rakuen | come with me go places

Characters: Sora Himoto and YOU
Format: ANY
This log is: open as an empty doorframe.
Location: EVERYWHERE at some point.
Summary: One of Sora's forgotten things happens to be the layout of the school. She decides that it would still be a good idea to go for a jog around the entire campus. Predictable antics ensue.
Warnings: derp.

Sora Himoto was lost.

Not just slightly lost, something minor that could be fixed by spotting a familiar landmark and wandering towards it, but entirely, cripplingly, ridiculously lost. This had something to do with her sealed memories, she thought... Whatever she did, the map of the school just wouldn't stick. She was fairly sure that she was somewhere in the eastern section of campus, but the clock tower wasn't visible through the trees any more, and thus her only point of reference was gone. She got around the problem most days by following a friend around, or not straying beyond the main areas with clear signs, but today she'd been feeling particularly energetic, and had decided to celebrate this with ten laps of the school.

And now she didn't remember where the dorms were. Didn't know where anything was, even. So she did the only thing she could think of, which was wander across the school, looking totally bewildered.

Won't you help her?

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"The dorms?"

She had been heading towards the dorm, right? She thought so, but she'd gotten a little distracted by not being able to remember where... her expression went blank again, and she flopped over onto Grenn's lap with a groan. "I think that was it."

Grenn coughed and felt faint heat crawl up in her face as Sora flopped all over her, but reached out a hand to pat her on the head. It was just familiar, because one of Lyra's favourite things was to do the same thing Sora was doing.

If with less drama. It took Grenn more than a minute to realize what she was doing, and, embarrassed, she snatched her hand back

"Uh, sorry, Um... We can go there now, if you... uh, want," Grenn was hard-pressed to keep from squeaking and attempted a smile.

"Really?" Sora looked up, her expression shifting to 'almost pathetically grateful' with alarming rapidity. The headpatting had gone unnoticed beyond her usual friendly appreciation, but it did mean that she still hadn't stopped leaning on Grenn's legs. "I thought I'd find it if I looked for long enough, but that was a couple of hours ago."

"You... seemed to be doing fine before around the dorms and the main buildings?"

And a few hours? How long had Sora been wandering about, anyway?

"I usually just follow someone else," she admitted. "But I wanted to do some laps this morning, and I didn't want to wake anyone that early."

"So... what did you forget?" Grenn paused to frown. "Not your sense of direction, right?" Maybe it was that, but it didn't seem to fit. Grenn looked up over what she could see of the buildings from here and frowned. Couldn't see the one where the room with the computers were. She was kind of relieved.

Later. She'd do that later. She wasn't going to involve Sora in that...

Sora scratched her head, and half-sat up to peer around again too. "I don't know. Things like left and up and north are okay..? I just don't remember where anything is."

Ah... That wasn't just an annoying thing to lose, but potentially dangerous, considering if she had no one to follow, she could be lost for... well, hours and not even begin to find her way back to what she could easily see were the dorms or things like that.

"Great..." Rubbing her face with a hand, Grenn looked up again and gave a lopsided smile. Sora was still leaning against her, and was warm.

"Um... Let's go back to the dorms then... Uh... Red one, right?"

"Yep!" Red dorm. At least she knew that, and it was easy to remember, too. She clambered back to her feet with slight regret - for much the same reason. Hugging people was nice, after all. "How has your day been so far?"

Truth to be told, Grenn was already missing that warmth. She was, really, usually used to not be bothered by lack of contact, but with Lyra... she'd gotten used to... Grenn had to pause, swallow, but the quickly disappearing warmth was like she'd just gotten here, or suddenly just realized that the person who had snuggled her, who she had been with for over a year now, simply wasn't here.

"I... it's been--" Stop that. She had to stop, because she couldn't start crying out here. Grenn's hands wandered from clutching her hair, to hide her face, muffling the choked sob. She was not crying. Nope. Not at all.

And just like that, Sora was back kneeling. Sometimes, she'd caught slight flashes of something like grief in Grenn's eyes, but this was the first time the other girl had reacted like this. Her hands found Grenn's automatically, pulling them down onto her lap so Sora could look up into her eyes.

"Grenn, what's wrong?"

"I... It's just---" Grenn was briefly interuppted as, finally, tears fell. Half-heartedly, she tried to tug her hands out of Sora's grip, not because she didn't want them there, but because having someone look at her while she cried was embarrassing. She wanted to hide.

"Lyra's not..." A few weeks, and first now it sunk in. Or maybe she'd just attempted to not think of it, because trying to think of Lyra brought up all the missing kisses and that huge thing.

"... She's not... here and---" Deep, shuddering breath. "I miss---" Grenn got no further.

"Lyra..?" For a moment, Sora thought she meant the girl she'd run into earlier, the Player. But that couldn't be right. She'd been really young... about Tomoko's age.

"You'll be able to go home," she said, instead, "I promise. We'll beat this game, and everyone can go home. You'll be able to see Lyra again."

It took a few minutes before she could speak again, and then Grenn looked up and gave Sora a fain, lop-sided smile.

"I... don-- Don't think it'll be that easy... But I hope so." Grenn squeezed the hands that were still holding hers.

"Thanks, Sora... Should--- Um. Let's go back?"

"Yeah," Sora returned the smile, keeping hold of one of Grenn's hands as she stood again. "I mean it, Grenn. I'll definitely save everyone."

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