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.

[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?"

[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]

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."

[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."

[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.

[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?"

[azrthmtrnznthos]

She's quiet for a moment, before stepping back and opening the door a little in invitation. "Nothing yet--it was a vision I saw of the future, while back home." And nothing was going to happen since she wasn't on Earth. Trigon couldn't get to her, could he?"

[yondu]

The invitation is enough, and even if a room shrouded in blackness is a little intimidating he enters through that little bit of space she's made. He's getting used to the whole 'people that mess around in shadows' stuff. Before he only had Krugarr to thank for that.

He sits on one of the benches.

"Lay it out for me. As much as needs to be, anyway."

[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]

Raven sighs, and that dark energy goes back up over the door. Raven had her backpack with her, and an odd mirror on the table. She makes herself take a drink of the tea, while she thinks.

"The vision Casper described, it's similar to a vision I had of the future, but back on Earth. It was supposed to affect Earth, if it happened." And it shouldn't be happening, since Raven wasn't there. "On Earth, it was prophesied that the demon Trigon, would come and claim it as his own, destroying all life."

In her head, she could hear the words of the prophecy again, and again.

[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..."

[azrthmtrnznthos]

Raven wouldn't want to share it anyways--she was in no shape to properly shield, at the very least! Instead she went for her backpack. Pulling out a book, flipping through a few pages, before showing him. It was a small image, amidst a lot of text in a language he likely didn't know.

"Did the being you saw, what you saw, resemble this at all?"

[yondu]

"Was there any chance of stoppin' it or did you stop it?"

He settles back. There's not a whole lot of solutions for prophecies because, even if they're not true (worse when they are) people get dead set on the idea of the worst happening. It's almost self-fulfilling.

These are accompanied by outright visions, too.

"And how long has it been messin' with ya?"

[azrthmtrnznthos]

"It hasn't happened yet." Raven said, trying to sound hopeful. As for the other question... "My whole life." Said softly, and for once Raven sounded about as young as she was.

[yondu]

Ah, hell...

If anything kicks him in the heart, it's hearing how burdened a kid is before they get the chance to live. She's been about as adult as she can be, but there it is, those cracks of something that's been robbed of a decent childhood shining through.

He sorta suspected it might be there. Still, it ain't pleasant to see.

He pats the bench next to him. "C'mon. Has it been that they've not happened here an' you thought you got rid of it for a little while?"

[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."

[helborn]

He looked at the picture and shook his head. "No. Not really." Hopefully that was a good sign for her...

[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.

[azrthmtrnznthos]

Raven let out a breath she hadn't realized she was holding. "Good." She murmured, and put the book back in her backpack. "My vision was connected to that demon, but again--this was back on Earth, and supposed to affect Earth..."

[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?"