towerofanimus | (no subject)

Characters: Tifa, and you
Setting: Random Encounter (your choice)
Format: Prose
Summary: Tifa is in the Tower!
Warnings: Freaking out over her missing Cloud.

Dorm

Something pinged in her head, and Tifa sat up, placing hands on either side of herself. What was that? Was she just paralyzed? She remembered she couldn't move for what seemed like a long time, and then-

Where was she? This was not Kalm, she could tell because that town didn't have any buildings like this in it. Slowly, she shifted off the bed and discovered she was wearing an odd white suit.

What in the world...

About twenty minutes later, and after discovering her own clothing packed away in a trunk, she stared at the offerings it had. Her old SOLDIER uniform. The last thing she remembered, she had been wearing it.

It was a reminder of Shinra, of another time and definitely another life. Anger surged even as she pushed it underneath everything else, burying it. Instead, she chose a miniskirt and one of the tank tops she favored in off duty times.

Finally, feeling a little bit better and not quite so odd in that white suit, she spotted the little letter addressed to her.

Wandering the Tower

Waking up in a strange white suit was nothing compared to the oddness of the letter, and that honestly didn't worry her so much as the matter weighing on her mind right now.

The shock of ending up in a strange place that claimed your planet had died was nothing to the fact that no matter where she went in this place, Cloud, Barret and the others weren't around. Where was she, exactly? Midgar? Had they been captured? Was this some sort of experiment? She had just escaped from one, and without explanation she now found herself in an entirely different one. That didn't even matter so much as that Cloud wasn't there.

Either way, a deeply unsettled feeling grew along with her panic. Soon enough she was running through the hallways and staircases, looking everywhere she could.

She had to find him.

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... Urotsuki stared for a few moments more at that. Yes, it wasn't too difficult to tell that the other person was upset - pretty upset even, not just a little. Urotsuki herself had reacted rather calmly to the circumstances when she first arrived, so to her it almost felt strange that anyone could feel like this about the tower. Still, the girl wasn't entirely unfeeling, so her expression dropped a little to a worried one.

"Dreams usually aren't bad." She liked dreams, after all, they had a special place in her life. ".. This isn't a dream, but.. you're not alone." She seemed to put special emphasis on that last part.

"I hope not... I really don't think I could handle it if I was... alone."
Being alone had been a fear while she was running, having only Zack and Cloud to be there for her, when she was used to an entire army behind her. It was unsettling being in a place she didn't know anyone, to say the least.

"Then it's good that you're not." The girl didn't exactly smile, but her attitude wasn't unfriendly either, more blank, as if it was difficult to guess what exactly was going on in her mind. Her next words, however, almost started to sound friendly already.

"I'm here too. .. Nice to meet you. I think we'll be staying in the same room, so let's get along well."

"Tifa," was the reply and a tentative smile greeted her words. "Nice to meet you." Tifa wasn't exactly the best at reading people, there were always someone better than you, but she thought the girl seemed nice even if it was hard to tell.

Tifa-.. ah, it must be the other girl's name. The girl nodded her head before offering her own name in return. "Urotsuki." Although at the prospect of meeting this person - and even possibly an eventual new friend - she did seemed to brighten up just a little, enough to bring a tiny smile on her face.

"... I'm still a little new too."