Second floor common room- Monday evening

[seriesofbaddecisions]

After class and training, Sabine had gone and done some shopping, then put everything away in the common room kitchen, putting her firebird on all her stuff in marker. Not that she didn't trust you people, but she didn't trust you people. Her entire plan for the night going forward was very much that of a teenager left on their own: ice cream for dinner and trashy TV.

And then when she looked up from grabbing a spoon, she spotted the gremlin on the counter.

She froze, waiting to see what it was going to do. She'd gotten thicker gloves since dealing with the bitey things at Hera's, so she was probably okay, but she wasn't positive.

The gremlin, meanwhile, also froze, waiting on her.

Sabine backed away slowly, with her spoon and ice cream, and slowly backed away towards the couch, eyes on the gremlin the whole time. It didn't move the entire time, and she sat down without any problem.

She was still looking back occasionally to make sure the gremlin was right where she could see it, though.


[dorms two days in a row! Open CR!]

Comments

[unusual_sith]

Lana was on her way back to her room when she saw Sabine in the room. She stepped inside and nodded to her. "Hello. How are you today?"

[seriesofbaddecisions]

"I'm not hallucinating right now, so I'm good," she said proudly. "How was the first day?"

[unusual_sith]

"It went well, I think." Lana frowned. "Hallucinating?"

[seriesofbaddecisions]

"There's a gremlin in the kitchen," she explained. "I think as long as he goes unbothered, everyone goes unbitten."

[unusual_sith]

"Ah." Lana carefully came in far enough to see the thing, so she'd know what to avoid. "Far be it from me to bother him, then."

She perched on the arm of the sofa. "What about you, did you have classes today?"

[white_oleander]

With the intention of going into town, to either test herself at the woods again or maybe just hang out at the beach, Astrid swung by the common room for a bite to eat before she left. Her roommate already there, however, distracted almost right away.

"Oh, hey, Sabine, have you see--"

And, thus distracted, back turned to the counter, and marked as an easy target practically before she'd even crossed the threshold, the gremlin made its move, leaping off the counter to find a nice bite of Astrid's shoulder.

"Son of a bi--" She swatted at whatever it was, despite having a sinking feeling in her stomach that she knew exactly what it was. That feeling turned into butterflies rather quickly, though, as she blinked around the room with a startled expression, pain forgotten, gremlin hitting the floor and scurrying off, no doubt to return back to the counter in due time in hopes for someone else not nearly as cautious or aware as Sabine and Lana had been.

Sorry, Astrid.

Or shall we say Briar Rose?

"Goodness," she breathed out once she really got a good look around the place and realized it wasn't like anything she'd ever seen before. "But where am I? I feel...I feel as though...I've just woken from...a dream..."

[seriesofbaddecisions]

...Well. This was certainly happening.

"Astrid?" Sabine checked, knowing full well she wasn't going to answer to that.

[white_oleander]

Astrid? Did...did the other girl perhaps mistake her for someone else? Who was this other girl, who looked so strange, just as strange as this unfamiliar room that certainly was not in the forest or her cabin there?

"I beg your pardon," Briar Rose said, shaking her head. "I'm afraid I don't understand. I'm so sorry. But...you didn't happen to see three older women around here, have you? One in blue, one in green, one in pink? All very small and very dear?"

Oh, she'd been separated from them somehow...oh, this was very, very bad...very bad indeed, but also...perhaps...a little exciting, too.

They would be so worried, though! And rather upset, too, she imagined...

[seriesofbaddecisions]

"Sorry, I really haven't, uh... what's your name?"

This was not going to help Sabine's want to keep Astrid protected in bubble wrap.

[white_oleander]

You were going to need a whole lot of that bubble wrap, Sabine. She'd survived the summer. The gloves were off now.

"Oh." Briar Rose looked a bit frightened, not unlike a deer caught off guard by a loud noise, her head turned toward the door in a flurry of blonde hair that was not nearly as thick and lustrous as she seemed to think it was. She could leave, of course, but there was no telling what awaited her outside. At least here, the mystery was lessened and, really, the other girl didn't seem like anything she should be too worry about.

"I...I really can't, I'm sorry. I'm not supposed to talk to strangers."

Not that that had stopped her earlier that day, when she ran into that mysterious man, and they'd danced...

She shook her head. "If only I could just find my godmothers...oh, they must be just beside</> themselves with worry!"

[unusual_sith]

Lana stared.

[white_oleander]

Oh, goodness, that...did not bode well, did it? At first, Briar Rose shied back from the other girl staring at her, but, not knowing what else to do, she tried a nervous sort of smile, hoping this wasn't the sort of stranger her godmothers had warned her about.

"Why," she said, nodding slightly, "hello."

[unusual_sith]

"Hello," Lana answered. "Pleasure to meet you." Did that sound more dubious than genuine? Probably.

[mylandmyrules]

Nell had spent much of the past two days getting the feel of the land. Literally. She'd been sort of 'communing' with the woods and green spaces of Fandom. Now, on her way back to her room she stopped and looked into the common room.

"What are you looking at?" And then when Nell saw it... "What is that!?"

[seriesofbaddecisions]

"Bachelor in Paradise, it's terrible," Sabine said, gesturing to the TV with her spoon.

[mylandmyrules]

"I mean the... thing," Nell said, pointing toward the gremlin. "Although that thing on the television... I've never seen anything like it. Not that television is something I have much experience with."

[seriesofbaddecisions]

Sabine looked back to make sure she knew where the gremlin was, and said, "It's a gremlin. Don't let it bite you, but you're probably safe as long as you don't do anything to it."

[mylandmyrules]

"A gremlin?" Nell turned and stared at it again. "What happens if it bites me? Is it poisonous?"

[white_oleander]

"Strange little creature, isn't it?" said Astrid Briar Rose, unable to suppress the smallest of shudders. She regarded the other stranger with eyes that seemed almost a little too innocent and wide. "All the woodland creatures are my friends, but I do think I might have a little bit of trouble making friends with this one..."

Maybe it had something to do with the fact that it was still eyeing her like a tasty snack, despite having already gotten a good chomp in.

[mylandmyrules]

"Yer friends with the woodland creatures?" Nell asked, wondering if this girl might be like her. "Can you feel the land as well? Know what it knows?"

[white_oleander]

"Feel the land?" Briar Rose asked, intrigued, her head tilting slightly, and then she laughed a little, her nervousness and fear being replaced quickly with excitement; Sabine was right, the people here did seem rather nice and friendly, she had no idea why her godmothers would be so against the idea of her talking to them! "Well, I suppose so. When I go out, I much prefer to go without shoes, as you can see!"

She gestured to her feet, and wiggled her toes to show off what she thought were bare and open, but were actually covered in a battered and worn pair of Ked sneakers with the laces coming slightly undone.

"You can just...yes, feel is just the word for it! You feel the land more, and you can almost hear it singing..."

[mylandmyrules]

"You-un don't have bare feet, though," Nell pointed out. She glanced toward the gremlin, thinking maybe she was seeing just what happened when someone got gremlin-bit. "Never heard the land sing, but I'm not saying as it couldn't happen."

[unusual_sith]

"Good evening, Nell." Lana nodded to her roommate. "If you stay on this side of the room, the gremlin seems not to bother you."

[mylandmyrules]

"Then I'm sure as shooting gonna stay over here," Nell said. "How was your day, now, Lana?"

[unusual_sith]

"I got to meet quite a few of the other students," Lana said. "It was interesting. Yours? Did you have classes?"