Minuet ♪ Moving

[sageprincess]

Characters: Zelda and you!
Setting: Floor 3 or 19, Floor 25, Floor 14, and Floor 32
Format: Starting with action - I'll follow you!
Summary: The Princess of Hyrule going about her days while trying not to freeze to death.
Warning: Sexual confusion? None yet.


Floor 3 or 19
[The libraries might as well have become a second home for Zelda with all the time she has spent there recently. Ever since Ruana (and to a lesser extent, Dax) took to the network, she has been pouring over book after book, network post after network post, trying to make sense of the things she said. Of course, any success is limited at best, and for the most part, the only fruit of her labor thus far has been a stack of notes with more questions than answers contained within.

Still, the search gives her focus and drive - things she had been terribly lacking in since... the end of June, really. And perhaps that's the most valuable thing Ruana gave her that day - not information, but a will to do more than merely endure.

In any case, if you're looking for one long-eared princess, you are most likely to find her here, surrounded by her books and notes.]

Floor 25 (For bow_of_the_galadhrim and maybe friends?)
[Of course, that is not to say she does nothing else with her time. Sometime before the chaos of October and everything else, Legolas said the elven swords he was having crafted for her were ready, and they could begin training. Sure, it's cold now and getting colder, but it's peaceful for the moment (well, for some definition of peaceful), and she needs to learn eventually.

So, looking more like a pirate than a princess in Tetra's mother's (her descendant's?) long coat and her hair tied up in a ribbon, she waits on the meadow floor for the Prince of Mirkwood. At least there's no snow on this floor.]

Floor 14
[And sometimes even she needs a break, though loathe she is to admit it. She doesn't frequent the media floor often - even after nearly a year's time in the Tower, most of the technology there is beyond her. But she does know how one piece of electronic machinery works (though don't ask her what it's called), thanks to a girl who's long since vanished from the tower walls. And it's that piece of machinery that's currently serenading her with the sounds of a certain British classic rock band as she curls up on a couch nearby, wrapped in the fluffy comforter she got as a "prize" for participating in Halloween's "game".

Pass by at just the right moment, and she might even appear to be asleep. Even back in Hyrule, music was always there to provide a temporary escape from life's hardships, and it's so easy to get lost in it...]

Floor 32
[And sometimes, given the high levels of stress inherent to the situation, it is necessary to take "taking a break" a little further.

Look up into the trees on the forest floor, and you might see a blur of blue and grey hopping from branch to branch, disturbing and sprinkling the snow that's accumulated there in its wake.

Investigate?]

(Responses for the last prompt will mostly come from sagesurvivor.)

Comments

[sageprincess]

Not particularly, no, I must say.

[She resists the urge to fan the smoke away from her face.]

[puppy_lancer]

[He frowns, and then he puts the cigarette to his lips again. He takes a long drag and holds it in for several seconds before pulling the cigarette out again. He then extinguishes it on the wall, leaving a smear.]

...I'll clean that later. I'm a janitor.

[sageprincess]

[She blinks, clearly not expecting him to have followed her request in any form.]

... I care little for a smear on the wall, really. All I wish is to be able to breathe easily while conducting my research.

[...]

Thank you.

[puppy_lancer]

[He shoves the stub in his pocket.]

I never could refuse a request from a cute girl.

[Besides, he knew how much some people could dislike smoke. That was why he picked a seemingly isolated place.]

Research, huh? What type of research?

[sageprincess]

The same sort of things I was looking into when I made that post on the network. Trying to figure out what might have happened here before we arrived and why.

[And how Ruana's at the heart of it all, she thinks but doesn't say.]

[puppy_lancer]

How much have you found out already?

[He wonders how much of it has anything to do with the administrators' abilities to mess with people's souls.]

[sageprincess]

[At that... she frowns.]

Not much, unfortunately. There is only so much I can do with the information at hand, and the rest is speculation at best. [She pauses, thoughtful for a moment.] I believe there is a connection between Ruana's refusal to answer certain questions and the missing sections in the libraries, but I cannot say for certain.

[puppy_lancer]

I'd like to hear some of those speculations.

[Better a working theory than nothing at all.]

What questions did she refuse to answer?

[sageprincess]

Mostly things related to what the scientists were studying her for when those recordings took place. "What did they want you to do?" "What did you do?" and so on.

What makes me think those questions might be related to the missing sections of the libraries is that she frequently said that she "forgets" things she does not wish to remember. One typically remembers the past as history, yes? But there are no history books to be found in the Tower at all, if Riki is to be believed.

Perhaps I am seeing patterns that are not actually there, but it lines up in such a way that I do not believe it to be coincidence.

[puppy_lancer]

I don't blame her for not wanting to talk about that, though. Must have been something horrible.

But if this place doesn't carry any history books because she doesn't wanna remember the past, does that mean she built this tower? Or at least puts the right stuff on the right floors?

[sageprincess]

I do not think she built the Tower itself, but it might be the way it is now because of her. She might have destroyed the books, or put them somewhere the rest of the administrators cannot reach. I cannot say for certain.

[Which is... frustrating.]

[puppy_lancer]

You mean there's places even they can't go? But they already do crap like teleport from place to place.

[sageprincess]

Perhaps - again, this is all speculation. But Ruana is their superior and presumably has powers the rest of them do not. If we are to take them at their word, she has been here longer than any of them as well.

[puppy_lancer]

Then, if they were brought over just like us, why did she let them take over running the Tower?

[He frowns.]

How the fuck did she think it was a good idea to hand Jason control of the medical stuff?

[sageprincess]

They were not brought here like us, at least according to them. Whenever asked, they always say they were born here.

[And then, a shrug.]

As for your other question, I do not know. She hardly seems like she is completely of her own mind in the first place.

[puppy_lancer]

[From what she's saying, it sounds like Ruana created the rest of the administrators.]

Yeah, she has some weird habits. Again, I dunno if I can blame her.

[He looks a little awkward as he asks his next question.]

Uh...did she ever mention anything about the jail cells down around where the admins are?

[sageprincess]

[She tilts her head.]

Jail cell...? [Give her a moment to think--] I... do believe I recall her saying something about the cells she was kept in during her experiments being similar to the ones that are found up here. And... there were at least 37 people being experimented on? I would need to double check that.

Why?

[puppy_lancer]

[A frown.]

Okay, a couple of days ago, I joined up with this bunch of people who wanted to question the drones. Couldn't get anything out of them. Then that asshole Jason showed up and we all tried to punch him. And...well...lots of us ended up getting captured and thrown into a prison around where the admins lived. There were thirty-seven cells all in a circle in the room that I got taken to.

[sageprincess]

[As Lancer tells his story, Zelda can't help raising an eyebrow in... astonishment? Disbelief? Whoever thought going after Jason was a good idea this time?

But she manages to reign her mental commentary in, instead focusing on the task at hand.]

So... you think the place he took you to might have been where Ruana was held?

[puppy_lancer]

Maybe. Sure was a weird place. What with forcefields that showed movies and this girl teleporting in between cells.

[sageprincess]

A girl...?

[That gets another cant of her head, but her expression quickly sets into one of determination.]

Would you mind telling me about what you saw in detail, please? I would like to keep some sort of record of it so we might be able to reference it later.

[puppy_lancer]

Well, the cells were pretty normal besides the fact that I couldn't use any powers. Then there were the forcefields. Kept me in quite well, but every time I hit it, it would show me an image of some weird kids. Then they got mad about me watching or something and...pushed me with their minds or something. And after that, I couldn't see them any more.

[He pauses as he tries remembering everything.]

And then this kid started talking and freaked some people out. Think she was asking questions about who we are or why we were here. That went away too. Finally, late at night, this kid appeared in cell 37. She...she was weird. Really weird. Couldn't get a clear look at her even up close because she was so blurry. All I knew was that she was a girl. Her voice was pure ear-fuckery and she even went around screaming at this one kid. Also, she had weird powers. Could push back the barriers, and even if she didn't mean too badly, her killing intent was huge.

[He hopes this was a good explanation.]

[sageprincess]

[She'll probably ask him to repeat it later when she can write it down, but for now she simply puts her hand to her chin in thought.]

Strange... Ruana said she was Subject 37, did she not? If that girl was her... how is that possible?

[Then, she sighs, and admits more to herself than Lancer:]

... As if attempting to make sense of such a place is even possible.

[puppy_lancer]

I dunno. Illusions? Psychokinesis or whatever you called it?

[sageprincess]

I suppose it could have been an illusion of some sort. If Jason put you all there as a punishment, we cannot truly take anything you saw to be entirely truthful.

[It's entirely likely he was just trying to mess with them, after all.]