008 ♃ the sky is red tonight, we're on the edge tonight

[seekinganswers]

Characters: Sheba and you!
Setting: The cafeteria, the desert, and the lounge on the 81st floor.
Format: Brackets to start but I'll switch to prose if you want to!
Summary: Sheba's spent a little over a week on her destroyed homeworld, and she's still feeling out of sorts. She would be back just in time for a Jason month, wouldn't she?
Warnings: Sheba has a tendency to try to read the minds of people she doesn't know well, though it's up to you if it's successful or not. The likelihood of her trying it is way up since she's sort of on edge right now.

[Floor 01 - The Cafeteria]
[The line for food is shorter than usual, Sheba notes. And the cafeteria is emptier. It's comforting and terrifying at the same time, but she tries to dismiss the feeling of unease - there are still people here, just less of them, it's not like the ruins of Weyard - and makes her way to the front to get something to eat.

When she gets there and sees what the meal options are, she raises an eyebrow.

Suddenly she understands why the place wasn't very crowded.]

...is this some kind of joke?

[Floor 64 - The Desert]
[She's sitting down not too far from the stairs, idly tracing out designs and then directing the wind to wipe them away with a flick of her wrist. It's hot and mildly uncomfortable, yes, but it's also nostalgic in a way. Lalivero was almost as close to the desert as it was to the ocean, and in the days before monsters and windstorms had run rampant in the desert she'd gone there often.

When she closes her eyes, she can almost believe she's back home again - really home, not the empty shell of her world. She can feel the sand beneath her fingers, can feel the warmth of the sun at her back, and she can't see the staircase that indicates that this is no natural desert.

Another flick of her wrist, and this time a small whirlwind begins to form in front of her. It only comes up to about her waist, and she's definitely keeping it under control, but there's something about it that makes her smile.

Maybe this floor wasn't so bad after all. She waves her hand with a giggle and the whirlwind nearly doubles in size - anyone on the stairs might have wind, dirt, or both to contend with as they pass through or even stop.]

[Floor 81 - The Stratosphere Lounge]
[It's getting late, and Sheba knows she should probably start heading back up to her room before a monster finds her or something, but she's plenty comfortable where she is - curled up and resting on the glass bulge that allows them to see out beyond the Tower's walls.

The stars are breathtaking, but it's the fog that really catches her attention. She can't help but wonder what's under it - what's out there. Is it really so terrible there that being confined to the Tower would be preferable to it? She just doesn't know, and try as she might she can't see anything to help her make up her mind one way or another.

It's relaxing to just look at the fog, though her thoughts do start to stray - and that's not really something she wants. With a heavy sigh, she turns her head away from the ground far below them and looks up at the stars.]

So they're beautiful here too...

Comments

[seekinganswers]

...so in that way, it was a lot like this Tower?

[It's easy to lose track of time here, she thinks. Oh, she knows she can check the date on the network terminals, but that's not quite the same as getting to see the sun rise and set the way she would have back on Weyard.]

[lightofhumanity]

A little. However, you could move from spaceship to spaceship and planet to planet. On a planet, your sense of time was restored..and there were not so many experiments.

[seekinganswers]

["Not so many"... did that mean that there were still some, Sheba wonders?]

What were the planets like? Were they all similar to each other or were they all very different?

[lightofhumanity]

[There were, but they were performed on the general public. At least, not unless they broke the laws. chaos hated this about the modern law system, but he wasn't going to talk about it much.]

Some were richer than other, and some were more densely populated than others. There were even a few that people were not allowed to visit.

[seekinganswers]

Why not? Were they dangerous?

[Maybe the world this tower was on was one of the planets people weren't able to visit... maybe her own world was one people couldn't visit. Or maybe people could visit it and that was why some of the people shes encountered on her journey were so strange.]

[lightofhumanity]

There were some items that were dangerous..and past wars that had occurred.

[seekinganswers]

Oh... that makes more sense, then. They wouldn't want anyone getting hurt, or influencing the world into being something it wouldn't have been normally, right?

[lightofhumanity]

Exactly. So, in order to try and protect people, and the universe, the planets were closed off.

[seekinganswers]

How many planets have you been to? Which were your favorites?

[lightofhumanity]

Oh, I never kept track of how many planets I visited..but..I have always loved Earth.

[Even though it was lost to people at that point in time.]

[seekinganswers]

"Earth"? What sort of a place is that?

[Sorry chaos, her home planet is a flat one called Weyard. When she hears "Earth," she thinks Venus Psynergy; this planet must be filled with rocks and plants, she thinks...]

[lightofhumanity]

[Actually, this would make talking about Earth a lot easier..but not less sad for him.]

..It was the birthplace and original home of humanity.

[seekinganswers]

Really? [She blinks a few times.] So... all humans from other worlds originally came from there?

[lightofhumanity]

In my universe, yes. There might be some differences in that in your universe though.

[seekinganswers]

Maybe. But maybe not, too! We don't know much of the world outside Weyard. There might be other planets out there somewhere, among the stars.

[lightofhumanity]

Perhaps..I do not know enough about your universe to say one way or another.

[seekinganswers]

Unfortunately, I don't really know enough about it to say, either...

[lightofhumanity]

May I ask why?

[Really, that did puzzle him a bit.]

[seekinganswers]

Most of the advanced knowledge about our world was lost thousands of years ago, when Alchemy was sealed and our ancient civilizations declined.

We had only just recently begun to make a start on restoring Alchemy to the world, but...

[Then she and others from Weyard had been brought to the Tower.]

[lightofhumanity]

[chaos nodded, sighing internally. He had lived long enough to see situations like that happen..but that didn't mean that they were good.]

But than you came here. Hopefully you will be able to return to your universe soon and uncover the past and it's knowledge.

[seekinganswers]

...maybe.

[Or maybe she won't want to return, if the place she just returned from truly was her world and it's honestly nothing more than a dead wasteland now.]

Maybe.

[lightofhumanity]

[..Oh. Clarification was needed at this point.]

You know, I am talking about when we go back to our restored universes. Not the ruined husks they are now.

[seekinganswers]

That... might be easier said than done, though.

It's difficult enough for them to keep reviving us all in as small a place as this. How could anyone possibly bring back everything that was lost in each of our worlds?

[lightofhumanity]

Perhaps. However, while it is difficult for them, it is not impossible. We do not know the full capacity of what they cannot do..but we don't know what they can do either.

[seekinganswers]

I guess... only time will tell, huh?

...and he did say he likes testing the limits of the possible...

[The last bit is more murmured under her breath than actually spoken, as something from a conversation she's had in the past occurs to her. Maybe, maybe...

But no, that was unlikely. The last person to try and help the Tower residents had been Dax, and everyone had seen what had happened to him.]