rakuen | COURTYARD [open]

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COURTYARD [open]

Characters: Kallen
Format: Prose, action
This log is: Open
Location: Courtyard
Summary: Kallen's just chilling and thinking about some things. Feel free to bother her But be warned she's not the happiest person alive being trolled by the school in being unable to leave.

So that was it.

They couldn't leave.

Meryl and Kallen had been walking on the tracks a couple of days ago for what seemed to be for HOURS before they were bought back to where they started. No doubt Kallen was pissed. But that just meant they needed to find another way. Perhaps following the tracks that had carried them here was too easy.

She pressed her back against the bench and looked up towards the sky. This was more frustrating than she thought. And it didn't help that it may have had to take two weeks, but she was starting to figure out some of the holes in her memories. Like how she had to write her name in English characters instead of kanji because she couldn't remember how to spell her last name. Or that when she had went to lunch earlier in the day and stared at her sandwich, unable to figure out how to eat it. Not to mention remembering how to wear a bra was just null and she could never figure it out on her own.

But why was it smaller things she couldn't remember?

If that was the case, then she didn't dare want to discover the major things she was forgetting.

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Sora had been on her way to... somewhere. A class, maybe. She'd really just been following the others, with no real idea of what her schedule was or why she was being made to attend when her classes were mostly just sitting in the back of the class staring at things she didn't understand at all. So, naturally, the moment she spotted someone brooding on a bench, all thoughts of learning were derailed.

She jogged over without another thought. "Are you okay?"

Kallen tipped her head back down, looking at the girl in front of her. "Outside of disappointment, I'm fine," she admitted. Cerulean eyes locked on the other.

Sora blinked at the other girl for a moment, took in her expression, her frustration, then just sat down next to her without another word. She didn't look like someone who'd be troubled over something small - though Sora would be just as concerned if it was a trivial thing, really - and there was a lot to be upset about here, especially if you weren't from somewhere worse. If she could find out what was wrong, there might be something she could do.

"Disappointment?"

Kallen sat up when the other girl sat next to her. She leaned forward and rested her elbows against her knees.

"We can't leave. It's as simple as that."

Another blink. Sora hadn't really tried to leave. Hadn't even thought about it. Why would she, when back home the idea of leaving would mean social ruin for everyone she knew and hundreds of other students left to the mercy of Iwahijiri?

"What do you mean?"

Was the concept really that hard to understand? "We can't leave this school, the island. We're stuck here. You try and leave and you're back right at square one." The tone of Kallen's voice came off overly frustrated and just... plain lost.

"Right," Sora obviously didn't get it. "But that's why we have to win the game, and get everyone out that way."

"You really think it's that simple? That we play some game and we can just leave? Who's not the say they'll just take more of our memories? Maybe until the point we can't even remember our homelands. You ever think of that?"

"It's not that I think it's simple," she leaned a little, boots scuffing the ground beneath the bench. "I'd like it to be! I don't understand this new academy. It's a lot more complicated than ours. The battles, and our lost memories... and we don't have a plan like we did before, but for everyone's sakes I have to believe that fighting will save them. Does that make sense?"

"Who are you?" Kallen questioned, ignoring Sora's whole knightly speech. The whole bit of her knowing what might have been going on around here struck a chord in her. Tsuki mentioned that there were some people from her world here.

So meeean. Then again, Sora was used to Yuki and Reiko talking over her, so she just smiled at the other redhead. "I'm Sora. Himoto Sora!"

"You know Tsuki then." Kallen leaned back. "She told me about some of you... the world you're from is like this one."

While others may have had destinations to get to during this hour, Hiyo wasn't really heading to anywhere in particular. Instead, she was pacing back and forth in a corner of the courtyard for a while. Gathering her thoughts, thinking of plans to replace the ones that she had forgotten, thinking of the new list of Players for the new round, wondering who would be a good choice for an owner...

She heard a familiar voice over the rest of the mindless chitchat in the courtyard, and sharply Hiyo turned her head. The back of heads that she could recognize anywhere - Kallen, whom she had met just recently and... Hiyo chuckled to herself quietly, leaving her spot in the shadows and done pacing to approach these two.

"Look, it's Kallen!" she exclaimed, picking up the pace in her step, eventually jogging over and offered her a wave. "And, I finally found you, Sora-sama~!" The little girl took this chance to jump off the ground and hug her well-known knight. "Where've you been this whole time? And I didn't know you knew Sora-sama, Kallen!"

"You know Tsuki?" Sora was surprised to hear that Tsuki had been socialising, but she leaned forward eagerly anyway, "That's right, we're from another--"

And then, suddenly, Hiyo. As she was jumped on, Sora hugged back automatically, her arms wrapping around the smaller girl to support her. She'd heard Hiyo was here, but somehow... Well, she was here now, and that's what mattered. She gave her a reassuring squeeze, and then loosened her hold so she could clamber back off or arrange herself on the bench. Or on Sora's lap, it was all good. "Kallen and I just met!"

"Y--" Well that was unexpected. Kallen raised an eyebrow at their interaction but paid no mind to it.

"Hiyo." Kallen said softly. Look at the three of them, getting all friendly and stuff.

She made herself comfortable in the lap of her oh-so-loved protector, grinning childishly. "Hello, Kallen!" she greeted, then looking to Sora. "I hope you two are friends~"

"Ah," Sora smiled down at Hiyo, hesitant to call her a friend without her consent. Not that she didn't fully believe they would be friends, but it took a little time sometimes, "I was just telling her about our plan."

"We just met actually," Kallen said, glancing over at Hiyo. She seemed to be really enthusiastic about the whole 'friends' thing.

Right... her plan to just play along. And something told Kallen that she didn't want to explain her own plan to Sora.

She blinked. "Oh, really? Well, you should hurry up and be friends then! Friends of Hiyo's should always be friends with each other," the little girl found it useful to have found these two in the same place. It only made it easier for her.

"Our plan?" she questioned, she wasn't quite sure if Sora and the others had already thought of something else.

"Yeah, our plan to beat Exaclan!" She looked between them, and then perked up, "Ah, that's right. Hiyo, do you remember what our plan was, before...?"

Hiyo's determination was cute, really. But Kallen wasn't just going to make nice with everyone. She ha only been so forward with Hiyo because she was young and basically took Kallen off guard.

"How do you not remember your own plan, Sora-sama? We saved the girls - or well, I guess it's just Weapons in general now - and handed them over to... Ah, Karin-san, was it?" she thought back to the times where she watched Sora defeat a numerous of male players and handed their weapons to the mysterious male partner.

"Are you going to help us with our plans, Kallen?" she asked, hoping to not exclude the other female from the conversation. "Oh, but you said you didn't want to be involved, right?"

"Ah, was that it?" Sora frowned, "I was sure there was something more important, but no one can remember what..." She huffed, then returned to her full cheer. "Kallen must have her own plan, Hiyo! Like Fletcher's, one that doesn't involve fighting."

"Yes, that's what I plan on doing." A beat passed when Sora mentioned someone else not fighting. "Fletcher?" The unfamiliar name rolled off her lips. As far as she knew, she was the only one pretty much determined not to gight. She wasn't sure if she should have been relieved to hear someone else wanted to take the same path she did.

She nodded her head in agreement, "Fletcher is my roommate! He's one of the Players for this round," Hiyo explained and her violet eyes glimmered over to Kallen, meeting her gaze.

"You two have the same methods, it seems. Isn't that great, Kallen?" was the girl reading minds now?

Then she gave a small laugh, "I still think you're plan is much more effective, Sora-sama~"

"He has a cute hat," Sora supplied, helpfully, before she smiled at Hiyo. "It's good that other people are helping this time, though," she made a humming sound behind her teeth, and considered. "It's a little strange having everyone working together, but without the influence of Iwahijiri, there's no reason for anyone to oppress others..."

Kallen nodded, placing a mental note seek out this 'Fletcher'. She listened to Sora and Hiyo's conversation idly.

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