lap one // day 114 (closed)

[amphibian]

Who: Aoi and Paarthurnax
Open: Closed
When: Day 114
Where: The Skyway
What: A giant dragon helps Aoi off the Skyway. ...Yep. Yeeeeup.
Format: Action
Warnings: Probably not!

[This is not Hope's Peak.

Except Aoi has definitely woken up on her bed, and this is certainly her room—but the school is gone. Or it's...in pieces? A chunk of hallway there, a bit of cafeteria there, another student's vague silhouette on what must be a piece of their own room well off at the horizon.

It's not the first time she's woken up in a very strange environment with her memory missing, anyway? The world was at least kind of together last time, though!

She takes tiptoeing steps across her floor, and once she's as close to the edge as she can be without feeling like her balance is compromised, Aoi cups her hands around her mouth and starts to yell.]

Sakura-chaaaaan! Naegi! ...F-Fukawa-chan!

[...The shape that she's sure is a student's doesn't move. She backs up, squints at a hunk of hallway not too far from her bedroom floor, and sprints.

At the edge, she leaps, and lands where she's aiming for with a short yelp and a little bit of tottering, but she's there. She moves herself closer to the middle, and starts to scream again, louder.]

Sa-ku-ra-chaaaaaaaaan!

...Where...is everyone..?

Comments

[wayofvoice]

Hmmm... On occasion. I ventured forth, but it became more and more rare to find others of my kind. After I came upon one of my kin trapped with his mind deteriorating, the mountain became more inviting.

[It hadn't been a pleasant journey to visit Numinex, but he had been one of the last of their kind not awaiting Alduin's return. Besides... Such isolation, a trophy for humans - he deserved better.]

There were humans, however, who wished to learn the Way of the Voice from me. They kept me company, and told me of what happened in the rest of the world.

[amphibian]

Good, I'm glad you had company! Nobody oughtta be all by themselves. [She's somewhat perkier, like she's reassured by the answer—at least the last, substantially more optimistic bit.]

Oh, the Voice thing... Do you mean, um... [It takes her a second to figure out how, exactly, she's supposed to articulate a description of the shouted force from earlier. She's still hung up on the fact that it happened.] ...the yelling thing? [Nailed it.] Y'know, when you shouted at all those birds—what was it? Fa re do? No, that's something else. Foe...fus...

[She's. She's trying.]

[wayofvoice]

[Paarthurnax isn't the judging sort, so he doesn't show any annoyance at the fumbling of his language. He just corrects her, patiently.]

The Thu'um, yes. Words are powerful, and those of the dov, of my kind, are even more powerful than most. Fus Ro Dah- [And he's careful to just say it instead of properly invoking it.] -is just one way to use its power. Fus means 'force'. Ro is 'balance'. Dah, push.

[amphibian]

Fus, Ro, Dah... [She says it one slowly-spoken word at a time, intent on getting it right. Of course, she is a very standard earthling, and so nothing explodes, but there's something exciting even about just saying it.]

That's so coooool! Like, up til now I thought magic and stuff wasn't real. But you can do what you did just by talking!

[wayofvoice]

It takes complete understanding of the word you wish to invoke.. Ah, Zu'u tinvaak rem pogaas. Now is not the time to go into such a deep discussion. I see buildings ahead.

[Indeed, the hospital and apartment buildings are most visible at this distance, but with each beat of his wings bringing them closer, more of the Bastion becomes clearer.]