Tenth Snowflake - Backdated to the start of LW plot

[sugarwaffo]

[Sugar turns in her sleep, muttering lightly before opening her eyes. She must have fallen off the table sometime in the night, ‘cause she wakes up on the floor. She notices something’s off, something, but in her sleepy haze she’s not sure what. The floor seems to be moving on its own… but that can’t be right. She looks around and realizes not Rise’s room. The furniture and proportions are all wrong]

Huh? Where am I?

[Shifting to a sitting position, she feels a strange sensation near her back. And that’s when the second realization hits her: she has no wings.

Cue panic.]

WAH?!!

((Backdated human loss, open to journal or action on cruise.))

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[therealrisette]

[Of all the things to catch over the journal, panicky Sugar is guaranteed to get an immediate response from Rise.]

Sugar-chan?! Are you alright?!

[She knew she'd be worried when they woke up separated again! But this sounds different, for some reason...]

I'm coming to find you, okay?

[She should be somewhere on the cruise ship, right?]

[sugarwaffo]

Rise!!

[Sugar's voice is full of panic... though whether it's just from the sudden move or something else is thus far vague.]

Rise, where are you?! Everything is all wrong!!

[therealrisette]

[Rise speaks calmly, in the practiced reassuring-small-frightened-children voice all parents and older siblings eventually pick up.]

It's just another world change... we're on a cruise ship!

Did you wake up in your own cabin?

[She's actually working her way down a hall trying to see if she can hear Sugar's voice when she responds over the journal right now...]

[sugarwaffo]

[Sugar tries to stand, which shouldn't be that hard except she doesn't have her sea legs. And the ship keeps wobbling back and forth. She flops back down.]

Maybe? But... what's a cruise ship? Or a cabin?!

[At least Sugar's making enough noise... Rise could probably hear her from the hallway.]

/super late ugh... D;

[therealrisette]

Uh... it's like our room at the castle! Only it's on a really big boat!

[... Sometimes explaining things to Sugar isn't as easy as it seems it should be. But she thinks she's starting to hear the same sounds from the journal nearby... if a bit more muffled.

Cautiously opening a door, she peeks in...]

Sugar-chan...?

[sugarwaffo]

A boat?

[Sitting on the floor is one young child with familiar pink hair. She looks pretty much the same... except a few feet bigger and without wings. The castle deigned to give her sky blue pajamas, her ususally clothes too small now. But there's no denying that it's Sugar.

Sugar looks up at her name, positively beaming.]

Rise!! [She tries to stand up and meet her but nope. Still doesn't have her sea legs. She wobbles and falls on her butt again!] Wow, you look small. Did you shrink again?

[therealrisette]

[... What. Excuse her for a minute, but this was not what Rise was expecting.

... She recovers pretty quickly, though, looking relieved that Sugar's okay. ... At least until she falls again. Poor girl... but when Rise giggles, it's at the implication that she's the one who's changed. Not poor Sugar falling.]

Nope! [She hurries over and helps Sugar up, giving her a wink as she explains:] You got bigger this time!

[Of course, concerned big sister mode takes over quickly...]

You're not hurt, are you?