this awkward loser sort of hovering behind the frame of the door, turned to let the door by him without hitting him again]

[AND HE LOOKS completely exhausted, probably not helped at all by the fact he just rolled out of bed and is still rumpled and untidy, or the fact that his wings are still torn up along the edges. Good first impressions]

Hello...?

[evocation]

[Wonderful first impressions. She sort of stares for a second, because those wings are pretty impressive even all torn up like that.]

Hello.

[She smiles, head tilting slightly.]

I've picked a bad time, haven't I?

[deadliestberet]

Preston stared as the woman poked her head into the doorway to what was supposed to be his room. Why wasn't that closed and locked? Oh yeah, he forgot to do so. And so now he was having a staring contest with the woman, while idly fingering his gun.

"Er...C-can I help you?"

[evocation]

Well, that's certainly not a good way to make someone feel comfortable. Or welcome. She smiles, though. He seems nice enough, if not jumpy.

"I'm looking for help."

[deadliestberet]

It was only natural for someone to be jumpy when a complete stranger pokes their head into where you were supposed to be living. Especially around the tower, considering that not everyone here seemed to be so...friendly. Well not as friendly as some of the other people Preston's met so far.

"Help for what?"

[evocation]

"I'm new here, and the letter I received did a very poor job of explaining what's going on."

Yes, okay, she can forgive the jumpiness. She just prays he doesn't shoot her by accident.

[ryuuzaki]

[The young man who appears at the door seems the opposite of thrilled to be answering it. He has pale skin, layers of dark, messy hair to his shoulders, heavy circles around his grey eyes, and a suspicious expression, which becomes more curious and interested when he sees who's on the other end of the knock. As he stares at Ahri, his gaze is sharp and unforgiving.]

Yes? What do you want?

[evocation]

[And she smiles back, looking pretty unphased.]

Someone to answer a few questions, that's all.

[ryuuzaki]

[She doesn't look familiar. He glances at her collar. The color doesn't indicate that she belongs to the Tower itself, although he wouldn't be surprised if a day came where that meant nothing. Disguising a nasty trick as a new arrival seems like exactly the kind of thing the people in charge of this place might try.]

Are you new, or is it some other kind of question?

If you're new, you'll have to eat the oatmeal whether you want it or not.