fandomhighdorms | Reserves: Behind the Dorms, Tuesday After Classes [9/14]

Instead of the nearly usual coffee, there was a bend to the whims of the other leaders of the reserve and it was a large selection of mocha lattes. Yes, with a lot of whipped cream. Happy now, Zack?

"Welcome back," Maladicta said, under her umbrella ~~ella ella~~ once again as she addressed the group. "Today we're going to be talking about methods for escaping capture using whatever is available to you at the moment or your own natural abilities."

Like turning into the ever cliche bats!

Zack couldn't turn into bats, but he suspected that he'd totally find a way to escape capture if ever he was in a situation that warranted it. It would probably take him a while, depending on the situation, but sooner or later...

"It's really hard to say just what sort of capture you might face, on an island like this. But the simplest one for us to work with here and now would be the ever classic... Being tied up," Zack intoned, bouncing and smiling and yes, totally happy because his mocha had whipped cream and life was good and he was stupidly high on sugar. "Ropes and handcuffs and all of that!"

Oh, sure, bring up the natural abilities thing. Kennedy at least got to keep the annoyed look off her face by smothering an amused smirk at Zack. "Not like that, guys." Oh, you know someone was thinking it.

...someone other than Kennedy, because that was a given.

"Not like what?" Oh, Zack. You knew better, you silly boy. Stop playing dumb. "Aaaanyhow, today we've got some chairs set out, and some rope, and some handcuffs and stuff to experiment with. Pair off with someone and take turns tying one another to the chair, and trying to get free! Wriggling helps, I've heard! And, uh, if somebody is having trouble getting out, have a heart and let them go if they ask, okay? We're not here to traumatize anyone, just to get some practise in on the chance that we end up in some sticky situation."

Knowing Fandom, it could be literally sticky. But as someone who'd gotten tied to a chair not all that long ago herself, Kennedy spoke up, "And it's cool if you want to, uh, sit this one out today."

Maladicta was giving Zack a very concerned look for that last comment there, but was just going to ignore it for now. ~~Square Enix sure was dirty!~~ "If anyone has tips beside... wriggling... please feel free to share with your compatriots."

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Cally laughed, even if it was a small one because saying such things still washed her mouth in that odd flavour combination of bitter and impossible. "Nor does the future as I know it -- or at least not on my planet."

Well, at least she wasn't the first person to say something like that to him, because now all he did was blink. "Right," Dolf said, and swallowed - literally and figuratively - before answering. "And where is your planet?"

To answer that for someone from an Earth that hadn't even left its own solar system yet... what could she even say that would mean anything?

Which is why Cally furrowed her brow for a moment, then pointed straight up. "That way." She almost kept a straight face while doing so. Almost.

For a moment, Dolf's eyes actually followed her pointing finger--

--then they darted back down, to her, and he laughed. "Good point," he said.

"It's called Auron," Cally added, because a name at least still had meaning, independent of distance and directions. "It's in this galaxy, but quite far from Earth."

Dolf nodded slowly, digesting that, rolling it around in his head and giving it a place. "Lightyears?" he offered, at last.

"Thousands of them." Far enough that travel to Earth on non-military transport would have taken months, had she done it in any way resembling normality.

Dolf's face held the look of someone trying to comprehend an impossible distance, and failing. "That... must be a very long way to travel," he said at last. "Did you come with a spaceship?"

She shook her head. "I was on a spacecraft. A shuttle - a very small spacecraft." Cally spread her hands, her inability to explain having nothing to do with language and concepts of distance this time. "It didn't come with me. One moment I was there, the next, I was on Earth."

"You're sure there wasn't a machine?"

Everyone here kept insisting there weren't machines, or they made less sense than random, magical things-- it was like a whole faith, but rooted in some twisted reality.

It made Dolf a little tired.

"Not on the ship. My people don't have that sort of technology." Nobody had that sort of technology. "There was some sort of energy vortex, though; the ship was being pulled into it."

He didn't know vortex, but he knew energy, so he nodded. It sounded slightly less impossible than magic, at least. "Do you know... how to get back?"

The question of the month, there, or perhaps the question of her life. "No." Cally shook her head. "If I did, I wouldn't be here."

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