As the girl slipped slowly back to consciousness, something was off. It took a moment for her to fully register what exactly seemed out of place, but it soon became obvious when she tried to shift her weight in order to roll over, the many layers of the long skirt of her gown limiting her movement.
Her gown? Why was she still in her clothes if she
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He might have expected a door to swing open as he passed; that wasn't at all unusual. The hotel really liked causing "coincidences". What he very much wasn't expecting was for said door to reveal what was probably the person he wanted least to ever see here. "Amelia?"
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Of course, hearing her name being called by an all too familiar voice made her turn sharply. Her eyes widened briefly, before a bright smile formed on her lips. Thank goodness, someone she knew!
"Mr Zelgadiss! You're here too!" she exclaimed as she hurried over as quickly as she could manage without tripping.
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"I think it's probably more accurate to say that you're here, too. I've been here for... a while now." He sighed, leaning against the wall. This was just perfect.
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"Huh, but I saw you a few months ago, did you really just disappear after that?" she asked. Granted it next to impossible to know where Zelgadiss was when he went on one of his excursions, but thinking he had been abducted to such a place in that space of time was bewildering.
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Explaining things was going to be fun. But at least he could probably avoid telling her that he'd been here for something like two years from his point of view.
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"I can see that, this isn't like any place back home at all." she mused, one hand cradling her head. Everything was still a little foggy for her, and the aroma from the room she had just left hadn't helped much.
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He paused, looking concerned at the way she was holding her head. "Are you alright?" He was fairly certain he could guess what was causing it, but it would be nice to hold onto his illusions a little while longer. There was another possibility, too, of course, but he didn't think Amelia tended to get headaches when things didn't make sense.
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Turning her gaze towards him, Amelia waved her hand in dismissal. "I'm fine, just a little dizzy that's all." she insisted, doing her best to focus on balancing in her high heels.
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"So there's a lot of people here?" she asked, voice surprisingly unwavering.
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Quietly, he added, "The hotel has a... a thing it does. There's a sort of thing it puts in the air, it's... more or less an aphrodisiac." His cheeks flushed a little and he glanced down, sighing.
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Needless to say, she was fortunate enough to brace the nearby wall in time, hand unclenched and holding her head again.
"Maybe I shouldn't try that when I feel so unsteady..." she muttered, more to herself than her friend, but he could no doubt hear her.
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It was probably a bad sign that he was already thinking about this, but he found himself hoping that if things got that far she wouldn't notice the long, several-month-old scars along his arms. He didn't much like recalling the incident that led to them, and it really wouldn't be any help keeping her calm.
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"I guess I just don't like the idea of not being able to do anything." she murmured. If there was one thing that really could dent Amelia's often unshakable beliefs, this was it. Being helpless, being useless, she never wanted to endure that. Sadly, on the few occassions she was, even though there was no blame on her, it still hurt.
That hurt was shining through the cracks of her smile, no matter how much she tried to hide it.
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His hand trailed down to take hers gently. "Here... maybe we should get you back into the room so you can sit down."
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Once she had someone scooted through the door again without catching her skirts on anything, something that was tricky with only one hand to grip the material, she felt the fog inside her mind thicken as the strong scent that was lingering washed over her again. She did her best to shake the odd sensation off, though found herself squeezing Zelgadiss' hand unconsciously as she did so.
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