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This RP session is backdated - it takes place before Chaos breaks Legion loose.

Sosiqui always felt a little blah after Christmas. Once the decorations hade been taken down, the Christmas tree taken out and chopped for the compost heap, and the boxes stowed in the basement... not that they had a whole lot of stuff, considering Sosi had only been in Gaia for a bit less than two years, but it was still sort of depressing.

A good time to write, then. Get her mind off of things while it was quiet.

She slipped into her room and dug through her desk drawers until she found her journal, but... "Where's a pen when you need one?" she groused, shoving a few papers onto the floor. A search yielded a few pencils and a pen empty of ink. Disgruntled, she sat down and begam rummaging under the bed, coming up with the backpack she'd taken to that alternate Gaia with Aeina. "I did have one here, right?"

A few seconds of searching revealed a pen, alright. Sosiqui's forehead wrinkled in thought as she pulled it out. How odd. She rubbed her thumb across the unusual marking on it. Well, whatever. Weird stuff turned up in her life often enough that she wasn't even going to ask anymore.

She got up, collected the journal, and padded back down the hall to the living room, where she sat down on the couch with a contented sigh. Riven was curled up on the other couch, and she could hear the faint bleeps of the PS2 coming from the den. Five, no doubt.

Sosiqui opened the book and began to write...

Nggh. Wasn't that always the way... first she couldn't get the damn pen to write, and now that the ink was finally flowing, the doorbell rings!

Fine.

Sosiqui put her things down on the coffee table and stood up, Riven watching her. Biome trundled part of the way out of the kitchen, cleaning rags dangling from the Fandangle's claws. "What? Haven't you ever seen somebody get up before?" she muttered.

Riven shrugged.

"Honestly." She opened the door. "Uh, can I help you? If you're selling something, we don't want any," she added. It was obvious that she didn't know the young man standing on her doorstep at all.

Sosiqui's eyes narrowed. "I don't make resolutions, because I'm bad at keeping them," she said, shortly, not moving from the doorway. "We don't have much to talk about, I'm afraid."

Just then, Biome clattered up behind her, the twin armatures (each the size of a Great Dane) looking curiously at the visitor... though it was hard to read emotions in large, glittering biomechanical eyes. Heads tilted in unison before the legs rippled and the Fandangle backed off, the flowered cleaning cloths held in their foreclaws looking incongruous against their metal casing.

A grin twitched on Sosiqui's lips for a moment. "Is there anything else?"

((She's enjoying the 'oh, just in case it's a dangerous visitor - let's FREAK HIM OUT with the giant metal things! Yay!' thing. XD))

Sosiqui stumbled forward instinctively to catch the guy before he hit the dirt - salesman or whatever he was or not, she did have SOME compassion - only to blink as he dissappeared completely.

"What...?" She wasn't exactly unused to strange things like this happening, but it was just a little bit odd. Stranger that he left stuff behind. She knelt down to open the backpack.

"What are you doing?" Riven asked, floating up behind her. "That was strange."

"Checking for ID so I know who the hell that was, so I can give this back," she responded, opening the pack - and blinking as a few pens rolled out. Pens that looked exactly like the one she'd found in her pack, down to the odd marking.

Stranger and stranger still.

Then she pulled the leather strap out from under the backpack, and froze. There was a pendant, makeshift, dangling from it. Made of the tip of a unicorn's horn...

No. It wasn't ordinary. She could feel flickers of time magic clinging to it. Not much, and not active, but it was there, and it had a very particular feeling to it. Her own magical 'signature', in fact.

Her eyes narrowed.

((Gotta eat. Go wake up somewhere. XD; It's a small house. Back soon))

Sosiqui carefully compared her wand to the bit of unicorn horn. The horn had a hole through it, but other than that... it was the same width, had the same whorling on the side. Everything was the same other than a bit of extra wear and tear.

Of course, there was the obvious fact that her wand was whole, not broken.

Broken...

"Gods, don't tell me," Sosiqui muttered, slipping the wand into the holder at her side. First she'd met another version of herself, and if her hypothesis was right, this man had also met a part of her. And somehow gotten the horn-shard from her.

A gift? Or stolen? Even broken it in battle? Such things were possible... She sat down on the couch, the backpack still in her hands, forehead wrinkled in thought.



Meanwhile, Riven drifted down the hallway, heading for his room, when he heard an odd noise. Somebody talking?

... in the bathroom?

He mentally listed the denizens of the house that were both capable of speech and had a reason to go in the bathroom, and came up with nothing other than Sosi and Five... who were both out in the front of the house.

Hrm.

He knocked politely. "Who's in there?" he asked. Curious as he was, Sosiqui had at least taught him not to go barging into bathrooms.

Riven blinked. "Mom..?"

"What? And don't play with the toilet, I know you don't ever use it," she muttered, walking up to him, the backpack slung over one shoulder.

"No, it wasn't me, and don't you think I'm a little old for flushing the toilet like a toy ANYWAY," Riven said, looking a bit insulted. "It was the man from the door."

"He disappeared-"

"I know, but I guess he appeared again in here. Then he disappeared again when he opened the door and saw me." Riven's nose wrinkled. "Why?"

"So, wait. Let me get this straight," Sosiqui closed her eyes and rubbed her temples. "This random person comes to the door, sees Biome, disappears and drops a fragment of my NOT-broken wand in the process, reappears to go to the bathroom and then re-disappears?"

"Um. I think so?" Riven said, cautiously.

"Just when I think I have a handle on 'normal' on Gaia, something else happens," Sosiqui groaned.

Sosiqui ran one hand through her hair as she walked back into her bedroom and slung the stranger's backpack down on her bed. Whatever all that was about, it made her head hurt. Some things were bizzare even for Gaia.

"Slippers, slippers," she muttered, peering under her bed. "Nope, must be in the c-"

The door opened.

"Gah!!" Sosiqui jumped backwards, drawing her wand in an instant. "Who are you, what are you doing IN MY CLOSET, and don't you even THINK about disappearing without giving me an explanation, buddy!" She leveled her wand at him, the dagger-sharp unicorn horn pointed right at his throat - although she was still a good three feet away.

"Mom?" Riven's voice came from the hallway.

"Stay out," Sosiqui barked.

Sosiqui blinked and stared owlishly at the little... angel-thing?

Well, at least that was somewhat normal. Many people in Gaia had companions. Although not many vanished and reappeared in random places in her house...

"Talk," she said, backing off and lowering her wand, although she kept it ready. Even though she had Aeina's prohibition against magic on her, the wand was still quite sharp, and she could still stab people with it if it came to that. "Riven, come here."

Obediently, the spirit Fa'e floated in, pushing the door open. His spear, Aeintor, was held in one hand; however, the look on his face was more of bemused curiosity than anything else.

Of course, the look on Sosiqui's face was still annoyance bordering on anger. "Now. Please talk. Especially about this." She reached back in one smooth movement and tossed the necklace at him.