towerofanimus | ♉pen

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Characters: The Summoner and YOU
Setting: Around!
Format: Action to start, but I’ll follow
Summary: Somebody's po’d about suddenly being not at home!
Warnings: None at the moment

[He’ll only stay in this room as long as he’s forced here, he resolves. Being caught so completely, staring up at an unfamiliar ceiling, is neither pleasant nor comforting. In fact, if he allowed himself these thoughts anyway, it rather terrifies him. Nothing like being dropped into an unfamiliar and likely dangerous situation with a body that won’t move. His mind reels as he waits: Gotta be a highblood plot, right? But how would they have found him… hmm. And what about his cavalreapers? Everything feels off-kilter and strange, and the very moment he can, he slips across the communal respiteblock floor, wings half opened, and tries the door]

[AND LATER he’s moving carefully through each floor, suspicious and irritated. His head is held at an odd angle as he explores, lowered slightly so he’s forced to peer up through his brows to see, but his horns carve a sharp, dangerous arc through the air, settled at just about goring level. It’s not really the best threat, but he’s made them work for him in the past when he’s been desperate. And hey, if this isn’t a desperate situation here, without his soldiers or his beasts or his weapons, then he doesn’t know what is! So yeah... watch out, guys… This troll fit to snap at the first thing that looks at him wrong…]

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[...looooord, she is so sweet ;A; He nods after a moment's thought]

It'll work. It's nice to meet you, Namine.

[~~The sweetest--~~ She would probably disagree about that thought, if it was said out loud. She gives him a smile that's fairly broad for her and nods.] Okay, then. It's nice to meet you, too, Summoner.

[Little smile, before he returns to scanning the hallways. Less tense and more curious now!]

Uh... is there is anything else that... I should know about this place, do you think? [Before he continues trying to get out of here!]

[She watches him, sparing the hallways a glance when he does.]

Well... [More things that one would expect, but she's not quite sure where to start.] ... a lot of things, I think. Um-- I guess... one of the biggest things would be that if you die here, you come back to life. [Definitely a good thing to know, especially if he's planning on stirring up trouble.]

[Oh dear, he is all about the trouble stirring...! BUT THIS IS... A VERY STRANGE THING TO LEARN???]

What? How?

[Yeah, she knows that, so her expression is suitably apologetic. Please don't freak out and think she's lying again, please?]

No one's sure. ...But, I know some people who have died and come back. I--... even saw one of them dead, so I know it's true.

[...sob well she makes it really hard when she when she gets all quiet and nervous like that. It's... pretty hard to believe! But he has already promised himself that he will... trust her... so...]

What happens? When they come back, I mean.

[She's sorry, really she is. :C She wouldn't blame him if he didn't.]

They just wake up in their room, I think, as good as new. I've never-- um, done it myself, so I can't say for sure if there's anything else to it. [Thank goodness.]

[Well that just seems much too easy...]

Can it uh... happen more then once?

[Unless there are consequences no one knows about yet.]

...Yes. [There's definitely a frown going on, there.] The biggest number I've heard is... three times.

[.........wow]

How do you die three times... [Once is enough for most people! There is actually... a certain level of disdain in his voice there. A troll who managed to die three times would be considered pretty darn useless... if resurrection was thing that could happen in the real world of course]

--....

[She looks a bit sheepish on the, er, person in question's behalf. ~~Especially since he IS a troll.~~] ...It's complicated. He's had... a difficult time. The tower isn't exactly a safe place. [...Come to think of it, she should probably let this guy know that the Condesce is about.] There are... some dangerous people here.

[LSDLFKJLJ oh gosh, is it Tavros? He will just... head in hands forever if it's Tavros...]

[But! He looks... sort of confused by this statement. Aren't there... always dangerous people around...? Is this not a thing she's used to? Hmm...]

Dangerous how...?

[FORTUNATELY FOR TAVROS NO. The kid finally got lucky for once--]

[She's used to dangerous people, but she always feels it necessary to warn people anyway.]

Well--.... [She hesitates, mouth settling into what was decidedly a frown, and after a moment she glances both ways down the hallway, then back at him. Regarding him quietly for a second, she wonders briefly if he has any reason to like the Condesce. ...Most of the trolls she'd met really didn't seem to, but... he deserves to know, even if he's okay with it. Surely even the people who liked her would at least recognize she was dangerous, if what she'd been told was true.] Some of them are manipulative, and some are just violent. And... you should probably know, Her Imperial Condescension is here.

[........WHAT]

Ah... [...nope nope nope]

[Sorry] What. What is she doing here. [There is... quite a lot of anger in his voice. He really really doesn't like the Condesce! AT ALL. In fact the very idea of being in the same tower as her sort of... disgusts him!!!]

[She blinks at him, then jumps a bit at that 'what'. He definitely sounds displeased, and really, she wishes she had a better answer for him then,] ...The same thing everyone else is, I guess - being trapped. I... haven't heard anything about her being any more control of the tower than anyone else. [Not that it couldn't be true.]

[Goodness Namine you have nothing but bad news it seems!!! But his... disgust is at least being directed kind of ineffectually at the air as he check up and down the hallway again... As if the Condesce might show up right now just to prove she's here]

I think she could probably hide it if she was in charge and didn't want anyone to know. [Hmm... even if it seems unlikely that she'd hang out around aliens and lowbloods for any longer then she'd have to...]

Maybe. I don't know. [Her frown is very decidedly present and doesn't look like it's going away just yet.] But... she has caused some trouble already, at least for some of the trolls. I-- haven't met her. [Her frown deepens.] ...And I'm glad I haven't.

Hmm... Good. [Watches her... Man, this is not really a challenge he predicted or really wanted? Guh, Condesce, good job making things miserable for everyone...]

I hope you never have to...

[She nods.] From what I've heard, she's--... not very nice. [Understatement of the year.]

[Ah... haha... He could... rant at her for quite some time about how many people she's fucked over... including him... But he won't! Because she probably wouldn't get it... being an alien... )8]

No. She's not. You should uh... not talk to her. Or spend any time around her at all. If that's possible for you.

[She would... probably get the gist. She doesn't have much life experience, but she's a pretty smart cookie ~~most of the time~~.]

Well, I've... managed so far, so I guess that's a good sign. [About her continued NOT seeing the Condesce, that is.] ...What about you? What will you do?

[Yes, someday he will stop underestimating aliens just cause they're aliens, but they are a terribly new thing to him at this point. What a jerk...]

[His answer is... immediate and firm. He's really... not kidding at all]

I'll kill her.

[...wait, shit, that won't work here, will it... She'll just come back. Frowns, thoughtful... after the fact??? lkjsdf]

Uh... actually, I guess I'm not sure? I didn't think I'd get to her so soon...

[Naminé sucks in a breath at his answer. It's an awful thing to hear, even if she knows there are reasons for it and, in a place like this, it barely even means anything, at least compared to what it would mean in any other situation. She doesn't interrupt his thoughts, but she does look... something akin to sad. Once she realizes how she must look, though, she does her best to shrug it off and keep her expression more neutral when she says,]

'So soon'?

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