Eight Beat | Head Under Water and They Tell Me

[knightime]

Characters: Dave Strider and Rose Lalonde
Format: EVERY FORMAT POSSIBLE?! Idk man
This log is: Closed
Location: Somewhere in the town. Park? Lmfao I'm terrible at this
Summary: There's something relieving about having your Derse sibling here, despite being in the opposite school. Dave finally tells someone else what happened on Saturday.
Warnings: Talk about death and drowning, Derse siblings being Derse siblings, trying to talk to someone who's blind when you're mute, these warnings need its own warning, Kim warnings, SRS BZNS

Dave needed to talk to Rose. It was a selfish need. He knew he could talk to Jade or John or even John from Conquest. But he wanted to talk to Rose about it. At least before he mentioned it to anyone else.

He just felt less pressured talking to Rose for some reason. Which was dumb, since she was the sarcastic one and tended to do things that annoyed him. Nonetheless, she was someone he actually confided on several occasions about his fears. This was just one of those times. And seeing as he hadn't had her around for so long, it was slightly relieving.

He was waiting near the gates of Conquest. Dave wasn't sure how well Rose was going to get around the place, so he wanted to be around to at least help her to get to town. He knew he couldn't touch her, but if they were lucky, they would have some sort of object to work as a middleman between them.

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[overthroen]

Drawing. That's what Rose had spent her last few hours doing. Feeling her way around the dorms of Conquest, bumping into people constantly (though eventually, when she spread her new walking stick in a wider arc, people gave her a decent berth), getting hit with the penalty because of it. The headaches weren't helping her think, but eventually she was able to draw herself a decent map. Over and over again, until she memorized where everything was. And then she did it again.

When the notification came in from Dave, she heard it on her new text-to-speech PDA. Another gift from her friends - for which Rose was incredibly grateful, but simultaneously anxious. If she was going to be blind, and eventually fighting, she would have to learn how to get around on her own.

She left her room and navigated to the front gate to test it. She hit the wall instead, but followed it to the gate. She was going to have to learn the floorplans of more than just her own room.