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[notyourutopian]

WHO: Eleanor Lamb and Terra Branford
WHERE: A parking lot full of stones?
WHEN: December 2nd, afternoon
WARNINGS: None?
SUMMARY: Eleanor and Terra run into each other for the first time since they met in the Nightmares.
FORMAT: Para.

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[speedofnaked]

The source was a surprisingly familiar figure clad all in red, standing on one end of the courtyard, the smoldering pile of rubble clear across from her. The pillars of stone were sturdy-looking things - as though some great stone beast's teeth jutted out from the ground. Some had scorch marks, or cuts on the side from slashes from a sword, but very few had been obliterated so completely.

Terra paced toward the rubble, heeled boots crunching; despite the cold, she still wore a short dress without neck or sleeves, and her cloak lay haphazardly thrown on some other pillar. Picking through the rubble remains, she hadn't yet noticed Eleanor's approach.

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Eleanor paused when she heard footsteps, and stopped to watch Terra pass into her view, walking towards another part of the lot. She was pretty surprised the girl was walking around dressed like that. Maybe she came from a cold world? She hadn't really thought to ask much about the older girl when they'd met in the dream...she'd been too focused on the dream itself, and then fighting the dragon.

After a couple moments of silence, trying to decide what she should do, she moved after her, letting her footsteps crunch on the ground as well. "...Hello?"

[speedofnaked]

The woman's head craned up in bewilderment at the sudden voice, and it took her a moment of blinking pause to look in the proper direction. A moment longer for Terra to recognize the girl in the waking world. This was... Eleanor Lamb, she'd heard the girl called. Monster, too, which was what had made Terra so adamant about taking care of her in that nightmare.

That's right, she remembered. This was the girl from the ocean floor.

Brushing dust from her knees, Terra pushed fully to her feet, though standing at her full height without anything like the Magitek Armor she'd piloted through those nightmares hardly made her a towering sight; barely clearing five foot (even in heels), she couldn't even manage intimidating.

The hesitant smile helped. "It's you," she said by way of greeting; her head tilted curiously, almost bird-like.

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Eleanor wasn't that tall herself, but she was surprised to find she was taller than Terra. Most of the time she'd seen the green-haired woman she'd been in that odd battle-robot...thing...and had always been higher up than her. It took the dark haired girl a second or two to adjust to the fact that she wasn't craning her head to look up at the other.

"It is." She finally said, an embarrassed little smile on her face. "I'm sorry for interrupting but...it is nice to see you again. Or...for the first time." She frowned faintly. "I'm not really sure how that...dream...counts."

[speedofnaked]

Terra waved a hand dismissively at the first. "It's not important," she said, indicating the scorched rubble and the other pillars of stone behind her. "Because... I'm glad to see you again."

Further dust was wiped from her hands and gloves before she finally approached the younger-yet-taller girl; it was a little disconcerting.

"How have you been?"

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Eleanor wasn't entirely sure what to say to all of that. Besides the fact that she could count the number of times people had been 'glad' to see her on one hand (outside of her mother's cult), she hadn't expected it regardless. The nightmare Rapture had been just that...a nightmare. Why would the green haired girl be happy to see her after that?

Not that Eleanor minded.

She pushed the thought away, folding her hands behind her back as she thought about the second question instead. "Well." She finally decided that was as fair an answer as she could give. "That dream brought up things I have been...trying not to dwell on, but I think I am readjusting again."