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[littlesoul]

[She's perched on the highest spot she can find in the lobby, her journal clutched against her chest. This isn't anything like she's used to, nothing feels familiar. Her heart is beating hard in her chest and her hands want to start shaking.

Her mind is racing, filled with the thoughts of so many people around her. The night before, she had achieved some kind of calm, she remembered that, but now, with this new, strange turn of events, she's falling again, lost amidst the sea of thoughts around her.

She scribbles in her journal at a feverish pace, the words small and pushed together as she tries to hold back panic.]

Lost.

Lost, lost, lost, lost.

Fell into the black and landed here. Fell and fell and fell until I hit the ground. I can't remember how to get back, too lost to see clearly.

Can someone pick her up again? Can someone put her back where she belongs?

Too loud.

Can't go high enough, can't find a way out, can't find anything that I want.

Ship, she needs a ship again. She needs the sky.

Comments

Dictated, with apologies

[i_got_this]

Wow. Hey there, Crazy Cakes, I'm going to take a wild guess; you're new here, aren't you?

Oh goodness.

[littlesoul]

New.

New, I'm new.

Fell threw the black and landed here. Closed my eyes and opened them somewhere new.

[i_got_this]

Yeah, well, welcome. Hope you at least fell somewhere soft? Otherwise there is a clinic. I can't remember what floor it's on.

dictated

[spongetastic]

[he recognizes that voice right away. He almost says her name, but she wouldn't remember him. Goes for a calm, soft voice]

If you can tell me where you are, I'll come help you.

[littlesoul]

[She's uncertain, her body tense and momentarily unwilling to respond. She doesn't want anyone near her but she knows she needs the help.]

Lobby. High up. Look in the sky and you'll find me.

[spongetastic]

I'll be right down. When you see a dark-haired man, that should be me. [he doesn't bother adding his paramedic uniform, since he's fairly sure they don't have those anymore in her time. Anyway, down he goes]

action??

[kethedammit]

[Mildmay, wandering around the castle proper-- gotta exercise the damn thing or it cramps up something awful-- spots her pretty quickly. She's not exactly hard to miss, being curled up into a ball and talking to herself to boot. Mildmay recognizes the signs of a complete bugfuck crazy, and all instinct, he's back where he was three years ago. Maybe he's gone soft, but he knows how this works. It's almost comforting, in a really sick joke sort of way.]

[He speaks in his kindest, most gentle voice:] You ain't alright, I'm guessing.

[littlesoul]

[She looks up, eyes wide. She's surprised to hear the voice, actually hear it and not sense it in her mind. It takes her a moment to remember how to make the words work, how to get them from her mind to her mouth in a way that other people can understand.]

Lost, lost in a place she's never been lost before.

[kethedammit]

[Mildmay wonders what Felix would've done, if he'd shown up here a little earlier, and with no one else around. Mildmay isn't sure how that would've gone, but it probably would have been pretty short-lived. The thought, ominous, spurs him on to keep by this little girl, so small and alone.]

Yeah, they tell me that happens plenty often. You got anybody looking after you?

written

[nukeoleptic]

[ The text is cramped, scribbled, and Jade is left slightly baffled and a little concerned. ]

hi there!
are you okay? :(
things are going to be alright, i promise!!

[littlesoul]

[She studies the script, carefully tracing the letters for a moment before writing a careful response.]

No one can find her, no one knows where to look. The world turns differently and she's too far gone.

[pompous_today]

[There's a splat of ink on the page, and then nothing.

Oh, God.]

River.

[Because WHAT ELSE DOES HE SAY.]

[littlesoul]

[She loos at the splattering, her fingers touching it,, half expecting the ink to come off on her fingertips but not surprised when it doesn't.[

River. [It's written in careful script, almost as if to reassure herself of who she is. She may be lost, may be somewhere she's never been with no one she knows, at least no one she thinks she knows, but for the moment she still has a name]

[forsometimenow]

[The voice coming from the journal will sound familiar to River- Kaylee's, in fact, except a little deeper and lacking her Southern accent.]

Are you okay, sweetheart? Do you need help?

[littlesoul]

[She tenses at the voice, eyes going wide as she stares at the journal for a moment.] She's found herself in a different sky.

[And who is this, who with the voice of someone she knows but different all the same. She doesn't use the same voice but she could, she could be the person she knows, expect no. Kaylee is Kaylee and this is...This is something different, someone who isn't her but is but isn't but is...]

[not_nikkiheat]

[Kate was pretty sure the falling mention was figurative, but she figured it was best to make sure.]

Are you hurt?

[littlesoul]

[She smiles and she;s not sure if it's bitter or not but it feels that way]

No. Not broken, just fallen, just lost.

Dictated

[the_effect_she_has]

[Katniss frowned - she was reminded sharply of the twins. Or her own mother..]

[She kept from saying 'Are you okay?' and started with.] Do you need help?

Re: Dictated

[littlesoul]

She's lost in the wrong sky and she doesn't know how to get back. [River closes her eyes, breaths in and remembers how to reign in her words, at least for the moment.]

I'm new.

[silentrunning]

[Chell appears in the lobby, walking and reading at the same time. Way to go Chell. But she sees the scribbling writing in the journal and writes a message back.]

Hi. What do you mean you fell into the black? I can try to help you. My name's Chell.

[She waits then, perched on the arm of one of the sofas.]

[littlesoul]

Fell asleep and woke up in the wrong sky.

[The words are written in scrawled, nervous script that is trying to repress itself into something better, something calmer.]

Dictated

[dandelionwine]

[There's something speaking to Rin through all the apparent nonsense. She herself hasn't been here long. Still, she can understand fear and the inability to express it properly, maybe even better than she consciously realizes. So, after a long while of considering, she speaks to the person on the other side of the journal.]

You want to go to the sky?

[littlesoul]

I want my sky back. I want the same stars.

[She goes silent for a moment then speaks again, her voice soft.]

I want to go home.

written

[jimfromit]

[He pauses for a second...those words feel very familiar.

They sound like they come from somebody who greeted him on his arrival to Paradisa so many months ago, somebody who fascinated him from the first day.]

Everybody falls dear.

it''s a shame you can't hear the noise I just made.

[littlesoul]

Fell out of the sky and into another. This isn't what I asked for.

[The words are frantic and scared, the script tight and small and messy at once.]