1 / Establishment of Routine

[syncingdoll]

Characters: Kohaku and a game of fill-in-the-blank. ..as in, you fill in the blank.
Setting: Dormitories, floors quickly accessible from the dormitories.
Format: Prose, but I like action brackets too.
Summary: The real question is "what now?"
Warnings: If you haven't seen Kohaku's opt-out thread yet, take a gander.

'Let's all be happy here.'
Kohaku's smile hadn't twitched as she read over the letter again, and it remained fixed as she calmly folded the document back up, and laid it beside herself upon the bed. Absently she smoothed out some of the wrinkles she'd created in the cover from getting up earlier.

"Maybe the apocalypse happened when I blinked my eyes.. that's really inconvenient."

'Inconvenient' was a light word. For a while, Kohaku stared at her hand, trying to work out what to do next past what she'd done automatically already. Looking over the letter was something she'd done the day she arrived, but that was at least yesterday - reading it again had just been a strange affirmation. She'd probably do it again the next morning.

What next..? The door to room 2-07 clicked behind her, and the hall provided no more ideas than the back of her hand had, save a direction to walk.

Comments

[moontothetide]

"Oh. S-So...demons exist in your world, too?"

'Demonic bloodlines'. Tara can't help but give a slight shudder at that. Once upon a time, that was her. Or so she'd been told all her life. Finding out otherwise had been a relief beyond words.

"We had...s-something like that back home, too. W-Well, one family. One girl."

[syncingdoll]

"That's right."

She'd read the records over herself, but Kohaku's sure fathoming an actual demon is too far beyond her - just the far-off descendants of them are complex enough.

"..ah, so her family had dwindled just to herself?" That sounded rather familiar, too.

[moontothetide]

"S-Sort of. It's...only ever just her. But, um, there has to be someone before, and...someone after. S-So it's kind of like a bloodline, only with magic, and a lot more dying. When one dies, another one takes her place. B-But she changed things. She m-made it so there could be two."

Tara smiles a soft and sad little smile.

"...her name was Buffy.

[syncingdoll]

Oh, a name. This is starting to ring a little more of a personal story than an account of the state of a world.

"It sounds a little bit like a chosen one you'd see in the plot of a fantasy.." She could see it now: demon knight Buffy, the reluctant heroine! And in season two, that's when she'd be joined by the new secondary demon knight, named...!

..well, she hadn't gotten the second season newcomer's name yet.

"How did she do that?"

[moontothetide]

"I-I don't know." It's clear that she wishes she did, though, that this is information that she's always wanted even if she could never gather up the courage to seek out. "Um...b-before my time. I-It's only supposed to happen if they die, but, um, somehow Buffy didn't."

Tara had had only one encounter with the errant and wild Faith. It had been most decidedly uncomfortable, not least because Tara had seen through a disguise that had fooled everyone else for days.

"...lots of girls have the potential. M-Maybe Faith just...had a lot of it."

[syncingdoll]

--Ahah, the second season comer's name is Faith! Armed with more raw potential than the now-experienced Buffy, they make an odd duo against the forces of evil!

Kohaku would watch it.

"Ohh. Breaking an old rule like that is very impressive."

[moontothetide]

Kohaku would be disappointed, as the second season's comer was named Kendra and turned out to have more book knowledge than potential.

"Y-Yeah. She was, um...really impressive. Just, generally. She, um, sh-she went through a lot."

A frown creases Tara's face as she replaces her clothes in the trunk and closes the lid, locking it tight.

"I hope she's all right..."