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donotmail ([personal profile] donotmail) wrote in [community profile] thehometree2015-07-30 09:16 pm

What the...

| characters | Arj and anyone!

| date/time | Wednesday afternoon, just after the crystals shatter

| location | 1st floor of the tree

| rating | PGish?

| summary | Arj gets a sudden welcome when the new floors open up!



Arj is outside when he hears the commotion. He'd slunk off into the outdoors some time earlier, in search of a quiet place to hide. Outside, he'd been overwhelmed by the vast forest in front of him. Did greenmount trees really get this big?

Of course none of it matters, because this is a hallucination, and he is going to be calm about it and not get into trouble. So he's found himself a nice hollow in one of the great tree's roots, and is how hiding behind a curtain of illusionary moss. He's curled up in a tight little ball, ears turning this way and that. He can hear things outside, people talking, but he is going to be sensible about this. There is no point whatsoever in talking to anyone who doesn't exist.

Until the crystalline sound of shattering pierces the air, and he startles, the 'moss' vanishing into nothing. Against his better judgement, he half runs, half slinks over the massive roots to the hollowed out trunk.

"What on Ryll was THAT?"

evantuality: book (yeah well then)

[personal profile] evantuality 2015-08-12 10:07 pm (UTC)(link)
"Why would I have any reason to lie to you?" Evan has dealt with people like this before -- albeit more people-shaped people, but Arj's scoff and disdain are familiar. It would annoy Evan, except that he knows he was right, and moreover, that whatever happens, Arj will find it out eventually.

Well... and he suddenly had the look of a nervous cat again, and Evan missed his cat back home. "You want me to show you?"
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[personal profile] evantuality 2015-08-13 05:40 pm (UTC)(link)
"Right. Alright." Tucking his thumbs into his pockets, Evan looks out the door to the forest beyond and then back at the blue cat. "Follow me, I guess."

Heading out of the broad aperture in the side of the tree, he steps down into the leaf litter and the moss, pausing for a moment to pick his route, estimating the place where the mist might be closest to them. Ultimately he picks an oblique angle away from their exit, a straight line between some gnarly roots. "You can't really see it," he explains as he leads. "You just sort of run into it when the mist starts getting thick. Actually knew someone who ran face-first into it when she arrived, didn't know it was there."

He glanced at the cat. "She ended up breaking her nose. Not, all told, an exceptionally good way to find out it's there."
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[personal profile] evantuality 2015-08-14 08:23 pm (UTC)(link)
"You'll get no argument from me," Evan scoffs. He dislikes getting close to the fog barrier; its existence annoys him, it's imperviousness unnerves him, and its implications bother him.

He's walking with one hand slightly extended, now, not wanting to mash himself face-first when they finally find where the fog turns from simply unpleasant to downright solid. He adds, "I think that's the point.

"Ah!" They've just reached the barrier. Evan stops, sliding his hand against the solidity of it: the mist is so thick here he can't entirely see his hand, extended in front of him. "Here. You can feel it here. It goes all the way around the tree, I've checked."
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[personal profile] evantuality 2015-08-15 02:43 am (UTC)(link)
"If they have, they haven't come back to tell the rest of us about it," Evan admits. That thought sobers him suddenly, as he thinks of something he hadn't considered before.

He backed off a few steps from the barrier, into the thinner fog that left him less nervous. "Actually, there are people who... who were here when I arrived, who've since disappeared. No one really knows where they go... everyone I've talked to just assumes that they were sent back where they came from the same way we were all brought here. But hell, for all we know they just found a gap in the barrier and decided to go while the going was good."

If it's a bit much to dump on a newbie, Evan hasn't got enough good sense to realize as much. Frowning, he jams his hands in his pockets. "But no. As far as I know, no one's been through it."
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[personal profile] evantuality 2015-08-17 11:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Evan grimaces. This new tree-dweller may basically be a cat, but his body language is surprisingly easy to parse, more so than Evan would have thought. The kiarr looked about how Evan had felt when he first realized he couldn't go home.

"Yeah, I know, right?" He stuffs his hands in the pockets of his jeans, not at all sure how to offer any reassurance. There's little that's reassuring about their situation.

Instead his eyes slide down the length of the hidden barrier, off far to their left. "Hey... my name's Evan. I don't think I caught yours."
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[personal profile] evantuality 2015-08-21 05:05 am (UTC)(link)
"Arj," Evan repeats the name to solidify it in his memory. He inclines his head to the kiarr, acknowledgement for sharing the piece of information.

Then he sighs, and before answering, he starts a slow stroll cutting back in the direction of the tree. "There's not much to see out here," he explains, "most useful stuff is back at the tree."

The truth is that Evan is beginning to get homesick. He doesn't want to think about home, but still, the kiarr's question hangs. "I'm from a planet called Earth, in a country called Canada." He didn't think the more specific details mattered much. "There are a few other folks from Earth here but not that many. Most of us are from different places."