Terre Haute Expedition: Paradisa Town

[save_the_souls]

[After a long few days of traveling, the expedition team has reached past it's halfway point! And as such, they decide to make rest at a place that had once been the target of a previous expedition:]


Paradisa Town
Note: Talking Animal People and Actually Happy Once-ler Not Included

[A small cutesy village that once served as a world change location, it has now been abandoned of all it's previous residents. Though it's condition hardly looks like a place that hasn't been lived in for years- instead it has the condition that everyone just stepped out for awhile. There are more than enough small houses to fit everyone, so it's a nice break from sleeping on the ground (for some anyway). It's also a good place to stock up if you're one of those explorers that forgot things such as food and spare clothing. That is, if you don't mind peaches and fish and really gaudy clothing.]

[Relax, Explore, Pig out on Peaches - the evening is yours to do as you please.]

[OOC: THE SHEEP | THE TOWN | THE HOUSES | NATURE | Add your own section!]

Comments

[heliotroping]

Oh, no! We have enough survival skills... [And some weird feeling where the castle is at any given point in space] I'm just saying it's easy to miss it since there's a lot of ground.

[wilder]

[He was walking near and saw her- thinking hey let's go say hi!]

[And then...he sees the roaches. And hears her asking for a kitchen]

[...................]




[Yeah no, let's go say hi another time when he won't want to throw up gah]

[save_the_souls]

Mm...I guess you have a point.

I just wish there was an easier way to travel out here! So we could be out here for longer or cover more distance! It would make us seeing everything so much easier.

[wolfchild]

I guess.

[ She chews her lip. ]

[wolfchild]

[ A shrug. ]

I know. She was pretty pleased with herself. [ And it's better that she take out her aggressiveness on beasts like cockroaches. ] Robb and I got one of the houses near the lake.

[psych0p0mps]

[JUST TRY IT, YOU'LL LIKE IT. Anyway it's too late, she's seen him now.]

Zelos! Hey, Zelos, do you know?

[save_the_souls]

...You want to stay here, don't you?

[wolfchild]

[ Her eyes flit to him. ]

It doesn't matter. I never get what I want.

[secondchances]

Nice.

And, since I've got you here--that whole thing with the giant crack in the ground in the city, and the Bat-thing...

Mind if that stays between you and me?

[save_the_souls]

Says the child who managed to sneak into the expedition she wanted to go on.

[CAUSE HE SURE DIDN'T SEE YOU IN THE CHECK-IN]

[wolfchild]

I am not a child. And I wouldn't have if my friend hadn't come.

[wolfchild]

I guess. There's no one to tell anyway.

Why were you dressed like that?

[wolfchild]

[ Arya tries to mimic him. Her stone sinks like, well, a stone. She glares at the rippling circles on the water like they had insulted her mother. ]

[save_the_souls]

...It does matter.

Maybe you don't always get what you want, but that doesn't mean you should give up and wait for fate to fall on you. If you want to stay, you should try to do what you can to do so.

I won't promise it'll work, maybe it won't. But...you never know.

[wolfskin]

[ Sorry Anne, there is no nice lady coming to help. Only one certain direwolf diving head first into the river.

Welp!

And his master is right behind. Voice clinging to the edge of the wind. ]

[secondchances]

[EXACTLY. But Tim would have kittens if he learned MORE people knew about Steph. Given how antsy Cass is about being Batgirl instead of Cassandra Cain, there will be a long discussion about secret identities in Paradisa once they get back.]

Remember a long time ago, I told you about Batman and Robin? And Batgirl?

[SHEEPISH GRIN totally said Batgirl was her favorite for obvious reasons... whoops.]

[ensorceler]

[ Fortunately she already got a lovely lady to help her! Well, a totally naked and kind of tactless lady, but she was nice.

Although now Anne thinks maybe she should have stuck around more after the interrogation instead of trying to seek full privacy. Because now she's at her most vulnerable and a giant leaping and splashing towards her. It's getting dark, and she doesn't know them well enough to tell them apart yet. Scary direwolves are scary, especially when UNLEASHED (figuratively). She can't even see or hear Robb beyond him for all the splashing.

At least this time she doesn't scream, for poor Spike's peace of mind, wherever he's probably trying to relax. Instead she just freezes like a statue for a moment, then drops down into the water when the wolf comes near, arms over her head and breath held solid. Oh please God don't let her die out here. ]

[wolfskin]

[ The wolf, for the most part, is unaware of her distress. He is enjoying the water far too much. Acting more like a pup than a grown wolf. ]

Grey Wind! [ It is a tired frustrated noise that leaves him as Robb comes through the bushes to catch up to his wayward wolf. Unlike the wolf Robb notices Anne straight away, his expression going from exasperated to concerned. He calls for the wolf again, an urgency in his voice that makes the wolf obey and return to shore. ]

My lady? [ By the old gods. ] Are you alright?

[wolfchild]

[ But she does know. The same thing will happen that always does. Her family will be taken away again. Even Sansa. She will be the one left behind.

Her gods have no eyes here. There's no one will want to care for her what with her mother gone. Even Zelos will grow sick of her. He has more important people to worry about than an ugly little girl. Her name is the only thing she has and even it has no value here.

Even if by some miracle they find the way out, she would end up someplace else before she could choose. Someplace worse. Mayhaps that wet road with the dog again.

Some days she thinks it might be better if she dies at the Twins too. She could be with her parents and her brothers again. What's a world worth without Catelyn and Robb in it, anyway? ]

I do try. It'd be easier if we knew where to start.

[ensorceler]

[ At the now familiar voice, Anne tentatively looks up through her dripping hair, letting out a puff of air from shaky lips when she realizes it's Robb's wolf, and it's master is right there. Thank God. Even at this distance, in the eve, maybe the relief is visible in her posture as she relaxes considerable. Her arms drop from above her head and she slowly stands, pushing her hair out of her face so that she might see better. Despite herself, she lets out an abrupt laugh, shaken by nerves, recovering too recently from shock to fully realize the situation just yet. All she's currently computing is that she wasn't mauled to death by a bear. ]

King Robb! By God's grace, I had feared the worst.

[wolfskin]

[ Grey Wind shakes himself of water once upon land, showering Robb with droplets of water. He gives the wolf a scowl before edging closer to the water's edge. ]

There is nothing to fear, only a manner-less wolf.

[ Who doesn't understand what was so wrong with what he has done. What is wrong with going for a swim? Nothing, nothing at all. Or so Grey Wind thinks. ]

[wolfchild]

A little. So you're bat...girl?

[ensorceler]

[ Hey talk about mannerless, she's practically naked! Which she seems to recall more properly as he talks, and both arms immediately cross over her breasts as she ducks down again into the water. Though Anne is hardly ashamed of her own body, manners are manners, and the wet shift doesn't actually conceal much.

But even then, the shock seems to have faded enough for her to tease, because this could have been so much worse. ]

And a bold king!

[secondchances]

Right. Not too many people know that, though.

[save_the_souls]

[Sorry I reject your reality and replace it with my own. YOU WILL GET A HAPPY ENDING SOMEHOW DAMMIT]

I know...I wish we had a known starting point too.

But at least learning as much as we can about this world is something. Maybe one day it'll give us a clue.