circle one: arrival

[featherdarting]

Characters: Ayaka Sajyou and you, maybe!
Setting: Room 1-07, then elsewhere.
Format: Any!
Summary: A stranger explores a strange land.
Warnings: Aside from Ayaka being Ayaka, none.


[Room 1-07]

[Ayaka wakes up in a room that isn't hers. That immediately sets off all her alarms. She puts on her glasses (as much to hide behind them as anything) and looks around. She sees the notes, reads them.

....Ayaka sits still, motionless. Maybe she's in shock, roomies?]

[Cafeteria]

[Okay, so, first things first - she has to eat the oatmeal. That's a thing that needs to be done. It's not the most unpleasant task in the world, even if the oatmeal does taste like...well, nothing.

Maybe anything would taste like nothing after that shock to the system earlier...

At least there's nobody trying to snap her out of her thoughts just yet. Not that she's worth the concern or even expects it, of course, but there's usually someone...For now, she'll enjoy the peace.]

[Floor 3 Library]

[Who's surprised that Ayaka ended up here? Nobody, that's who. As of right now, she's at one of the terminals, investigating it in between darting back and forth to the shelves, investigating them.

It's quiet and peaceful. She likes that.]

[Floor 99]

[....Okay, so this place is quieter. It's dazzling, and like most people she can't really resist gazing at something awe-inspiring like this.

Maybe she can get to work here? Yeah, that sounds about right. It isn't that difficult to injure herself, not with a knife pilfered from the cafeteria. It wasn't that difficult to obtain the knife, either. Just palm it up the sleeve, then into a pocket....

No, it isn't that difficult to set things up. Thank god she's still got her ring, or this would all be in vain - also, she wouldn't be able to defend herself.

And after that conversation with Feferi Peixes, that seems to be a very, very important thing. Especially as her Saber doesn't appear to be here. ... She'll have to protect herself, for now.]

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cafeteria

[puppy_lancer]

[The moment he spots her face at the table, Lancer freezes.]

[Ayaka.]

[This is the face had had wanted to see, but hadn't hoped to be able to see again. For a moment, he wonders if she's even really here or if she's another trick of the Tower.]

...Ayaka?

[He starts to approach her slowly.]

cafeteria

[featherdarting]

[Eh? It's...]

Lancer-san. You were brought here too?

[Which probably means Misaya is nearby. Hopefully they're not continuing the War here...]

Re: cafeteria

[puppy_lancer]

[He freezes as he hears her say that.]

O-of course I was. I've been here for a while now. You too. Don't you remember?

cafeteria

[featherdarting]

[This face, except with the glasses on, Lancer.]

...No, I'm sorry.

[And for what it's worth, she does mean that. It's obvious the idea upsets him, but she's not gonna lie. That would be worse, she thinks.]

Re: cafeteria

[puppy_lancer]

...Wait, what?

[This wasn't right this wasn't right. Ayaka had been in the Tower with him for months. She should remember that...unless trauma had erased her memory.]

What's the last thing that you remember?

cafeteria

[featherdarting]

...We ran afoul of Rider's handiwork, and clashed with Misaya-san and yourself.

[Something isn't right. Something is very not right here. She closes her eyes for a moment to shut out distractions and think more clearly. To transport someone out of a world would probably take greater power than even the Grail, and-

...

Wait...Wait just a moment...Servants come from all points in history, not just one. Going by that logic--

She opens her eyes and looks up at Lancer uncertainly.] Could it...be that that isn't the last thing you remember?

Re: cafeteria

[puppy_lancer]

[Something was definitely wrong here. Not only had she forgotten her time in the Tower, but also the fact that she had made a contract with him.]

...Yeah, I remember a lot more than that. You did too, back when you were first here.

cafeteria

[featherdarting]

[Things have officially gotten interesting. ...And distressing.]

That's...really strange.

[And from the way her eyes are narrowing, it isn't a good kind of strange.]

Re: cafeteria

[puppy_lancer]

You said it.

[Right now, he's trying to think of how this is possible. How two people from supposedly the same world have such differing memories.]

[Then again, the Ayaka from before also had remembered less than he did.]

[This Tower was a strange place. It could easily take people from different times and places. And every individual was supposed to be from a different world, so...]

[There's a possibility that this Ayaka is real, but not the one he's gotten to know.]

[He takes a few more steps forward, until he's right in front of her face. He needs to test whether or not she's even real before questioning her origins.]

[featherdarting]

[WAH! She flails, falls backwards, manages to right herself, but is still red in the face.]

W-what are you doing?!

[puppy_lancer]

[He kneels down and slowly, gingerly, puts his arms around her. It's a gentle hug, but a hug nonetheless.]

[Just like when they had first met in this Tower...]

[...And just like the first time, she feels very real.]

[featherdarting]

[...Hweeeee?...

Ayaka's just going to sit there because...how do you react to a hug? .... Tentatively, she pats him on the shoulder. That's how it works, right? Even so, she's red in the face.]

[puppy_lancer]

[For some reason, his eyes start getting wet at this, so he closes them. Must be some dust in the air.]

[It's a little while before he can finally pull away.]

...Sorry about that. Just...wanted to confirm that you're really back here.

[Though there's still the possibility of her being a different Ayaka. That's pretty worrying.]

[featherdarting]

[Ayaka's just going to keep being confused because. Hugs. What are those, how do you react to them.]

U-um...Well, okay then, if you say so...

[puppy_lancer]

[He pulls out a chair and sits down at her table.]

So, now that's out of the way, time to get to the other matters. Our memories don't match up, but that's kinda to be expected at this place. Even if you're not quite the Ayaka I'm used to, you're still her.

...So I'll serve you like I served her.

[featherdarting]

[Thaaaaaat gets her attention and she looks up at Lancer like he is speaking bird.]

"Serve"? Uh - by that you mean you were working together?

[puppy_lancer]

Yeah, we were. That creepy priest guy back in our world took Saber by dipping him in Grail mud, and I was a free agent by that point. Since we both had something we couldn't do alone, the two of us teamed up.

I'm your Servant now, little lady.