towerofanimus | (no subject)

Characters:

forcingrins and you
Setting: dormitories/random hallways
Format: starting with brackets but I'll match to whatever!
Summary: The Neophyte wakes up and 1NV3ST1G4T3S.
Warnings: none yet

[It's jarring, to have a thousand hands dragging you toward a gallows and an unjust fate one second and to be paralyzed on a flat (albeit somewhat soft) surface the next. Jarring and, if she's being honest with herself, terrifying. Horrifying. She forces herself to breath as the seconds tick by because it's all she can do, and after a thirty-second long eternity she's free. She practically jumps out of the bed but her assailants are gone, as is the courtblock and all of its inhabitants.

Instead she's wearing unfamiliar clothes and is lacking in the accessories that make her feel herself--her glasses are gone, leaving her yellow-teal eyes naked. So is her cane, and her gloves. Her boots. The chain with the forbidden symbol that she wears close to her heart. A cursory examination of the room leads her to the letters at her bedside and, even better, the chest at the foot of her bed, where she is relieved to find all of those items she was missing and more. Before she leaves the room she'll dress in attire that is proper for a legislacerator and poke around the living space she's found herself in.]

[And once she's done in her room she'll venture out, appropriately dressed and even more appropriately cautious, exploring her new environment while she tries to decide whether she believes the contents of the letters or not. It can be unwise to interrupt a legislacerator's investigation, but in this case a little interruption might be beneficial to her work.]

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Careful, Summoner. It's unwise to lie to a legislacerator.

[He is... mostly aware of that. He still pauses maybe a moment too long though, sobering a little. The implied threat coming from a near blueblood is bad enough, readying all kinds of little defense mechanisms he's got stored away. But legislacerators also do the bidding of the empress and that's kinda... not an okay thing to him...]

[Though he supposes everyone does the bidding of the Condesce at some point... at least until they actively try to stop. Something about legislacerators working so closely with the sham that Alternian justice is sets him off, unfortunately. His smile goes sort of tense at the corners...]

It is unwise to do a great many things that I have done, Neophyte.

I see.

[baww baww it is not her fault. She could not have known that the Summoner don't take no shit from no highbloods )8]

[He is going to return to that playful tone from before, but there's a... sort of dangerous flash in his eyes. He really doesn't like that toothy smile tbh!]

I hope I haven't given you a bad first impression...! [HE ACTUALLY DOESN'T CARE lsjdf He just hopes she knows he won't be letting himself get arrested, if that's her new plan]

Not at all.

[...oh lawd, what is happen. He's quite confused now. A legislacerator who brings up her power and then smiles like that... but doesn't actual come after him is a new and strange occurrence!!! Frowns minutely, tilting his head ever so slightly]

[After some thought, he is returning to his original theory that she was just teasing, and now everything is even more awkward. Backpedaling backpedaling]

Well... good, then. I think, it would be a terrible thing... to not get along with the only other uh, reasonable adult here. [/dead eyes the Condesce]

Right. Rational minds must stick together, yes?

[LKJSDF THE SUMMONER FEELS VERY SIMILARLY. Clears... his throat... Good lord]

Yes uh... [Chuckles. Trying to lighten the mood a little!!!!] I've found that, that is usually the best way, to go about things...!

Indeed. Ah, as nice as it's been sharing the hallway with you and your horns...

[It probably is, and he... recognizes this, nodding slightly and turning to press his back against the wall so she can keep going lkjsdf the way she was going]

Good luck, uh... with the Tower, Neophyte.

The same to you, Summoner.