Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen

[culbutiri]

Characters: Nesir Aeser, you
Setting: Floor sixty two (beach), floor seventy two (door maze)
Format: Either
Summary: It's Nesir's birthday, she decides she should actually get round to reading her regain, and then sets herself a challenge
Warnings: Maybe talk of assassins/murder/last event. Nesir is generally not a nice person though she is not actively murderous at the moment...

[Beach] Nesir was quite surprised when she saw the date, though she knew it was coming up. In a few days she would have been in this place for an entire year and today she as sixteen. Nesir's birthday had never been celebrated and she wasn't about to start doing so in this fake place but she noted that she was a year older and that in her world she would have been considered an adult today. Ready to be apprenticed or to go out and find work, if she hadn't been a temple acolyte, if she hadn't been a dark trained assassin who had been training and working since she could walk.

The last few days she had spent training, working out her anger and frustration of being stuck in a room with Sephiroth for a week, of the hallucinations and the hunger. It helped that they ahad decent food, even if it was all pumpkin flavoured, which reminded her of her first month here, a year ago. She failed to see why in a world where everything was an illusion they had to eat pumpkin, surely there were other foods they could pretend to give them.

As it was the 'reward' she had been given had been thrown into her trunk and ignored for the last few days. Because as curious as she was, she at least knew when she was too angry to deal with more things. But today was as good as any day.

She liked the beach floor, because as little as she had actually spent time on the seafront as a child the sound of the sea reminded her of home, so she sat on the sand, cloak drawn around her and took out the folder. As expected it didn't have that many answers, the first few entries were almost medical, her and her sisters birth was recorded; they had been early it seemed and no one had expected there to be two of them.

Anyone on the beach floor would see Nesir lost in her reading, a half angry, half confused, sad look on her face.

[Maze] It was always good to be challenged, and Nesir needed something to focus on. For once she didn't feel like killing things, though she would, if need be. Her daggers were ready. She hadn't tackled this maze before but she set off, determined to solve it.

A decision she was beginning to regret a few hours later when she opened yet another door, to more doors, helplessly lost.

Comments

[terreifying]

...That week wasn't fun, was it? Were you one of the people who got stuck?

[culbutiri]

No it did no be being very fun at all. [She nodded] Did you be being trapped?

[terreifying]

[She shakes her head.]

No, I was outside. I helped Doc watch the collar fluid. And he researched it a little while.

I'm sorry you had to be trapped, though.

[culbutiri]

Well I do be being glad that someone did be keeping on working. [She pulled a face] It did be being stupid.

[terreifying]

[She puts her arms around Nesir in a hug.]

Well, how about we do something fun and not stupid? After we're out of this maze?

[culbutiri]

[She blinks, stepping back slightly though it doesn't stop her being caught in the hug. Rei's hugged her before, called her her friend. That was before... a lot of things. Before Ryoji, before they learned that they weren't even real.] What do you be wanting to be doing?

[terreifying]

Mm, we could catch something to eat...and there's a floor full of cool costumes! And then there's a circus floor! Let's go see the circus!

[culbutiri]

The circus? [She nodded] Okay we can be, if you do be wanting. [She looked around, they had to get out of here first.]

[terreifying]

[Rei takes a few steps forward, opening another door. Again, it leads to a line of hedges. She step through, watching the pass separate into a fork.]

Which way do you want?

[culbutiri]

[Nesir frowned at it and then pointed to the left] That way [She tried to sound confident and not like it was a wild guess.]

[terreifying]

[They walk to find another fork.]

My turn! I say right!

[culbutiri]

Right it do be being then! [Oh look another door, how origional. She sighed and opened it.] This do be being the most frustrating maze I did ever be being in.

[terreifying]

You're telling me! Then again, I've never been in many big mazes before.

[Rei looks up toward the hedge.]

I wonder if I can climb up...

[culbutiri]

Well I did no be being in many either [She looked up with a frown] You would have to be being careful, it might no be liking you trying to cheat.

[terreifying]

Don't worry. I'll be fine. I'm strong!

[A pause.]

Hey, I forgot. Do we have our powers on this floor?

[culbutiri]

How would I be knowing? [She frowns and tries to remember, she hasn't actually been here before so she's trying to figure out if anyone has ever mentioned it before. She sounds a bit more snappish than she means to, but constant needling about her lack of powers from Sephiroth has caused her to be touchy about the subject.] Be trying and you will be seeing I do be guessing.

[terreifying]

[Rei shrugs, and, concentrating, digs her fingers into the walls and climbs. However, she finds that the walls indeed go right up to the ceiling.]

...Nope, that plan's a bust.

[culbutiri]

[Nesir watched her impressed but frowned at the discovery] Well it did be worth a try. I guess we do be having to be doing it the long way.

[terreifying]

[She jumps down to the ground again.]

Well, at least there' no dead ends.

[culbutiri]

Let's be hoping not, because we can no be going back. [She wouldn't out it past this place to trap them though and force them to starve to death trapped in a corner of a maze with no way out.] Left or right?

[terreifying]

I say right again. Isn't that one of the tricks of a maze? To walk along a wall on only one side?

[culbutiri]

Do it be? Let's be trying that then, we will only be going right.

[terreifying]

Alright, And if that doesn't work, we'll try only going left!

[culbutiri]

Right. [She nodded] Let's be going then.

[terreifying]

[The door to the right once again leads to another room with a door. Only this one contains an equally lost and confused Komory Wow.]

...Hey, look. It's a monster.