cross your fingers, hold your toes. we're all gonna die when the building blows.

[uzuki]

Characters: Shion & YOU~
Setting: You can catch her passing through the dorm floors, the libraries, the media room, or her moping on floor 12.
Format: Take your pick.
Summary: Shion is a mess, surprise.
Warnings: None yet.


After the elevator incident, Shion hadn't exactly been sure what to do. She didn't know how she felt about knowing how the tower worked. On one hand, it was disgusting and it was unnatural. Jason and the rest were keeping them all in the dark and as prisoners. On the other hand... They were immortal. What difference did it make what body you had, as long as you were the same person on the inside? Your soul... Your essence. That's what she had told Allen, right?

And Allen brought another issue. She wanted to see him, more than anything. But she didn't want to worry him. Sure, he was used to her recklessness, but especially after the KOS-MOS incident, she had been trying to lie low. For Allen's sake, more than her own. It might have seemed otherwise most of the time, but she didn't want him to worry about her. So she tried to calm down, or collect her thoughts. But it just wasn't happening. The more she tried to wade through the mess in her mind, the more conflicted and alone she felt.

In the end, she gave up on false pretenses, and started off for Allen's hideouts. The meadow, libraries, the media room... Eventually she ended up on the twelfth floor, quietly staring into the stars as they blinked out of existence.

Comments

[temptestament]

"After seeing Dax's...his conversation with Ruana, I've...been starting to wonder the same thing. I don't know how Wilhelm or Yeshua could exist in that case or how I could still have these powers, but...Dax at least believed he was protecting us."

He sighed, closing his eyes. Images of Dax's death started to fill in his vision, but he pushed them down and away.

"But I think dealing with the Administrators might be even more dangerous than we thought. Did you see what happened to him?"

[uzuki]

She nodded, but didn't comment. She wanted to avoid thinking back on it at all.

"It's--" She stopped herself with a frustrated sigh. "We can't even discuss anything without them listening in. Now we know that for a fact."

Not only did it dampen all the planning discussions, it was just weird.

[temptestament]

"Not necessarily. Did you see any indications that they can read minds?"

[uzuki]

She brightened at that, instantly realizing what he was suggesting.

"Good thinking, Allen! I don't think they have any way to monitor that."

[temptestament]

He smiled, more genuinely this time.

"I'll have to contact Yeshua about it, but I'm pretty sure he'll agree. And...maybe Wilhelm, too."

It was a shame Jin wasn't around to help, but that didn't seem like a good topic to bring up.

[uzuki]

"Wilhelm...?"

Really Allen? He might as well bring KOS-MOS up, since her face fell a little at that suggestion.

[temptestament]

"He'll find out whether we tell him or not. I can't really think of anything to do about that."

[uzuki]

"Well, we don't have to go out of our way to let him know."

[temptestament]

"It wouldn't really make a difference. And I'd rather take what little control I can dealing with him than let him rub in the fact that we can't keep anything from him."

[uzuki]

"Fine."

The sigh she heaved along with that word was a pretty good indicator that she wasn't going to be happy about involving Wilhelm for any reason. But, at least she'd drop it. FOR NOW