chapter 1

[hideous-soul.livejournal.com]

---My God! What is this...this place?!

{The very beautiful, young (looking) man is no less than terrified to find himself standing in the sky, and rightfully so. He is from Victorian-era London, after all. Very repressed, right?}

It is a thing of...beauty, I have no doubts about that, but it is something from a fanciful novel, it would seem. A place full of the heavens--And look, even I appear to have been touched by their fragile light. Is it an enchantment?

No, of course not.

It would be better to call it some fancy of the mind, but at the same time, that is not possible either. I have not even considered such things. Nothing to cloud my mind any more, I did promise, and I have done so dutifully, and not even took a bit of anything to ease my sleep...

{And as if that is his own justification, he very carefully takes a step, and is shocked once more to not fall. So he walks, curiously.}

Have I...died? This cannot be such a beautiful Hell. A waking dream, that seems more likely. I should apologize to Basil at once when I wake.

---Is that a Colosseum? Are these stars I walk upon above Rome? I should have quite preferred London, but I suppose I cannot even entertain the fancies of my own mind...

Comments

[flawless-genius.livejournal.com]

[Have a very pretty mage who happens to be holding a large white bird in his arms.]

It's not a dream, and I doubt either of us is dead. I may not entirely sure what this place is, but I am certain you that you are very much alive and awake if you can come here.

[hideous-soul.livejournal.com]

Then what could it possibly be otherwise? And who are you?

[flawless-genius.livejournal.com]

I am Firesong. As to your first question...this place is called the Astral Plane, and it is apparently part of an experiment.

[lamb_of_gold]

This is the Astral Plane. If you wish to return home, a thought will take you.

[oncemarauder.livejournal.com]

[watches him with a faint smile, both curious and sympathetic] Those are the theories most people have at first, I think, but none of them are true.

[asmallamoroso.livejournal.com]

[Is standing by with a few books tucked under her arm--] If this place were Hell I'm sure we would all be in for some trouble.

[hideous-soul.livejournal.com]

What sort of experiment?

[hideous-soul.livejournal.com]

I beg your pardon? You present that as if it is simple and this place is...ordinary.

[hideous-soul.livejournal.com]

Then what could it be? It could not possibly be real.

[hideous-soul.livejournal.com]

...I cannot imagine that I would have ever heard a young girl say that. Truly, this place is curious.

[asmallamoroso.livejournal.com]

There is a lot you wouldn't imagine to happen here but it does. This entire... realm, for lack of a better world, is a giant experiment in progress. Or so I've been told.

[flawless-genius.livejournal.com]

If I knew that, I would feel far more secure here. It seems to involve bring us here, then watching us run around. What exactly they hope to accomplish with that I don't know. It seems more like an excuse to use us as entertainment more than anything else.

[hideous-soul.livejournal.com]

An experiment? I would assume for the sake of science, but even then, what its purpose could possibly be is lost.

[lovethepossum.livejournal.com]

...Where's Rome? Does it look like this too?

[lamb_of_gold]

It is both simple and ordinary when one has been here as long as I.

[hideous-soul.livejournal.com]

You do not know where Rome is?

{D: ewww commoner ewww}

[hideous-soul.livejournal.com]

And how long would that be?

[hideous-soul.livejournal.com]

And just who might "they" be?

[lamb_of_gold]

Nearing my second year, now.

[flawless-genius.livejournal.com]

From what I have been able to find out "they" are a pair of doll like Twins. They seem to have created this place, which is impressive and rather frightening.

[lovethepossum.livejournal.com]

Not really; I don't think it exists where I come from- either that or it's really small and outside the cave; which is also quite likely. Since there aren't many settlements in the cave and I'm sure I would've heard of one called Rome- it sounds all grand and stuff.

[Hey! That's exactly the same look that her parents would give her if she ever went home! Surprisingly she is quite happy about this :D COMMONER COOTIES EVERYWHERE!~]

[oncemarauder.livejournal.com]

It's definitely real, though maybe...not in the way other things are real. It's a – kind of meeting place, for people from all sorts of places. Places we wouldn't normally have access too.

[weerweer.livejournal.com]

Wow. Way to feel entitled.

You show up walking in fucking space with a Roman Colosseum or whatever and you want London? Excuse me, horseteeth.

[a-pretty-fire.livejournal.com]

Oh, Hell is always beautiful.