towerofanimus | Family gained family lost

Characters: Veronica, open
Setting: The infirmary, morgue, and the hundreth floor. Backdated to the eighth of April
Format: Anything! Go right ahead
Summary: Veronica's lost someone important and it only makes her want to go home more.
Warnings: Usual tower stuff

The Infirmary

[Things have changed in the tower considerably since Veronica arrived here all the way back in Augest. She'd changed. People came and went, and died and respawned, and she was still here, still stuck in this home away from home. And with the timer counting down closer and closer to whatever that would happen when the timer came to an end and the power left the tower once and for all. A choice had to be made, and Veronica finally decided that now was the time to do it.

So she sat in the waiting area of the infirmary, waiting for the time when her checkup would come. She knew about the different fluid of course, how it took your abilities for a while. It was nowhere near the worst thing that could happen to her, and at least she was doing it of her own accord this time.]

The Morgue

[The morgue was quiet now without Rick working alongside her. She'd barely been able to work up the energy to come here and work after the collar check up regardless, but that was seemingly the cherry on top.

Her duties needed attending to though, so she scrubbed away at the tables and tools and chambers on the walls. At the least, he left behind his tools so she could use them. That didn't help the depression she felt, but it was a little comforting.]

Floor 100

[The floor wasn't frequented by Veronica. The fact that it was all just a crude illusion, showing one what they desired to see from home, very distressing. She found herself there today though, staring up at the large, walls of the Madaraki estate.

It wasn't real, but then again the picture in her hands that appeared in her trunk earlier in the month was probably fake too. The necklace probably was too and so on and so forth. A depressing thought, that everything she'd gotten during her stay here was made of film and whatever else.]

...How long will it take me to get home this time?

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Oh not very long, the final boss is coming up as soon as everyone else stops running around doing Aria's bidding...though I commend them for being good little sheep.

[He may have snuck in unannounced and is now snooping.]

[And just when her special hearing was gone. Fantastic. Veronica jumps a little at the sound of his voice but quickly settles, sticking her hands in her cloak. She lets out a somber sigh.]

You're still on that?

Obviously, I am not going to give that up until I'm proven wrong.

[He shrugged, not really seeing why he should follow someone who claimed ignorance to obvious facts and appeals to the masses openly.]

But on a more serious note, what are you planning?

[Whether or not she was entirely innocent wasn't clear, but she was the biggest help they had at the moment. So Veronica would follow her, for now.]

Planning? I'm not really planning anything right now.

[She paused.]

Except what I'll do when the countdown ends, I guess.

That is what I mean.

[Curosity begets the need for answers and all that. Besides he might, just might, be a tiny bit concerned for her. Just a tiny bit though.]

[Just a tiny bit.]

Oh. Well, I guess if we don't all just die I'll go wherever most of the other residents go. Unless my world doesn't stay dead forever.

[A rather bleak hope, but she wanted to see her family again.]

I just switched to the different collar fluid.

Again, don't believe that.

[When there is still so many unanswered questions it was always best to not complete believe in exactly everything being said. Such as worlds being dead.]

But now why in the world did you do something that silly? What brought to do that?

I was holding onto hope for so long, then people started showing up apparently from when the timer began, saying they missed this place.

[She's still holding out hope, but she might as well try and wake up.]

I guess I just decided to? And it's supposed to bring back your real abilities instead of the glamour ones.

Right, but they should be trusted even less.

[Well obviously she has never watched Star Wars then, for there is no try.]

Hey, more power to you then...just be careful with what you do. Freedom is what you do with what has been done to you.

But I'm pretty sure they were here before us. Why shouldn't we trust them?

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Would you trust someone who has returned with circumstances being how they are?

[In other words, Riki fiddling around with something and Ruana getting stronger by the day.]

But... I'm pretty sure Zo controls how people arrive here, not them.

[They'd probably be in much dire straits if that was the case.]

And Aria was working on a machine that bends time and space...most likely. She refuses to share, someone needs to place her in time out.

[Another pause.]

Also, the end of the world is signaled when the dead rise from their graves. They will eat and drink everything that we do and will outnumber us all.

It sounds like we wouldn't be able to help her with the machine anyways, plus she's trying to protect it.

[If it was their key home, it was probably important.]

I've fought the dead a few times. They're not that hard to destroy.

If that was true then she would not let us help with anything else.

[Veronica you need to think like a conspiracy theorist.]

They are...but apparently you have never fought an entire town of zombies, ghosts and things that I cannot quite describe.

The Admins are after her, aren't they? Of course she'd have us help at least a little bit.

[Anyone that was being targeted by the Admins was a good person, right?]

I fought an entire cemetery of ghouls to keep them from getting into a town once.

You are quite naive still. Just please, do not do anything too foolish.

[Think like a conspiracy theorist, Veronica!]

And I fought an entire army of them that just would not stay dead, along with a cemetery of them and more.

[She doesn't want to think like a conspiracy theorist! They're crazy!]

Uh, I'll try not too. I can take care of myself.

[Well, that gets a quizzical glance at him.]

Really? Do you hunt them or something?

[But their tin foil hats are so coooool!]

Just because you are capable of doing so, does not mean that others are.

As for your question...I probably said a bit too much there.

I know, that's why I was bu-I-I mean, that's why I'm a bodyguard.

[Just a minor slip of the tongue, nothing important.]

Then like I said, be careful with who you trust. Nothing is ever really black, white or gray.

[Yep, an example was all that was. Drink and forget.]

[She was about to ask how exactly that statement makes sense, but she's well past that point of their relationship.]

Okay, I will.

[If she would ask, then he would tell, and then follow up and say that it is complicated.]

No you won't. In a few days time, you will march off like everyone else at the behest of Aria. Running blind and most likely in a dangerous situation that you really should not have gotten yourself into.

...We still have to do something, don't we?

[Just sitting around doing nothing didn't really sit well with her.]

I don't wanna just do nothing while the countdown continues.

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