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 Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2011 7:36 am
"I could PINCH you and then you'd find out." Holi snapped, flashing to rage as the controllable version of being terrified. Though technically pinching mostly started with the first letter of her first thought. "If we were experiencing a lucid dream we could control it, because that's what Lucid dreaming IS." UGH. This was awful, it was ridiculous. Why was everyone so completely irrational about all this? They'd been abducted by someone for the love of God, this was a bad thing, not a silly dream or a game. She hoped she got home safely, but she was already beginning to wonder if there was enough chocolate at home to cover the level of chocolate therapy this was going to take. Maybe some nice truffles first... with bits of toasted hazelnut... then a marzipan mouse or two... perhaps she'd even nibble a chocolate liqueur. Her parents surely couldn't say no if she asked for one of those... not after this. Maybe one of the ones with Champagne, or that orange liquor she couldn't remember the name of. Was that one Chambord or was she thinking of the wrong one? And chocolate pretzels. And peanut-butter cups... and... and then she'd dip fruit. And... and.... "GOD you're all crazy! I must be crazy!" She almost started crying again, but it turned into something like a hiccuping cross between a sob and a laugh as Kes beat her to the punch, so to speak, giving Anandi a resounding slap. "See? There. Not a lucid dream."
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Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2011 7:38 am
CRACK!The sound of the slap nearly deafened Anandi as a hand connected with her face. Now she was of the opinion (and experience) that one did not feel pain in dreams. The nature of the dream was that it was not real and therefore, one could not feel pain even if one experienced something painful in a dream. Wasn't there a movie about that? Regardless, the stinging sensation radiated through the girl's cheek and it was wholly unexpected. Pain meant the one thing she felt in the back of her mind, and the one thing she didn't think she could handle. This was a very real. "But... but... but then..." she stammered, holding a hand to her injured cheek and fighting back tears. "...if this isn't a dream... oh em gee... if this is real then... Were we kidnapped? We were kidnapped, weren't we?! Then how can be breathe in space?!" The pitch of her voice warbled wildly as hysteria started to set in. The good thing was that she could still breathe, obviously, and that they seemed safe, but what was happening here? Was this an alien abduction?!
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Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2011 7:46 am
Kes rolled her eyes.
"Yes yes I think everyone has been through this already." Though the girl did bring up one good point, how were they breathing? She hadn't really thought about that but oh well.
"Anyway do you both have names?" She looked at Anandi and Holi as she asked. Names would be useful right now, better then giving them nicknames they would probably hate. "I am Kes and personally I think we should start making our way along this bridge, there is a noise up ahead and well lets face it we need answers." She was keeping or at least seeming to be very calm, in all honesty the reason she slapped Anandi so hard was mostly because she was also scared and it seemed a good way of letting her pent up fear out. At least they were all realising the same thing here.
"After all crying and screaming and what not isn't going to get us home and I have birds that need to be flown or will get a lot more grouchy then I am right now." That was one of the most important things to Kes anyway.
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Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2011 7:48 am
She eeped. Probably the loudest noise she'd made to this moment as the sound and action of the slap startled her. Menthe certainly appreciated someone coming to her defense and stepping in. But slap! She looked tentatively at the woman as she apologized for the other girl, before nodding her head a little, very slowly.
And as the others began to discuss and offer names she slowly began to step backwards, closer and closer to the officer. When you were in trouble you were supposed to go to the police for help right?
Though... if the officer was here too... She gulped a little.
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Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2011 7:54 am
"Obviously it can't really be space." Holi protested, whatever it looked like. "...Some kind of trick... a really elaborate one." Even if she had no idea why. What was the point of such a strange illusion? Name, name, right the names. "Holi..." She offered, following it with the more formal. "Holiday Jones." The very nervous woman was slipping away again, but maybe that was alright, Holi didn't think she could provide much comfort to anyone right now, she had nothing to offer, save for the thin thread of rationality she was clinging to as a lifeline.
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Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2011 8:15 am
"A...Anandi..." came a warbled reply. The girl called Holi had a point about the area not being space. If it was space, then they'd all be dead. Anandi vaguely recalled the movie Event Horizon when a young man jettisoned himself into space and what had happened to his body. Oh that was horrifying and it took all of Anandi's strength not to work herself up into a terrified lather. It had to be a trick. It just had to be a trick. "Like Space Mountain." she muttered, shuffling forward a few steps. Her cheeks stung with tears and pinpricks from the slap she'd received. Obviously this wasn't a dream and the dark-haired girl had to do something about getting home. School was starting and she had no time for rainbow-bridge-space-trips! "Maybe it's a lot of lights like in Space Mountain. Just without the roller coaster..." If she could concentrate on that, maybe it would help calm her down. The fact that others were talking and trying to solve the situation helped a little, but it did nothing to diminish the fact that they were in space with a rainbow bridge.
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Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2011 8:26 am
"Right Anandi and Holi got it." She then looked at them both as they went on about how they weren't in space which was also an option but for some reason Kes didn't want to believe they weren't. If this was all in some warehouse somewhere then she was going to be seriously pissed off.
She looked up the bridge and then at the other two.
"Well if we are in a warehouse then there is a door right? So there should also be a wall..." So it was worth checking. She slowly walked to the edge of the bridge with her arms out in front of her. She was expecting nothing to be there but then when she got to the edge she found there was a wall that appeared as she touched it. She took her hands away and then touched it again. Maybe this was some weird warehouse.
"Okaaay....." She kept one hand on the wall and walked along the bridge a little, it followed and vanished behind her. "This isn't at all weird." She looked back at Anandi and Holi and then shrugged taking her hand away from the wall. "At least we won't fall! Guess we have to follow the bridge, I assume the other side of the bridge is the same..."
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Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2011 8:31 am
Natalia thought someone must have been humming, but why would someone just hum one low note? Oh well. Stranger things could happen in a dream. Just look where they were! And no, there was no dissuadinding the hard-headed girl that this wasn't a dream....which only meant many stupid actions lay ahead.
She was, however, not convinced that it was someone humming. It had a different feel than that. Natalia left her rival LARPers and walked a few feet from the crowed to try and hear what she thought she heard, but by the time she could mostly tune everyone out, the sound was no more.
'Damn it.... Just what wasthat!?'
For the first time since popping in to this 'dream,' Natalia looked serious.
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Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2011 8:42 am
Anna had been mid-almost-bite when it happened. That evening she had felt daring. Bold. Brave enough to try a hot sauce so hot that even she had been too scared to try it until now. So when she came to, her first thought was that it had been so hot that she had passed out. Wow. But no, as the seconds ticked by and her mind cleared, she realized it was very very dark. That couldn't be right, could it? Her eyes were open, weren't they? She blinked. Yes, yes they were definitely open. Okay, now that she cleared that mess up... was it a dream? She put the back of her hand to her lips and bit hard. .... "Ffffuuuuuck ow," she mumbled. That hurt, so no, it wasn't a dream. "Then what the f..." her voice trailed off as she started to key into her surroundings a bit more. Ok first of all, she was sitting on a rainbow. That was just plain weird. Weren't rainbows like, uh, not solid? "Well that makes sense," she mumbled. Maybe it would make sense in one of her games, but it's not like she was in one of those. People don't magically get pulled into video games, after all. Ok, people don't magically get pulled onto a rainbow bridge in space either, but apparently that was a thing that happened! It was at this point that Anna realized she wasn't alone. There were voices around her. People. That was reassuring. Kind-of. She pushed herself to her feet and spoke, not in her quiet mumbly voice, but finally loud enough to be properly heard. "Hello? You guys? Where are we? What... What's going on?" Her voice was shaking ever so slightly. The fear was setting in.
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Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2011 8:50 am
A moment passed as she approached closer a little at a time. Shoes set down on a magical rainbow pathway that in no way should have been plausible. Closer and closer she grew towards the male, finally to set a palm gingerly on his shoulder. She let out a breath that she did not realize she had been holding, and ended it with a sigh. :I do not know what i was hoping for, but apparently you are not a figment of my imagination." Drawing her eyebrows together she let go of him and criss crossed her arms as if cold. It was more of a act of comfort, a wanting to believe maybe, just maybe...this was not happening. "i am a nurse, we get all sorts of unexplained things coming through our doors. We know better than most that there are less than pleasant things out there in the world." She was about to continue that thought, suddenly glad to have a adult in the mass of children to talk to, when she caught the tail end of some.....strange noise. Paprika colored eyes jolted towards the deep space, back to the mans face, and back again. "Please tell me you heard that."
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Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2011 8:51 am
That was just their luck. Templar Gilbert had managed to follow them to the Fade, or where ever they were. While he certainly had no grounds on which to harass them, he was at the very least an uncomfortable surprise. Anders hadn't quite forgotten the one time they were fighting the varterral and Gilbert had tried to bust up the battle. There was a shitton of rewards for killing that thing and they had to put it on hold so they could run away quicker than Gilbert could catch them. It had been a tragedy.
"Right," Anders agreed, having no personal motivation to talk to Gilbert. It would, with his luck, get them into trouble somehow. Anders was already being blamed by Hawke for this rainbow road Fade crap. He was not taking the fall for getting them into trouble with Gilbert. "We are off. To the Golden City, and hopefully we won't be turned into darkspawn. You have no aspirations to take over the Golden City, right Hawke?" They were just going to walk in that direction and act like guests. That should prevent anything bad from happening to them.
Unfortunately, Anders was too busy talking and thinking upon the tragedy that was seeing Gilbert to hear that low sound.
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Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2011 8:59 am
The hand from that other girl did help to steady Amy a bit. "Thanks," she said with a slight pause. "Jocelin..?" She mildly wondered if there was a bit of history between the two, or if their personalities just didn't blend well.
"I'll be ok, standing on a rainbow is a little more weird than I tho-" Her voice froze as that low sound brought the teenager back into the strange reality that surrounded everyone. A shiver ran down her spine, and she gripped her hand onto Jocelin's arm, her eyes going wide as she looked at Regina. "D...Do you think that's them?" The aliens that had summoned them here.
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Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2011 9:14 am
Whew. She hadn't pinched him after all. Or slapped him, as he had noted a girl slapping another; the latter seemingly very confused about the whole scenario she had been thrust in.
"Well," He said cheerfully. "I imagine I wouldn't be able to keep my job as a reporter if I was a figment of someone's imagination, would I?" Fingers twitched, remembering the half-written article he had written up before being pulled into this... place. It could wait, he told himself sternly. What else could be a better story than a first hand account of a magical kidnapping?
"Ah yes." Jarold nodded. "There was that crazy coma thing a while back, after all." And the many who would get hurt in a scrape with the super-powered teenagers or the monsters. He had been to the hospitals to interview families, and to make sure that he would be there to question the victims when they woke up.
"It was like, some sort of groan." He said finally, after biting his lip while trying to place the source of the strange noise. So maybe they weren't in space? Sound didn't travel in space, after all... or it could be magic space. Now that was a very strange thought, though he didn't rule it out just yet. "I don't suppose any of the hysterical kids got hungry and their stomachs started rumbling, hmm?"
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Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2011 9:22 am
Grant Caudwell had been crossed the street when he suddenly felt very strange, and then failed to ever reach the other side of the crosswalk. He had somehow stepped into space, or Mario Kart, and he wasn't quite sure how it happened.
But his instincts didn't tell him to jump to the worst possible conclusion. Sure, there had to be a reason for why he, and it seemed many other people, were drawn into this realm, but it didn't have to be a bad one, did it? Maybe they were needed to help someone.
Maybe they had been helping people, and were getting thanked for that.
Not that he ever needed pay for the good deeds he tried to do, as small and simple as he found them to be. And anyway, since being randomly dragged here, he wasn't very sure his last good deed had actually gotten complete. He had been very slowly leading an old woman across the road, in classic Boy Scout style (he had all his badges from when he was a kid hanging in his room), but vanished half way across and the light had been green.
He hoped she had gotten through alright...
Feeling strained but optimistic, he smiled and glanced around at the others around him, hoping first that none of them were too scared, and no one had been hurt from the whole 'suddenly somewhere else' thing. He wondered for a moment about the strange noise that filled the air, blinking in thought. If someone were trying to sing, they were certainly brave for it, and he admired that.
"Are you okay?" He asked, seeing Anna after she tried to find some answers by questioning the group at large. "We seem to be standing on a rainbow in space," he offered sincerely, by way of being helpful. It was as much as he knew, and obviously she had the same amount of information available to her, but she asked and he couldn't say nothing and ignore her question. That would just be rude. He wanted to offer comfort despite not being sure of his own feelings on this whole thing yet. Others first.
"But don't worry. We were all brought here together, and I'm not sure I've ever seen a bad rainbow."
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Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2011 9:22 am
"Good to know I'm not the only one hearing things," Natalia said when returning to the crowd. "I wonder that that was.....(to Jarold)It certainly wasn't my belly. I had supper just before getting here."
Mom always had dinner prepared at the time they would have been just getting home from school, so the moment her book bag was sat down, it was time to wash her hands and sit down at the table. So no, she was good on the food-fuel for a while. That wasn't to say someone else....
Well, Natalia didn't think the sound had come from anyone here. It just didn't feel like it.
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