first crane ❦ [voice]

[crippledroyalty]

This isn't...hello? Zero? Can you hear me?

[The shudder's audible in the way her voice wavers when she says that name. She sounds more anxious than scared, so one can infer it's the absence of this person causing her the most distress. But maybe it's just a dream? There's no way a hallway on the third floor of the palace could lead to a street,

Comments

[child_radical]

Everyone recieves one upon their entry into this place. Welcome to The City, you're going to be stuck here for some inordinate amount of time.

[crippledroyalty]

Where are we?

[child_radical]

You could consider it a dimensional birdcage.

[crippledroyalty]

[She does not like the sound of that.]

...there's no way out?

[child_radical]

There is but you can't leave until the powers that be decide that it's your time to leave. Until then you may as well try to live comfortably amidst the insanity that tends to happen.

[crippledroyalty]

Insanity?

[child_radical]

Curses and the occasional invasion by crazed aliens or beings of a higher power.

[crippledroyalty]

...oh. Oh dear.

[child_radical]

It tends not to be too bad but I'd excercise caution at all times.

[crippledroyalty]

I'll remember that. Thank you!

My name's Nunnally.

[child_radical]

Huey. Have you talked to anyone from your world? It may be a slim chance but it's basically a turn of good fortune...well considering the person from your world that's here.

[crippledroyalty]

Yes...you know my sister?

[child_radical]

What's her name?

[crippledroyalty]

Euphie.

[child_radical]

...I know her. She mentioned that she had a younger sister last week.

[crippledroyalty]

She has another, but I'm the youngest.