3rd Reckoning

[livingchalk.livejournal.com]

[Tiffany appears on the plane, her eyes shut tightly. Her entire body is shaking and she can't walk straight. She happens to open her eyes while looking down and lets out a shriek, stumbling backwards and falling onto her back. She groans, more in annoyance than anything else, and tentatively opens her eyes to stare at the swirling stars and galaxies above her.]

Get a grip... I've been here before... I won't fall through...

Comments

[fireintothesky.livejournal.com]

[D: WINGED CHILD IS WORRIED.] Are you okay?

[coil-legacy.livejournal.com]

Ah...are you alright?

[livingchalk.livejournal.com]

No! I'm fine! I'm just... afraid of the ground. [Topic change!] Why do you have wings?

[livingchalk.livejournal.com]

I'll be fine, I think... I need some rest.

[fireintothesky.livejournal.com]

[ D:! ] Maybe you should close your eyes. We can find somewhere with another kind of floor.

Oh, um. It's an experiment.

[livingchalk.livejournal.com]

... That sounds like a good idea. [Deep breathe. She closes her eyes and pushes herself up.]

The same as Crowley's and the angel's? I didn't know you were one too.

[fireintothesky.livejournal.com]

[Moves forward and takes her hand.] Um. I'm not. I guess the experiment is that I am now.

[exserpens.livejournal.com]

Tiffany?

[coil-legacy.livejournal.com]

Um...I know the floor is pretty scary but you do get used to it after awhile. [Trying to be encouraging.]

[livingchalk.livejournal.com]

[She'll be following Henrietta's lead now. BTW, she's still a little shaken.] Experiments can change what you are?

[salvagestime.livejournal.com]

[frowns and bends down close to her] Not a fan of heights, eh?

[livingchalk.livejournal.com]

[She doesn't even look over, keeping her eyes fixed on the stars overhead.]

Hello, Crowley.

[livingchalk.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know. Here's a warning, though: When they ask "Are you afraid of heights?", they don't mean things that are up really high. They mean being up really high.

[livingchalk.livejournal.com]

People should be clearer of what they mean when they say "heights."

[coil-legacy.livejournal.com]

Ah...but that's usually what the phrase means, right?

[livingchalk.livejournal.com]

I don't know! Nobody ever asked me that before.

[coil-legacy.livejournal.com]

Really?

[fireintothesky.livejournal.com]

I guess. [Gives her hand a squeeze.] Ah, there. Theater is just a little farther.

[salvagestime.livejournal.com]

Good point. Space isn't really high or low, exactly. ...What's wrong, then?

[livingchalk.livejournal.com]

Well, today was the first day I've been so far off the ground that if I fell I'd run out of breathe screaming before the rocks and trees had the chance to strip the flesh off of my body. [Her voice got squeaky at the end there.]

[livingchalk.livejournal.com]

Yes, really. The highest point on the Chalk is still on the ground.

[livingchalk.livejournal.com]

[Tiffany nods, trying very hard not to open her eyes.]

[coil-legacy.livejournal.com]

The Chalk?

[exserpens.livejournal.com]

What's happened?

[fireintothesky.livejournal.com]

[Inside the theater now!] Ah, there's a floor. You can open your eyes.