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longestnight_old2013-04-27 07:49 pm
morethanmyth) wrote in longestnight_old2013-04-27 07:49 pm
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Once Upon a Time...
They likely felt the world shift, a fragmentation of all they thought they knew. It was the way a fictional character might feel if they could feel every page turn in the book they lived in. It was the beginning of a new story and that meant an end to an old one and they would each feel that.
To some it would feel like they had just died. To others, it would feel like they had just been born. To many, it would feel like both at the same time. It all really depended on who they were and what they were leaving behind.
In any case, this world had something New appear in it. After lightning crackled in the evening sky without any storm fueling it, they would find themselves waking up in the streets of a small town called Burgess. It was a perfectly ordinary Pennsylvania town, a place where the modern mixed with the old, American suburbia at its finest, making it all the stranger that something extraordinary would happen somewhere so ordinary.
[ooc: Make a subthread for each character and those of you that would like to toss your character at someone else before Bunny and Jack show up, tag a subthread already there.]
To some it would feel like they had just died. To others, it would feel like they had just been born. To many, it would feel like both at the same time. It all really depended on who they were and what they were leaving behind.
In any case, this world had something New appear in it. After lightning crackled in the evening sky without any storm fueling it, they would find themselves waking up in the streets of a small town called Burgess. It was a perfectly ordinary Pennsylvania town, a place where the modern mixed with the old, American suburbia at its finest, making it all the stranger that something extraordinary would happen somewhere so ordinary.
[ooc: Make a subthread for each character and those of you that would like to toss your character at someone else before Bunny and Jack show up, tag a subthread already there.]
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"Thanks for the science lesson," she said, keeping her voice flat. "My point is, you could have just soured things here for your buddy Jack if I were a little more suspicious about your intentions. I'm pretty good at running when I put my mind to it."
She straightens the rest of the way up from her defensive crouch, shaking the cramps out of first one hand, then the other. "Well?" she asked Jack, lifting her chin defiantly. "Did whatever grab me grab my friends too, or are they back home, safe as any one of us ever gets?"
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His sarcasm gave way to a much more pointed look, as he stepped a little closer, protectively, to Jack.
"In case you haven't noticed, the amount of call we've got to assume you newcomers are all harmless is not high. Pardon me for checking in, but you're not the only one with friends to keep safe."
He sniffed the air as she spoke, glad that Jack had decided to speak to her downwind, whether the frost spirit had done it consciously or not. Was that blood he smelled?
Aside to Jack, he added, "Wait 'till you see the one I just talked over. Bloody Pitch would applaud if he met him."
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She frowned thoughtfully at Jack. "They're my age, mostly. Blond guy with a dinosaur? A girl who's a living rainbow? One of them's a shape shifter, I have no idea how she'd look."
She wasn't going to get very far on her own right now. And she could defend herself now that she knew how to make her magic work here. She could probably at least trust them enough to see where they wanted her to go.
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Nico could have all of the eyerolls. They were all for her.
"Right now, mostly about the guy who threatened to eat me."
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He looked between Nico and Bunny.
"We, uh, kinda question the Man in the Moon's judgement calls sometimes, is what he means - especially lately."
It didn't used to be that bad...until it got bad.
"And we don't exactly do everything he says, especially when it doesn't make sense. Like him wanting kids and teenagers to be Guardians rather than telling us to try to just send them back home as soon as we can. Some of the people we've gathered so far are way too young for this."
Said the skinny teenage boy that was a full four inches shorter than her.
"Honestly, you seem a little too young for it, too."
What with the raging paranoia, combativeness, and massive chip on her shoulder and everything.
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"Duh I'm too young for it," she said. "And yet, somehow, this isn't the first time I've had to fight monsters from beyond the dawn of time. Idiot adults make a mess of things, and the kids are always the ones left to clean it up."
Nico crossed her arms and glared at both of them. "And sitting around isn't going to get me home to my friends any faster. So if you don't want my help, fine, I'll just have to do what I can on my own."
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There was more than the usual teenage sass at work here. This girl was aggressive like an abused animal - snapping at everything, ready to bolt at a moment's notice.
No kid should be in that situation, but as she'd pointed out, she already was.
"If Manny's recruiting child soldiers that other people have already recruited . . . that's still not a call we can stand by. But whether you end up in the fight or just stick to finding your way home, you don't have to do it alone. That's why we came here."
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"Why don't we go meet up with the others so you can see if anyone you know is there, then you can figure out what you wanna do from there, okay? We'll figure something out."
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"Fine," she said. "Point me toward this lake of yours, and you two can keep scouring the area for whoever else is wandering around."
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"Can't miss it."
Hopefully she'd actually go there, instead of running off.
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