+1 Man Eating Monster.

[itsdark]

WHO | Ele [OPEN]
WHAT | Ele is hiding in her room in suite 05.
WHEN | After Arena 06.
WHERE | Suite 05.
WARNINGS / NOTES | Ele has not spent time among humans like Some has. She is terrified. Humans to her are A. Dangerous and B. Food. The door to her room is unlocked but... enter at your own risk.

It had taken them several hours to stop Ele from either attacking them, or attempting to hide under any available furniture (whether she fit or not). It took another several for them to explain why she was there in a way she could even begin to comprehend. She would kill humans. And other creatures, but mostly humans. Ele was wary of the idea. Humans were dangerous creatures. If not taken for a meal, they were best avoided.

Left to her room, she's wedged herself beneath the bed where it's dark and confined. Safe. Resting her head on all four arms, she tries to think of a way that she could get past all the humans and their Light.

Comments

[gruesome]

Oh. Some caught his middle lip in his teeth, a nervous gesture and one that was purely human.

"... I can't."

[itsdark]

Ele stares at him for a moment, her hearts sinking. "Did something happen to your marks?" She asks. She remembers a story told of a Some who lost his marks in an accident that destroyed his back. He could no longer move as a Some should. He was no longer a Some.

[gruesome]

"No!" He put a hand protectively behind himself, covering the raised scars. "No, no. It is- they have- I don't know what they use, but there is something here that doesn't let me move. I could move in the last city, but not away from it, and here, I can't move at all." He leaned forward, low, in a posture of apology. "What is your name?"

[itsdark]

The idea that the humans might have something that could stop Somes from being able to move scares Ele. Somes were important. Somes could mean the life and death of entire tribes. Ele folds her top arms across her chest uneasily. "My name is Ele." She manages a small smile. "But if you cannot move, what are we going to do? There are so many humans here..."

[gruesome]

"Did they tell you anything? About why we're here?" He moved away from the door, towards the couch that was opposite her bed. "About the game they make us play?"

[itsdark]

"Yes..." She says hesitantly. She still isn't entirely clear on it all. "We must kill each other until one is left." She says. It's the extent of what she comprehends. She doesn't understand the point of it.

Why were the humans making them do this? And most of the fighters would be humans too! Why would they kill their own kind without good reason? Ele looks worried and confused. "I don't want to die. I want to go home."

[gruesome]

He stepped forward, holding out a free hand. If she didn't retreat, he'd touch her arm, hoping to offer comfort. "It isn't real, the dying. They don't tell us that, but it's not. We come back, wake up back here like you did today. I have, four times. Some kind of science. A knowledge they have."

[itsdark]

She gladly accepts the contact but looks more and more confused as he attempts to explain things to her. "I don't understand." She says, frowning. She has never seen a grue who has died return to life. "Do we sleep? Do we become unconscious?"

[gruesome]

He shook his head, looking up at her. "We just... wake up. It's very strange, I know it is. I did, only today. I..." For a moment, his face twisted with reluctance.

"I can show you?"

[itsdark]

Ele looks hopelessly lost. Now Some is talking about showing her something that has already come to pass. "H...how can you?" She asks.

[gruesome]

"They have-" Some broke off, at a complete loss as to how to explain recordings, television. Aimery and Ichigo had explained it to him in haphazard ways that had just confused him, until he'd seen it for himself. So he would have to show her.

"Will you come with me? They have a kind of storyteller, it is amazing."

[itsdark]

Ele looks wary. "But they are human..." She protests. A human storyteller? Why would Some want to see a human storyteller?

[gruesome]

"I know. But they- I have lived with humans for more than three icings now. They are-" He struggled for words, reluctant to say 'people' because he remembered how resistant he'd been to that his first days among the humans, and he'd been in one of their bodies. "They have amazing things," he settled on, after a moment, and drew her towards the door.

[itsdark]

Ele looks shocked. "Why have they not killed you?" It's all quickly becoming too much to take in. Grues eat humans. Some must eat. Why have the humans left him alive? She allows herself to be led more because her mind is too jumbled to think to protest than because she wishes to see Some's 'storyteller'.

[gruesome]

He tucked her arm in his, still a little stunned by the size of her. Much, much too long with only humans for company.

"... You'll see why. You'll meet them. Have you met anyone here yet?" Some hadn't been on the fifth floor before, but to his luck, the floors were all laid out more or less the same. He was looking for the main lounge, the one where the big screens were, and it was right where he thought it'd be.

[itsdark]

Ele has to duck her head further to get through doorways. She scowls. "The humans took me here." So far, she's not impressed. Though the Light has not hurt her thus far, she grimaces and cowers when they start to step out into the brightly lit main lounge. "Some...!"

[gruesome]

"Oh!" He pauses, drawing her back into the shadows of the corridor. "It won't hurt, not here, not much. But here, I brought this for you..." Hastily, he unfolded the hat he'd brought, shaking it out, and reached up to put it onto her head.

[itsdark]

"Why is Light weak here?" She asks cautiously, allowing him to place the garment upon her head. She recognizes it from her hunts, though she's never understood it's purpose.

[gruesome]

"It's not. We're stronger." He smiled a little, sadly. "And that's something the humans do for us." All the same, he pulled the hat down so it would shield her eyes before leading her out under the lights. "So we can fight better."

[itsdark]

Ele looks doubtful, but she allows herself to be drawn out into the Light, still cringing as it falls across her form as if she expects to be badly burned. But she isn't.

[gruesome]

And neither was he. Not that room light was generally quite that dangerous. The huge windows, though... At least it was night now, and all they showed were the lights of the city. Even out there, it was never anything near fully dark.

Some, used to windows by now, let her go to go and see where the people who lived on this floor had left the controller for the big screen that filled one wall.

[itsdark]

Ele wouldn't know, she's never been under any light more than a few seconds at most.

Ele is drawn to the windows, initially perceiving them as large gaps in the wall before realizing there's something strange about them. She comes closer to them, trying to figure out why some areas seem to shine. Reaching out, her hand meets a solid surface. "Some!" She gasps. ...She taps on the glass carefully. "...What is this?"

[gruesome]

He looked up from fishing the controller out of a sofa, confused for a moment as to what she was asking him. But that cleared up quickly, and he remembered how much windows had once confused him too. He'd been so afraid of them.

"Glass," he supplied, rejoining her. He spread his hand on it beside hers. "It's a stone they make that lets light through... they like light everywhere. This is a window, and that... that is their city, out there."

[itsdark]

It takes her a moment to comprehend that she's seeing through it, as if there really were gaps in the wall. "You can see through like still Water but it is solid as stone is." She says, with a hint of question to her voice.

[gruesome]

"Yes, exactly. Glass. It is sometimes fragile, so do not hit it, or throw things at it. It breaks like crystal, sharp enough to cut."