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thebastion2015-04-26 08:31 pm
grandiflora) wrote in thebastion2015-04-26 08:31 pm
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[Day 304] I want to feel the sun shine [OPEN]
Who: Rose Quartz, OPEN
Open: Open
When: 304
Where: The Rippling Walls
What: Being the leader of a rebellion isn't enough to prepare you for suddenly being in a destroyed world.
Format: action
Warnings: N/A
[Warm sun, calm beaches, the crashing of waves... Rose had woken to such things more than once in her long, long life. Sleep wasn't needed for a Gem, but even Rose could understand Amethyst's enjoyment of such a thing especially when those nights that turned in to days were spent with Greg.
This time waking came with an unexpected side effect - a pain in her head that was entirely unfamiliar - as well as a sight she wasn't expecting to see. The sky was no longer blue, but a hazy, dirty yellow with a distinct smell of dirt in the air.
Rising, Rose pressed thick fingers to her temple. The pain ebbed enough that she was able to focus her gaze on her surroundings.
... this was not the beach.
This... this was the rubble of something else entirely. Fortress? Castle? The stone used was obviously strong and meant to protect, but it was crumbling.
As was the ground around her.
In fact she wasn't even completely on ground, she was floating in the air! Her, the slab of earth she was laying on and the very walls that surrounded her! This... couldn't be Earth. There wasn't even a sign of a Warp Pad anywhere near her.
But if she was here...]
... Greg... ? ... Pearl?!
[Somewhere in the distance, a bird cried out. The only response to her worried cries.
Oh... oh. Oh, this was not good...]
Open: Open
When: 304
Where: The Rippling Walls
What: Being the leader of a rebellion isn't enough to prepare you for suddenly being in a destroyed world.
Format: action
Warnings: N/A
[Warm sun, calm beaches, the crashing of waves... Rose had woken to such things more than once in her long, long life. Sleep wasn't needed for a Gem, but even Rose could understand Amethyst's enjoyment of such a thing especially when those nights that turned in to days were spent with Greg.
This time waking came with an unexpected side effect - a pain in her head that was entirely unfamiliar - as well as a sight she wasn't expecting to see. The sky was no longer blue, but a hazy, dirty yellow with a distinct smell of dirt in the air.
Rising, Rose pressed thick fingers to her temple. The pain ebbed enough that she was able to focus her gaze on her surroundings.
... this was not the beach.
This... this was the rubble of something else entirely. Fortress? Castle? The stone used was obviously strong and meant to protect, but it was crumbling.
As was the ground around her.
In fact she wasn't even completely on ground, she was floating in the air! Her, the slab of earth she was laying on and the very walls that surrounded her! This... couldn't be Earth. There wasn't even a sign of a Warp Pad anywhere near her.
But if she was here...]
... Greg... ? ... Pearl?!
[Somewhere in the distance, a bird cried out. The only response to her worried cries.
Oh... oh. Oh, this was not good...]
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[It almost felt like when the Gem War had ended and they had come out the winners, but were still stranded on Earth. For a time Rose caught herself thinking that the home world was still a warp pad away when that was as far from the truth as possible.
When tomorrow came... she would have to remind herself that not even Earth was home anymore.]
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[She shifts her hands low to the shining gem at her belly, causing it to glow until a shield with a distinct rose motif on it shimmered in to place.]
I'm without my sword at the moment, but this has gotten me out of difficult situations before.
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How do you do that?
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I sort of thought you just called your friends gems. As a name. So the stone you wear sort of holds the weapon?
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[She tapped the crystal on her belly gently.]
Is right here.
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I don't see how all of you that fits in there.
that's ok!
I suppose you would have to think of it as... a soul?
[That's what humans call it, right?]
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[Disciple doesn't, of course, but this confusion has probably run its course. She should worry about this another time]
I suppose life can come in some very odd varieties. There's a spherical pastry tree in Bastion, what's that to a stone with a body illusion.
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... a pastry tree?
[That, however, gets her to laugh. What in the world?!]
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[She pulls out a handful of shimmering shards from her bag] And you can get things in return. She got trees with pastries growing from them. For reasons I cannot explain.
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How odd!
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[She pulls out her amulet from under her clothing.] It'll help. Out here on the skyway.
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[She steps off a piece of land, into what should be a never ending fall, but a path appears beneath her feet]
It's handy, if you want to get somewhere that isn't exactly on the beaten path.
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[She frowns a bit, glancing back where she had came from. The area was just as empty as it had been, though. Her sword was nowhere to be seen.]
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[Maybe... it's a good thing Gems don't need to eat.]
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I... I think I'll pass, thank you.
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