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Bluebird ([personal profile] takewing) wrote2010-02-06 05:24 am
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[ One moment, you were stepping through a door. The next moment, a wall of heat and bright sunlight slams into you; it's at least 40°C out here, though it's mercifully, blessedly dry. Whenever your eyes adjust, you find yourself standing outside of what looks to be an old shed, overlooking a strange yet picturesque village. The cries and calls of birds fills the air, and across the water people in strange garments are going about their business.

Welcome to Osnova, stranger. ]
azurebeneath: surprised, watchful, curious (A Genial Visit from Mr Sacks?)

[personal profile] azurebeneath 2014-02-10 08:10 am (UTC)(link)
[ just a moment, I thought you mentioned heat

and light

specifically sunlight

will be standing for several moments marvelling at this development despite the fact that staring at the sun is almost certain to guarantee blindness, especially after so long underground ]
azurebeneath: curious, questioning, surprised (You're close to something interesting.)

[personal profile] azurebeneath 2014-02-10 09:00 am (UTC)(link)
[ startles only the tiniest bit, though when she shades her eyes and turns, she does so casually enough ]

Her?

[ blinking hard to clear the spots from her eyes, still unable to make out anything more than silhouettes. Her clothing is clearly too heavy for this weather, dark in colour and layered with skirts and petticoats ]
azurebeneath: surprised, watchful, curious (A Genial Visit from Mr Sacks?)

[personal profile] azurebeneath 2014-02-10 09:23 am (UTC)(link)
You mean the Sun?

[ squints, trying to make out details as they slowly come into focus ]

I'm afraid that might prove rather difficult... surely it can't be that bad.
azurebeneath: unimpressed, dismissive, irritated, sarcastic (A Pail of So-Called Snow.)

[personal profile] azurebeneath 2014-02-10 09:48 am (UTC)(link)
[ f. frowns... ]

Not entirely... but I suppose it can't be helped.

[ she'll just have to scrounge up the echoes for another gown later. Takes the skirt of her dress and starts methodically tearing the underskirts out of it, a task that takes a deceptive amount of strength ]

Might I ask— where this is?

[ even in Kaito's most wild ravings of a State of Some Confusion, even in her most drunken stupors, no hallucination of the surface had ever been described as so warm, so bright, filled with a sun that beats down like a hammer. And it's too vivid, too sharp and clear to be dismissed as a honey dream... ]
azurebeneath: surprised, watchful, curious (A Genial Visit from Mr Sacks?)

[personal profile] azurebeneath 2014-02-10 10:06 am (UTC)(link)
[ pauses briefly in her tearing, looking back up at her ]

I've never heard of either such place. Are we very close to England...?

[ surely this must be the surface — what else could it be? — but just how much has it changed while they lived in the Neath... ]
azurebeneath: worried, wary, sad, upset, watchful (The Cities that Fell)

[personal profile] azurebeneath 2014-02-10 10:22 am (UTC)(link)
[ WELL. Well. She has her own collection of ink, and short hair isn't completely unheard of among those who openly flout society, but yes, it's becoming increasingly obvious that she just might happen to be in the colonies. Somehow.

Hurries to finish with her skirt, certain that it would be best to have her hands free as soon as possible, just in case ]


It's... a country, rather.

Cephean?
azurebeneath: surprised, watchful, curious (A Genial Visit from Mr Sacks?)

[personal profile] azurebeneath 2014-02-15 09:29 am (UTC)(link)
[relaxes enough once she's finished with her tearing, folding up the fabric and using it to hike her skirts a little higher. Clearly showing ankle isn't much of a concern in this place, though she can already imagine Kuroba's commentary]

The "First Land"... I must admit this is all rather strange to me, yes.
azurebeneath: pleased, smug, teasing (Checkmate in twenty moves.)

[personal profile] azurebeneath 2014-03-12 06:53 am (UTC)(link)
Far be it from me to decline.

[to be fair, taverns can be ideal for ambushes, particularly when one is friends with the tavernkeeper or the regulars... but Aoko's confident enough in her ability to scope a location from the door (and to handle multiple burly assailants at once) to accept for now. If things appear to be too much of a challenge she reasons that she can escape into the wilds and survive for at least a few nights]
azurebeneath: curious, questioning, surprised (You're close to something interesting.)

[personal profile] azurebeneath 2014-07-30 10:06 pm (UTC)(link)
[is keeping up for now despite the heat, though she does squint and occasionally shade her eyes whenever they step directly into the sunlight]

Aoko Nakamori. The pleasure is mine, Miss Bluebird.
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