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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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"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."

"Thith whole fucking plathe maketh no thenthe," Sollux said. He glanced over at the empty space again. "Maybe I should fly over there and thee what elthe there ith."

She nods, glancing over as well, focusing on the sweet scent of flowers and fresh air for a moment before responding. "Okay. Try it."

"Okay, wait here," Sollux said, letting go of Terezi's hand. He concentrated, but after a few seconds, he let out a breath in frustration. "What the fuck. My telekinethith ithn't working."

She frowned, taking a few steps forward to stand beside him. "What do you mean, 'isn't working'? Does that happen?"

"It'th never happened before! I've uthed my powerth already today, and I can thtill hear the voitheth." Okay, maybe he's panicking a bit. "Jutht a thecond. I'll be right back."

He turned and pounded up the stairs towards the floor above.

There is no way she's sitting here and waiting. She lets out a little huff and follows, though not nearly as quickly as he moves.

He had all but forgotten that she was was waiting there. He reached the top of the stairs and tried again, and this time he easily lifted off the ground in a corona of purple light.

"Okay..." he said, frowning at Terezi as she reached the top of the stairs. "Now everything theemth fine!"

"It must be the floor then," she replies. "Like the thirteenth floor dampens sound. Right?"

Sollux landed again, grimacing, but the corona didn't fade. "I don't like that floor." He eyed the staircase, then grabbed Terezi's hand and started down the stairs again. The moment he passed the level of the floor, the glow vanished.

She follows, giving his hand a little squeeze as they passed the eleventh floor. There were more than a few unsettling things about this tower, and she could only imagine how nerve wracking it must be to lose all of your powers just by passing one floor.

When they reach the tenth floor, she pauses again. "This one is pretty cool! There's no glass, though. You can just stick your hand right into the water if you want."

Okay, this floor was almost as unnerving as the last one. Thankfully, the moment they passed into this floor, the glow appeared again. But he allowed it to fade as he eyed the water.

Gingerly, he held out his hand and penetrated the water, holding tight to Terezi. It was wet, and nothing grabbed him and dragged him into the water.

"Can I tell you a thecret?" he said, smiling wryly.

She waits, tightening her grip again, just to be safe, then grins at him and nods. "My lips are sealed!"

Edited 2011-08-28 06:55 (UTC)