voidtreckerexpress | Make the Clock Reverse (Day 22 Jelly)

Make the Clock Reverse,
Bring back what once was mine.

On the evening of Day 21, before it goes dark, any Voidtreckers who look out of the windows might see the void is a little more chaotic than usual. There's a little bit of turbulence. Nothing too bad, nowhere near how bad it got during the void storm, but noticeable all the same.

It doesn't last long, and the night continues. Those who are not early to bed may see the odd golden flicker out of the corner of their eyes, darting away and vanishing if pursued.

Strange...

Heal what has been hurt,
Change the fates' design.

"Good Morning passengers. Today is day twenty two of the month of Jelly." The morning announcement wakes everyone up as usual, and they awaken in their own beds.

Though, for some passengers, those beds may seem completely unfamiliar: a strange room full of people they don't recognise. For others the room and people are perfectly normal, just... bigger than they remember them being yesterday.

Or it might be that they feel healed, old scars faded. The changes might be small, sporting their embarrassing teenage hair cut; or drastic, their whole body younger.

Either way, it is clear that something very strange has happened on the train.

(OOC: All the information about this event is Here. All changes will reverse the next night and passengers will wake up normal on day 23.

Update: In early afternoon the dressing carriage cupboards will open and animal onesies will be available in child size.)

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If Curufin had remembered Demyx, he used to be bigger, and he used to not show up in the cabin at all except for wake up time. Every morning, he would wake up and portal himself right back out of the cabin.

It was complicated, but after his initial greeting from Eight, he hadn't wanted to disturb whatever their whole thing was.

This morning he didn't do that though, because he had no idea what was going on. He leaned over the edge of his bunk to look at Curufin.

"What's your number?" He asked, sleepily. "Wait, why're you in my room?"

Curufin had only the vaguest memory of being an adult on this train, and his memories of the other passengers were just as vague. The memories slipped and slithered as his mind tried to grasp them.

He woke to find Demyx looking at him. He sat up and rubbed his hair and wrapped his arms around his knees. "My number? What number? I don't know why we're both in this room. I went to sleep in my parents' house in Tirion, and now I'm here. By the way, you can call me Curvo, that's my nickname. What's your name?"

"Well..don't we all have a number?" Demyx asked, blinking, although maybe this Curvo was new. That made sense, he didn't have his name or number done until he'd seen the Superior.

"Maybe you haven't met him yet." Demyx concluded. "It's Demyx." He grinned a little bit. "I'm not sure why we're sharing a room though, I had my own yesterday..."

Also, it was awfully temperate on the train, as opposed to a drafty old castle.

Curvo answered, "I think if we all had a number, I'd know what mine was."

He grinned back. "Nice to meet you, Demyx! I don't know why we're sharing a room, either. Actually, there are four bunks in here, so I guess we have two more roommates. I wonder where they are? Maybe they got up early?"

He considered. "I don't think we're in the same places we were in yesterday. This is definitely not my house. Where was your room? What kind of building and what kind of country?"

"Yeah, but maybe if you're new, I didn't know I was Nine until a few days ago." Demyx answered, arm dangling lazily.

"It was in the Castle That Never Was." He answered, blinking. Oh yeah, the walls were different.

"It's...there's no country. It's in The World That Never Was. It's not anything I think. Just like I'm not anything." He was confused about that because he felt solid enough.

"It's confusing."

"Somebody comes around and gives us a number?" said Curvo. "Well, it hasn't happened yet. But maybe that's because they couldn't catch me." He laughed his exuberant childish laugh. "I run too fast."

"You lived in the Castle That Never Was? What an interesting name for a fortress. In the World That Never Was? That's definitely not any place I've been, so we must be from different worlds. What do you mean, you're not anything? You sure look like something to me!"

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"Maybe. I think I'm pretty fast too, but I was real confused when they found me." Demyx responded.

"I'm a Nobody. You know, a heartless? Only not a heartless. But I don't have a heart? I'm super confused about it." Demyx admitted with a bit of a flush. "I dunno, but I'm a Nobody, and I'm not supposed to exist, but I do."

Could Curvo understand why he was so confused?

"I don't blame you for being confused. This is an unexpected and very weird situation!" Curufin nodded emphatically.

"What's this about being a heartless? Is a Nobody the same as a heartless? What's this about you're not supposed to exist?"

He certainly could understand why Demyx was confused!

"I think..sort of!" Demyx said.

"To be honest with you..." He lowered his voice to a whisper. "I wasn't really listening." He raised a finger to his lips. "Don't tell the Superior."

If Curvo wanted to know, he might have to ask when Demyx is older.

Curufin nodded, though he didn't exactly comprehend these identities, and he guessed Demyx didn't, either.

"I won't tell anyone. But I don't see any adults on the train calling themselves Superiors, so I think you're safe."

He just might ask him later when they both are adults again.

He hadn't been there long enough to really understand yet, so he wouldn't be able to explain it, but he could when he was big again.

"That'd be a good thing." Demyx said. "Er, or maybe not? I don't know? They give me the orders."

So if they weren't around, no orders.

"That could definitely be a good thing!" said Curvo. "No Superior around to tell you what to do? -- then you get to do what you want!" He laughed. "Wouldn't you rather decide for yourself?" Speaking as the incorrigible rebel.

Make the Clock Reverse (Day 22 Jelly)

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