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ᴋʀɪsᴛᴀ ᴋɪɴɢsʟᴇʏ ↔ ѕιя, тнє вσиє кєєρєя ([personal profile] ladiesss) wrote in [community profile] revivalproject2019-09-27 08:19 am

Adjusting - Open Post

WHO: Krista & anyone who wants to join her!
WHERE: The edge of the forest, the school (??), and the hotel.
WHAT: Magic, exploration, and laying on the floor because uuuugh.
WHEN: Time is relative but after she's been here for a week.
WARNINGS: None, currently!



Forest.

Krista thought she was being sneaky, heading to the edge of the relatively less-traveled forest area to do her weird fairy magic. She was careful to be quiet about it, at first, making sure no one was around to see or hear her... But once she gets going, she gets absorbed in the task, and may not notice someone quietly walking up behind her, or hanging around to overhear her conversation.

Because she is having a serious conversation... with a frog. It has four eyes and weird, silver blotches on its back, but it's definitely a frog, and she's definitely whispering at if as if she's hearing the second half of a conversation.

"...He looks like me, but, um... No colors, very pale." She gestures over herself, explaining this concept to her amphibious audience. "Short hair... I think. Big black eyes."

A pause.

"Oh, his feet? Really dirty. No shoes. I think they were wrapped in something."

A pause. A ribbit from the frog. Krista perks up.

"You have seen him? Which way did he go?"


------


School.

She's pretty sure this is a school, anyway, between the gym stuff down below and the lecture-hall style of the rooms above. She was initially poking around like she was looking for someone, but that eventually turned into looking for something amidst the rubble.

She gasps with excitement when she finally finds it--buried underneath other debris and probably preserved only through dumb luck, she finds the rotting remains of something that looks like a book. It's clear when she pulls it out that it's useless, just a cover and the mushy shreds of some leftover paper, but Krista hugs it to her chest as if it was her very own long-lost diary.

And then, miraculously, the pages start to fill back in with a quiet fluttering, the cover straightening and un-crumbling as if time was reversed. Soon, she has what is only a slightly-battered book full of blank pages, restored from almost nothing.

She laughs quietly. She opens the pages to check that they're blank, wobbling a little with sudden exhaustion. She laughs again. This will help her. This was worth the energy.


------


Hotel.

Her earlier victories were very encouraging. She feels proud of herself. She believes that the results justified the risks. That said, she is exhausted when she gets back to the hotel... And, results or not, maybe starts to regret spending her energy so liberally without a plan for getting it back.

She stares dully at the stairwell, trying to work up the will to climb those stupid, double-tall steps... And gives up. Instead, she picks an open spot on the floor, lies down with her limbs stretching defiantly outward, and then just sort of... stays there, staring despondently at the ceiling.

She is very, very tired.
kallig: (... What?)

Hotel

[personal profile] kallig 2019-09-28 06:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Altair very rarely spends too much time at the hotel- he tends to come and go, preferring to be out exploring, or meditating where there are less people to interrupt him.

Of course this doesn't mean he's never at the hotel, usually returning to find a place to curl up and sleep. Using the Force takes more out of him here, and he's still working on testing the limit of his power, so when he returns on this particular day, he's fairly exhausted, ready to rest.

Heading for the stairs to return to the room at the very end of a hallway he's unofficially claimed for himself, he... Stops.

"That's an odd place to decide to sprawl out," The Chiss comments, "Something wrong, or do you just hate the stairs as much as I do?"

He's small, and those stairs are made for someone much taller than he is. Climbing them is indeed a chore that he would blame no one for not wanting to do.
kallig: (Hidden in darkness...)

[personal profile] kallig 2019-09-29 09:32 am (UTC)(link)
Well, it's not like he doesn't get it. There's many a time he's considered not bothering with climbing the stairs, too. His desire for being somewhere he'll be left alone always wins out in the end though.

Apparently it's not so for everyone. Still, she's managed to catch his attention, both with just laying there, and for blaming the stairs for setting off a spiral of despair.

"Would you like some help in climbing them?"

He might as well offer while he's already there. Even mostly solitary as he's been since arriving, it's not like he dislikes other people, after all.
brooklyn_boy: (huh puppy)

Forest

[personal profile] brooklyn_boy 2019-09-30 02:02 am (UTC)(link)
It's not every day that you see a person talking to a frog. Steve, armed with Bucky's shield and a pointed stick, was out trying to find some meat for protein. He was sure he was on the verge of something big until he heard whispering. Never did he think he'd see a girl kneeling and talking to a frog.

And, apparently, getting answers.

"Uh," he says loud enough to get her attention. "I...can't help but overhear. You're lookin' for someone?"

A therapist, maybe? Like he can talk.
brooklyn_boy: (smile)

[personal profile] brooklyn_boy 2019-10-01 11:55 am (UTC)(link)
Smooth. But Steve is pretty non-smooth himself when push comes to shove so he gets it. He offers a smile and raises his hands up in 'I-Come-In-Peace'.

"Trust me, I've seen much crazier. Ever seen someone grow to the size of a building and then down to the size of an ant? Pretty crazy."

He takes a telegraphed step forward and extends one hand in greeting:

"Steve Rogers. Also known as Captain America in my universe. Superhero on an Earth, but not one that can talk to animals. You?"
stillgotmyleftarm: (glance up)

hotel

[personal profile] stillgotmyleftarm 2019-10-03 02:55 am (UTC)(link)
Bucky comes upon Krista in the stairwell, which... okay, yeah. Cue one worried super soldier.

"You... okay?" he asks, stepping up close enough that he can look down at her without her getting a prime view up his nose. He has class, okay.
stillgotmyleftarm: (Default)

[personal profile] stillgotmyleftarm 2019-10-03 04:04 pm (UTC)(link)

Bucky raises one eyebrow - but she's awake and talking, so those are already good things, he figures.

"Uh - not dying," he says. "Or injured. Low blood sugar?" That happens to diabetics, right? Do they just faint?

kallig: (Speaking (4))

[personal profile] kallig 2019-10-03 05:40 pm (UTC)(link)
"The place I come from isn't exactly suited to my size either, but here you get the sense that the short did not exist," He says, head turned toward the stairs. There were a few places like that in the universe, of course. Voss hadn't been kind on his legs, for one. But it's an entirely different story when you're stuck on a planet not suited for you.

After all, when he was done on Voss, he left. And most other places, mercifully, had elevators.

He heads toward the stairs, hopping up onto the first step, then turns toward her- waiting for her to come along so he can help her up.

Either with the Force or by extending his hand- he hasn't decided which yet.
stillgotmyleftarm: (Default)

[personal profile] stillgotmyleftarm 2019-10-03 06:00 pm (UTC)(link)

That one raised eyebrow gets a little higher, but at least it's a relief to hear there isn't a medical emergency or anything. "It is very dramatic," he agrees, crouching down now so he doesn't have to tower over her and have this conversation.

"Then again, getting kidnapped to an alien planet is probably pretty dramatic, huh?" He sort of figures that's what this is about. It's the most logical thing, anyway.

kallig: (Covered laugh)

[personal profile] kallig 2019-10-03 09:16 pm (UTC)(link)
"It wouldn't surprise me if they were. Some species are naturally on the taller side. Haven't seen a species that's all leg before though," He says, and after a moment he adds; "Perhaps three-quarters."

That may have been an attempt at a joke.

The comment about him being really small is ignored entirely. There are reasons for that, after all.

He arches a brow as she starts climbing the stairs, though with how the veil he wears covers most of his face, his expression appears to stay neutral.

"I suppose sometimes only a bit of motivation is necessary?"

He can't help but be amused. He gets it, of course.
kallig: (Neutral (3))

[personal profile] kallig 2019-10-03 10:37 pm (UTC)(link)
"I think I know that feeling. Sometimes when I was obligated to sit in on budget meetings back home, I felt like laying down on the floor and giving up on life. Usually something or other managed to bring me back from the brink."

That doesn't seem to be a joke, delivered in an utterly dry tone.

But it's hard to know for certain, considering the former not quite so funny joke was delivered in a similar tone.

When she moves up the next step, he uses the Force and leaps up a few steps with ease, then turns, to wait and be ready to assist. If she wants him to.

"... Kallig."

It's how he's been introducing himself, for the most part. He's only given his first name out to one other person.
kallig: (>:))

[personal profile] kallig 2019-10-03 11:20 pm (UTC)(link)
"I don't know about cool, but I do have powers."

Admittedly using them here takes a little more energy out of him- though even weakened, he's quite the powerful Sith. Using the Force again, he hops backwards up a few more steps, landing with the same ease.

Normally he doesn't use the Force for something as simple as climbing the stairs, but then, usually he also comes back much later, after long days of testing his limits. Today is much the same, but he supposes he might be in a good mood.

For all his instincts to be solitary, he really does feel the best when he has at least one other person to talk to. Especially when he can focus on someone else's problems- and even come to find that someone else is willing to laugh at one of his lame jokes.

Strange how that happens.
pileofspirits: plurk@dogtoothed (blink)

Hotel

[personal profile] pileofspirits 2019-10-04 01:40 am (UTC)(link)
They don't make much sound as they shuffle over, like they're lighter than they should be. Just the whisper of cloth brushing over concrete and the soft pat of bare feet, until a whole laundry-basket worth of rags leans into her view.

They smile down at her a little. "Flat?"
pileofspirits: (doll face)

[personal profile] pileofspirits 2019-10-04 03:17 am (UTC)(link)
"All over? We're right here." How silly of her.

They take a second to look over her whole starfished form, before focusing on her face again.

"Are you... stopping? Or stand... stamping?"

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