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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.

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[littlesoul]

[She frowns a little, tilting her head.][There's a apologetic smile]

[not_nikkiheat]

[Kate returns the smile, still a little bemused.]

Well, make yourself comfortable. Have a seat if you'd like.

[littlesoul]

[She looks around, spying a bookcase and moving to climb it. She settled at the tip, pressing herself between the bookcase ad the ceiling ad the smiles doesn't Kate.

She did say make herself comfortable.]

[not_nikkiheat]

[Kate opens her mouth to say something about her choice in seating, but ultimately decides to shake her head and smile. She walks to her chair and picks up the book she's reading, settling in.]

Let me know if you need anything, okay?

[littlesoul]

[River nods, smiling and settling in quite comfortably in her little nook.]