Morning of Kazoo 5 [Closed to Raven's CR]

[azrthmtrnznthos]

Who: Raven azrthmtrnznthos and CR
Where: The entire train, then Quiet Cabin
When: Morning of Kazoo 5, right after this post.
What: Raven's panic cause her powers to react, and then she flees to the Quiet Car to hide and think.
Warnings: Dark backstory and prophecy might get mentioned?

Raven stared at the video post, by one of the new comers. The description had to be wrong; it had to be? ...but what if it wasn't?

Raven was panicking. It had crept up on her so quickly she didn't realize her powers were reacting to it until she noticed everything in her vicinity not nailed down was shaking. In truth, across the whole train--anything not nailed down was shaking.

As soon as she noticed, Raven shut it down, mostly by deciding she wouldn't feel. She took her backpack, and fled. Soon enough one of the quiet cabins was taken over, entirely encased in dark-energy. She needed time to think, to calm down. It was just a vision, right?

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[yondu]

He doesn't feel the quake around him. He's a car or two away when it happens. But the problem with being in a skinny ass living space with dozens of people is when someone has a mental fracture someone else can see 'em hauling ass to safety and figure out, Huh, that might have been bad.

Still, it takes seeing network posts before he makes a wager over what happened. He finds the Quiet Car, finds the room that's all blacked out. Right. He probably shouldn't interrupt that. Maybe he can do a small somethin' to help though.

About five minutes after that he puts a cup of tea down by the door, the type she drank in the Medical car that he remembered, and bangs on the door with the heel of his fist. He calls in a, "Leavin' some tea here!" and starts to walk off to give her space.

[azrthmtrnznthos]

He's probably in the middle of walking away, when that darkness opens just enough (almost like a door), for Raven to peer out. Her cowl is up, but she's clearly surprised. And she opens the door (and her shield) just enough to take the tea. "Thank you. I...I'll..." Taking a breath, as keeping herself in control was hard. "I'll be alright."

[yondu]

He stalls and turns, just a little, to watch her. "Alright, Blackbird. I'll believe ya... But be honest, should we start gettin' real nervous?"

It sounded like it, but he wanted her thoughts. He'd talked to her enough to trust what she had to say on the whole thing.

[azrthmtrnznthos]

"I don't know." Raven responded quietly, honestly. "At the very least, the vision as described reminds me of one I've had before. But at home. It involved a demon invasion."

[yondu]

"I don't know if it helps none to hear it, but there's people here pretty set up to fight demons."

Not that it helps if it's personal, and that looked like it could be personal.

"What happened?"

[helborn]

Casper'd had a... well, he'd sure had A Morning. Waking up from a prophetic nightmare is never fun, and he'd wanted to share what he saw as soon as he got it, since there wasn't really a psychic network he could dump the images on. He'd considered going back to sleep and then realized he didn't really want to bother anyone, so he started wandering towards the other end of the train towards dining.

But the appearance of a totally dark quiet car cabin made him pause. It was dark to the point where he couldn't see inside, so definitely magical darkness. Tentatively he rapped his fingers against the glass of the door. "Um... hello? Everything okay in there?"

[azrthmtrnznthos]

That voice was familiar... Casper. The vision! Raven suddenly appeared at the door, the darkness around it dissipating. Her cowl is up, hHer eyes are a bit wider than usual, and she's laser-focused on Casper. "You. I need you to tell me more of what you saw. Now."

[helborn]

Bob lands on Casper's shoulder, looking intently at Raven. Casper's gaze is much softer. ... Did he set something off? Shit. He's so used to people being numb to this stuff.

His voice is soft as he speaks, letting her herd him into the car. "Okay. ... I'm sorry, did it... did it trigger something? I didn't... even think about that."

[azrthmtrnznthos]

That dark energy is blocking off the door again. Raven doesn't sit, she just paces. Her backpack is on the bench, and there's an odd mirror on the table between them, with faint magical resonance.

"It's...eerily similar to a vision I had, but back on Earth. That's why I need to know as much as you can tell me."

[helborn]

Casper does sit, his memory of where the items in the room are making sure that he doesn't run into anything.

"... Pretty much what I said in the post... let me see if I can tell it better."

He closes his eyes and leans back. Bob flutters down into his lap.

"The world was stripped of all color, all life. Blood shone black, bodies lay grey and crumbling, desiccated. The only ways I could tell that there was time passing at all were distant screams, the occasional pop of a fire. or crash of a building giving way. I sobbed without sound, curled up between rotting wood and rotting people."

"The air in front of me was torn open, parting like paper, like the sky was just material to be torn and broken. Claws pulled it apart further, the only spots of color I'd seen for... who knows how long. Bright, intent eyes stared at me... a pleased, hissing purr, a croaked word in a language I didn't understand. And then black, spraying everywhere."

He opened his eyes and sighed. "Sorry, I can't exactly send the memory over here..."

[worthallthis]

They didn't connect the train's turbulence with anything in particular, maybe the train herself didn't like the visions people were getting? But Soldat has to go through the quiet car to get to literally anywhere else on the train from the kitchen, and they recognize that dark energy. The pause. They frown.

They backtrack to the kitchen to collect some of her favorite tea and a couple cookies from their last batch, and return to knock very lightly with metal fingers. "Raven. I have tea and cookies. I can just leave them outside. If you want."

[azrthmtrnznthos]

There's a moment, before the dark energy dissipates entirely. Raven peeking out from the door, cowl up, and slightly wide-eyed. For once, she looks young. "I...you...I trust. Can you stay?" Her thoughts still keep racing in a circle.

[worthallthis]

"Of course." They had been on their way to prowling around the train aimlessly, so this is better than that, even if they look clearly concerned. They offer her the tea first, then comes in when she's got the door the rest of the way open. "What is it, Raven. What can I do."

[azrthmtrnznthos]

Once he's inside, she's shutting the door, and she'll let the shield drop. All but the part blocking the door, anyways. She moves to curl up on a bench, hands around her knees. She has her backpack with her, and an odd mirror out on the table.

"Did you see the video Casper posted? About the vision he had?"

[worthallthis]

"Yes, of course." They debate for twenty whole seconds before sitting next to her rather than across from her. It allows for touch if it becomes necessary, and also allows her to not have to look at them if she doesn't want to. "Are you worried about that?" This seems like much more of a reaction than simple worry about a mission, to them.

[happyends]

It's not every day that you wake up, make your way around the train like usually, and then spot a quiet cabin that looks...

.. well, it doesn't look like much good could be happening in there, let's summarize it like that. That's how Madoka summarizes it in her own mind, anyway, as she quickly moves to knock on the door - before realising that it's a quiet cabin and that it isn't going to do much. So she carefully opens the door, just an inch, and softly calls out: "U-Um, is everything okay in there..?" Because it sure doesn't look like it!

[azrthmtrnznthos]

Raven took a moment to try and sense who was approaching, as the knock didn't do much. But it was Madoka! Madoka, Raven trusted, and let the door unlock. She also let the shield she'd put up of dark-energy drop around the door, so Madoka could see inside.

"Madoka..." Raven murmured, actually sounding lost. And tired. She's sitting on the bench, an odd mirror in her hands, with her backpack nearby. She has her cowl and cloak up, but definitely does not look normal.

[happyends]

Okay.

Yes.

There's most definitely something wrong here. And while that would be enough to make Madoka fuss in general, regardless of who would have been behind the door, seeing that it's a friend of hers only makes her heart hurt more. What could have made Raven hide here, with all that darkness around?

She enters the room, closing the door behind her, and slowly steps closer towards the other girl.

"What's going on..?"

[azrthmtrnznthos]

The darkness was her shield, focusing so she could 'panic' of sorts. Which in this case, meant brood and pace anxiously. When she wasn't sitting and staring at her mirror in contemplation. Or curled up into a ball of indecision.

"...did you see that video post, about the vision? This morning?"

[happyends]

Madoka nods a little.

"The one about the sky opening because something was ripping it apart..?" Sure, that had sounded unpleasant, but at this point Madoka is pretty used to the visions people were getting often being absolutely awful, even if the missions turned out alright in the end. So she's been trying to stay calm - as much as she can, anyway - despite hearing about it. "Hmm, I saw it.."

Does that have something to do with why Raven is here like this?

Wow I thought I'd already tagged this post oops

[goingthroughaphase]

The train shaking had definitely been worrying, but before Kitty could really question it it had stopped. Still, Kitty hurried to finish cleaning up, but as she was heading out she noticed Raven rushing by.

"Raven...?"

When the other girl didn't seem to notice her, Kitty followed behind her, wondering why she seemed to be in a hurry.

[azrthmtrnznthos]

Raven could be fast, when she wanted to be. Cloak streaming behind her, she's flying through the corridors and phasing through doors in a swirling dark-energy portal. Heading for the quiet car, and then finding an unoccupied Quiet Cabin. The door has been locked, and the cabin itself is soon engulfed in dark-energy.

[goingthroughaphase]

While she doesn't quite keep up with the other, she keeps heading through the cars until she finds the dark energy in the Quiet Car. Slowing down, she takes a few breaths as she looks at the occupied cabin.

"Raven?" she calls. She already knows the door is locked, and she worries about the dark energy if she tries to phase through it. But she'll do it if she has to.

[azrthmtrnznthos]

It takes a moment, and Kitty is probably considering attempting to phase through the dark-energy. But eventually it drops from the door, and Raven peers out to see who it is. Finding Kitty there, she unlocks the door and retreats. Once the other is inside, she'll probably close them off with dark-energy again.

[goingthroughaphase]

She breathes a small sigh when the energy fades, and even though Raven quickly disappears Kitty is still a little relieved that she's at least letting her inside. Closing the door behind her, she's not surprised when the energy blocks the way again, keeping anyone else from coming inside.

"Raven?" she says softly, approaching the other girl slowly. "What happened?"