How far down would you fall if you never came up again?

[queenscheckmate]

Characters: Kallen and you.
Format: Action please. Just intro is written in prose.
This log is: OPEN
Location: Three options: a. Dining Hall, b. Courtyard, c. the Pale dorm common room. She goes to all three in that order.
When:: "Tuesday" IG
Summary: Kallen's just up and about, walking around to get some fresh air and food. And if you're a player and MAYBE convincing enough, she MIGHT let you use her weapon.

a) When Kallen woke up, she was alone but wasn't particularly disturbed by it. She was still 'here' wherever 'here' was. Pushing herself to sit up in bed, she looked around the room, down at herself, and then specifically at her hands. It was gone... not her hands silly, the blood. She remembered falling asleep in the corner and-- Gino must have moved her to her bed. A small grateful smile fell onto her lips as she finally got out of bed and holy crap she was hungry.

She made her way over to the dining hall and grabbed something to eat. Getting a lot of food and stuffing it into her stomach was a bad idea waiting to happen, so she decided against that. She grabbed a lunch set containing a small bowl of rice, salad, and beef bowl. She didn't tend to eat actual Japanese food often (since she usually packed her own and it was sandwiches), but for once, she figured she would indulge herself. After all, she was hungry.

b) Contently from there, she walked to the courtyard. Despite the dream or whatever it was everyone had and the creepy effects that happened here not too long ago, Kallen felt... strangely okay. It probably had something to do with the hallucinations. She could see this fake world scenery for what it was and come to appreciate it. It was weird, really, but she felt a lot better to be able to look at the sky, and well, not see the unnatural colors it carried that day. Not to mention the blood that followed her.

She wasn't going to go to classes. She wasn't sure if she was up for that just yet. But she stared in the direction of the classrooms. Kallen told herself that she would go to tomorrow. It would give her enough time to rest up and regain her focus. The teenager also half appreciated that she wasn't a Player this round. There was no way she would have been able to fight. Come the next round and if she was named a Player, she would be ready then. But in the mean time she would have to find out some information. About who they were up against. She had a feeling that no student would have the answers so she would have to do so herself.

c) Kallen headed back to the dorm and sat in the common room. She stood against the windowsill, looking out the window. She knew she had homework to make up for the classes she missed, but that didn't seem to bother her. She knew she was smart, but felt like... there was something more to it. Like... how everything just came naturally to her. Probably another lost memory she would have to figure out on her own.

Comments

Courtyard!

[loyal_liar]

[Guess who's sitting in the courtyard, hugging... a pillow? Lyra's not talking to it yet, but give her a few more days, and she'll probably start.]

[queenscheckmate]

[Kallen sees the girl and the... pillow. The girl doesn't look familiar to her. She's probably new... Anyway, she approaches.]

Is there something wrong?

[loyal_liar]

Not really. I'm just getting used to this place, is all.

Dining Hall~

[earlofpudding]

[Whatever table Kallen ended up picking, she'll find she isn't sitting at it alone. Lloyd is reading through the Exaclan manual, his own food left untouched and pushed to one side on account that he'd made the mistake of getting soup. The spoon with it had been daunting, shh.]

[queenscheckmate]

[Considering they're probably on other end, she hasn't noticed him. After all, she's too focused on actually being able to eat something. She had tried in the past, but blood got all over everything and well, she lost her appetite not to mention who would eat anything soaked in blood.]

[earlofpudding]

[To the ill fortune of all, he happens to look up from the book and spots her at the other end of the table. Oh ho. What do we have here? While Kallen is focused on eating, the Earl manages to relocate. Suddenly, there is a Lloyd sitting directly across from her!]

Guren's pilot! [Yeah, he'd never bothered to keep track of her actual name. 'Guren's pilot' or 'Suzaku's school friend' had always been ample enough description for her before.] Hello! I don't suppose this means Rakshata is around as well?

[He sure hopes not.]

courtyard

[warpwhatsir]

[ and if you'd care to notice, Kallen, here comes Sulu walking down the pathway you happen to be on, looking very deep in thought. and he is. he's been doing a lot of that deep thinking since he woke up in his dorm room with a distant ache in his neck--probably from sleeping weird, but it won't go away--and. Well. Some very interesting memories he'd rather not mention. ]

[ he looks up just in time to see Kallen and, full stop, entire body going still and face turning just a faint shade of pink. is it too late to run? ]

[queenscheckmate]

[She continues to walk down the path until she notices Sulu herself. It's that awkward moment where you and the other person STOP at the same time and you don't know what to do with yourself.]

[If this were yesterday, she'd back down, run away. She'd say it was her fault he died. She had distinctly seen his blood on her hands yesterday. But that was yesterday. This was today. From her memories, she remembers losing feeling in her left arm because of the foil that cut deeply into her skin and flesh. A ghost pain ran itself through the circuit of her arm before she brought her right hand up to clutch at it for a moment.]

[She starts up walking again, hand returned to her side and stops about twenty feet in front of him. Where can she even start?]

[warpwhatsir]

[ oh god panic panic panic wait uh. crap. what to do. Sulu kind of desperately wishes that he were back on the Enterprise in the middle of a Romulan attack because that, at least, is something he can focus on, something easy and not involving complications. ]

[ like, you know, talking with the person with the same face as the one that killed you. ]

[ yeah. that can cause problems. he swallows, bows his head in a curt, polite nod. Sulu is in full-fledged Lieutenant Mode now, and it's gonna be pretty damn hard to snap him out of it. ]

Ms. Kozuki. [ because if there's one thing he knows, after what happened last week they're probably not on first name basis anymore. he doesn't usually call people by their first names anyway-- that's just how it works in Starfleet. ]

Courtyard

[leftthesafetyon]

[While Kallen was looking at the sky, she may or may not notice footsteps charging towards her. They suddenly stop a few feet away, and the jogger greets the woman, even if her attention is still on the scenery.]

Hey!

[queenscheckmate]

[Kallen looks down and catches sight of Meryl. The small memory of Meryl's shadow killing the girl and Kallen following suit on Meryl's shadow flashes in front of her for a moment.]

Hey. [She puts a hand in air to greet her.]

[leftthesafetyon]

[She knew fully well about the "dream", but nothing was amiss quite yet- she had dreams about getting shot far too often for her own good.]

Hey... do you know what's going on? All of the calendars say that we jumped a week and a half.

[Then again, they were also two months slow. Were the staff just incompetent?]

[formerly_known_as_prince]

[A truly archetypal scene: rushing to class with bookbag slung over shoulder and a slice of toast held in the mouth, looking at one's watch. Utena might run into you by accident somehow. Maybe it's just a shoulder bump. Maybe they both go tumbling.]

[queenscheckmate]

[Kallen's knocked back a bit, she stays on her feet. Definitely wasn't expecting that.]

[formerly_known_as_prince]

[Three things happen simaltenously. Utena spins with the impact, bites through her toast, which makes the remaining half fall to the ground to "be squished underfoot. Now her shoe's all buttery, ew.]

Mm sh-[Ok chew, swallow] I'm sorry! Are you alright?

b!

[siscon]

[ that was no dream - that was a nightmare.

she noticed some people were acting normal. maybe they had brushed all of this nonsense up and were going on with their lives.

Hiyo hadn't.

she walks with heavy footsteps, her eyes down on the floor. she's been trying to pretend that she's alright - that she's gotten over all of this already like everybody else. but it doesn't work when she's by herself, even in a crowd of people heading to class.

she's managed to walk around at the high school building - it's interior much like the building beside it, but the people here are much too big, trampling over her if they weren't careful.

her figure bumps into someone else - this isn't the first time today - and she falls back into that same old tradition of her's, faking everything. ]

O-Oh, I'm sorry! I really wasn't watching where I was going ... ! [ she recognizes this figure. ]

Kallen?

[queenscheckmate]

[Kallen's pushed back a bit. She wasn't paying attention, so Hiyo bumping into her catches her off her guard. But she looks down at the other girl. Something seems off... wrong. Kallen's not even sure if she should question it.]

Hiyo. [She hadn't seen the girl since... what was that-- math class?]

It's okay. Are you all right?

--> B!

[wasabisandwiches]

[Cécile enjoys the courtyard. She's been doing her best to put up a good front and attend classes-- in large part because answering the questions correctly, random though the selection is, seems to be an ideal way to make some extra tokens. For now, though, acting like she's in high school again had proven too much for her, which may explain why she was meandering around the courtyard, enjoying the atmosphere. It was nice out here, wasn't it? She glanced over in time to see an extremely familiar face and headed over. ]

You're here, too!

[queenscheckmate]

[Kallen hears the woman call out to her. She looks familiar but-- she turns in her direction]

I'm sorry?

C

[hairwag]

[Tomoko had entered the common room as quietly as possible, and was about to enter the dorm- when she suddenly notices Kallen sitting on the windowsill. She approaches her slowly, then speaks up.]

E-excuse me...

[queenscheckmate]

[She looks dowe at the girl]

Is there something wrong?

[She sounds worried.]

C is for C.C., that's good enough for me!

[cheesetwo]

[It's easy enough to sneak up on a distracted Kallen.] Oh, so you're here, huh?

[queenscheckmate]

[She turns her head to face C.C. She's not distracted per say, but she's always aware of her surroundings. She is a bit surprised to see her, considering it's been over 2 months (3 if you count being in this place).]

You're new here then.

[veepofchess]

[Unfortunately for Kallen, her meal would not be had in peace. Lelouch approaches, and sits across from her, a cup of coffee in his hands.] I didn't see you at the announcement or yesterday. [That's a hello, in case you hadn't noticed. He's got his usual bored look on his face.]

[queenscheckmate]

[So much for that chopstick full of rice trying to make it to her mouth. She looks up and sees Lelouch. She had gotten word that he had died that day, Suzaku and Sulu unable to protect him. She's just glad she didn't see it. Who knows what she might have done then.]

I showed up late during the announcement. [She doesn't want to really talk about what happened that day or after it.]