rakuen | [Round 2, Day 5] If you seek you shall find

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[Round 2, Day 5] If you seek you shall find

Characters: Grenn, anyone else
Format: Prose preferred, action possible
This log is: open
Location: All over campus, variously close to the towers
Summary: Grenn is checking out all the towers (that she can reach), come with if you feel like it!

Grenn was aware there would probably be nothing to find when she'd wandered around to all the towers, but it was worth a try. There would probably be nothing visible, but then, when she'd hacked the system, there had been nothing visible there either, and see how that turned out.

Turning from the tower that stood by the entrance where the tram came in, Grenn wandered towards the first on her list; the one at the courtyard. She'd come to the others in time. Grenn grimaced as she scuffed her foot, having accidentally dragged it, and as pain shot up from the over-tuned/faulty connected nerves.

She hoped she someday would get used to the pain the prostethics caused, or at least be fully able to push it down to a subconcious level while she wore them.

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Well, it wasn't just a dream... Grenn didn't mind when Romeo slipped out from under her hand; she'd been hesitant in touching him anyway, since she had no idea if he'd accept it.

"It's... a name. Angelic name... Christian version," Grenn said as she read the plaque, the same for the other tower. But what would random angel names even mean?

"An angel?" Romeo tilted his head at the plaque wishing they hadn't stolen his ability to read off him so he could see it for himself. "Maybe an angel lives here..."

But hadn't the towers been conected to the tiger, maybe the tiger was keeping the angel captive. He looked up at Grenn, she was an adult, she knew more than him.

"I don't think so... People name buildings, Romeo. While it's strange that they've chosen what seem to be angelic names for the towers, if the other towers have names, too, it's not too strange." Grenn frowned and shrugged.

But what did it all even mean? A giant blue talking tiger... probably an avatar of sorts, a star? in the sky during that 'dream', and a number of towers across campus named after angels...

Then there was that story... She'd briefly met a strange, monkey-tailed girl with a legend fragment. Two paths? Grenn sighed and shook her head.

"Let's go to the next one..."

Romeo nodded, it was all strange to him and he was happy to follow Grenn's greater knowledge. Romeo moved away from the bars of the tower and looked up at Grenn with a small smile.

It was strange that they had angel names though, and that they couldn't get into the towers, something important had to be in them.

"Which one is next miss Grenn?"

Grenn unfolded the map she carried with her and pointed to a round marker more or less straight up from the tower they were at. They couldn't walk up it like that, though, because there were buildings and such they'd had to walk around.

"That one, below the pier." Grenn supressed a sigh. The next one was the first one in the forest when going clock-wise like this. She didn't like it. The extensively wooded parts of the campus made her uncomfortable. Too much, too wild, even in this technically very tame and ordered place.

She'd never seen this many trees in her life. Of course, technically they weren't real, but they were certainly real enough for her brain to insist they were.

Romeo looked at the map, though he couldn't read any words on it he recognised the shape and understood where Grenn was pointing to. "The pier, I know where that is!"

That was through the woods but he had been to the pier before and hadn't ran into any wolves, still he would keep his eyes peeled, better safe than sorry.

They walked towards the pier, entering the denser woodland and slowling down because of the uneven ground. "It's so pretty here," Romeo said with a smile, "Which country do you come from Miss Grenn? Do they have lots of trees there?"

"This way, Romeo. We're not going to the pier, the tower's lower than that," Grenn pointed off to the side, away from the open paths behind them when they got closer.

"And..." What was she supposed to say? She knew India had been a country like any others, and countries on Earth had mountains and trees and lakes and rivers and all sorts of stuff. "India. That's where my family's from," Grenn finally said, and it was true enough.

"Oops!" Romeo turned and ran back towards Grenn, "Sorry miss Grenn!" He tilted his head at the answer and then grinned again.

"India! I know where that is!" Sort of anyways... He had studied a globe with doctor Casella and so could picture the world in his head.

"That's far away from Italy! You have tigers there don't you!" He frowned, "Orange tigers! Not blue tigers!"

She had to scratch her head and think, but yes, she remembered that tigers were once (and was again, due to the 'natural reserve' huge swaths of Earth now was) roaming in India.

"Ahh, yes. Well, tigers certainly aren't several meters tall either. Just think of the blue one as a... tiger avatar. Like, all tigerness rolled into one huge representation of a tiger." Otherwise, Grenn was sure, the boy would probably be stuck forever on the fact that the tiger was blue, and huge.

Romeo nodded, he knew that real tigers were not huge and wern't blue, they were orange and it had been just a dream.

"Tiger avatar?" He said the strange word with a frown and then his eyes went wide. All tigerness in one huge tiger! But... Romeo thought about that. So all the tigers there had ever been were all part of this one huge tiger.

"Does that mean there are some tigers somewhere that can make fire?" He frowned, he thought that tiger was just a dream, but Grenn seemed to be talking like it was real and she was an adult and so she knew these things!

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Er... Grenn coughed and shook her head.

"No... That's not exactly what I mean. Obviously this tiger is a bit... different than the real ones." She really wasn't cut out to talk to children, obviously...

Grenn stopped as they were at the gate of the next tower. Locked like the other two, and another plaque with yet an angelic name. It was quiet. Only a faint breeze rustled through the trees, and she pulled her jacket close.

She, being in a place so closely modelled after planet-side was interesting, but all this weather was frankly annoying and hard to get used to. She was cold almost all the time.

"Nothing different here..."

Romeo frowned and nodded, he hoped that there wern't real tigers that could make things set on fire. They came to the next gate and Romeo peered through, it was just the same as the last one, Romeo wondered if they were going to find anything at all.

He looked around Grenn to see her shiver. It was such a nice day though, warmer then it should be if Romeo's memory of what season it had been when he left home was right. "Are you cold miss Grenn?" He pulled off his uniform jacket vest and handed it to her, forgetting for a moment that he was so much smaller than her. "You can wear this if you want!"

Grenn shook her head and smiled, giving Romeo the vest back.

"It's too small for me, besides, I'm already wearing an extra jacket... I'm just not... used to this," Grenn shrugged and waved a vague hand in the air. It wasn't as if she could explain exactly what she wasn't used to.

Romeo frowned and looked at the jacket, "I guess it is a bit small..." He shrugged it back on and gave another smile nodding at Grenn's words.

"Doctor Casella told me that it was really really hot in India, much hotter than in Italy." He told her with a small smile, "So I guess it feels cold here to you."

"Something like that, yes. Though it of course depends on where you'd be in India," Grenn remembered this much, at least, of her Earth-climate/geography lessons, and they had, of course, especially focused on India.

"Is it warmer here, then, for you?" Grenn knew where Italy was/had been, though at the point she'd learned about its former territory, Italy had encompassed some of the states to the right of it, too.

Romeo nodded, he knew very little about India apart from it had hot and had tigers, and elephants.

"Yes, though it can get really warm in summer. I think it was early spring when I was last at home but here it feels like the middle of summer."

"Shall we go to the next tower? Where is it?"

"Next one is beyond the pier, further into the forest... probably gonna take longer to walk to that one than these previous two," Grenn frowned down thoughtfully at Romeo. She would rather have preferred to have someone older with her, just because it would be easier to speculate with them, but...

"Shall we go?"

"Alright!" Romeo grinned enthusisically and began to move in the direction that Grenn had told him. He was enjoying himself, even though he knew they were trying to do something important. Miss Grenn seemed to think there was something very important about the towers and it was conected to the dream of the towers humming and of the big blue tiger. A dream, just a dream but one that everybody had had together.

"Miss Grenn," he asked bouncing next to her, "Do you think that if we solve the mystery of the towers we will be able to go home?"

He frowned because that's what he would like to happen, but things didn't always work out that way. In the children stories Angeletta had leant him once the characters had solved the mysterys they got to go home. But Romeo knew that real life wasn't like a fairy tale.

In real life adventures were scary, he had read Moby Dick while his leg was fixing and everyone had gotten killed by the whale in that... He remembered the tiger and shuddered.

Spirits up "They must be important, right?" He looked up at Grenn again, "If they wern't important they would be open!" People didn't lock up empty towers.

"Well..." Grenn paused and frowned. "Going home immediately, I'm not sure... And it's possible we're not really gonna get anything out of this at all..." Which was what it had felt like up to now.
"But I hope something will come out of this, even if it's only useful later," Grenn tried to sound upbeat about it, but locked gates, pain sparking through her nerves and the towers being far apart wasn't doing much for her optimism.

Romeo nodded, "We have to keep our spirits up no matter what." He smiled up at Grenn as they walked towards the next tower. "Something will happen but we have to keep happy. Alfredo always says that there's only one day like today in your entire life. When all else fails keep living."

Smiling again as he shared that wisdom he skipped a little ahead before waiting for Grenn to catch up. "We have to remember everything we learn so we can use it later!"

Was it just Romeo that was so... almost aggressively positive, or were kids usually like this? Nah, must be this boy... Grenn cracked a smile and nodded at Romeo, speeding up some. But walking in the forest... She didn't like this at all... All these trees... all this... She wasn't sure what it was that was so unsettling, but there was something.

It took quite a bit longer to walk to this tower, both because of the distance from the previous one, and due to it being in the forest, but when they finally got there...
"Romeo, quiet..." Grenn held a hand up as she wandered closer, grabbing the bars of the locked gate.

Yes.

Why was it humming? In that noise... That had made it seem as if her 'dream' had had no sound at all, so deafening had it been.

"You hear that?"

Romeo gave a big smile back and continued walking skipping ahead and then doubling back to Grenn so he didn't get lost, like a scout checking for danger. He fell silent when he was told to and listened. Then he went pale, it was that sound, much quieter than it had been in the dream but still there, that humming. Romeo edged closer to Grenn, not that he was scared or anything, but if that tiger turned up, he would have to protect her!

He nodded, "It's humming, like in the dream." He peered through the bars and then up at Grenn. "Should we try and get in?" This tower seemed to be special.

Grenn shook her head and stepped back from the gate. At the moment, she wasn't willing to force herself behind those gates. It would be (one of) the tower(s) furthest away in the woods that would be doing something interesting.

"We'll check out the others... Even if this one quiets down later, we know it was making noise. So it's obviously something..." But what? There was no difference here from the other towers...

She had a feeling, at some point, that hacking was gonna have to happen. But either she needed to get better, and get more protection against being found out, or there'd need to be someone better to do it.

Romeo nodded and stepped back as well, he thought it would be a good idea to get closer and work out why the tower was humming, but Grenn knew better than him and he wasn't going to disobey her. It was strange that this one was humming when the other's wern't, in his dream the humming had been loud like all the towers were humming together.

"Do you think if all the towers hum thats what makes the star come?" He asked as he followed Grenn letting her lead the way to the next tower as he had no idea where it was.

"Since we have no idea what the star you mentioned mean... Maybe." Grenn shrugged and then led Romeo around the side of the locked-away tower, until they stood by the wall, forest to the right of them.

"Let's follow the wall to the other towers, saves time going back out into the school areas and then into the forest again. The towers are all along the wall anyway," Grenn said and started walking, one hand against the wall. Partly for support, because frag it they'd been walking for a while now and on this uneven ground and it wasn't making the pain any less.

And then there was the fact that she just felt more secure with something so man-made beside her.

[Round 2, Day 5] If you seek you shall find

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