[Thread] Well, it could be worse.

[jingle_ling]

Characters: OU Yao Ling, AU Alice Elric
Where: Paj-Tria's bathroom
When: shortly after this post; day 1 of the mistletoe plot
Summary: Alice got stuck as she was coming out of the shower. Ling offers his assistance.
Warnings: Fluffyness, and most likely eventually a kiss.

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[fullmet_al]

She jumped a bit, startled when she heard a knock on the door. She quickly wrapped a towel around herself. She didn't know what had happened, the only thing she knew was that she had finished cleaning up and then when she was stuck.

"It's safe." She called out, once the towel was secure.

[jingle_ling]

And as soon as he heard the confirmation, Ling opened the door all the way and walked in. "So, you're stuck, huh?" he restated the obvious, looking around the bathroom to see if there was anything that might obviously be causing it.

No, he didn't look up toward the ceiling quite yet.

[fullmet_al]

She nodded and proved her point by trying to move as if to leave the bathroom. She could only move just a few inches and then she was stuck. She didn't know what to do.

"I don't understand why I can't move."

[jingle_ling]

"I don't either," Ling responded, still looking around. Her feet weren't glued to the ground or tied to it or anything like that, and it wasn't as though she was completely immobalized either. It was as though something was just forcing her to not leave the area by some non-physical means or something.

He continued to look around the room, looking for something that could have been doing something, before finally looking up... and pausing at that point.

"Huh," he noted. "There's some kind of plant or something on the ceiling. Was that always there?"