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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: (Default)

Library

[personal profile] flatscamp 2013-08-11 04:19 am (UTC)(link)
[That you'll let her come and be her friend and not leave her behind or ignore her! That is the important part, Felix. She trails beside him, hurrying a little to keep up on her shorter legs, not quite actually struggling, quiet as a mouse and delighted to be off an on ocean-going adventure. Such as it is.]
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Library

[personal profile] itstopped 2013-08-11 02:41 pm (UTC)(link)
[Felix, at this age -- sort of at any age -- isn't fantastic at picking up on cues from other people, and it takes him a while to notice how much she has to rush to keep up with him. Oops. By the time they track down Trip, the man who's supposed to be looking after him or whatever, he's sort of managed to slow it down a little bit, and by the time they get to the CES itself he's almost used to her hand in his. He doesn't let go when they go inside, although he does stop inside the door, looking baffled.]

What...

[When he'd been here earlier, it had been an ocean, but to his surprise the room has changed. Now it's a vast rocky, dusty plain, an almost-dry riverbed running from the door, some scrubby trees in the distance.]
flatscamp: (omigosh what's happening)

Library

[personal profile] flatscamp 2013-08-11 04:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Wow...

[It's definitely not the ocean, but she's never been anywhere like this, either, so surprise and interest supersede disappointment for the moment.]

It's so warm...
itstopped: (event: kid #2)

Library

[personal profile] itstopped 2013-08-14 02:20 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah. It was different before, though. It looked like the ocean, like home... [He stoops to pick up a sun-warmed, dusty rock, and pitches it towards what's left of the river; it falls short.] I don't recognize this place. It looks like... somewhere else.
flatscamp: (omigosh what's happening)

Library

[personal profile] flatscamp 2013-08-14 05:10 am (UTC)(link)
Do you want to explore or try again?

[It's a neat-looking place, but they should really have hats. And water.]
itstopped: (event: kid #2)

Library

[personal profile] itstopped 2013-08-14 02:29 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't know. I don't know how it works. I guess we could try leaving and coming back in... maybe it changes whenever the door opens. [He considers, then holds a hand out for her.]
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Library

[personal profile] flatscamp 2013-08-14 07:01 pm (UTC)(link)
[She beams, scampering over to accept his hand.]

I guess we'll find out!

[tiny science!]
itstopped: (event: kid #2)

[personal profile] itstopped 2013-08-15 07:20 pm (UTC)(link)
[It's sort of an experiment! He leads her out the door, then eyes it thoughtfully.] How long do you think it would take to change?
flatscamp: (listening)

[personal profile] flatscamp 2013-08-16 01:46 am (UTC)(link)
I don't think it's time. You couldn't have enough time to take an ocean away.
itstopped: (event: kid #2)

[personal profile] itstopped 2013-08-16 02:41 am (UTC)(link)
Well... what is it, then? [He can't believe he's asking the scientific opinion of a six-year-old, but even to his brain, this seems like a pretty frakking legitimate question.

Not that he'll dare to use the f-word. That won't happen until the day he starts military school.]
flatscamp: (listening)

[personal profile] flatscamp 2013-08-16 03:00 am (UTC)(link)
[She ponders very solemnly.]

Well. Maybe it's instant.

Or maybe it's distance. Like, definitely you left, start over, this is a completely different...attempt. We could go to the stairs and back?
Edited 2013-08-16 03:00 (UTC)
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[personal profile] itstopped 2013-08-16 04:38 am (UTC)(link)
Huh. Well, we should check, first, then... [He's been holding the door to keep it from locking, and now he opens it and peers inside; it still resolutely shows the rocky plain. There's a piece of paper on the floor nearby and he picks it up, pushes it into the door between the sides of the lock, and lets the door close again.]

I guess it might be the lock... but if we let it go, we have to get someone to let us in all over again.
flatscamp: (hopeful)

[personal profile] flatscamp 2013-08-17 02:26 am (UTC)(link)
We can try that last?
itstopped: (event: kid #2)

[personal profile] itstopped 2013-08-17 04:42 am (UTC)(link)
[She really is very logical for someone who is so very tiny. He nods and takes her hand again.] We can try the stairs first. [Of course, when they go and come back, they'll find that the place still has yet to change. Felix huffs at the door and folds his arms, putting a hand thoughtfully to his chin.]
flatscamp: (listening)

[personal profile] flatscamp 2013-08-17 04:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe we need to make a new person touch the door in between.

But if we have to find someone new anyway, it may as well be someone with a key.
itstopped: (event: kid #1)

[personal profile] itstopped 2013-08-17 05:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, we can find an adult, and maybe they'll know the answer. They have to -- they must know how this place works. [Obviously.] And if that doesn't work... we can find something to do in that one.

[He brightens.] Hey -- we could make rockets.
flatscamp: (omigosh what's happening)

[personal profile] flatscamp 2013-08-18 06:00 pm (UTC)(link)
[This produces just as much excitement as the ocean. Maybe more. She actually jumps up and down a little.]

Omigosh can we can we can we!
itstopped: (event: kid #1)

I psychically replied to this ;;

[personal profile] itstopped 2013-08-22 01:10 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah. It's really easy. I learned how in school... You want to?
flatscamp: (Default)

i have done this

[personal profile] flatscamp 2013-08-23 03:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes please! Show me how, I can learn it!