http://nothornlessrose.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] nothornlessrose.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] fandomhighdorms2011-12-11 06:34 pm

Garden, Sunday Night

Cassidy suddenly found herself opening her eyes back in the gardens and falling on the ground. Confused, she looked around, but the things that had attacked her. As she was getting to her feet, she heard a thought in the wind, or maybe she was imagining things.

*REMEMBER*

Her first thought was of the friends that had been lost here and she thought of them first.

Then she thought of her home. Of Dharo and the people that were her friends and her family. She remembered Devra and Burle. She remembered her brother, Clayton. She thought of Morton and how his smile made her blush and how he wished he liked her like she like him. She remembered the land and how it came to life beneath her hands and feet. She remembered how much she needed to be linked with the land and how the woods or the lakes looked in summer and autumn. She went back to remembering the roads and the fields in Weaver's Field -- in her mind she thought of the pretty houses and the clean storefronts. She remembered and kept coming back to Morton and to Clayton.

She sat down and pressed her hands against the ground to make sure it was being brought back as well and then sighed, leaning back.

Then, she did the thing she had been afraid of doing, afraid that even if she was back, others may have been hurt in the fighting she was sure that happened after how many people were taken away.

She swallowed and sent out a worried call on an open thread.

*Shira? Karla?*

Mother Night, please let them be here, still.


[[OOC: Hping for two or three, but it's open.]]
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[personal profile] glacial_queen 2011-12-12 01:11 am (UTC)(link)
*Cassidy?* Karla's psychic thread hummed with relief. *Thank the Darkness, Cassidy. You're all right!*
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[personal profile] glacial_queen 2011-12-14 06:10 am (UTC)(link)
*I think so,* Karla sent, eyes closed and just breathing for a moment. *I think people are still appearing though.*

[identity profile] snarkyhealer.livejournal.com 2011-12-12 04:58 am (UTC)(link)
*CASSIDY!*

A pause, like Shira realized she was being too loud and was trying to care.

*CASSIDY! Oh, Mother Night, it's good to have you back!*

[identity profile] snarkyhealer.livejournal.com 2011-12-12 02:00 pm (UTC)(link)
*I did,* Shira assured her. *Elle and I both did.*

Which meant Alice hadn't, and that Shira wasn't sure how to actually say it.

[identity profile] snarkyhealer.livejournal.com 2011-12-12 02:06 pm (UTC)(link)
*Unfortunately, I don't know where, exactly,* Shira said by way of agreement. *I'll try calling her in a minute. You were more important to me right now.*

Alice would just have to understand.

[identity profile] snarkyhealer.livejournal.com 2011-12-12 02:15 pm (UTC)(link)
*Oh, Cassidy...* Frustration and annoyance and fear and a couple dozen emotions all at once were in those two words. *Next time? Run? The land matters but the Queen matters more. The land can be rebuilt; the Queen can't.*

[identity profile] snarkyhealer.livejournal.com 2011-12-12 02:51 pm (UTC)(link)
*Of course you are. It's our right.*

But there was a smile to the mental words.

[identity profile] snarkyhealer.livejournal.com 2011-12-12 03:11 pm (UTC)(link)
*Oh, fine. Be that way.* Said teasingly, though, because of course she could give Cassidy that much first. *And I could probably do with sleeping for a week or two. Spent most of my time looking after Elle.*

[identity profile] snarkyhealer.livejournal.com 2011-12-12 04:14 pm (UTC)(link)
*We do,* Shira agreed. *And lots of it.*