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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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"Oh, thith ith the one?" He follows readily. "I lotht track of levelth."

She nods again, finally loosening her grip on his arm when they reach the bright lights of the eighth floor. Being grabbed by something that by all rights wasn't there was incredibly unsettling, and she really didn't want to repeat it again.

"Aannd this floor is a maze. Kind of weird, but also kind of boring!"

Sollux pats her hand as she grips him tight. He's unnerved, but he hasn't experienced what she did, so he's nervous but not scared. He tries to reassure her until they step off the floor onto the one below.

"I like matheth. Ith it full of monthterth or thomething?" he asks.

"I haven't run into any." She replies, suddenly cheerful again. "Want to try?"

"Not right now," Sollux says, grinning. "I want to finish the tour. But if any show up, I'll blatht them."

"Okay, okay!" She grins back, tugging him onward. It's always a nice change to see Sollux cheerful. "The next floor is kind of worthless for us. It is just a giant swimming pool."

It's nice to be cheerful, though god knows how long it'll take before that changes. "Ithn't there enough water already with that other floor?" Sollux demands, rolling his eyes.

She giggles, pausing at the landing for a moment. "Nope!" And taking that as a sign to keep going, she continues down the stairs. "This place doesn't make any sense."

He's happy to keep going down, not interested in the swimming pool. "That'th for sure. Why make all thethe platheth? Ith it thuppothed to be comfortable for uth? Thome of them theem dangerouth."

She shrugs as they reach the next floor: A giant forest. "I don't know. A lot of things seem dangerous, here. I am pretty sure they don't just want us to protect us."

Forests are cool. He looks around curiously. Once again it seems bigger than the other floors. "Tho if they don't want to protect uth, the letter ith crap. Our world wath really dethtroyed, though. Tho ith thith an ekthperiment?"

"Maaaybe. I don't know what kind of experiment it would be. It seems pretty random to me!" She turns towards the trees. "I haven't explored this floor much yet. It is kind of huge."

"An ekthperiment to thee who goeth shithive maggotth firtht," Sollux said, snorting as he glances around at the labyrinthe on either side of the staircase. "With nothing to do but athk quethtionth and get no anthwerth."

She falls silent, seeming to consider his theory very carefully. "Karkat. Or maybe you! I wonder how long it will take until you try to blast a hole in the wall."

"Thankth for the vote of confidenthe," he said wryly. "Though I could try to blatht a hole in the wall right now, if you want."

She grins deviously. "Want to try?"

He grins back. "Sure! Which level should I try it?" He gestured at the labyrinth. "Thith one ith probably too annoying to find an outer wall."

She grabs his hand again and starts down the stairs almost immediately. "The fourth floor. The windows are all glass."

"Glathh ith eathy," Sollux said eagerly, trotting down the stairs with her, hand in hand. He was almost excited to blow some stuff up. Too bad he didn't know he had mind honey in his trunk. But surely he could blow out a few windows.

Down to the fourth floor they go, stepping out into a room whose walls are glass from floor to ceiling. Terezi drops his hand and steps back. "Think you can handle it, Tholluxth?"

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"Jutht watch and learn," Sollux said, pretending to roll up sleeves he didn't have and stepping up towards the glass window.

He stopped a good distance away, not wanting to be hurt if any of the glass fell inwards after he blasted them. Then he drew in a breath, rising up into the air as he gathered his psychic energy.

Twin beams erupted from his eyes and hit the glass...and bounced off.

He yelped and threw up a shield just in time to protect himself and Terezi from being killed by the rebounding lasers.

Terezi throws up her arms to cover her face instinctively, not that that would have done anything. When she realizes that hey, she hasn't been obliterated, she uncovers her face slowly.

"Oh."

A perfect response.

"I think we will have to come up with a new escape plan."

Sollux dropped down and moved to Terezi's side again, scowling as if the failure of his powers to penetrate the glass was a personal affront. "Maybe another floor will work better," he said, but there was doubt in his voice. If they could make glass strong enough to withstand his powers, and could rob him of them completely on one floor, why would the walls crumble any more readily?

"Maybe!" Terezi wasn't so sure, either. Who knew how thick the walls were? But she heads for the staircase again. "Let's try the first floor!"

"I'm guethhing the door is locked?" Sollux said wryly as they walked towards the staircase and began to descend again. "Or ith there no door at all?"

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no he didn't I just fucked up the floor number the first time wwhoops

lmao

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