rose: come to

[fluthlu]

[Waking up to the stark lights of a clinic is never a totally pleasant experience, and after spending precisely a year aboard a meteor in the time since she last recalls seeing Paradisa, it takes Rose several minutes to fully realize her surroundings. In fact, once she finally comes around, it occurs to her that maybe she never left at all. The meteor might have been some elaborate dream, induced by a bump on the head.

But if that were the case, she would not still be in her god tier garb.

The situation becoming completely clear to her, Rose reaches for the journal. She has no idea how long she's been out, and finding that out is the first matter of business.]

... Brushing aside the film cliche of this inquiry - would someone mind telling me what the date is?

[Filtered separately to John Egbert and Kanaya Maryam]

I would like to speak with you if you have the time.

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Comments

/action okay?

[ectobabble]

[Ray's been checking on her ever since she got knocked out ... he's pretty sure what that sort of thing means, now. and when he comes in to see her today and realizes her clothes are different, W E L P]

Rose! You're awake! It's the last day of May, you've been out a pretty good while.

[he pulls up a chair and wishes her up a bottle of root beer. what, she's been out, she's probably thirsty]

How do you feel?

action is great!

[fluthlu]

[Rose gives him a grateful smile, and takes the root beer. She's looking at him as if he's a very old friend - after all, she hasn't seen him in over a year. Between coming around in a strange room and trying to collect what she knows about this situation, it takes her awhile to answer.]

Ray. I'm feeling very well, thank you.

yay!

[ectobabble]

[he knows that look, it's the same look he gave Phoebe when she came around to see him] Good, good. .... You must have one heck of a time displacement ratio. How long's it been, for you? I mean, if you don't mind my asking.

[fluthlu]

[Another pause to consider this. It seems impossible that it has been so long since John's thirteenth birthday...]

One year, to the best of my knowledge.

[ectobabble]

... That's about how long it was for me, too. I wonder if that's a standard length of time for your consciousness to be separated. ... Are you hungry? I was starving when I first woke up, so - I could wish you up something?

[fluthlu]

Starved. I can't remember the last time I was offered appetizing food.

[ectobabble]

Well, what do you feel like? Sandwich? Pancakes? Pizza?

[fluthlu]

A sandwich would be delightful. Turkey, on rye.

[ectobabble]

Okay! [and he'll wish one up, with some sour cream and onion chips on the side, because those are the best kind ever.] Here you go.

[and then a little TV-table to set it all on, since eating in bed can be kind of awkward and clumsy. he'll just sit back and give her a moment to get her bearings. it's definitely weird, when you first wake up - he knows from experience]

[fluthlu]

[Rose looks about as pleased as Ray has probably ever seen her. Real human food? Hell to the yes, please. She daintily digs in.]

I have spent far too long in space, I believe. I'd nearly forgotten what "fresh food" entailed.

[ectobabble]

In space? [his eyes go wide with wonder] Wow, what were you doing all the way out there?!

[fluthlu]

Not space as we on Earth know it, but I suppose it's the most comparable term. As for my business there, I'm afraid it's a bit of an impossibly long story.

[The sandwich is gone in no time flat, and, after examining a chip for excess grease, she bites into that too.]

You're familiar with mine and John's charming troll friends?

[ectobabble]

Oh, yeah. I'm good friends with Aradia and Nepeta, and I know Vriska, too, I just haven't talked to her in a while. And I talked to another one, when she first got here, but just that once. ... I can't remember what she said her name was, but she wrote in green and she was really polite.

[a pause] Kinda reminded me a little of you, actually.

[fluthlu]

Kanaya. [She smiles just a little at his comparison.] Yes, I'm quite familiar with her.

[ectobabble]

Oh, okay. So ... did you and John go to visit them or something, on Alternia?

[guess who still doesn't quite know the whole deal with Sburb]

[fluthlu]

[Rose realizes all at once how little Ray knows, and goes quiet. She sits there in silence for a moment, focusing on a spot out the window.]

I'm afraid it's a bit less transient of an arrangement, at least for the moment.

[She turns to face him.]

How much do you know about the circumstances John and I, as well as our friends and the trolls, have escaped by coming here?