towerofanimus | (no subject)

Characters: Ren, open!
Setting: Floor Ten
Format: Action or prose.
Summary: Ren tries to drink the aquarium water.
Warnings: Nothing right now.
[As the days go on, Ren is starting to notice many things about this tower. One is that it's crawling with living people, something she is both frightened and astonished by. The second is that there's many weird treasures and cool things she's never seen before. One of those floors she's exploring happens to be the aquarium.

She walks around, staring at all the fish and curiously poking at them. Some try to bite her and when that happens, she jumps back. Other times they just follow her finger with their eyes. In one that seems safe, or at least without any fish that feel like nipping her, she purses her lips and tries to get a drink.

Unfortunately that water happened to be the salty kind. She immediately pulls back and sticks out her tongue. She rubs at her face with her arms to get the salt out of her eyes, making a disgusted expression.]

Yuck! I don't like it.

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Um, I am Tavros.

If you don't mind me asking, who are you?

Tavros.

[People sure have some weird names here. She seems to think about it, counting the syllables in her head. It's a short name too.]

I don't mind. I'm Ren.

It is nice to meet you, I guess, even though we are stuck here, which is something that will probably not change.

[He kinda hates feeling like he is now, but he just can't help it.]

We're not stuck. Don't worry. There's a way out of the fish room.

[Probably not what he wanted to hear. Obviously there's a way out if he came in.]

I sort of meant more about the tower, because we are stuck here.

[Oh, she hadn't thought about that in awhile since the last time she was told. It's scary. She wishes Seto were here with her. Ren's quiet for a moment. She's not sure what to say.]

But we got in the tower.

[There has to be a way out.]

I am not really sure if there is a good way out.

[Okay, okay, he is sensing that this isn't really a good conversation topic! BACK TO THE FISH. It'll keep his mind off of this dumb tower.]

Um, why were you trying to drink from the tank?

[Distractions yay.

This answer seems obvious to her. It's getting easier to talk to people, though she sounds a little nervous.]

I was thirsty and it looks like water.

It is water, but, probably not the kind of water that you would want to drink. There is a lot of good water in the food consumption area.

The place with the oatmeal?

Yeah. That is the best place to go for that sort of stuff, and there is a lot of food there, too.

[She thinks back on the time she was there. Thankfully, Ren had taken the provided oatmeal first and enjoyed it.]

There have other things? I thought it was only oatmeal.

[He nods.]

There are a lot of things that are better than the oatmeal, I think.

How many foods are there?