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 Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 12:02 pm
"Oh... well, that's good." Anjali looked confused, then shrugged again. Enough weirdness had gone on that she really didn't feel like questioning anything further. Not now. "Are you okay? Your face looks kind of banged up... did you hit your head or something? Maybe we can try to break into the first aid area."
A head injury would explain the odd behavior, at least. Or perhaps Cheshire was just an eccentric. She'd seen all kinds here.
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Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 12:24 pm
"Oh, no. These were from beforehand. Don't worry yourself over them." His grin widened.
"...Now...all the buildings are locked, are they? Every last one?" He blinked a couple of times, his grip on the branch loosening. He twitched a bit.
DAMN. I still can't keep control for long periods of time, can I? What a...riddle...hrm....
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Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 12:30 pm
"I haven't tried all of them, but my own duplex was certainly locked tight - and my keys wouldn't work." Experimentally, Anjali walked over to the cafeteria doors. Sure enough, no matter how hard she pushed and pulled, they wouldn't budge. She turned back to Cheshire with a despairing shrug. "I don't know what's going on, but I don't like it one bit. And..." She rubbed awkwardly at the small welt over her needle wound. "I was injected before all this happened... or during, maybe, I don't know. So if I... start acting funny, or... I don't really know what happens. The serum I have is a plant serum, the sundew," she added, with a sigh.
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Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 1:03 pm
His brows arched.
"A PLANT? Well, then...one of the plants in Wonderland's garden. I knew you looked familiar." His grin widened, then faltered.
"...Ugh...my head hurts a bit. I bet Julian wants to wake." His hands slipped up, leaving him hanging upside down by his knees. "Terribly sorry. Still not strong enough to keep this up for a long time...."
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Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 1:10 pm
"Whoa, hey... don't fall," Anjali said, carefully coming up to him and standing somewhat underneath, arms spread awkwardly to catch him in case he slipped or something. "Are you SURE you didn't hit your head? Or there's something I'm missing...."
He certainly talked about Alice in Wonderland a lot. White Rabbit... Cheshire cat, plant in a garden....?
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Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 1:19 pm
Cheshire looked her in the eyes.
"Of course, there's something you're missing. We're all missing something, or we wouldn't be here, now would we?"
His grin grew...then disappeared, his eyes rolling back in his head.
...He then fell, body going limp.
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Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 1:27 pm
Anjali quickly moved to try and catch him, though... it didn't quite work.
Instead, she sort of broke his fall as she fell herself, under his weight. "Oof!" she grunted as they both hit the ground. "Ouch..." she winced, carefully squirming out from under him. Her muscles were screaming at her again, but it didn't feel as though anything was broken - one ankle twinged at her, but it didn't feel like more than a small sprain, barely worth worrying about under the circumstances.
She quickly leaned over Cheshire. "Hey... Cheshire, are you okay?" She put one hand on his shoulder and shook, gently.
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Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 1:33 pm
"Mm...."
He groaned softly, head lolling a little bit to the side. Slowly, his eyes opened - but they looked...a lot more gentle all of a sudden.
"...What...? Wh-where...?"
He felt like he was in a fog. Dimly, he noticed the absence of his pocketwatch...but barely moved to verify it.
"...Who...?" He peered in vague confusion at Anjali.
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Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 1:37 pm
Colche didn't stop running until she came to a skidding, thankfully, upright stop in front of the cafeteria. She was fast, though she had kept hold of Antony's hand all the way down the hill, through the undergrowth of the jungle, weaving through the thick stemmed trees and bounding over their roots. She turned to Antony wide eyed, at last, her eyes frightened as she attached herself once again to the woman "please no Aubrey" she whispered, asking the woman, begging the woman to tell her that the person in the chopper wasn't Aubrey. Would she know? She didn't even know this new womans name, but would she know who it was? She slowly sank down to her knees looking up at Antony with frightened, tear filled eyes. She licks her lips, those dry cracked lips her huge blue orbs pleading to be told it wasn't Aubrey. She swallowed hard, the scars on her chest and arms visable at such close quarters, if Aubrey wasn't here any more, what would happen to her? she needed to know Aubrey was coming back.
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Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 1:54 pm
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Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 2:01 pm
Lily stands on the top of one of the duplexes, still unsure of how to get down. She's paced and looked over the edges as much as she's dared, but hasn't thought of anything yet- her mind races over what happened and how she ended up out here, distracting her from the task at hand.
"Maybe I can get help," she says, looking out over the village area for any signs of other people walking around. Now is not the time to be concerned about who you're going to meet up with. She spies a couple moving figures near the building the cafeteria is in.
People!
"H-hey!" She calls out, waving an arm in hopes of attracting attention, "Help!"
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Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 2:08 pm
Colche's heart plopped back in to her chest and a soft puurr echoed from her chest as she hugged the woman tightly, wiping away her tears, she sniffled for a moment, tears of joy, of releif, it wasn't Aubrey, she knew it wasn't, she just, needed confirmation. Those watery blue orbs lifted to look up at Antony and she smiled lightly pointing to herself "Colche" she cleared her throat she had to start trying to put other words in with her name "Me am Colche" she smiled, slowly getting to her feet, her round, fluffy ears perking as she heard a voice from some where, she looked around "Help?" her tail twitched a few times, she couldn't see the speaker, feeling a little confused by the 'magical voice' coming from no where she looked to her new friend for guidance.
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Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 2:21 pm
"I'm Antony," she introduced, smiling slightly, "Nice to meet you Colche."
Lucky for the stranded woman, Antony was facing in her direction and saw her arm waving before she heard Colche's echoing.
Damn, seems like everyone here was having a bad day.
"Let's go help," she grumbled, carefully pulling the girl from her before she jogged in the direction of whichever duplex that this crazy girl was on. Who did everyone think she was anyways? A sweet girl who loved to help everyone? Antony would have laughed loudly if it hadn't been for the company she was currently keeping. She really didn't want to scare Colche anymore.
"Lost?" Antony mused to Lily, a bit of amusement apparent in her voice. When in doubt, feel better because of someone else's predicament.
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Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 2:27 pm
Lily stands still after calling out for help, watching Colche and Antony carefully as they seemed to notice her. She watches tensely as Antony jogs over, looking down at her own pyjamas self consciously.
Pah, no time to care about what you're wearing.
"You could say that," she replies, looking at the roof of the duplex she's standing on, "I'm- er- not sure how to get down from here."
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Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 2:38 pm
Colche padded over, she walked on her toes most of the time now, her ancle never really touched dirt. Deep blue, still ratehr watery eyes looked up at the girl. She bit her tongue. Colche didn't know what 'self concious' was, she walked around naked all the time "Jump?" she suggested with a smile, her tail giving a smidgeon of a twitch. she wasn't sure what it would be like to jump from the top of a duplex but personally she couldn't think of any other way down. She went in to think mode at this point, her stump of a tail twitching "Climb like pooh" she grins and giggles remembering pooh climbing a tree which he quickly exited because of bees, she seemed to remember he landed rather hard on his bottom, but pooh bear had a big bum he could do that. Hoom, okay she was out of ideas, seh sat down in the dirt looking upwards perfectly innocent of any insult she might have caused.
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