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riverviewlogs2018-04-01 09:34 pm
shoplifter) wrote in riverviewlogs2018-04-01 09:34 pm
I almost drowned (and all I got was this stupid shirt) Part Open, Part Closed!
who: Laura, Stephen, Loki, and any visitors to Option B.
what: The flooding from here.
when: End of March
where: The rushin' waters outside the city, and also the hospital.
warnings: A near-drowning of a child. Maybe flashbacks or heavier material about the hospital, if it reaches that kind of point.
End of March — The Floods.
OPTION A. | Closed to Stephen and Loki
[The flooding's gotten much worse. And with the flooding comes terrible creatures outside the wall, ones she hasn't had the pleasure of running into — giant crocodiles, things with curling, wriggling tentacles, and all manner of fish and bug and frog. She has elected to at the very least kill them before they can get into the city somehow, or scare them away if it's possible. The waters are getting worse, the creatures are more plentiful, and... maybe she is getting stuck in the crossfire more than she'd like to admit.
She leaps from tree to tree as best she can, and scales along the sides of quivering buildings.
Maybe she can just hang out in the — oh, it's raining. This is just great.
How can this get any worse?]
OPTION B. | Hospital | Open to All
[Laura nearly drowns, basically. It's a good thing Stephen and Loki had been around to fish her out. And for the next day or two, Laura lays in a hospital bed looking surprisingly okay for someone who doesn't want to wake up yet; not a scratch on her, because that's just how she works. Maybe it was the rock her head hit during her rather dramatic fall into the pulsing waters below.
But eventually, she does wake up. And it, unlike the fall, is not dramatic at all.
She opens her eyes and stares at the ceiling, knowing exactly where she is. For some reason, though... the fear and panic is abated. Stephen and Beverly work here. The hospital is not bad — it's... not. And though her arms get pimpled at the memory of the sterile world she'd come from, she does not jump up or move to flee. Instead, she says, to the ceiling and whoever may be close by:]
... I am hungry.
[Nailed it.
She can be found hanging out in her room, nurses anxiously peering in (they haven't forgot her last rage, alright?). She's going to try her best to be good for any doctors or nurses this time. And hell, despite being nearly eaten by monsters and almost drowning, she looks 100% healthy.
Also, she may be half-way climbing out a window at some point, when you visit.
........... Oops?]
what: The flooding from here.
when: End of March
where: The rushin' waters outside the city, and also the hospital.
warnings: A near-drowning of a child. Maybe flashbacks or heavier material about the hospital, if it reaches that kind of point.
End of March — The Floods.
OPTION A. | Closed to Stephen and Loki
[The flooding's gotten much worse. And with the flooding comes terrible creatures outside the wall, ones she hasn't had the pleasure of running into — giant crocodiles, things with curling, wriggling tentacles, and all manner of fish and bug and frog. She has elected to at the very least kill them before they can get into the city somehow, or scare them away if it's possible. The waters are getting worse, the creatures are more plentiful, and... maybe she is getting stuck in the crossfire more than she'd like to admit.
She leaps from tree to tree as best she can, and scales along the sides of quivering buildings.
Maybe she can just hang out in the — oh, it's raining. This is just great.
How can this get any worse?]
OPTION B. | Hospital | Open to All
[Laura nearly drowns, basically. It's a good thing Stephen and Loki had been around to fish her out. And for the next day or two, Laura lays in a hospital bed looking surprisingly okay for someone who doesn't want to wake up yet; not a scratch on her, because that's just how she works. Maybe it was the rock her head hit during her rather dramatic fall into the pulsing waters below.
But eventually, she does wake up. And it, unlike the fall, is not dramatic at all.
She opens her eyes and stares at the ceiling, knowing exactly where she is. For some reason, though... the fear and panic is abated. Stephen and Beverly work here. The hospital is not bad — it's... not. And though her arms get pimpled at the memory of the sterile world she'd come from, she does not jump up or move to flee. Instead, she says, to the ceiling and whoever may be close by:]
... I am hungry.
[Nailed it.
She can be found hanging out in her room, nurses anxiously peering in (they haven't forgot her last rage, alright?). She's going to try her best to be good for any doctors or nurses this time. And hell, despite being nearly eaten by monsters and almost drowning, she looks 100% healthy.
Also, she may be half-way climbing out a window at some point, when you visit.
........... Oops?]
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You're back.
[She says it matter-of-factually, but the look in her eyes says 'surprised as hell'.]
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I told you I wouldn't be long, didn't I?
[Truth be told he didn't know what he told her, but he did know he told her something. His notes from before covered the fact that he'd spoken to her, given her this place to hide out in any time she needed it, and he knew he'd only been gone a few weeks before coming back too.]
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People have a habit of saying one thing and doing another.
[She moves toward him, looking him up and down.]
Are you — okay?
[Sometimes people are not okay, when they are 'back'. Sometimes things get worse.]
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[He might sound disappointed at that, but the smile returns soon enough.]
I am. I had to take care of some things, that's all. How have you been holding up?
[Ed doesn't think for a second that Laura was lost without him, or even affected by his absence, but he knows her habit for getting herself into trouble.]
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[Because a lot of the adults seemed to focus a lot on that and enjoy the fact.
She gives pause.]
What sort of things?