And you will make it

[worstsongever]

Who: Olive and OPEN
What: Hideous styled not-quite-day-in-the-life. Olive's scared an looking for Heero. She's pretending to be mirror!Olive. Really, really badly.
Where: All over.
When Day one.
Notes: I'm just making a base post for this, but it's totally open. Just tag in saying where they are, and we're good to go!

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Afternoon--Hallway

[feels_no_love]

Dracula was haunting the halls looking for one of his various donors/lovers to pet and cajole and seduce back into his room for a bit of nuzzle-and-nibble. He wasn't starved, fortunately, but he was thirsty enough that he was more keyed to heartbeats than usual. The one coming down the hall was more rapid than was usual, and as he focused on the person that went with the pulse he noticed one of the women he had not spoken to yet.

She was keeping her chin up, but he could smell the fear on her and knew he was not the only one who would. He pushed the hair out of his eyes, and addressed her in a gentle voice: "Miss? Are you quite all right?"

Re: Afternoon--Hallway

[worstsongever]

Oh Jesus Christ. Olive jumped when she heard Dracula; she hadn't seen him as she was walking by, and when she noticed who it was, her heart picked out an even faster rhythm. She'd never spoken to him, but she'd seen his posts - and she was more than a little freaked out.

"I - yeah, yeah of course, I'm fine." Have worse lies been told? Who knows.

Afternoon--Hallway

[feels_no_love]

[He held out a hand, on which his gold false finger glittered. The man in the videos had had an unadorned stub and kept his coat on and his hair in a ponytail.] I mean you no harm, young lady, fear not. [He leaned in a little, glancing behind her.] Are you being chased?

Afternoon--Hallway

[worstsongever]

"Wh-no, no, I said I'm fine." She glanced at the offered hand, eyes locked on the finger for a long moment. Holy shit, he had a gold finger. Olive swallowed hard. "Uh, I'm Olive. I don't think we've talked." She sounded wary, uncertain how to approach this.

Afternoon--Hallway

[feels_no_love]

"Vladislaus. Vlad is fine. May I walk with you a little? Very few people trouble someone in my company." And this place was not safe for a frightened young woman alone.

Re: Afternoon--Hallway

[worstsongever]

He had a point. He had a good point, and she was hoping he wasn't bullshitting her, she was hoping so hard. "Uh - yyyeah, yeah. Okay. Thanks."

Afternoon--Hallway

[feels_no_love]

"Just don't let it get around that I am giving young ladies escorts, all right? I have a certain reputation as a nasty, selfish bastard to maintain in this insane place." His eyes twinkled with a brief warmth before the businesslike mask returned.

Re: Afternoon--Hallway

[worstsongever]

The mask was confusing; was he pretending to be a dick, or pretending to be nice? Olive kept some space between them as she walked. "Uh, right. Shouldn't you you be conning your way into graduation, then?"

Afternoon--Hallway

[feels_no_love]

A soft, bitter laugh with a hollow tone to it. "My Warden is too lazy to graduate me. He's quite a bit too lazy to do much of anything, in fact. It is like being owned by an aged cat."

Re: Afternoon--Hallway

[worstsongever]

Olive alternated between crossing her arms and shoving her hands in her pockets, uncomfortable no matter what. "So, uh. Ask another warden. Wouldn't that work out?"

Afternoon--Hallway

[feels_no_love]

"Ah, would that it were that simple. You see, most of the Wardens here are even crueler and certainly more exacting. I must wait him out." He sighed, trailing beside her.

"You are a relatively new Inmate, are you not?"

Re: Afternoon--Hallway

[worstsongever]

"I, uh. I'm a warden." She was actually uncomfortable admitting to that, too. She didn't want to be a warden here, she didn't want to be there girl, the one she'd seen in her previous entries. That girl was - she was a bitch. Olive didn't want to be like that.

Afternoon--Hallway

[feels_no_love]

"A Warden? But you are...you still..." He looked genuinely shocked. Was this some sort of trick to draw him out? His eyes narrowed for a moment as they gazed into hers.

"People here fear the Wardens, not the other way around. I do not understand..."

Re: Afternoon--Hallway

[worstsongever]

Olive tugged at one earlobe, weighing her options and throwing caution to the wind. She hoped it didn't splatter in her face. "I - I mean, you - it's the flood." One of them was affected, and she sure as hell hoped it was him.

Afternoon--Hallway

[feels_no_love]

"Is the Flood randomly giving people souls?" He was only half kidding. "I do not know the specifics of this Flood, but perhaps we can sort it out. This environment, horrible though it is, is quite normal to me...have you noticed any changes?"

Re: Afternoon--Hallway

[worstsongever]

"God, so many." Olive ran a hand through her hair, shaking her head. "I read her...my - whatever, the other Olive's journal entries, and that's just - that isn't me, the Barge I know isn't anything like this."