001 - A Bad Day For Everyone

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

[Misaki Kirihara appears on the plane looking very, very pissed. Her Sig P230 is unholstered and leveled at…

…no one.]

Tch.

[She lowers the weapon, very slightly, taking in her surroundings. Or rather, the lack thereof.]

Contractor!

[She turns in a slow circle, tension wrapped around her like a creaking spring.]

Contractor! Show yourself. You’re being stupid. Using your power on a member of the NPA will get you killed. It isn’t worth the laugh.

[A pause. She’s starting to get angry again.]

Show yourself!

[She looks up, down, around at the stars, and a pained expression crosses her face. Barely audible, she mutters,]

You people… know how to be cruel.

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[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

He would think that...

[She closes her eyes briefly, trying to ward of the pounding headache developing just above her ears. What she really wants, right now, is a cheese burger.]

If you aren't one of them, how did you read my mind? That is what you did, I presume? Are you a failed Doll? Please excuse the rude phrasing--I can think of no other way to put it.

[lamb_of_gold]

I am hardly a doll, Madame. Telepathy is simply something I was born with.

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

My apologies. [Feels a twinge of old-lady at the word 'Madame.']

Ah--I'm Misaki Kirihara. You were born with it? That's certainly... [She searches around for the right word] unique. [Fail.]

[lamb_of_gold]

I am Mu. It is a pleasure to meet you, Miss Kirihara.

It may seem such to you, but it is a common trait to my people.

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

I see. [The poor girl is really at a loss. She rubs her eyes with the tips of her fingers, then moves on to massage her temples.]

May I ask where you are from, then, and how you got here--and more importantly, can either of us get back?

[lamb_of_gold]

There's a hammock set up not far from here. If your head gets worse, feel free to lie down.

I am from Athens, Greece in the year 1986. It's quite possible to return to wherever you were. It requires only a tho-*Poof*

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*Poof* Only a thought. Excuse me.

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

Ah.

[She sits where she is, cross-legged, and gives him a wearied sort of smile.]

Then if you will excuse me for a moment.

[Vanish! And then, moments later, Reappear! This time with a table and chairs in tow. She's sitting in one of the chairs and looking a bit surprised.]

It worked. That was somewhat unexpected.

[lamb_of_gold]

Objects can be brought too and from our homes at will. People, strangely, cannot.

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

[She props her chin in her hand, resigned to believing all of this is a very strange dream or that she's completely lost it. She checks her thoughts, glancing at Mu.]

Does it get... difficult, dealing with telepathy?

[She traces constellations with her gaze] It's too bad... I can think of some people who would love this. This.

[she sits back in her chair.] You'll forgive me, I hope, if I don't immediately accept all of this--or even you--as real.

[lamb_of_gold]

Not at all. It usually requires a conscious effort on my part to read a person, but sometimes, they simply project.

You're taking this better than some who arrive here.

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

[Her smile is a bit weary.]

This has been the least traumatizing part of my week, I'm afraid. And please--don't try to read into that.

[She makes a general motion toward her head.]

I very much doubt that you will like what you see.

[lamb_of_gold]

You've nothing to fear, Miss Kirahara - I'm not one to pry.

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

[She nods, then props her head back in her hands.]

How long have you been here?

[The facts wait for no one!]

[lamb_of_gold]

Three months, give or take a few days. Time does not pass at home if one is here, which makes things somewhat confusing.

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

I would imagine so... So--saying for the moment that I believe all of this--if I came here, I would return to the exact moment in which I left, if I left. Would I return to the same place, or do I have a choice?

[lamb_of_gold]

The precise moment at the precise place, unless you return with another, in which case, they may drag you with them.

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

I see. [She's scowling thoughtfully now.] That would potentially become confusing fast.

[lamb_of_gold]

Potentially. I try and stick to a schedule of sorts - I think of my time here as a 25th hour to my day.

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

A good way to approach it. You come here at the same time every day, then? The same time in your... reality, that is.

[lamb_of_gold]

Perhaps not the same time every day, but I try to measure my stays in increments of one hour, and I do not let it affect my sleeping patterns.

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

[She nods, her mind wandering now to the potentials of a place excluded from the passage of time in her world.]

Kanami would love this.

[lamb_of_gold]

I can think of many from my would who would as well. Alas it seems quite impossible to bring them.

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

Of course it does. [She looks out at the stars again.]

Li-kun has told you about our world?

[lamb_of_gold]

Some things, though very few details regarding them.

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

[Small smile.] He isn't much for details. But you know about the stars, at least.

[And then, because she's curious,] What's your world like?