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[lyricalmagical]

Character(s): Nanoha and anyone.
Setting: Dorms
Format: Begins prose, will follow any.
Summary: Nanoha finally gets up and has a look around.
Warnings: None, yet.

Dorms: Room 2-11
Waking up ends up being a troubling experience. The paralysis, though brief, is not something she's used to experiencing. Thus, once she can sit up it serves to be highly disorienting. She does not panic when realizing she's not home, nor anywhere she recognizes.

Military training kicks in, and she just moves to investigate her surrounding area. She finds the trunk, with several sets of clothes, Raising Heart, and a lot of ammunition. She dresses quickly in her casual clothes and scoops up the small jewel, just trying to keep herself moving.

She reads the letters, certainly. For a fraction of a moment, she almost lets her emotions get the better of her. She quickly pushes that down.

If there was something - anything - capable of destroying Earth, Mid-Childa, or all the worlds that the TSAB polices... she would have known about it. The TSAB would have known.

Right?

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Dorms: Hallways
Keep moving. Investigate. She needed to keep reminding herself to do this, and eventually she makes her way out into the dorm halls. She searches for a way out of here - the Dorms, at least, if not this entire place.

Again, she stuffs her base emotional response to the implications of everything if this letter was right. If even just Earth was gone, then her family, her school friends...

If it stretched further than that... Fate, Hayate, Vita, Chrono, and all the rest...

If anyone were to come across her, these thoughts wouldn't show, though. She attempts to come off just as a normal seventeen year old girl, for the moment, until she has a better grasp of just what's going on...

For one thing, the lighting around here sure seemed to leave something to be desired.

Comments

hallways

[aurous]

[ Thunderstorms had never bothered Filia much at the temple, but somehow this one in particular had her jumpier than usual. It probably had to do with the fact that there was no power and the threat of a monster popping out in greeting increased with the overwhelming darkness.

The dancing shadows cast by the flame of her candle find their next stage on Nanoha.

Filia's brows rise. ]

My! What are you doing without a light?

Re: hallways

[lyricalmagical]

[Deep in thought, Nanoha nearly jumps as Filia speaks. Nearly, but she's able to restrain herself enough. She turns and smiles, bowing a bit.

She takes note of the woman's dress. With all she was familiar with, it wasn't necessarily peculiar, but it stood out notably. At the least, no one on Earth or Mid-Childa walked around dressed like that normally.]

Ah... hello there, Miss. I was just trying to figure out what was going on here. I'm afraid I didn't have a light handy.

[Certainly, she could have lit up some magic and that would have served just fine. It also would have played her hand a little too quickly.]

I just ... found myself waking up here.

[She pauses, remembering what the letter said.]

Do you know what's going on...?

[aurous]

[ Her smile is sympathetic. ]

The power went out, probably due to the weather. I do have another candle -- [ She's rummaging for it in her robes now. ] Ah! There it is.

[ Candle and candle holder obtained! Don't mind the fact that upon closer inspection, the candle holder is actually a ladle bent to form a handle. The cathedral floor was plentiful in candles, single holders not so much, okay.

She lights it with her own, then passes it to Nanoha. Her smile falters, just a bit. ]

You've been stolen away, I'm afraid.

[lyricalmagical]

[She takes it, nodding gratefully.]

Thank you very much, Miss.

[As Filia speaks though, her eyes flicker about. There's nothing particularly odd about this place so far besides the lack of power, but...]

Stolen away... to where?

[aurous]

I haven't a clue, to be honest. There are a great deal of people like you and I confined to this tower. [ A disapproving sniff. ] It's quite horrible. You'd best be on your guard -- this place is crawling with monsters.

[lyricalmagical]

...Monsters?

[She sounds more alarmed than surprised. She then gives a small sigh, looking down.]

Monsters... That doesn't exactly sound inviting.

[aurous]

Nothing about this place is inviting! Honestly, if they wanted us to believe their nonsense about the world ending, they could use a few pointers.

[ That was Mazoku for you, though. Who's still in denial? This one, oh oh.

She makes a derisive noise, then decides it's a waste of time to dwell on it.

Filia presses her hand to her chest and forces another smile. It was especially in times like these that maintaining a positive attitude was essential. ]

I'm Filia-- Filia Ul Copt.

[lyricalmagical]

Yes, I'm finding this all a bit ... difficult to accept at face value. That everything could have vanished so simply, I just...

I don't think I can accept that so easily.

[She doesn't give all the details on just why that is, of course.

Instead, she smiles back lightly, if a bit sadly.]

My name is Nanoha. Takamachi Nanoha.

[She bows again.]

It's nice to meet you.

Hallways

[syncingdoll]

Clack, clack, clack.

It's the sound of Kohaku's geta that give her away, way before she's close enough to be easily visible to Nanoha in the darkened halls. It's rather ominous.

For her part, Kohaku's used to moving around in dark places, so the wrecked visibility doesn't bother her much. Just keep a hand to the wall and don't go faster than an amble, right?

Re: Hallways

[lyricalmagical]

Nanoha doesn't jump this time. She does stop and observe Kohaku as she nears, tilting her head curiously to one side as she slows to a stop.

"Well, hello there!" she greets cheerfully, holding her hands behind her back.

All things considered, that may seem a bit too cheerful given the situation she's just found herself in. This is a fact that doesn't really click with her until a few seconds after the words leave her mouth.

So she just rolls with it and smiles anyway.