towerofanimus | 01 || Sleeping Beauty

Characters: Kanon and you!
Setting: Fourth floor
Format: I'll match you
Summary: Kanon refuses to wake up. Maybe someone could wake her before nightfall?
Warnings: Extremely vague references to kidnapping.

You may have heard about a new entrant to the tower. A rather pretty young girl still decked out in the skintight suit, no older than 15 years old, with a small, faint scar running along a patch of her neck and wrists with dark welts and bruises imbedded in the flesh. There’s something sinister about her injuries; the marks encircle her wrists too perfectly to be some kind of accident, and the line across her throat is simply too straight. She seems well, though, her face showing no signs of pain, although it’s hard to really take in the possible severity of her injuries when she remains curled in a ball on a sofa, eyes glued shut and breathing steady; every bit the image of a regular teen girl in desperate need of a nap. No matter who goes by, no matter how much noise they make or how much they shake her, the young girl simply refuses to open her eyes and wake up.

You may notice, though, if your senses are keen enough, the way the teen gulps and shifts not even an inch away when you come near; both actions quite... unnatural for someone supposed to be asleep. Why, you might even image that the girl is, well, faking it. Lying. Acting. Pretending to be asleep for whatever reason. But that’s just silly. Why would anyone pretend to be asleep in an unfamiliar place? Isn’t that rather counterproductive, considering she could be spending this time trying to find her captor? No. The girl must be sleeping. She simply shifted in her sleep is all; probably dreaming of home, or a picnic, or something else that suits her delicate image.

A natural born ‘Sleeping Beauty’ like this couldn’t lie, after all. Though, perhaps, somehow, you might find a way to bring her out of her unconscious state; preferably before night falls and the monsters come for her in search of an easy meal.

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[ It's the first thing Evatrice assumes when she sees the girl shift just slightly, really - even if she can't think of why someone would pretend to be asleep here, it seems like the only logical reason, right? And.. well, even if she is asleep, she can just have some fun too. So either way it works out, no way that it's a waste of time.

So don't mind this other girl here, okay. She'll just be poking Kanon with her big golden staff, not really gently or anything either. ]

[Kanon's logic is... rather unique. But it all makes sense to her, so she's not too concerned with what anyone else says or thinks.

She is concerned about the poking, though. Mostly because it's uncomfortable and very, very hard to pretend to sleep through. So, not that she's blowing her cover or anything, but Kanon is going to inch away to protect herself from any more prods.]

...

[ She frowns for a moment, as if she's displeased by the turn of events. ]

Wha-t..? [ She notices that inch - and while it could be coincidence, she's not betting on it. ] Did you really think nobody would notice that?

[Kanon isn't a fan of that tone. It's far too mocking; uppity. It's almost exactly like Jaibo's voice, although, thankfully, it seems to lack the thinly veiled madness the latter's tone held.

Still, the tone is enough to creep Kanon out, making it all the more difficult for her to force her eyes open a crack to peek out at the other girl.]

Stop poking me.

[ With just that, the frown quickly turns into a grin instead. Success. ]

Ah, so I was right. Of course I was! [ she sounds pretty satisfied with herself, honestly. ] Of course nobody would really be sleeping in the middle of a place like this unless they were a complete idiot, ready to give up and die..!

[Yep. Kanon already doesn't like this girl - even though she feels bad about it, since disliking someone before you even know their name is against the moe-moe bishoujo code of conduct.]

Someone might. What if they were really sleepy?

Then they'd be in for some bad times, wouldn't they? I don't know about you, but I know that if the monsters wouldn't kill them, then some passerby who feels like it might just!

[ she could know - she is one of those people, really. ]

Then those passerbys would be monsters, too! No human could kill someone else without being a monster!

[Welp. These two are going to get along well.]

... Wha-t? Don't tell me you haven't even thought of it before..? [ And clearly spreading her philosophy is good at a time like this. Forget it not being the moment or the place - or the fact that is never the right moment or the right place.. ]

If you see something, don't you just wish you could break it?

On his way down to the cafeteria for lunch Romeo saw the girl and went over to see if she was hurt. "Hello miss?" Was it like last time when lots of people slept for a long time? Was it another experiment? Romeo watched her face for a moment. "Miss you gotta wake up okay!"

Kanon twitches in her apparent sleep. The voice is far too innocent and high to belong to one of the scary boys who held her in the factory; the voice sounds more like it belongs to a child than anyone who could be a threat to her. So, with that in mind, Kanon opens her eyes, more than ready to pretend to faint if trouble came her way.

"...Are you one of Zera's friends?"

Romeo blinked when the girl opened her eyes and asked her question, "No miss, I never met anyone called Zera before. Are they your friend? I don't know if they are here."

She shakes her head, an awkward motion when she's still curled up on the couch. "He's a scary boy," she explained, "You should avoid him if you meet him. He hurts people."

"He sounds like a really bad person!" Romeo nodded, "I will! I'll make sure he doesn't hurt you either miss!"

[Huh, a girl sleeping on the couch. Lancer doesn't know why she can't use her own room. It makes him rather curious, so he walks closer to her.]

[He sees her shift. It's too unnatural to be anything but a reaction to his presence. He's interested now. Why would a girl pretend to sleep on the couch?]

[He decides he'll just half-lean, half-sit on the armrest while waiting for her to wake up. In a way, looking at her sleep, if she's even actually sleeping, reminds him of Misaya. After the curse ate away at her limbs, she started taking to lounging on her couch more and more, and sometimes even slept fitfully, the pain from the curse invading even her dreams.]

[Kanon visibly tenses when she feels someone sit on the armrest, her breath catching in her throat as she prepares for the worst.

However, the worst doesn't seem to come. Cracking a single eye open to peek at her visitor, Kanon immediately returns to her falsely sleeping state and squirms away, obviously afraid. Lancer's so much larger than the boys. Obviously much stronger, too. If the one of the most feminine of the boys could hurt her so badly, who knows what a grown man could do to her?

Honestly, she'd rather not find out.]

[He sees her squirming away, but makes no move of his own. She seems to be scared of him, but what he can't figure out is why she would put herself into such an obviously vulnerable position.]

[In her eyes, it's hiding in plain sight, as well as a tool to help Litchi find her. If her door is locked during the night - which she very well thinks it would be - she won't be able to find Litchi. But, by sleeping outside, nobody will be able to imprison her and keep her from her best friend.

But, feeling that the stranger makes no move towards her, she lets herself mutter a single word;]

Yes?

Huh, so you were awake all along.

[He still doesn't make any move either toward or away from her.]

Sleeping in an open place like this can be dangerous, little lady. Especially if it gets late.

01 || Sleeping Beauty

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