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Anya Lehnsherr | Earth 97400 ([personal profile] fridgetothefire) wrote2013-08-09 10:06 am

021 ☣ Open floodspam + stuff for Erik

[She wakes up early, even though there's no sunrise coming through her window, no harsh, glittering mountain vista, and no chickens to feed for the last two years. She spends a few minutes - three, maybe - excitedly exploring her room, treasuring the weird feeling of belonging and safety and freedom it gives her. But that doesn't last long, so she pushes out the painted door and immediately goes next door.

He's not her father, but he is, and it's weird. But she knows how she feels, and she trusts herself, trusts her instincts. She knocks on the door, excited pounding with all the strength in her little fist.]

Daaaaaaddy! Daddy wake up!


Hallways

[Anya is six, though she looks closer to five to anyone used to children raised on modern nutrition. Her hair is in little pigtail braids, a little less neatly pleated on one side, because she did them herself and she's not ambidextrous. She wears skirts with the hems let out, and stockings, and a blouse whose sleeves don't quite cover the ridged, shiny burn scars that skate up the outside edges of her arms like defensive wounds.

She roams the halls looking for her friends - because she has friends now, she's sure of it, a steady warmth in her chest even if she can't remember the details, eager to investigate everyone she comes across in case they make the little compass needle resting there twitch. She runs in short bursts, short braids trailing behind her, then pauses to bend over and gasp for a minute, still not used to the new limits on her lungs, or simply living in hope that if she pushes them enough, they'll eventually give.]

Wait up!


Library

[She flits around, stares at the shark in fascination for ten minutes at a stretch. She climbs one of the wheeled ladders and tries surreptitiously to ride it, almost - but not quite - falling off. She trails through the shelves, staring in glee at the bewildering array, even more impressive than the one in the fortress. She might end up falling asleep over a very large illustrated compendium of Oz, dwarfed by the large armchair she's nestled in.]


Deck

[She's sitting on the railing, ankles tucked around the lower bar, perfectly steady in her perch, head tipped back, staring at the stars as they go by. It's strange and beautiful and endless. She loves it.]


Common room

[The plastic knitting needles are almost as long as her forearms, and her lip is trembling a little. The hat she had half-started is a bit beyond her current capabilities, and the more she tries to fix what she's done, the more it becomes snarled. She can do it, though. She's not going to cry.]

[OOC: replies will come from [personal profile] flatscamp.]
flatscamp: (hopeful)

Re: Deck

[personal profile] flatscamp 2013-08-10 04:57 am (UTC)(link)
I'm six and half. How old are you?
darknessb4me: ([camper] o fuq)

Deck

[personal profile] darknessb4me 2013-08-10 07:28 am (UTC)(link)
Old enough to know you shouldn't be up there.
darknessb4me: ([camper] o fuq)

[personal profile] darknessb4me 2013-08-11 10:37 am (UTC)(link)
Because one little slip, and you'll probably fall down and die, and there's no one up here watching you.
flatscamp: (Default)

[personal profile] flatscamp 2013-08-11 04:21 pm (UTC)(link)
No one ever watches me anymore, not at home anyway.

[Because people here do, apparently.]

I won't slip.
darknessb4me: ([camper] o fuq)

[personal profile] darknessb4me 2013-08-12 06:12 am (UTC)(link)
What about your parents?
flatscamp: (siiiigh)

[personal profile] flatscamp 2013-08-12 08:06 pm (UTC)(link)
[She shrugs and looks away.]

Mama doesn't get up much anymore, and Papa's busy.
darknessb4me: ([camper] o fuq)

[personal profile] darknessb4me 2013-08-14 11:35 am (UTC)(link)
Well, I don't think he'd want to hear that anything went wrong while you were here. Please come down?
flatscamp: (heard this speech before)

[personal profile] flatscamp 2013-08-14 01:32 pm (UTC)(link)
[Because he says please - because some part of him seems genuinely concerned, and she isn't used to that - she hops down. But she walks right up to him, chin lifted so she can look him in the eye, and despite the difference in their heights, she holds herself like a queen.]

I think I know what my father does and does not care about better than you do. Don't ever try to tell me otherwise again.
Edited 2013-08-14 13:34 (UTC)
darknessb4me: ([camper] o fuq)

[personal profile] darknessb4me 2013-08-14 01:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Okay.

[Concession granted, if it gets the little kid away from the huge drop into black space.]

Thank you.
flatscamp: (that's just silly)

[personal profile] flatscamp 2013-08-14 01:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Who are you, anyway?

[Marginally less confrontational.]
darknessb4me: ([camper] o hi)

[personal profile] darknessb4me 2013-08-14 03:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Prince Arthas. I'm visiting here for a few days.
flatscamp: (that's just silly)

[personal profile] flatscamp 2013-08-14 07:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Prince of where?
darknessb4me: ([camper] o hi)

[personal profile] darknessb4me 2013-08-15 12:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Lordaeron. Have you heard of that?

[Because no one else has :(]
flatscamp: (omigosh what's happening)

[personal profile] flatscamp 2013-08-16 01:47 am (UTC)(link)
[She shakes her head. But she's curious!]

What's it like there?
darknessb4me: ([camper] o hi)

[personal profile] darknessb4me 2013-08-17 07:30 am (UTC)(link)
I think it's the best kingdom there is.
flatscamp: (wtf are you doing Daddy)

[personal profile] flatscamp 2013-08-17 04:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Well that doesn't tell me very much.

I mean, I'm sure it's very nice. But what's in it?
darknessb4me: ([camper] o fuq)

[personal profile] darknessb4me 2013-08-18 04:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Um, humans. Trees, castles, deer. My father, Terenas, is the King. Is there anything you want to know specifically?
flatscamp: (hopeful)

[personal profile] flatscamp 2013-08-18 06:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Are there mountains? Does the king live in a palace? Is he nice?
darknessb4me: ([camper] o hi)

[personal profile] darknessb4me 2013-08-18 06:47 pm (UTC)(link)
[Arthas smiles.]

Yes, there are mountains all over the north where the land meets the sea, and in the southwest where Alterac formerly was before they betrayed the Alliance. My family lives in a keep at the center of the capital, and my father is a great leader. Stern, but ...wise.
flatscamp: (omigosh what's happening)

[personal profile] flatscamp 2013-08-19 04:33 am (UTC)(link)
[After a moment, decisively,]

He sounds like a good king to me.