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

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.

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[She looks up in his direction when he squeezes her hand. That causes her to lessen her the grip she hadn't realize she was holding. He's... really only doing this for her, isn't he? Then again, it was a selfish request on her part.]

Are we that distant now?

[His formality, she had been questioning it in her mind but she didn't exactly mean to verbally force it. She can't take it back so the only thing she can do is follow through.]

I know... I've only called you by your last name that day but... It was in the rush of the moment. I remember telling you to call me Kallen, -- [There's something that feels off, unnatural about this, but the whole entire situation is unnatural, so might as well go with it.]-- Hikaru.

[Of course, everything is translated to sound the same, but with some thought, you can actually change it. His name is said with her Japanese tongue, accented and all.]

[ something suspiciously like a blush begins to color his cheeks when her grip lessens. he hadn't really noticed they'd progressed to full on hand-holding, and there's not much for him to do but start to let go as well. and perhaps he is. maybe he is doing it for her, but that is what friends do, right? ]

[ ..are they friends? ]

[ it's a thought he can't help but contemplate for a moment. he listens quietly to her for a moment, remembering when she had called him into the fray, and how quickly that'd turned around. but when she says his name--his first name, a name that goes lost in a strict place like Starfleet--he can't help but smile a little. ]

Yeah. You did, as a matter of fact.

[ and that's a real smile, not just the hint of one. ]

[When he starts to let go, she realizes what they're doing --and have been doing for the past, who knows, ten? Twenty minutes?-- and a blush finally creeps onto her cheeks and she takes a couple of steps back.]

[How embarrassing; acting like a school girl who's never been in love. The only different is that while she is a school girl, she has been in love, granted one sided.]

[She doesn't quite look up when she speaks again.]

So I don't want to hear just my last name from you. Got it?

[While you have your Lieutenant mode, Kallen has her tsundere mode.]

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

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