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ɪʀᴏɴᴡᴏᴏᴅ ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ ᴇsʜᴀɪ ([personal profile] ironwood) wrote in [community profile] tushanshu_logs2014-12-07 07:23 pm

[EVENT] A NEW WORLD ORDER

Characters: ALL!
Date: December 8, 2015 (with some starters for the following weeks)
Location: Keeliai, the Midnight Hotel, others
Situation: The Foreigners have awakened.
Warnings/Rating: Add warnings as needed.

They've been in the Dreaming for so long that when they wake up their bodies feel more like automatons, alien and ill-fitting. They haven’t atrophied, thanks to Milyn, but they’re stiff and a little bedsore, and the solidity of the Life Plane is jarring. Here, the surroundings don’t move on a whim. Here the world is more stable, almost harsh and unyielding in spite of the homey surrounds.

It’s been a year, says the clock on the mantle and on the second floor. Says Milyn, too, when she’s able to stop hugging them long enough to speak.

Nothing much has changed in the Midnight Hotel. There are dishes out of place, objects belonging to either Milyn or Eva in evidence, the diorama exactly where it had been but now brightly-painted thanks to Milyn's boredom. Milyn and Eva took a room each, in the time the Foreigners were sleeping, though neither used them much.

Eva’s upstairs, Milyn will tell anyone who asks. In her room.

Eva hasn't left that room in three days. She hasn't spoken in three days, either, or walked, or moved, or breathed. Her effects are neatly arranged around her bed, and the sheet has been pulled up. There is heavy incense in the room and Milyn has managed to preserve the body enough to remove the risk of too much mess (and other things). In a way, that makes it worse: as though Eva is sleeping. It’s difficult to tell whether Milyn is in denial or whether spending three days with no one to talk to other than sleeping Foreigners and a corpse has had its influence.



LINKS
Dreaming log | Foreigner's Awakening (Hotel) | Milyn’s Relief | Exploring Keeliai | Old & New Faces (Canon Updates/New Arrivals) | OOC: State of the Shell
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[personal profile] ruinsprofessor 2015-01-02 03:36 am (UTC)(link)
Also fascinating that Valdis kept explaining, putting up with her questions, despite where they'd been scant minutes ago. Raine studied the other woman openly, just watching, trying to discern a why without actually asking.

Any longer and she was going to be forced to acknowledge that she had been the less rational one in this conversation. "As you said. I see." Raine folded her free arm across her chest, unconsciously closing herself off. Valdis had missed one, by her calculations, but Raine was by no means going to point it out. Protective was close enough, and already told Valdis all she needed to know.

She weighed sating her curiosity against continued interaction with Valdis, and decided against the first. One more thing, to perhaps guard against complete alienation, and then she needed to find time to sort through her emotions herself. "In answer to your earlier point: I wouldn't hesitate, you're correct. But I would regret it." Raine inclined her head, slowly, the most Valdis was getting from her at the moment. "Good day, Valdis." And, should the woman not stop her, Raine very deliberately turned her back -- despite instincts that still told her not to -- and made to leave.
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[personal profile] redlightgreenlight 2015-01-02 03:51 am (UTC)(link)
Valdis saw the hesitation and uncertainty in Raine's demeanor, felt the woman's emotions come back under control and released the tension she had been holding as her own feelings balanced out. She didn't try to stop Raine when she turned away, did not react to her words. The most foreign emotion, the one she couldn't put a name to, still lingered. She knew it was the strongest one that the woman had felt, but it had to remain nameless for now.

"Goodbye, Raine," Valdis replied quietly, relieved when the last emotion finally faded.