1: Waking up

[fiesta_de_los_muertos]

Characters: Aradia Megido and you
Setting: Early morning on the dormitory levels
Format: Starting with brackets but will match to anything
Summary: Aradia wakes up and would like to know where she is.
Warnings: None for now


[Waking up petrified is one of the scariest things she's ever experienced, the complete lack of control putting her on edge. She systematically tries to move her limbs without success. Just before she starts panicking completely she regains control over her body and he muscles spasm under the strain of her efforts.

She falls to the ground, unfamiliar with the dimensions of a bed. She groans as her head hits the floor, groping around for the bed so she can pull herself to her feet again. She manages to get her hands around the footrest after a few times and straightens herself. So far so good. Good thing no one else was in the room.

She takes a look around, four beds in the room, all the same as hers. There's a trunk at the foot of each bed but her intention is drawn to whatever is lying on top of it.

Two letters explaining her how her world is destroyed and where she is now and neither of them satisfactory.

She moves to the door and opens it carefully, peeking outside. The light catches her off guard but the clouds filter it enough to make it bearable.]

Hello?

Comments

[starofpleiades]

Mm, that's good! It's one of the most important things we can have here.

[fiesta_de_los_muertos]

So you still have hope to, then? Even after being here for a couple of months?

[starofpleiades]

Yeah. It's been hard, but with my friends here, we've managed to persevere.

[fiesta_de_los_muertos]

I'm glad to hear that! Having friends around in a situation like this is really important!!

[starofpleiades]

And even if yours aren't here, you can always make some! A lot of people here are pretty friendly, more or less.

[fiesta_de_los_muertos]

Everyone I've run into so far is really nice. But I guess there are bound to be a lot of nice ones with so many people around in general.

[starofpleiades]

Maybe; I mean, they could have all been mean. But I think even the mean ones kind of realize we have bigger things in the tower to worry about than making it hard for each other.

[fiesta_de_los_muertos]

I hope that's true. From what I've heard from everyone so far the last thing we need is hostility between the people stuck here.

[starofpleiades]

Yeah... there's a few groups that have things like that, mostly from their circumstances at home... but luckily it usually doesn't cause too much trouble? That I noticed anyway...

[fiesta_de_los_muertos]

As long as the majority realizes it's best to get along they shouldn't be too much trouble, I think.

[starofpleiades]

I hope so. And, I always like to make new friends! I hope we can be friends from her on, Aradia.

[fiesta_de_los_muertos]

I hope so too! You've been really helpful in explaining the basics of this tower to me. Thank you for that.

[starofpleiades]

Eheh, it's no problem. Anything to help ease you into it! It's bad enough already without not knowing what's going on as well.

[fiesta_de_los_muertos]

I'm glad you were wandering the hallways as well, Kazumi.