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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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"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?"

"No door!" She responds, strangely cheerful as always, though there's a note of frustration in her voice. "Whoever is in charge of this place, they are very determined to keep us here."

"Oh yeah, I totally believe thith ith all for our own good, now," Sollux said sarcastically, rolling his eyes.

She sighs, shrugging her shoulders. "I suppose our fearless leader will have to figure something out. Are you hungry?"

"Thtarving," Sollux said, blinking in surprise. He hadn't really thought about being hungry before now, but he realized that he had been awake and active for quite a while, and he hadn't really eaten in a while even before he came here. "Ith there food?"

She nods. "We can make something, or else they just serve it to us, I guess. It's all weird human food, though."

Sollux grimaced. "What'th human food like?"

She shrugs, leading him towards the kitchens. "Boring, so far! And much less meat."

"They don't eat meat? What do they eat, then?"

"They eat meat! Just not as much. Lots of bread and plants."

"...Plantth?" Sollux looked pretty doubtful. "Well, I guethh it won't kill me, if it hathn't killed you, yet."

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She grins. "Where is your sense of adventure, Sollux?"

"Eating plantth ith not adventurouth," Sollux groused, though his lips were twitching into a smile. "It'th nathty."

"Awww, does the little grub not think he can handle it?" She shoots back, smirk growing.

Thump. On the shoulder. "I can handle it jutht fine!"