[ This is the second time in a few weeks that Ellie has come into awareness to find herself...somewhere else. The last time, she'd woken up in one of the cabins of this world, but none of them are in sight at the moment, and she doesn't yet realize. Instead, she finds herself in a rowboat in the middle of a lake and wakes with a start, wide-eyed and panicked, because. Water. ]
Shit. [ No time to wonder what the fuck is going on. Shore isn't too far away, but there's a little water in the boat already. As she works to keep herself under control, Ellie looks for an oar, or a stick, or...something to help guide her back to land. Barring that, she sticks her head out for a second to try and identify how deep it is, but even though the lake is crystal-clear, its depths are...indeterminate. She swears under her breath and leans back, trying to decide what the least risky thing to do is -
When she sees someone on shore, close enough that her voice would carry. They could be a fucking psycho, and her breath catches as this new factor comes into play, but she swallows hard, determined, and calls out: ]
Hey! Can you hear me? I can't swim!
[ If they're going to shoot at her or something, then she'll have to try swimming, but...she might have to do that anyway if this stranger isn't able to help her out. In the meantime, she ducks down a little to peer at them from a distance, eyes narrowed.
Still no time to wonder how she got stuck in the middle of a lake without being aware of it... ]
002. the barrier
What the hell...?
[ Ellie removes her hand from the barrier, shaking it to rid herself of the unpleasant, nearly shock-like buzz. The honeycomb wall extends far above her, and out on both sides, and she spends a full minute staring at it, trying to make some sense of...well, anything. Waking up in this place not once, but twice, without any real answer is - disquieting. She'd seen those same cabins in her travels from the lake into the woods, had peeked into the windows enough to recognize them from before. Unfortunately, perhaps, she hadn't ventured in, and therefore hadn't seen the pamphlets, instead opting to continue on into the forest in hopes of finding some kind of recognizable landmark. ]
How is this a thing? [ The question is actually more "why," but that one scares her. Why would someone make a big...human zoo (??), complete with electric force-field? It absolutely sounds like something out of a comic book, and she shivers a little in the face of this terrifying unknown.
Ellie steps back a bit to start chucking rocks at the barrier, watching its reaction. When she feels like there's no more information to be gleaned, she continues on, wandering along the barrier's path to try and find an exit, even as the little voice in the back of her head wonders if it's just wishful thinking that there'd be a way out.
Well, if there isn't one here, I'll make one. Even if it means tracking the people who put her here and 'persuading' them to let her out. ...Somehow. ]
ellie ; ota
[ This is the second time in a few weeks that Ellie has come into awareness to find herself...somewhere else. The last time, she'd woken up in one of the cabins of this world, but none of them are in sight at the moment, and she doesn't yet realize. Instead, she finds herself in a rowboat in the middle of a lake and wakes with a start, wide-eyed and panicked, because. Water. ]
Shit. [ No time to wonder what the fuck is going on. Shore isn't too far away, but there's a little water in the boat already. As she works to keep herself under control, Ellie looks for an oar, or a stick, or...something to help guide her back to land. Barring that, she sticks her head out for a second to try and identify how deep it is, but even though the lake is crystal-clear, its depths are...indeterminate. She swears under her breath and leans back, trying to decide what the least risky thing to do is -
When she sees someone on shore, close enough that her voice would carry. They could be a fucking psycho, and her breath catches as this new factor comes into play, but she swallows hard, determined, and calls out: ]
Hey! Can you hear me? I can't swim!
[ If they're going to shoot at her or something, then she'll have to try swimming, but...she might have to do that anyway if this stranger isn't able to help her out. In the meantime, she ducks down a little to peer at them from a distance, eyes narrowed.
Still no time to wonder how she got stuck in the middle of a lake without being aware of it... ]
002. the barrier
What the hell...?
[ Ellie removes her hand from the barrier, shaking it to rid herself of the unpleasant, nearly shock-like buzz. The honeycomb wall extends far above her, and out on both sides, and she spends a full minute staring at it, trying to make some sense of...well, anything. Waking up in this place not once, but twice, without any real answer is - disquieting. She'd seen those same cabins in her travels from the lake into the woods, had peeked into the windows enough to recognize them from before. Unfortunately, perhaps, she hadn't ventured in, and therefore hadn't seen the pamphlets, instead opting to continue on into the forest in hopes of finding some kind of recognizable landmark. ]
How is this a thing? [ The question is actually more "why," but that one scares her. Why would someone make a big...human zoo (??), complete with electric force-field? It absolutely sounds like something out of a comic book, and she shivers a little in the face of this terrifying unknown.
Ellie steps back a bit to start chucking rocks at the barrier, watching its reaction. When she feels like there's no more information to be gleaned, she continues on, wandering along the barrier's path to try and find an exit, even as the little voice in the back of her head wonders if it's just wishful thinking that there'd be a way out.
Well, if there isn't one here, I'll make one. Even if it means tracking the people who put her here and 'persuading' them to let her out. ...Somehow. ]
003. wildcard
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