( open ) Arrival

[khiluz]

Who| Fíli and anyone!
What| Fíli arrives, and he is still quite lost despite whatever information has been given to him.
Where| Anywhere around the Training Center (also District 6 Suites), let me know in the subject line!
When| Now & during the next couple of days (ICly)
Warnings/Notes| None that I can think of.


FOR KÍLI;

Things happen entirely outside of him, beyond himself. Fíli feels as though he is nowhere at all, words spoken that he does not hear, things placed on his hands that he cannot touch. He demands then he asks, he all but begs, where his brother is, where Lake-town is, but the people around him only seem to answer questions that he is not making. Vague mentions of some games and a battle to the death hover at the back of his mind, but by the time he thinks to ask about those, he finds himself being taken to someplace else.

He does not stay for one second once he is left at the apartment, and makes off to find a way back, or at least someone he knows. He walks and runs, for however long he does not know, screaming and shouting for Kíli, for Bofur or Óin, but there is no one, he recognizes no one or nothing in this place.

It is a fear that coils at the pit of his stomach, settling heavier with each step he takes. How did he find himself here, and why? How is he to return? Panic surrounds him until it is too great for him to keep going and he all but collapses against a wall, sliding down until he is sitting on the ground, legs folded, head resting against his knees.

He can't breathe, and he realizes now that he is also lost.


FOR ANYONE;

All of this may be explained a thousand times over, still Fíli remains just as lost. He has found his brother, but that is as much familiarity as this place brings. He walks the halls and the rooms, everything strange and entirely foreign, and therefore all too intimidating to him, but he does not show it. He makes his best effort to keep his step sure as he peeks into each corner, watches each person that passes him attentively, and opens every door that he does not find locked - including doors to other people's rooms, but it is not as if he knows that.

Comments

[khiluz]

"No, we are from a place called Middle Earth."

He frowns in confusion. "What is a planet?"

[sleeplessinalternia]

"It's..." Shit, how could these guys not know what a planet is? "Okay, so you know what the ground is, right? Well, the thing about the ground is that even though it looks like it's flat it's really a humongous round ball of ground, with water and air attached to it. And that ball is hanging around in space--in the sky--and that's a planet. Almost everybody lives on one."

[khiluz]

"The land is... a ball."

None of the puzzlement in his face goes away, not really. But... one problem at a time.

"Then how do things on the other side simply not fall out?"

[sleeplessinalternia]

Karkat's actually glad he learned all those scientific facts to shove in Gamzee's face when he started babbling about miracles, because that lets him say, "There's this shit called gravity? It's about hugely big things pulling teeny tiny things to them. Well, a planet is fuckmongously giant. So the gravity stuff makes the air and water and rocks and trees and people stick to it."

[khiluz]

"Very well, then..." he tries with all his might to understand what Karkat is explaining him. It is too bizarre a notion for him, even if he does his best to keep an open mind. But all sorts of questions still come to mind. "Then where does a planet stand on? Another planet? How does it not roll over?"

[sleeplessinalternia]

"It just kind of hangs around in space," Karkat says, frowning, because he's just realizing the hopeless enormousness of trying to explain this shit to someone whose species probably doesn't even have chainsaws, much less space travel.