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fh_dungeonThe dungeon had shifted again overnight.
This time it was different, however: no new corridors were formed, no new rooms were opened. One camp's corridor led into another's led into another's, and from there, a path straight forward towards the vault. It would not be hard now for the Fandomites trapped inside to meet and congregate.
Was the Toymaker making it easy on them? Possible. But not very probable.
[ camp one | camp two | camp three | ooc ]
This time it was different, however: no new corridors were formed, no new rooms were opened. One camp's corridor led into another's led into another's, and from there, a path straight forward towards the vault. It would not be hard now for the Fandomites trapped inside to meet and congregate.
Was the Toymaker making it easy on them? Possible. But not very probable.
[ camp one | camp two | camp three | ooc ]
Re: Camp Two - Main Space
Date: 2013-04-14 03:05 pm (UTC)So he was going to try to make himself useful again. Useful was good. Useful meant that maybe he could lance some of that festering emotional mess and let it go away.
"How are you holding up?"
... Ignore the ears and tail, Raven. Please. They were just kind of...
Very there.
Re: Camp Two - Main Space
Date: 2013-04-14 03:34 pm (UTC)"Cassidy offered me her blood yesterday," she said. "I did not want it to be her, but I could not find you or Kennedy and I could wait no longer. And she invoked Protocol."
She raised her head and...despite everything, now it was an effort not to laugh because ears and tail what.
Re: Camp Two - Main Space
Date: 2013-04-14 03:40 pm (UTC)So...
"... You're trying not to laugh, aren't you?"
There were some very put-out fuzzy ears slicking back against Jono's head, now. Bloody hell, Raven, it wasn't funny! Was it? Dammit.
Re: Camp Two - Main Space
Date: 2013-04-14 03:53 pm (UTC)Her voice trailed off. Laughing would be wrong, and as an avatar of Pride she knew that especially well, and yet.... " You look adorable," she said, smiling a real smile for the first time in days.
Re: Camp Two - Main Space
Date: 2013-04-14 03:57 pm (UTC)Well, he could. He'd just be wrong.
Re: Camp Two - Main Space
Date: 2013-04-14 04:02 pm (UTC)She lifted one hand; the urge to scritch his ears was almost irresistible. " May I?" she asked.
Re: Camp Two - Main Space
Date: 2013-04-14 04:04 pm (UTC)He ducked his head a bit so that she could reach more easily. He was expecting a curious poking-at, mostly. Because what else would someone want to do to a sudden and inexplicable pair of adorable fluffy ears?
Re: Camp Two - Main Space
Date: 2013-04-14 04:14 pm (UTC)Re: Camp Two - Main Space
Date: 2013-04-14 04:18 pm (UTC)Well...
He tried not to, really, but that was... It felt nice. Calming, really. And he'd been in need of calming for a while, since being brought here, really. He certainly hadn't anticipated the scratching, no, but he was going to take it with a grain of salt, close his eyes, and kind of lean his head a little more into Raven's hand.
Really, he could nap like this.
"... S'cheating."
He didn't seem to mind, judging by the stupid little half-smile on his face.
Re: Camp Two - Main Space
Date: 2013-04-14 04:27 pm (UTC)They were healing scritches!
Re: Camp Two - Main Space
Date: 2013-04-15 02:02 am (UTC)"... I suppose there's that," he conceded. It was difficult to argue against scritches, after all, while in the middle of being scritched. "And 's nice. You do that... y'know... well."
He wasn't about to start drooling. But that was a near thing.
Re: Camp Two - Main Space
Date: 2013-04-15 02:19 am (UTC)"Go ahead and rest," she urged. "You will need to be at your best if we are to figure out how to get out of this place."
Re: Camp Two - Main Space
Date: 2013-04-15 02:23 am (UTC)Though at the moment, it was certainly difficult to remember quite why. Apparently ear-scratches had some sort of secret brain-numbing sleepymaking power that he'd never been aware of before.
Jono yawned.
Re: Camp Two - Main Space
Date: 2013-04-15 02:34 am (UTC)"All the more reason to take advantage of this while you can," Raven said, switching ears again. She was going to be utterly ruthless in using the scritching to convince him.
Re: Camp Two - Main Space
Date: 2013-04-15 01:00 pm (UTC)"Shouldn't," he protested, somewhat feebly. "If something happens... Should probably... you know..."
Be there. To do things. Things that he did when things happened? His argument was losing steam, here.
Re: Camp Two - Main Space
Date: 2013-04-15 01:27 pm (UTC)She also had ulterior motives. This was soothing for her as well, allowing her to relax and momentarily not worry about what was going on inside her. Well, so long as she didn't look at his neck.
"I will wake you if something happens," she promised. "For the moment it seems safe to rest. And you have done so much already. You deserve a bit of peace."
Re: Camp Two - Main Space
Date: 2013-04-15 01:32 pm (UTC)That was an excellent reason, certainly. He'd come up with a thousand reasons to deny that he deserved a bit of peace just after this nap.
"If you promise to wake me up... I suppose..."
Re: Camp Two - Main Space
Date: 2013-04-15 02:21 pm (UTC)And she'd keep ruthlessly scritching him into submission.
Re: Camp Two - Main Space
Date: 2013-04-15 04:14 pm (UTC)... Which was ridiculous, and he'd absolutely wonder what the hell was the matter with him later. But for the time being he would give a little nod, totter in place for a moment more, and then ease himself down to the ground to sit.
"Not too long, then. Anything could happen, after all."
Just five minutes.
Maybe ten.
Or so.
Re: Camp Two - Main Space
Date: 2013-04-15 05:12 pm (UTC)"Not too long," she said. Scritch, scritch, scritch. "Just a nap. And I will awaken you if I hear of any trouble."
Re: Camp Two - Main Space
Date: 2013-04-16 01:05 pm (UTC)"... Then... thank you."
She really did make a comfortable pillow. And he hadn't had a proper sleep in days.