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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.]
itstopped: (event: kid #2)

Library

[personal profile] itstopped 2013-08-09 04:18 pm (UTC)(link)
[It should come as a surprise to literally no one ever that Felix eventually found his way to the library, and has found it as much like going to the toy store as... well, as the adult Felix. He's currently perched sitting on the top step of one of the wheeled ladders, his nose buried in a book of medicine, when the ladder Anya was riding veers forward and bumps into his. He looks up, blinking owlishly.]

Hello?
darknessb4me: ([camper] o hi)

Deck

[personal profile] darknessb4me 2013-08-09 05:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Hey!

[Arthas speaks first so as not to startle the girl on the rail, but quickly comes up behind her.]

You can't be up there, what if you fall?
flatscamp: (Default)

Library

[personal profile] flatscamp 2013-08-09 07:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh. Hello!

I'm Anya.

[She loops one arm through the ladder's slats for balance and holds the other out to shake.]
surrenders: (Default)

library

[personal profile] surrenders 2013-08-09 07:42 pm (UTC)(link)
[There's a brief stab of panic when she sees the kid on a ladder ride, and even if she's trying to find her kid real quick, since she isn't answering, she rushes to steady her before she comes crashing off, and traps both little girl and ladder against the shelf.

It's both the face and the arms that tell her who it is, and even if it makes it worse that she almost got hurt, she's relieved more than anything, glad both that Anya's safe and she
found her.]

Been looking for you.
flatscamp: (omigosh what's happening)

Deck

[personal profile] flatscamp 2013-08-09 07:43 pm (UTC)(link)
I won't fall! I'm being careful.

[It's just really pretty and she likes perching on things.]
flatscamp: (hopeful)

library

[personal profile] flatscamp 2013-08-09 07:44 pm (UTC)(link)
[She hunches up just a little, not afraid but definitely the nervous side of sheepish.]

Well...you found me!

[Hopeful innocent smile?]
surrenders: ([chopped] it's all right)

[personal profile] surrenders 2013-08-09 07:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[She smiles, reassuring her that she's not in trouble. Kids get in trouble, that's how it is, and better trouble like this than anything with dangerous lab equipment or a teenage Victor Creed.]

I just gotta make sure you're safe. You're... seven, right?

[It's always better to pretend you think a kid's older than they are.]
notdreaming: stare, neutral, sad (//kid hopeful)

Library

[personal profile] notdreaming 2013-08-09 07:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Kara has always been a bit of a nerd, a habit strongly encouraged by her parents and not quite yet discouraged by her peers. When she's bored with everything else on deck she finds the library, and almost immediately zeroes in on the young fiction section.

She frowns at the covers, hoping to see something at least passingly familiar. When she looks up she spots the other girl passing by. ]


Hey! Hello. What are you gonna read today?
flatscamp: (Default)

[personal profile] flatscamp 2013-08-09 08:32 pm (UTC)(link)
[She holds herself up a little straighter.]

Yeah, almost! And I'm fine, see?
flatscamp: (listening)

Library

[personal profile] flatscamp 2013-08-09 08:33 pm (UTC)(link)
I dunno. I can't read these letters as well as Russian ones. Can you?
surrenders: (Default)

[personal profile] surrenders 2013-08-09 08:35 pm (UTC)(link)
A nod, agreeing. She's not hurt. Lua just worries about people she cares about more than she should. She backs up a step to let Anya get off if she wants, making sure she's close enough that if she wants help down - Lua's face is at about the level of her knees - she can help her make the jump.]

I just get scared. You having fun so far?
flatscamp: (hugs <3)

[personal profile] flatscamp 2013-08-09 08:37 pm (UTC)(link)
[She scuttles down, perfectly at ease despite the size of the steps compared to her little limbs. Then she hugs Lua around the waist.]

Don't be scared.
surrenders: (Default)

[personal profile] surrenders 2013-08-09 08:44 pm (UTC)(link)
[Lua hugs back, playing with one of Anya's braids. She doesn't know if that answers the question of whether Anya knows who she is and why she's here, or if she was one of those little kids who never knew a stranger.]

I'm here for you, so sometimes I have to be. Anyone tell you why you're here?

[She lives next door to her father, but that's the kind of discovery she wants to know if Anya's made for herself before she brings him up, if at all.]
itstopped: (event: kid #2)

Library

[personal profile] itstopped 2013-08-09 08:52 pm (UTC)(link)
...Hi. I'm Felix. [He's a few years older than her, maybe eleven, and skinny -- not like her, but like he hasn't grown into anything yet. He mimics her pose, holding onto the ladder with one hand, shaking her hand politely with the other.] What are you doing?
notdreaming: stare, neutral, sad (//kid mystified)

[personal profile] notdreaming 2013-08-09 09:26 pm (UTC)(link)
[ She peers at the title. ]

Through the Looking Glass? What do Russian letters look like?
flatscamp: (Default)

Re: Library

[personal profile] flatscamp 2013-08-09 09:46 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm laddersailing! It's fun.
flatscamp: (listening)

[personal profile] flatscamp 2013-08-09 09:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Like...different. Some of the face the other way. A little bit spikier, but not a lot.
notdreaming: stare, neutral, sad (//kid glance)

[personal profile] notdreaming 2013-08-09 09:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh. [ That doesn't make any sense at all, but she's gonna go with it. ]

I don't think I've seen anything like that. Do they have Russian books here?
flatscamp: (Default)

[personal profile] flatscamp 2013-08-09 09:54 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't care why. All my friends are here!

[she kind of has a sense of it, but she's firmly in denial.]
flatscamp: (hopeful)

[personal profile] flatscamp 2013-08-09 09:55 pm (UTC)(link)
I dunno! It's really big.
burnmythoughts: (Default)

Hallways

[personal profile] burnmythoughts 2013-08-09 10:16 pm (UTC)(link)
[Jean is roaming the halls looking for straggling children. She loves and hates this flood; loves, because she really does like kids, and it's not like she gets to see them here. Hates because it's dangerous.

She doesn't recognise Anya's voice, but she does stop and turn her head, smiling softly.]


Hey there.
Edited 2013-08-09 22:16 (UTC)
notdreaming: stare, neutral, sad (//kid mystified)

[personal profile] notdreaming 2013-08-09 10:21 pm (UTC)(link)
That's a language, right? Shouldn't they have it sorted by different languages?
flatscamp: (hopeful)

Re: Hallways

[personal profile] flatscamp 2013-08-09 10:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Hi.

[She ducks her head, suddenly a bit shy, because she doesn't remember details. But she takes Jean's hand anyway. If she doesn't mind, Anya thinks she doesn't have to worry.]

Okay, we can go now.
flatscamp: (hey wait listen)

[personal profile] flatscamp 2013-08-09 10:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Russian letters get used for a bunch of different languages!
notdreaming: stare, neutral, sad (//kid glance)

[personal profile] notdreaming 2013-08-09 10:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Then how come I've never heard of them before?

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