realityshifted | ♥ is this a nightmare to be or am i building a dream?

[A young woman with stark white skin and purple hair appears suddenly on the Astral Plane, mid-walk and mid-talk. She's dressed rather simply in a low-cut peasant blouse and a layered black skirt, though her haircut is more modern than Victorian. Like anime. Or 1990s.]

I really think this is going to work, C—

[Her accent is mild but still recognizably London, if London was suddenly placed in the middle of space.]

—Connor?

[All of her collected-ness trembles in fear for a moment as she's completely cut off from everyone she ever knew. A quick mental scan of the area— an area as big as Whitechapel— reveals that none of her freaky family is in proximity.

Also, there is no floor. Or ceiling.]

Jack? Jack! Damn it, where—...!? [She reaches out to touch a lamp pole someone left behind, making sure it's real. She's never had an "episode" before but she thinks that quite possibly she may have hit her head. She leans against the pole and runs a hand through her hair, looking around.]

Something about this seems familiar, but I can't really remember it, and I know I would. Especially since I've never been anywhere that they couldn't hear me. Maybe I fell, or... no, I couldn't have been attacked, that's not right, I would have felt...

... What's happened to me?

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[Is not terribly fazed by this. Red eyes, silver hair, weirdo tattoos - those don't seem to be terribly 'normal', from what she's seen. ... Meh. Not her problem.] Yeah, it happens a lot. The buildings on the Astral Plane do usually have floors and so on, but the rest of it is just stars.

Did anyone already give you the rundown? If not: you're not actually stuck here, you can just think your way out and back in again. Time doesn't pass on your world while you're here. ...no, I don't know how that works, it just does.

[LMAO ♥] I'm surprised I'm not falling through the floor or... something. [She pokes at a galaxy with her sandal, then looks back at Haseo.] They didn't mention the time part. Hard to believe I'm not imagining this... but my dreams certainly don't get this creative.

[She offers her hand.]

I'm Sirkka.

The Plane's just weird like that.

[...Oh hey, one of those handshake things. Handshake time, then.]

I'm Haseo.

It's nice to meet you.

[Her smile is gentle, honest.]

How long have you been here? Do you know?

Nice t' meet you too.

Uh...a while? I kinda lost track. [Derp derp derp.] It feels like it's been a long time though.

A long time...

[She trails off into her own thoughts for a moment, and then--]

I like your tattoos. They're very unique.

[...Not quite what she was expecting to hear. Compliments on physical appearance are strange, not bad, but a bit on the "huh that doesn't happen too much" side. And therefore they induce the 'buhhh's.] Uh - thank you? They happened under some pretty weird circumstances, so...yeah.

You don't hear that much, do you? [She smiles softly.] I know what it's like. Only me and the people I grew up with look like this. Mm, but that's all right. This place is certainly interesting, once you get past the initial shock of getting transported here.

[Haseo is a tad surprised at this.] You'd fit right in where I'm from. [A bit on the pale side, Sirkka is, but that's not odd either. Mac Anu is awesome like that.]

Yeah, it is interesting. Crazy things happen here, though, so...be careful. [Being trapped in a labyrinth, being trapped in some kind of hotsprings thing, everybody going a little nuts during the tarot event...yep, crazy stuff.]

[She laughs.] Really? It's a shame I can't go there, then.

... Crazy things? [She easily plucks the examples from the surface of Haseo's mind, almost without even trying.]

....It actually happened once; someone got literally stuck in my world for a bit. So I'm not sure that it's impossible. [:Ta] Disappeared after a while and didn't hear from him afterward, though...

Yeah, crazy things. I got stuck in a labyrinth once with someone else, and then there was the time when we all got stuck in a hotsprings resort...place...that's still around. Sometimes strange things just randomly happen to people, like getting turned into a kid or the like - they tend not to last too long though.

That's...

[Her eyes narrow briefly as she tries to imagine it, and then brushes it aside, following the tendrils of distress associated with those events instead. She can see all of Haseo's memories like a bunch of translucent pictures, linked and rounded and blurred by emotion, and she flips through the ones on the surface for clarification on the experiments.]

Why does it happen? Do you know?

♥ is this a nightmare to be or am i building a dream?

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