Event: Abort! Part Two (day 25, Egret). Luggage carriage

[voidtreckermods]

They are on world world#27462947582 for about five hours, helping, ushering people out of the city, fighting monsters, keeping guard. All seems well in the city itself, peaceful even except for the slight panic of people being told to move south.

Wherever they are, north in the desert, travelling through the countryside to the south or still in the city itself they will notice from their peripheral vision a darkening of the sky. Looking up they will see clouds. Strange clouds, appearing in the blue sky out of nowhere.

Their SCA’s start beeping, rapidly, flashing red. The clouds are too weird to be clouds, dark shapes in the sky. It might be that the Voidtreckers heed the warning and tap their SCA to evacuate to the train. It might be that they do not.

If they don’t then there is a moment, a moment of absolute stillness as those around them notice the shapes. A confused pause. Children stop their chatter, people stop their complaining, even the monsters seem to sense something and pause in their attacks.

The remaining voidtreckers are yanked away, even without pressing their SCA, they glow gold and disappear.

They all appear in the luggage carriage and not even a second later, with no warning the train lurches, flinging everyone off their feet as it enters the void.

It’s not really easy to tell speed in the void, but they will get the sense that they are moving fast. Faster than before, leaving that world and whatever those shapes were behind.

(OOC: Information on this event is here and part one is here)

Comments

[najaran]

She would sleep like that for hours. Master Horowitz wasn't really much for physical affection, and Gooligan was great in many ways, but utterly lacking in arms. At least most of the time. So she didn't get much physical comfort from other people. These few hours would probably be the best sleep she'd had since before Bisteam. Quality, if not quantity.

And as a result she was more dazed then usual when she finally woke up. "Wha...?" she mumbled incoherently, unsure where she was or what she had fallen asleep up against. Seemed too soft for a wall...

[maxwellsdaemon]

Duo hadn't meant to fall asleep, really he hadn't. They'd been lucky to put themselves in an out of the way spot like they had because as Najaran has slept, people had been walking through. It was interesting to watch, but soon things quieted down and Duo, with little else to do, has started to doze.

When Najaran woke, she would have still been in Duo's lap with the teens arms loose about her, or at least one. His head was resting almost on his shoulder, eyes closed in sleep.

[najaran]

Her blurry sleep clouded mind took several moments to realize she was looking at someone else asleep from very very close up. Thankfully memories of what had led to this hand't yet surfaced as more than a bad dream. So she yawned, pulled the bags they'd used for the food, now empty, from her belt and folded them up. Yawning she gently tried to ease them between his head and his shoulder so he'd be more comfortable, and then of that didn't wake him, she'd settle back in to sleep some more.

[maxwellsdaemon]

Duo really hadn't meant to fall asleep and when he did wake it was with a start. He didn't know where he was at first and that rankled like nothing else would. It took him a few seconds to remember, and then a second more to realise the thing weighing him down was a person. He looked down to see Najaran was still asleep in his lap.

He blinked, and then he smiled and let himself relax. There was no war, he was allowed to let his guard down a little bit. But his legs had also fallen asleep... and now he was awake he knew he would need to get up soon. So it was with some reluctance that he called the girls name.

"Hey... hey, Naja? Time to wake up now..>"

[najaran]

"Mmmmmm?" she mumbled. "Le'me lone, Gooligan. Master Horowitz izzn't back till tomorrow...." she snuggled against him more, clearly not awake.

[maxwellsdaemon]

Duo looked amused but he continued to give her shoulder a gentle shake. "Najaran? Hey... It's almost dinner time." He figured if anything would get through, the thought of food might.

[najaran]

Her head popped up so fast she nearly clocked his chin with it. "Food?" she asked. He read her exactly correctly. She blinked a few times then rubbed her eyes. "This... isn't my room..." she mumbled.

[maxwellsdaemon]

Duo managed to pull his head back in time, though cracked his head against the wall behind him. He winced and lifted a hand to rub the back of his head but was amused that his shot in the dark had worked.

"Nope, sure isn't your room!" He chirped, grinning at the girl who was still very much sat in his lap.

[najaran]

"Oh well, it's someone's room, or something," she mumbled before stretching her arms over her head to work out the odd soreness in her back. "Someone mentioned food? Where..." She blinked a few times then looked at him confused, finally more awake than asleep. "Good morning." Wow he was close. Weird. Oh well. "Food?"

Thankfully she wasn't awake enough yet to remember what happened he day before. It'll come.

[maxwellsdaemon]

"If you hop up we can go see if there are any leftovers?" Duo offered. Though hopping up was said with some optimism, with his legs asleep he knew it would be a bit harder than that.

[najaran]

She nodded. "Okay. Or we can cook something." She yawned and scrambled out of his lap getting to her feet with the help of the metal walking stick... and the motivation of food. She offered him a hand.

[maxwellsdaemon]

Duo looked at the hand and flashed a lopsided grin. He reached up and grabbed it, letting Najaran help him to his feet, only for him to stumble back and lean heavily against the wall. "... Damn. My legs really did fall asleep." He let go of her hand and reached down to rub at his legs to get the circulation going again.

[najaran]

"Are you okay?" she asked, yawning again, though she was starting to be more awake... and from the look in her eyes, starting to remember....

[maxwellsdaemon]

"Yeah, legs just fell asleep on me." Duo chuckled before he pushed himself up straight and gave a flick of his head to toss his braid over his shoulder and down his back. "Lets go get something to eat."

[najaran]

She gave a small nod. She was remembering now for sure, so her usual enthusiasm was dampened.

[maxwellsdaemon]

Duo was quiet for a moment, just watching her. Then he smiled and reached out to take her hand. "C'mon..." He was gentle as he pulled her along with him and walked with her through the carriages to the kitchen.

[najaran]

She held his hand when he offered and walked with him, shoulders a bit wilted.

[maxwellsdaemon]

He walked her into the kitchen and only let go of her hand so that he could go and check out what was in the fridge. It was opened wide enough for Najaran to take a look inside. "Anything catching your fancy?" He called with a grin, hoping the lure of food would maybe perk her up some.

[najaran]

It worked. She leaned in and licked her lips and... started pulling out lots of different kinds of things...

[maxwellsdaemon]

It was the cheapest of manipulations and Duo felt bad for it, but he could see immediately how Najaran seemed to cheer up at the sight of food so struggled to feel really bad about it.

He just stepped back and let her pick out what she needed.

[najaran]

She pulled out enough to feed a dozen people, then, juggling it all carefully looked back at him. "Did you want something too?"

[maxwellsdaemon]

Duo gave a low laugh and reached past her into the fridge to grab a few things to make himself a quick sandwich. "Yeah, this'll do me for now."

[najaran]

With a smile she started laying out everything she had grabbed. It was all stuff that could be eaten as is, so she started chowing down.

[maxwellsdaemon]

Duo went ahead and found the break to make his sandwich, watching out the corner of his eye as Najaran ate and seemed happier for it. Though he also knew that it probably wouldn't last. He just didn't know how to fix it... And that bothered him.

[najaran]

She didn't know how to fix it either, and it bothered her too. But food was good.