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Characters: Sollux Captor and open
Setting: Starting in room 2-06, but you can assume he's wandering the halls anywhere, since he'll go out exploring.
Format: I'll follow your lead.
Summary: Sollux has just arrived (~~again~~) and he's confused and Unhappy about it.
Warnings: None yet.

Sollux didn't remember falling asleep, but he definitely remembered waking up. He fought the sleep paralysis for the full thirty seconds, and then shot up from the bed the moment his eyes opened, his teeth bared in a snarl.

He'd been dreaming...something. Something bad. He always woke up badly when he dreamed about his own death, but the specifics were fading like wisps of fog in the morning, and he couldn't be sure if it was a vision or not. The voices were sure loud, though. Fuck were they loud.

He was distracted from the question of the dream, though, as he looked around the unfamiliar room in confusion. "What the actual fuck?"

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She drops her hand as well, looking more than a little worried. "I'm sorry, Sollux. But if the Veil really is destroyed, and everyone here is from before everything went horrible..."

"Then it'll probably jutht happen again, only here," Sollux said fatalistically. He rubbed his temple with one finger, then shook his head. "I'm fine, tz. Really. It'th jutht a lot to hear all at onthe."

"No, it won't," she replied firmly, tilting her head towards him again. "I have been keeping a very close eye on Eridan and Vriska!"

He glanced up at her, finding a smile. "I'll keep an eye on them, too, then. Not that there'th probably much I can do."

She sighed. They were going to have this conversation again? Sometimes Terezi really didn't understand why so many of her friends were boys with crushing self-esteem issues. "There is plenty you can do! There's no way I can stop Eridan if he does decide to do something. I think you might be the only one who can right now!"

"Me?" Sollux looked up and blinked. Well, of course he could. Other than the fact that apparently he lost once. "But he obviouthly beat me the latht time and blinded me, you thaid."

"But you beat him every other time. I think it must have just been a fluke!" She grins, rocking back on her heels. "Psionics are way stronger than lame magic, riiight?"

"Magic?" Sollux snorts, then shakes his head. "Well, yeah. It had to have been a fluke. Tho fine, I'll keep my eye on him, and you can be in charge of Vrithka. Deal?"

"Deal!" She replies, bouncing in place a bit. "Soo, do you want me to show you around?"

He grins, though it's not as wide as hers. "Yeah, show me around the plathe. Ith it any more interethting than the Veil?"

She links her arm through his and begins to drag him unceremoniously towards the stairs. "Way more interesting! The Veil smelled like cold and metal and concrete. This tower is gigantic. But don't go to the fourth floor, okay?"

He follows, not really wanting to get dragged. "What'th on the fourth floor?"

"That is a very good question!" She replies as they approach the stairs. "Karkat and I - um, the blue Karkat - went down there. The ceiling slopes down until you have to crawl to get to the opposite wall. But when we got there, something grabbed us and dragged us all the way back to the stairs."

"...Creepy." He glances at Terezi. "What'th the point?"

She grins back. "Another good question. I have no clue!"

Annnnd down the stairs they go. "The top two floors are all rooms for us. Just below them is this giant human... Church? I think that is what it's called!"

"Weird," Sollux says, walking along beside Terezi down the staircase. "I guethh thith ith a naive quethtion, but thith ith really a plathe that'th thuppothed to be a haven now that our worldth are dethtroyed, right?"

"So we are told! I don't buy it." She glances over at him again as they pass the second floor of dorms. "At night, these... Ghosts, I guess you could call them, come out. I can't smell them, but other Karkat said they look like people he knows. They killed Tavros and Vriska, but both of them were revived by something."

"Jeguth..." He stared at her, then down at the stairs between their feet as they walk. "It theemth lethh and lethh like a haven the more I hear about it."

She nods, heading down to the thirteenth floor. "Exactly. Um... This is the church. Do you want to see it?"

[He looks around as they walk down the very long staircase] I can thee it jutht fine from here, I think.

"Okay!" Good, because she thinks it's really boring. "Everything is really quiet in there for some reason. You have to shout to be heard." And down they go! "The next floor is kind of... Like a big projection, I think. It shows worlds being destroyed."

"That thoundth really cheerful," Sollux said wryly. He walked a little faster, holding Terezi's hand. He could always explore these floors on his own later.

She shakes her head, stopping briefly at the landing of the eleventh floor. "This is as close to leaving as we can get, I think." She gestures vaguely to the wall-less room. "And it smells amaaaazing. But otherwise it is pretty unremarkable!"

He stared around. "What the fuck... there'th no wallth. And thith thtaircathe... ith thith what'th holding up the whole retht of it?"

She nods. "That's what it seems like. It doesn't make any sense! But that seems to be a theme here."