✿ 003 [backdated]

[tending]

[ As she was relatively new and still learning the ropes, she began her morning routine as she would any other day. Shiemi didn't even take the time to look off to the side and spot the unfamiliar body sleeping beside her. In fact, Jet went unnoticed for close to five minutes as she sluggishly rubbed the sleep from her eyes and stretched to shake off her sleepy stupor.

Streetch-- wait, did her hand just touch something warm? It's then that she hesitantly reaches over, after stopping short several times, and finds her hand resting on someones shoulder. She jerks her hand back as if she had been burned and attempts to untangle herself from the sheet they seem to be sharing. Someone was there and, worse yet, it was a foreign someone. A guy! Thankfully her journal is shut, so the other castle residents aren't forced to hear her scream, right?

.. Wrong. After the shout; ]

E-excuse me.. ! Y-you're.. !

[ In her bed. Why are you in her bed? Yes, that's exactly how you greet someone who might be a possible threat -- nicely. With the sunlight peeking in through the curtains, it can be noted that her entire face is as red as it could possibly get. ]

[ooc; Backdated like crazy to the first day of the plot! ]

The Forty-First Day

[stalkershiki]

( Super long and depressing but necessary prelude to the rest of this post. Or, how Shiki found out that three of her close friends left in one go. )

Hey, so, everyone!

You know what sucks? Moping over people you've lost. You know what's awesome? Having a party!

So I'm having one! In the lobby. Right now. There's food and drinks and decorations and everything, and everyone's invited! It's seriously going to be super awesome, I promise - you really don't want to miss this one!

[If Shiki's happiness seems a touch forced, then... well. Meanwhile, she is sick of being sad, and she is having a party, and she will be damned if it is not the best damn party she could possibly throw right now. Right now. In the lobby. Right now.]

three creaky springs

[buttonless]

[Creak. Creak. Creak. Creak.

... Creak.

There's the distinct sound of springs over the journal, a bit after midnight - possibly a trampoline, to those familiar with the sound. Bet it's pretty annoying, huh? It goes on for several minutes, then stops with a gentle thump as Coraline hops off onto the floor, stumbling a bit.]

Okay, so this wishing thing can be pretty awesome. My parents would never let me have a trampoline in my-

[... She stops short.]

My parents wouldn't ever...

[Parents... She can't picture them. No matter how hard she focuses, she can't picture her parents. It's like she's just... forgotten. That's not possible, is it?! She still knows their names, and she can picture their gardening catalog and her mom's snow globes. But when she tries to imagine them disapproving... ]

... Something isn't right.

4-

[chippedcup]

[Belle hadn't heard from Rumpelstiltskin in a while, and even though he usually does leave her to her own devices, it's actually unlike him to leave her alone for long, long periods of time. So she goes to check on him in his room in the Satis Tower, and that's when she sees his name plate empty. She just stands there, looking at it for a good few minutes. She should have known.]

Right.

( [Crowley] )

[ooc: open for action in the Satis Tower!]

「✿六」。。。

[mom_to_us_all]

[Squeak!

...

Squeak, squeak!

...

Squeeeeak!

...

And then a sad, sad whine.]

Four Knives

[prettyknives]

[knowing she won't get any straight answers by speaking, Clove decides to write instead. No one knows her handwriting so even those warned about her may answer]

I was wondering what people can tell me about the Danger Room. I found it when I was exploring but it was locked. What's in there?

041. [dictated]

[foolreversed]

( Kanji's door )

( Rin )

( Galadriel )

( Nanako )

[and then finally he decides to say something to the castle at large. He honestly never saw himself as the kind of person who would announce this kind of thing, he thought it was kind of dumb when others did it. He especially never saw himself doing it for any of those fucking kids but...

Well...]

...If anyone who knew him cares, Kanji Tatsumi's been sent home.

[and he's not really sure what else to say about that, so he'll just end it there.]

« 27

[alias_savant]

[It's Art Time with Neal Caffrey again, castle. He's bored out of his mind, so he's taken to sketching something in the journal. It doesn't seem like much at first, but eventually it will start to take the shape of this.

He was always a little partial to Degas.

He gets about halfway through, before there's a small frustrated noise and he scribbles a quick filter.]

( [People who can take him outside] )

23

[wolfuncaged]

[Well, Fenris has been avoiding people and their offspring all week, and now the blighted things are gone, people are moping. And it's annoying. So, standing in his usual spot n the lobby, he begins to talk into the journal]

I understand that there were doors, leading to a children's bedroom in which you were expected to deliver your offspring this year. But did none of you attempt to keep them? Everyone speaks of how sad it is that they are gone for another year, and how they hope the children are happy and safe, but have any of you done anything to assure this?

Could you not have stayed within the room? Taken the children to the Dead Zone where magic is not an issue? What is the point of mourning if you are not at least willing to try. If it were my own child, I would stop at nothing to keep them safe and away from the games this world enjoys to play.

❀ fifty-two unicorn statues for my desk

[iamdamnloyal]

I've tried to help out before. Not that it was super successful, but I still like trying. It's what Cordelia would've wanted me to do and that's why I'm offering to help out again. I have Dr. Sweets old office in the city and with all of the babies leaving, I thought if anyone wants to just come by and talk?

We can discuss whatever you want. I can even set up a support group of some sort... like peer groups of people who are going through the same things.

I just want to help. [She shrugs.] Oh! I'm Harmony.

Oh! And this is about the babies. Or just the castle being weird. Or ... whatever!

101.5 - what it is ain't exactly clear

[hard_talker]

[ten PM, radio static, record scratches, Leonard Cohen, soda opening ... business as usual, right? right?

there's actually dead silence once the music stops. then Mark's voice pipes up, minus that edge he puts on for his Hard Harry persona. he just sounds ... bewildered]

Jesus Christ, we don't have ANY new people this week.

Has ...

[the flipping of pages]

... that's never happened before. We've always had at least one or two. Either the castle's full, or tired from all those damn kids, or ... or ...

[all the air goes out of him in a tight, nervous sigh that he tries to turn into a laugh. something about this revelation has deeply unsettled him. and there's something else, something that he's been trying to shake, all weekend ...]

You ever get the feeling that ... something's just wrong? I ... I had this dream. The last few nights. And whenever I wake up, I can never remember the details, I just ... I remember it being like every other day here, where I get up and do stuff and everything, only ... it's all different at the same time. Like I'm ... seeing what this place is really like. And there are voices.

When I wake up ... I can't remember what they say. And I can't remember what I saw. I just ... it stays in me, it's down in my fucking bones. This ... this isn't just me making some smartass survey, I'm -- I'm honestly asking you.

Has anyone else ever felt that?

dictated;

[dupable]

It's not technically summer yet, but do you think it's late enough in the season to start swimming? Pools are usually starting to open around this time of year, and those are outdoor pools anyways! I mean, since the one at the castle is inside it's not like it really matters what time of year you go swimming in it anyways, but still it feels weird when it's not summer.