⌐ 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]

[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?

[heavenscorpse]

In that case, I would go with the pork with rosemary kebabs and orange sauce. It's also good.

[mysterical]

And after dinner? What would you recommend?

[heavenscorpse]

The ice cream is really really good.

[mysterical]

[Tear stiffles a giggle behind her hand. That wasn't exactly what she meant, but...]

Okay, and after dessert? What do you do for fun, V/V?

[heavenscorpse]

I like to read, or pick flowers, or sing.

[mysterical]

[Really, this girl is far too cute for words. If Tear's not careful, she might end up adopting her as a friend.]

Well, I'm a decent fighter. [Understatement, just a bit.] If you'd like to show me around the tower for a bit, I would appreciate that.

[heavenscorpse]

Oh, I can do that! Just follow me and I'll lead you around. I know all the floors by now and there are lots.

[Like, a hundred lots.]

[mysterical]

[Well, Tear knows how many floors there are, but the reaction from the other girl is pretty cute.]

I'd appreciate that! In return, maybe I can help you learn how to fight?

[heavenscorpse]

That would be really nice of you, Tear.

[mysterical]

[She's going to wave that off. They are both doing something to benefit the other, so it's cancelled out, right?]

So, can I ask why you would be forced to eat nutrition bars for an entire month?

[Yep, she didn't forget that in the face of their previous topics.]

[heavenscorpse]

Jason, one of the administrators, really doesn't like us. And we can live off of nutrition bars... technically.

[mysterical]

[Gone is thought of the strangely-flowery food. This girl could be used to gather pertinent information about the Tower.]

And the other administrators? What are they like?

[heavenscorpse]

Ruana eats people.

[Let that sink in.]

[mysterical]

L-literally?

[Yeah, no food ever again. Thanks, V/V. Now Tear can keep her girlish figure to lure Luke in.]