towerofanimus | Explore ALL the things!!

Characters: Solas Greine and you, maybe?
Setting: Various places in the Tower, after her derpy texting.
Format: Action
Summary: Sola got fed up with the network and decided to go exploring. Shenanigans are probably gonna ensue.

[Dormitory Floors]

[Sola is exploring the dorms to see what they're all like, and if they all look the same. Yes - all of them. Or as many as she can actually look into. So, hi, there's someone peeking in your door with the utmost interest.

Will this room look different? She wants to know!]

[Floor 25]

[She is beyond glad to have found plant life here, and is now doing what she does best: making it grow. What this means is that you'll come across her here, surrounded by a circle of quickly-growing grass.]

[Floor 11]

[Oh man, MORE plants?! You're the best, Tower! Sola is now playing around with the flowers, helping a few of them grow along because they seem to need it. She's sitting near the waterfall, and aside from reaching out towards the now-moving flowers, she doesn't openly seem to be doing anything. It's pretty obvious the flowers are her doing, though.]

[Floor 10]

[Here, Sola is walking around, hands clasped behind her back as she examines the fish. Occasionally, she tries to talk to them.]

⚙⌲? ♭♫⚡? ⟴☊✗⌛...

[.... Okay, so she's speaking starfish at them. It isn't working, either way.]

[Floor 1]

[Sola is eating kusaya and durian and enjoying every second of it. Send help.]

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[Taro is here, flopped in the grass, when he notices some of it growing really fast. He sits up, some grass still stuck in his hair, and blinks at the sight of the woman sitting among the fast-growing plants.]

... Oh. Hi!

*Enoch was slowly but surely starting to feel more and more like he could get up and move. The problem is...his mind and his body never seemed to agree. He could get to a terminal, but inevitably he'd fall asleep at it. He could get to the elevator, but have to sit down at the tables in the cafeteria...and nap before being able to tackle the stairs back down. He wasn't used to his energy not returning after a good long sleep, of which he'd had several.

Sola would find him waking up from another nap, one born out of inactivity as much as it was out of healing, clutching the sheets tight around his neck. His grip relaxed as he woke and stared at the person peeking into his room. The very familiar person. He didn't speak, blinking groggily. Was she really here? Someone he recognized from Meridian?*

[Sola just grins over at Taro, flopping down as well. She's not used to it, but hey, why not?]

Hello!

[She screeches to a halt when she realizes who that is. It's Enoch, the young man who had tried to help broker the peace talks--

And...he's not doing too well.

Still, there are multiple universes...so she has to check.] Enoch? Is that you?

You can control plants?

[Yep. Cutting to the chase. What, it's interesting!]

Yep!

[It's normal to her, but hey, her normal is other people's "what the-"]

That's neat. What are you? If it's not rude to ask.

[He has the same problem. :( ]

Not human. I think I fall under the category of alien and nature spirit. ... It is weird to try and put human words to these things, you know?

*So she was really here. Wait, didn't...wasn't she important to Meridian? Did that mean Meridian was destroyed?*

Sola? *Enoch tries to prop himself up, but he's a bit tangled in the sheets. After working his other arm free, he does sit up, leaning sideways against the wall.*

... I've never met an alien before! I've met a few nature spirits, though. They don't really move around much though, so I haven't met a lot.

[He pauses, before plunging ahead. She's not human, so she won't freak out.]

I'm a tanuki.

Not sure if I am one, though! But someone said I was.

[....At that, she tilts her head. Tanuki, tanu-- oh!]

So you can shapeshift too, huh?

[She covers her mouth with her hand, looking like she's about to cry.]

Oh, Enoch, I - I thought - I didn't think, when I sent everyone away, that anyone would go somewhere like this!

[She steps forward, remorseful.]

I'm sorry, Enoch, I'm sorry...

Well, what do you say you are?

[Another shapeshifter? slkdf. He is excited!]

Yep! This isn't my natural form, but it's the one I use a lot.

*Oh no, Sola, don't cry... Enoch shifts closer to the end of the bed, nearer her.*

You sent...everyone away? Why? What happened?

[She takes a deep breath. This has to be said - sooner or later.]

... The peace talks were about to happen - just like you said they would - and...then ☈✩☣ showed up and killed me. [She shakes her head.] The thing is, he's worse than Zeph or Kiqu. At least they won't keep people around just to torture them, but ☈✩☣ did that in the past, and he'd do it again, and he stabbed me to death to make sure I wouldn't stop him from doing so. I - I didn't want anyone to suffer like that, so I sent everyone out of Meridian. It killed me all the more quickly, but...it was better than seeing everyone bled out.

[There's a long pause, and then she just looks embarrassed.]

It's more difficult to speak with people off the second level, you know? At any rate, I guess the closest thing to that guy's name is "Ekiamiel."

Huh? Oh, that's easy, I'm a ☀♫♪♯☆♾!

[...that didn't translate, Sola.]

... I uh. I didn't get that.

[She shrugs, not looking too put out by it.]

Yeah, that's what I thought. Still, that's what I am. Guess it'd be easier to go with earth spirit, though, huh?

[There's a wry smile on her face.]

*Enoch takes a moment to just...process that. Sola died? Everyone has been sent away from Meridian? Where did everyone go, then? Is Armaros safe? What about the others? Steve, Zeph, Asato, Sissel, hell, even Ashraf comes to mind. But Armaros...

Enoch takes a deep breath. The inactivity is getting to him. Sola didn't know where she was sending everyone, so maybe Armaros is safe. Maybe all of them are safe.

Which still leaves the fact that she was violently killed, all while he and everyone in the city slept.*

I'm...I'm sorry...none of us knew what was happening.

It's okay. It doesn't really matter here what you are. People seem to accept you no matter what you are.

Yeah. I think I'm going to like it here.

[...WAIT...]

Well, I would like it if it were all just like this, but apparently bad things happen here too, so that isn't good.

That was how I wanted it to be, yes. When I realized Ekiamiel had arrived...I just wanted to make sure all of you were safe. [She looks up at the ceiling, thinking for a quiet moment.]

By now, Zeph and Kiqu and Successor and the others have probably felt the echoes of what I did. They probably know what it means...hopefully they'll stop Ekiamiel from tearing the rift open again. Nobody deserves to be bled out by inches.

... Yeah. They do. The people here are really powerful - they can even make illusions that can fool me, or make me think that my illusions are messing up.

*Enoch's shoulders tighten. Bled out by inches... Even this place tends to make deaths relatively quick. Relatively. He shudders at the thought of the city, their haven, becoming a torture chamber perhaps even worse than this.*

I wish something could have been done to help...

*But there was no helping. He was utterly helpless here, he would have been utterly helpless there. What power he did have, what change he managed to create, had all been undone. His drive and all that energy, they had been for nothing, and he couldn't have prevented Sola's death. Couldn't have prevented Meridian's.*

[Jun had been up and around the vegetated floors for a while, trying to find the appropriate flowers for the corsages Eikichi wanted. He'd already collected an ample amount, a variety of white, pink and yellow flowers in his arms.

He had noticed her kind of... moving, the flowers...? He didn't really have any idea what she was doing, and instead of actually asking, he just kind of end up staring dumbly at her from a distance. Oops.]

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Dorms! Room 3-18

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Floor 11