☾ motion jumpstarts when we touch. (x01)

[mythgravenblade]

Characters: Cecil Harvey (mythgravenblade) and OPEN!
Setting: Starting out on second dormitory floor, and then all around the Tower.
Format: I'll start out in action brackets, but choose either and I'll match!
Summary: After waking up, Cecil's out to check out everything and prod everything in sight. He may or may not actually come up to people.
Warnings: PG; subject to change if anything gets nasty.

[ upon waking, Cecil felt the terror of not being able to move, but forced himself not to panic. He focused on the ceiling above him, noting its drab color, noting that it wasn't Baron stone grey, and it wasn't cream-colored like the draperies that hung above his bed and Rosa's. things to notice numbered, Cecil could only fall back on the fact that he still couldn't move, and, for a split second, a bout of terror at such a foreign feeling filled him. was this Zeromus' doing? where was he?

--he breathed in deep as he was finally able to move, quickly pushing himself up into a sitting position, a hand over the nightclothes he'd fallen asleep with. after checking to see every part of him was alright and could move freely after the terrifying ordeal of being struck still, Cecil found the trunk at the end of his bed and fumbled to open it, and changed into the set of armor he always wore. It was then and only then that he'd noticed the two letters, and read them carefully with hope he could understand what sort of problem he'd caught himself in.

he only just ended his journey in the Overworld, surely this was easy to handle--?

... he read the letters twice over, three times over, and refused to accept it. the thought that Rosa and Kain were dead, the thought that Rydia and Edge and ... his brother-- it was too much to bear. and as a King, he would not give up hope in them. if there was one thing he believed in, he believed in them. the slide of metal against metal rang sharply through the empty room; he took his leave as soon as he was ready, stepping out into the hallway, and then, exploring the rest of the Tower. ]

Comments

[mechanicprincess]

I'm twenty-one now.

[ Was any of this for real...? ]

What's going on here? Are you really Cecil?

[mythgravenblade]

Yes. [ a light pause-- ] Why do you ask?

[mechanicprincess]

...this tower's got monsters in it. I wouldn't put it past 'em to be able to imitate people we know from back home. But it doesn't make sense that you're...

[ She pauses. ]

Did you have a note next to your bed when you woke up?

[mythgravenblade]

[ his face darkens, and he nods solemnly. ]

It claimed that our world was destroyed... yet, I find that hard to believe, if I am here, before your time.

[mechanicprincess]

Exactly what I was thinking. I shouldn't be here if the world was destroyed when you were brought here. [ ...however that happened, anyway. ] If they really want us to believe that stupid lie they could at least not do stuff like this that disproves it.

[mythgravenblade]

I've had my reservations of believing the letter in the first place. However, with this put to light, there is little use in believing it.

[ which, unfortunately, would be easy. he lowers his head and sighs. ]

We were brought here for a reason. Would you know of any reason, Luca?

[mechanicprincess]

[ She folds her arms and leans back in thought. ]

Like I said, monsters come out at night. Other things people have told me lead me to believe whoever brought us here just wants to make us miserable. We can't get out of this place, so we're completely at their mercy.

[mythgravenblade]

[ he walks a little further into the workshop, looking around--it certainly isn't Cid's workshop, it seems a little run down, and he's not quite sure it's even really safe... he gets the distinct feeling he should be turning tail with Luca in tow. ]

What kind of things have they told you?

[mechanicprincess]

[ She was about to leave, but then Cecil, so... welp. ]

There's a restaurant where, instead of charging you money, they send you on a scavenger hunt. If you can't find the item they requested in the time limit they set, they take a body part instead. It just... magically gets removed from you, somehow. I met a guy who had an eye removed... [ She shudders, remembering that. ]

Death supposedly isn't permanent here, either. You just revive good as new. Which is a good thing, I suppose, but the way I heard it told to me... Things apparently get so bad that some people would prefer not to come back.

[mythgravenblade]

[ Cecil is already quite pale--so there's something to be said about how the color drains from his face at her last few words.

he has seen many things in his travels, but this sort of entrapment...

he closes his eyes, tilts his chin down for a moment, composing himself, before he looks back up at Luca. ]

We will find a way.

[ he won't let their hope stagnate otherwise. ]

Is there elsewhere to eat, besides that restaurant? I'd like to sit down and speak with you.

[mechanicprincess]

Yeah, a cafeteria down on the ground floor. I was just about to get out of this, um... "workshop", anyway.

[ She starts toward the stairs, glancing back at him as she does and smiling. ]

Hey, even if it's really weird, it's good to see someone from home.