⌐ First Hymn: Waking Up in Strange Beds ¬

[mysterical]

Characters: Tear and You!
Setting: Dormitory levels, and then the first floor, third floor and the 101st floor.
Format: Preference for action spam.
Summary: Tear’s arrival to Animus!
Warnings: Um, an unhappy soldier?

Room 1-07 (Closed to Roommates)
[Hello, roommates, have a newbie! Tear’s just waking up… And she’s got some issues. First of all, she's not back in Yulia City. Second of all, WHO CHANGED HER CLOTHES! And third, she's got this collar on. She's not into this kinky stuff. So...

She's going to scramble around until she sees the note. She carefully reads it over a few times.]

Impossible! Auldrant's gone? Who is playing this cruel joke? Where are Anise and Natalia, because if they've put me in this ridiculous outfit for Peony's entertainment, when we've got our trip to Eldrant to take care of...Yulia help me I will smack them both.

First floor cafeteria
[Tear is looking over the menu for this strange place now that she's dressed in her OWN clothes again. On one hand, it reminds her a little of the Oracle Headquarters at the cathedral in Daath, but there is something innately sinister in the entire place's atmosphere.]

Hm, while none of these sound particularly bad, the flower theme's a little daunting [She's not talking to anyone in general. Just out loud.]

Third Floor Library
[Now that Tear has some down time, she's going to curl up with a good book and try to relax. She's currently browsing the historical novels to see what is there. The titles are interesting to her, but it takes a second of staring for the words to translate into the Fonic Alphabet she's been used to.

This entire place is going to take some getting used to for her. No Auldrant. Ripped away from her friends and her grandfather. No idea when or if she can even get out of this place. In reality, if she wasn't trying to still process everything, she might cry.]

What is this Pride and Prejudice? Is it any good?

Floor 101
[Unlike the beautiful meadow on the 25th floor, Tear feels completely alone as she stands in the midst of the hanging gardens. If you come upon her, you will only find her staring out in the vast open sky, not moving, not talking, not singing. Just staring with a blank expression on her face.]

Comments

[mysterical]

That sounds...practical, but disgusting.

[Even Natalia's cooking sounded better than that. Except when the blonde burned it. Ewgh...]

[heavenscorpse]

It is. It's why a lot of people went hunting last month. But I'm no good at that so I mostly ate the nutrition bars.

[mysterical]

[Excuse Tear while she notices your wings, strange girl. They're awfully pretty too...]

Don't you have friends to help you hunt?

[Wild rappig meat wasn't that bad. Tear had hunted while she partied with the others and some of the better meals came from that, when Jade, Guy, Asch or she cooked.]

[heavenscorpse]

Well... I don't know how to fight at all, so I'd just be a burden trying to hunt. And I couldn't ask for meat for free.

[mysterical]

[Okay, so now that she's done gushing over your pretty wings, she's going to look you over carefully. Don't mind her, okay?]

It is simply that you don't have training or that you cannot learn to fight with those wings you possess?

[heavenscorpse]

I don't think the wings would stop me if I wanted to train... [She flutters her wings as they're being referred to.] But I didn't have a desire to fight back home so I didn't get training.]

[mysterical]

Hm... [So, those wings were sort of practical?] I sort of wish Natalia was here. I have no experience with bows, but I think that would keep you from being too damaged. If you were interested in learning to fight, that is.

[heavenscorpse]

Well, I could learn a little, I think. As long as I wouldn't have to hurt anyone.

Oh, my name's V/V, what's yours?

[mysterical]

Ah, excuse me. [Tear snaps out of plotting mode and gives the other female a smile.] My name is Tear. Tear Grants, Locrian Sergeant of the Oracle Knights' Intelligent Division.

I...um... I suppose I am new here. Wherever this place is.

[heavenscorpse]

You're in the Tower of Animus. It's nice to meat you, Sergeant Tear.

[mysterical]

Tower of Animus... that letter said that I was saved from the destruction of my planet. I find that hard to believe. And it is just Tear, V/V.

[Really, it's Mystearica, but that's another story, alright?]

[heavenscorpse]

Okay, Just Tear. [She smiles at her own joke, but quickly her humor fades.] A lot of the evidence makes it look like it's true.

[mysterical]

[Sure, the joke's pretty bad, but it's comforting to have one of the first people she meets be so nice.]

So, how do we get out of here then? [Not that she had a clue as to what she'd do once she was out of the tower if her planet really had been destroyed somehow.]

[heavenscorpse]

I don't know... Sometimes people go back to their worlds for a while, but they're all in ruins.

[She's sorry she has no good news to give.]

[mysterical]

[Tear nods in thought. Really, after that letter, she'd held out some hope for Auldrant, for those she cared about being safe, but if what this other girl said was true, then it was probably worse than what her "savior" had implied.]

V/V, how long have you been here?

[heavenscorpse]

[She counted on her fingers.] Let's see... Nine months.

[mysterical]

And your friends from home? Did any of them come here with you? Or later?

[She might be thinking of her companions, okay? But she has no clue how this place works and this angel person seems rather straight forward.]

[heavenscorpse]

[V/V shook her head.] But, I didn't have very many friends from home, so I guess it's less likely for me than for other people.

[mysterical]

[Tear feels sorry for this girl. She seems rather nice and she's pretty. Why doesn't she have friends back home? Was she too busy?

Of course, she's forgotten that until she met Luke, she'd only had one friend before and that didn't turn out very well.]

And since you got here? Nine months is a long time to go without making any friends.

[heavenscorpse]

Oh, I've made friends in the tower. Some of them went back to their home worlds and haven't come back, though... but that's no reason to stop making them.

[You can't not risk being hurt.]

[mysterical]

[Something about the way the other girl talked made Tear like her more.]

I agree. So, V/V, what would you recommend eating from the menu?

[heavenscorpse]

Oh, it's all really good! I like the glazed chicken they have at dinnertime.

[V/V is a plant herself, technically, so she's fond of the flowery foods this month.]

[mysterical]

Glazed chicken? It sounds really sweet.

[Seriously, she's barely survived Natalia and Luke cooking. Please, don't do that to her again!]

[heavenscorpse]

Do you not like sweet things?

[mysterical]

I don't dislike them, but I had a traveling companion that.... Her cooking left a lot to be desired, alright?