RE: Cloudsea - The Chronicle of Alice Van Vaugen
07-15-2017, 02:30 PM
. . .
Alice laid on the floor of the voidspace. Her heart hurt. Earlier, that may have been for a completely DIFFERENT reason- but right now, the reason was because her lungs were on fire. Her lungs were on fire because she couldn't breathe properly. She couldn't breathe properly because she had just taken a critical dose of medicine intended to give the user more energy. She used to take it for nights when she needed to do a bunch of studying for a particular subject of discussion with a visitor. The reason she had taken a critical dose was because she was practicing with the voidspace, learning the limits of her power- and she had the bright idea to restore her own energy with medicine, then to exhaust herself, over and over.
So here she was, laying on the floor of the voidspace. She had been building. Tweaking. Editing. Erasing. Copying. She learned the maximum size of the voidspace, and had placed blocks at those limits so she knew how much space she had to work with. Then she started making rooms. Storage rooms mostly. It was busy work. To keep her mind off of things. She was so. . .
Her heart started beating again. Oh god that hurt even more. It was like her entire body went to sleep and now was getting oxygen and blood flow and EVERYTHING was doing that tingly thing and-
Alice rolled over, slowly, and sat up. She got dizzy, and instantly regretted that. Speaking of instant regret, she started thinking of the dream again! And waking up! And attempting to kiss Qhen awake, and Viss being there and- Oh yeah! Yeah! ATTEMPTING! She more or less just headbutted Qhen in the mouth! Which was probably fine because Alice forgot that Qhen has terrible breath! She reminds herself to make sure Qhen owns a toothbrush. Or at least- like, some form of breath spray. Alice fell over and rolled over onto her other side.
Alice sat up, slowly. She crossed her legs and leaned her elbows on her knees. A couple of experimental deep breaths. Then she slowly stood up, shakily, and stared up into the hood of the floating grey cloak, and it's foggy haze that drifted everywhere around it.
Viss rubbed her hands together, and looked at her handiwork. She was just so- Just so DELIGHTED with herself! Truly, this would be a fabulous gift. Alice would never be able to ignore such a healthy offering.
Qhen just looked confused.
It was only afternoon by the time Qhen and Viss reached the house. Qhen had to admit, they thought it was a little... fast? But then again, Qhen knows about the voidspace. Maybe Alice went and chilled out in there after her bath. Qhen immediately wondered what kind of toll that takes on the body. They walked into the house and looked around...
Viss looked positively... intrigued! Qhen had to admit, they were surprised to see the interior of the voidspace looking like this. It was like they had walked into another hallway of the house, inside the pantry. They called out for Alice again, and getting an answer, followed her voice deep inside. . .
Finally, they found a pair of doors, and pushed it open. It was a library. A really big library. Qhen was immediately on guard, because they JUST realized that the library in the house proper was empty when they passed it. Just how much had Alice been up to in the time they were gone?
Something was off. Qhen looked around. This room was... large. Very large. And outside of the massive bookshelves, the place was practically empty, if you ignored the large, comfortable looking chairs and small side tables. From the sound of it, Alice was sitting in the middle chair, facing away from them, and as Viss wandered over happily, having foisted the other gift package back onto Qhen- Qhen saw it.
Grey fabric. A hood, and Qhen was suddenly aware of how cold the room was, despite being brightly lit, as if by a fire. . . And the closer Viss got, a mist began to form on the floor, and- Oh-
( ) "Viss... Back away from her. . ."
( ) "VISS! NO!"
( ) Say nothing, you have to act!
( ) Say nothing in time, it was already too late.
Alice laid on the floor of the voidspace. Her heart hurt. Earlier, that may have been for a completely DIFFERENT reason- but right now, the reason was because her lungs were on fire. Her lungs were on fire because she couldn't breathe properly. She couldn't breathe properly because she had just taken a critical dose of medicine intended to give the user more energy. She used to take it for nights when she needed to do a bunch of studying for a particular subject of discussion with a visitor. The reason she had taken a critical dose was because she was practicing with the voidspace, learning the limits of her power- and she had the bright idea to restore her own energy with medicine, then to exhaust herself, over and over.
So here she was, laying on the floor of the voidspace. She had been building. Tweaking. Editing. Erasing. Copying. She learned the maximum size of the voidspace, and had placed blocks at those limits so she knew how much space she had to work with. Then she started making rooms. Storage rooms mostly. It was busy work. To keep her mind off of things. She was so. . .
Her heart started beating again. Oh god that hurt even more. It was like her entire body went to sleep and now was getting oxygen and blood flow and EVERYTHING was doing that tingly thing and-
Viss rubbed her hands together, and looked at her handiwork. She was just so- Just so DELIGHTED with herself! Truly, this would be a fabulous gift. Alice would never be able to ignore such a healthy offering.
Qhen just looked confused.
Viss looked positively... intrigued! Qhen had to admit, they were surprised to see the interior of the voidspace looking like this. It was like they had walked into another hallway of the house, inside the pantry. They called out for Alice again, and getting an answer, followed her voice deep inside. . .
Finally, they found a pair of doors, and pushed it open. It was a library. A really big library. Qhen was immediately on guard, because they JUST realized that the library in the house proper was empty when they passed it. Just how much had Alice been up to in the time they were gone?
Grey fabric. A hood, and Qhen was suddenly aware of how cold the room was, despite being brightly lit, as if by a fire. . . And the closer Viss got, a mist began to form on the floor, and- Oh-
( ) "Viss... Back away from her. . ."
( ) "VISS! NO!"
( ) Say nothing, you have to act!
( ) Say nothing in time, it was already too late.