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[Game 18] The Waking World

After successfully talking Zan into waking up—the world around you starts to dissolve and break apart. There's a lurch, like the sensation of abruptly falling into sleep, but backwards; and all around you, the glass begins to crack apart, splintering and sending ocean water splashing everywhere, gushing forward, a cascade of blue and black, alternating between starfish and actual stars, suspended in liquid sky.

. . . reality seems to bleed in overtop of it and, sluggishly, you find yourselves waking up all over a suburban basement in New Jersey. There is a lamp on near the bed, where someone is still asleep, though fitfully beginning to wake up.

More noticeably, there is a woman sitting up in bed with him, arms wrapped around her bare knees as she watches them with amusement, extremely beautiful and . . . extremely familiar.

"Wow." One hand drops to Zan's hair. "I don't even know where to start with you guys."

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Her gaze falls off Tristan almost immediately, and she sighs, her lips twisting in a sort of wry smile. "Oh well," she mutters. "Could have been worse."

And with that, and an inrush of air, she's gone.

Tristan drops Tsuyukusa as well, immediately walking over to Lucia and yanking her cellphone out of her hand.

"So about that."

[sounds more bemused than anything, to be honest]

What even.

"I think we still got more than enough. You want me to track the kid?"

I'm not sure that will be necessary at this juncture, Tristan. Happy New Years, by the way.

Edited 2015-01-05 04:53 (UTC)

"Yeah, you too, boss. I'll pick up some plane tickets to ship, uh, your lost items home."

You can keep one, if you like.

"Nah, she's cute, but noisy." Tristan possibly reconsiders joking about Lucia Bellcourt to Sidney's face (so to speak) and adds— "I'm assuming I'm not needed further."