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pharaohlighting ([personal profile] pharaohlighting) wrote in [community profile] paradisa2012-10-18 04:08 pm
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fifty-seventh labyrinth

[There is a boy sleeping on the couch of the lobby, curled with his face tucked into the corner, long flame-red hair falling wild around his shoulders. He sighs sleepily, snuggling for a moment against the arm of the couch before open his eyes and...freezing.

He didn't remember falling asleep somewhere other than his bed, but there was the possibility that he'd simply lost track of where he was in a haze of phoenix. Lorenzo wouldn't be pleased, if was the case. He should probably get back to his room

Slowly, he sat up and looked around. He was clad only in trousers and an over-large, dingy blouse that hangs off of one shoulder and shows a few ugly scars scrawling there way over the skin of his back.

No, this definitely wasn't the Shining Tiger. As much as it liked to pretend at opulence, it's paste-jewels and thinning brocade couldn't stand up to close scrutiny. Wherever he was, was genuinely high-class. His first thought was the Mirador, but all he knew of that place was there was no windows that would allow this amount of light to fill it a room of this size. Unless it was magic, maybe. His second thought was maybe he'd been sold off to a noble, but he couldn't exactly remember that happening. Couldn't have taken enough phoenix to forget that could he?

And that put him right back to hocus stuff. Powers.
]

Vincent...you there? Lorenzo?

[His voice is light and obviously young. Not quite a teenager, maybe, heavy with a southern style accent, and very lightly scared.]

...Anybody?

((ooc: Loss start!. Have at kid!Felix))

[personal profile] heal_theworld 2012-10-19 12:03 am (UTC)(link)
[Martel is walking back in from the gardens when she sees the lost-looking little boy one of the couches. She turns and approaches him quietly, but she announces her presence before she gets too close.]

Hello. Are you alright? Or lost?
Edited 2012-10-19 00:04 (UTC)
asseenontv: (kicked puppy)

[personal profile] asseenontv 2012-10-19 12:11 am (UTC)(link)
[Shatterstar /was/ on his way outside, mostly because outside has good places for practicing where people don't shout at him for making too much noise or breaking things. But he stops, retraces his steps back when he hears that little scared voice, because, well, helping people is sort of his job description. One of his job descriptions, anyway]

Are you alright?

[personal profile] heal_theworld 2012-10-19 12:16 am (UTC)(link)
[His eye color vaguely strikes her as somewhat familiar, but she can't place it yet. She smiles at him.] My name's Martel Yggdrasill. Just call me Martel, though.
asseenontv: (Hmmmm)

[personal profile] asseenontv 2012-10-19 12:24 am (UTC)(link)
[Well, he's talking, that's a start. Shatterstar crouches down a little bit so he's not quite looming so much]

Do you know where you are?

[personal profile] heal_theworld 2012-10-19 12:25 am (UTC)(link)
No, I didn't. I just happened upon you.

[She notices him looking at her hair.] Never seen green hair before?

[personal profile] heal_theworld 2012-10-19 12:30 am (UTC)(link)
[She laughs at that.] Oh, this is my natural hair color. I didn't do anything.
asseenontv: (grin)

[personal profile] asseenontv 2012-10-19 12:34 am (UTC)(link)
[He's an alien, okay. A mutant alien.]

...Ah. You must have just arrived, then. My name is Shatterstar.

[personal profile] heal_theworld 2012-10-19 12:35 am (UTC)(link)
[Martel headtilts, because she has no idea what he is talking about.] What's a hocus?
asseenontv: (kicked puppy)

[personal profile] asseenontv 2012-10-19 12:44 am (UTC)(link)
No - I am a private detective. Or... was, anyway. I'm, erm, not sure that still counts here. [Confusing castle is confusing]

I used to be an arena fighter, though, which is half-showmanship.

[personal profile] heal_theworld 2012-10-19 12:45 am (UTC)(link)
I can use magic, but I'm none of those things. I'm a half-elf. ...Do you even have half-elves and elves where you come from?

[personal profile] heal_theworld 2012-10-19 12:49 am (UTC)(link)
Just call me Martel. Well... this is where I suppose I explain where you are. This castle is magic, and it can bring people from anywhere. That's probably why you ended up here.
asseenontv: (grin)

[personal profile] asseenontv 2012-10-19 12:55 am (UTC)(link)
[There's surprise - followed by a brief hard look that is Shatterstar imagining ripping the face of whoever would make this boy think of being bought and sold - and then it's gone, replaced by what he hopes is a friendly-but-not-too-friendly smile]

You have not been bought. This castle is called Paradisa, and it gathers people from across worlds.

[personal profile] heal_theworld 2012-10-19 12:57 am (UTC)(link)
[She shakes her head.] No, this is Paradisa. And I'm from a world called Aselia.

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