Pieces of the Puzzle

[terranities]

Who: Cain Knightlord and EVERYBODY (no seriously, he is knocking on every door in the residential areas)
Setting: All dorm rooms on each level
Format: Starting with Prose, but will match you
Summary: Cain has some questions to ask of everybody!
Warnings: Cheerful derpiness?

Comments

room 1-07 with an indigo collar, if you are not tag-overwhelmed ;;

[prayerless]

Aqua always felt a little strange opening the door to a shared room, but it was only courteous that someone answered it. She could always take a message or redirect a guest to her roommates if it happened that the guest was not for her. Though that didn't seem to be the case today.

She tilted her head at the young man. She was certain she'd never seen him before. But he was nonetheless greeted with a courteous smile. "Sure. Do you need help?" He didn't look like he was in any urgent trouble, but it was best to make sure.

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[terranities]

She seemed more reserved than some of the people he had met, although her smile and offer of help was polite enough, which was something to be grateful for. He pushed his glasses higher up his nose and leaned against her doorframe with a slightly melodramatic huff.

“I certainly do need help! My feet are killing me, I've been walking all around this tower and I'm not as fit as I thought I was. You don't think I could come in and sit down, do you?”

[prayerless]

What a strange request. The man must have been a little absent-minded to forget his own state of health like that. (She was giving him the benefit of the doubt on anything sneaky, if only because it was tiring being suspicious of everything all the time.)

She turned to look over her shoulder back into the room. It had been empty when she got up to answer the door and there were few plausible ways that her roommates could have entered since then. She didn't want to assume, though. When her survey showed that the room was indeed still empty, Aqua turned back to the blond man with a smile.

"You can," invited the mage, opening the door a little wider and stepping aside so he could enter. She indicated the neatly-made bed with a spellbook still resting open atop the covers. "That bed is mine. You can sit there."

[terranities]

"Thank you so much, miss, you're a lifesaver!"

He beamed at her, grasping her hands as he moved past into the room, as though she had cured him of a terminal disease instead of just given him a place to sit down for a moment.

"Might I know my saviour's name?"

[prayerless]

She looked a little flustered when he grabbed her hands, giving a few owlish blinks at the dramatic show of gratitude. Her mouth opened to speak, but it was a few seconds before she actually got any words out.

"My name is Aqua," answered the young master. "I'm glad to help."

Truthfully, if his feet were hurting that badly, a Cure spell would probably help him. She would wait to see the extent of the pain, though.

[terranities]

He's not genuinely in any pain at all, he was just using it as an excuse to get through the door so he could get to know her a little better.

Flopping to sit on the nearest bed, he rested his elbows on his knees and looked back at her with a relieved smile.

"Thank you, Aqua. I haven't seen you around before, have you been here long?"

[prayerless]

She doesn't know that (which is probably for the best -- she'd be very confused as to why he needed an excuse for something like that).

Thanks to her time spent in the realm of darkness and the focus it took to keep track of time there, Aqua hadn't found it too difficult to measure the span of her life in the tower. So, after a bit of thought, she answered, "Around three months now."

Maybe it was sort of a long time to be stuck here, but it was nothing compared to upwards of ten years. "I haven't socialized much," she confessed. "So I'm not surprised that you haven't seen me."

[terranities]

So she wasn't one of the first ones here, though she had been here significantly longer than either he or his brother had. His expression shifted into an easy smile, waving a hand at her.

"We'll have to change that then, Miss Aqua. A lovely young woman like yourself should be surrounded by friends."

[prayerless]

Still a little flustered from his exuberant greeting, Aqua found her cheeks reddening slightly at the remark. "Oh. Um, thank you." Seizing her composure again, the woman fixed herself with a humble smile and accordingly bowed her head slightly. "Well, I lost about a month to that experiment. I wasn't in a state to make many friends." No one was, she was pretty sure.

"Can I ask your name?" She probably should have asked him that earlier (manners, she chided herself), but it had sort of slipped from the forefront of her mind in the sudden excitement.

[terranities]

Ah... so she had been one of the ones taken for that extra experimentation, had she? He filed this away in the back of his mind to compare against the others who had been taken and see if there were any similarities.

"Of course! I'm Cain Knightlord, miss, the pleasure is all mine."

[prayerless]

Certainly not the special experimentation with the surgeries. She'd just been filed into Group D for the more standard experiments. But as she's not aware that Cain has come to this conclusion, she won't be able to correct him. Whoops.

"It's nice to meet you," she returned. "Was there something else you needed?" If he'd been walking around a lot, it had probably been with a purpose.

[terranities]

"Now that you mention it, I wondered if I could ask you a few questions about where you come from?"

He leans forwards a little, eager smile at his lips as he hopes she'll agree to help him with his research.

[prayerless]

She'd almost forgotten that this place was a hub for people of all different kinds of worlds. Hers was destroyed a long time ago -- over a decade now -- so admittedly she still wasn't sure what the note upon her arrival had been trying to tell her. But, if Cain wanted to hear about the Land of Departure, she would tell him.

"Go ahead," Aqua replied. "I don't mind." It had been a long time, but she'd never forget the place where she grew up.

[terranities]

"How about you start by telling me a little about your home?"

Most people liked to talk about their homes, it made them feel safer and more secure. It was a source of comfort, and would likely come with titbits about family and friends. It was a good platform to begin with, more detailed questions could come later.

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[prayerless]

"Well, I used to live in a place called the Land of Departure," she began, opting to take a seat next to Cain on the bed. "It was a beautiful world. I grew up there with my two friends under the master that trained me." Absently, she reached over to adjust Master Keeper's perch in the corner between the bed and the wall, making sure it wouldn't topple

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[terranities]

Cain looked attentive as she spoke, his eyes intent on her face as he absorbed every detail she told him in order to get a clear picture in his mind of what it was she was speaking of.

It was insane, like a fantasy tale... magic and castles, spellbooks and floating forests... he could barely believe what he was hearing.

His eyes tilted downwards to look at the diagram that she passed to him to see, memorising the layout and the words written on the page. Before handing it back to her with a warm smile.

"Nonsense, it was lovely to hear, don't apologise."