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[themerryway]

Characters: Euphemia and you~
Format: prose, action
This log is: open!
Location: The gym!
Summary: Euphemia realizes she's forgotten how to dance.
Warnings: Will update as necessary!

Euphemia is walking up and down the gymnasium, looking quite lost. On her feet are a pair of ballet slippers. She seems to start to do something before falling back, unsure and dazed. This goes on for quite a while, the girl sighing quietly to herself with every try.

"Ah… how strange…" she says to herself. Though she figures it isn't that strange. After all, bigger chunks of her memories are missing. Euphie frowns, and tries to focus. She closes her eyes, slowly steps forwards. Yes, try to-- to rely on muscle memory, rather than brain memory.

She moves to stand on her toes, taking a few light steps, uneasy and legs quivering. But that ends itself rather quick as she topples over-- possibly onto you! Or the floor, depending, and she falls hard, letting out a squeak of surprise as she does it.

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[greennotgold]

Fletcher is spending some time getting acquainted with the gymnasium. Sports were never his specialty, but as long as it's not anything organized he does enjoy being active. He's dribbling a basketball and nervously eyeing the basket at one end of the court. How was anyone supposed to be able to get this ball through that basket? It was like fifty feet up!

He was distracted, though, by hearing someone fall to the floor nearby. He turned and hurried toward her, dropping the ball. "Are you okay?"

[themerryway]

"Oww..." she rights herself, sitting now rather than laying face down. She notices the little boy run her way and smiles a little, embarrassed there was someone around to see her fall. "I'm-- ah, I'm okay. Just... a little flustered."

[greennotgold]

He's still a bit worried over her, but he relaxes a bit. If she says she's fine...

"Ah-- good." He offers a hand to help her to her feet.

[themerryway]

She takes the hand, and immediately flinches back as pain erupts between her eyes. Euphemia makes a little noise in the back of her throat at it, but it quickly fades. Startled and a bit alarmed, she blinks up at him.

"W-what was that?"

[greennotgold]

"Ow!" He pulls back and puts his other hand to his forehead. Oh, right; he was so worried about her that he forgot.

"The--the warning penalty," he says. "Sorry, I forgot--I can't touch people who have other Players." He sounds very apologetic, for what it's worth.

[themerryway]

"Don't worry." Euphemia smiles at him reassuringly. "I'm okay." She folds her legs under her and rises, head tilting just slightly. "Oh! So... you're a player? I wouldn't have expected it... my name is Euphie. What's yours?"

[greennotgold]

He nods shyly, looking down. "Y-yes, but I haven't fought with anyone... Um, I'm Fletcher. It's nice to meet you."

[themerryway]

"It's good to meet you too," she replies. "And... you shouldn't fight if you don't want to. This place isn't very fair, I'm sorry."

[greennotgold]

"Y-yeah... I found some Weapon people who didn't want to fight, so I'm protecting them." He only had four so far, though. He hoped this would work...

"Um, who's your Player, Euphie?"

[themerryway]

"Very noble!" she smiles. "My player is someone I knew back home... Suzaku Kururugi. Have you met him? He's very nice."

[greennotgold]

"No, I haven't. But that's good!" Fletcher smiles back at her. "Everyone seems really nice, so I guess nothing bad's going to happen to any of the Weapons, right?"

[themerryway]

"Yes," she agrees. "It's good that kind people were chosen as players."

[greennotgold]

"Right!" He nods.

"So, um-- Where're you from, Euphie? I'm from Xenotime." He could be going back to his basketball, but he really doesn't feel like it. The last basket he'd tried to shoot had ended with the ball hitting him in the head.

[themerryway]

"Xenotime... I haven't heard of it, I'm sorry." She smiles apologetically, but continues. "I'm from Britannia. What is Xenotime like?"

[greennotgold]

Xenotime is pretty small, so he's not surprised. "I haven't heard of Britannia," he replies. "Ah, but Xenotime is really nice. It's really small and in the middle of the desert, but me and my brother are growing plants there."

[themerryway]

She pauses momentarily, thrown by how someone couldn't have heard of Britannia, but continues on.

"You're a gardener, then? How lovely! What kind of plants did you grow?"

[greennotgold]

"Mostly things that can help the agriculture and the irrigation system we're setting up." Big words from a tiny child! He continues, "There aren't very many flowers and things just for decoration, but we'll move on to those next."

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[themerryway]

Quiet for a moment, Euphemia hesitates as she lets that sink in.

[themerryway]

"Wow," she finally says. "Amazing! Everyone there must be very proud of you two brothers. Do you get along well with him?"

[greennotgold]

He smiles a little shyly, ducking his eyes a bit. If only the people there felt that way... "Yeah! He's my best friend. And he's here with me, so this place is a little less scary because of that."

[themerryway]

"I'm happy for you, Fletcher," she says, and knows the comfort of someone familiar being here in this disorienting place. "It's a shame that either of you have to be taken from home, but it's good to be together. A sister and brother of mine are also here... it's really very nice."

[greennotgold]

A sister and brother... Huh. "Do you have a lot of brothers and sisters then? I'm glad they're here with you, either way!"

[themerryway]

"That's right! I have many, many siblings. It's a very large family to say the least. When..." And her train of thought is completely derailed just then, just like that. She frowns and looks around before looking back to Fletcher, finger to her cheek. "I... completely forgot what I was talking about, I'm sorry."

[greennotgold]

"Oh..." Was there something wrong with what he'd said? His face fell. "Um-- sorry. That's okay... What're your brother and sister's names?"

[themerryway]

"Oh, no," she says, seeing his face fall. "It isn't you, I'm sorry. It's happened a few times. I'll start to talk about something but then completely forget... it seems like it might have to do with the memories they've taken from us." And she pauses, to laugh sheepishly. "Lelouch and Nunnally are the ones who are here. What's your brother's name? What's he like?"