❦ 01

[heresyandlace.livejournal.com]

[though it very much seems otherwise, he knows that it can't actually be a dream because of how immediately and distinctly not right he feels upon finding himself in this decadent little room. Doing his best to remain calm, he pokes around, finding an exceedingly strange book with his name on it, peeking through drawers and listening for sounds. Eventually, his search leads him out into hall of faceless doorways, down some stairs, and into a sprawling lobby. Just wandering, hypersensitive and quiet, until he hopefully walks into something that makes some sense. Just stay calm...

He finally stops when he reaches a window, staring--a little shellshocked--at nothing but fog. ...And there he stays for some time, silent in deeply unsettled thought.

Finally, he suddenly remembers the book in his hands. It gives him something to fiddle with, fidgeting with the little clockwork gears until something finally clicks into place and the thing falls suddenly open]

...That seems a bit much.

[and the book helpfully jots down his words for him]

--Oh.

[there is no way this could be a good sign]

Comments

[sensate-surfer.livejournal.com]

Oh! Hi!

[awkwardawkwardawkward]

I didn't meant to bother you. I'm just still getting used to everything. Were you at the castle before?

[heresyandlace.livejournal.com]

If you have answers for me, then you aren't a bother at all.

[the second part makes him pause, confused, however]

Castle? I haven't visited any castle in years.

[sensate-surfer.livejournal.com]

[Zach really isn't sure how much help he'll be, but he can try]

You must be one of the new ones, then.

[heresyandlace.livejournal.com]

New ones?

[sensate-surfer.livejournal.com]

New people. New arrivals. Whatever you wanna call us, I guess. There was a bunch of us before that got taken there. And there were books too that could talk to each other like these, but they were different. None of these weird gears and things. But anyway...we woke up a few days ago outside of this place in the fog. I think most of the same people from the castle are here, but there was some new people. So...yeah...I guess you're one of them.

[heresyandlace.livejournal.com]

[there's silence for a minute, while he rubs his forehead. Between his head hurting, the distinctly unreal sense of everything, and how little sense anything here made anyway... he's having quite a difficult time absorbing anything that this guy has just said.

He resorts to reading the transcription of it, a few times, before he's mostly sure that he's got the gist]

...So you're saying that there was something before this, and that is where you came from?

[sensate-surfer.livejournal.com]

[He isn't great with the whole...wording thing]

Yeah. Although technically I came from a place before that. A different world, if the what the other guys say is true.

[heresyandlace.livejournal.com]

That seems... [ridiculous. unbelievable. comical. suspicious.] ...complicated.

[sensate-surfer.livejournal.com]

[Slightly awkward laugh]

Yeah, that's one word for it.

I wish I could help ya more, man, but...I'm still figuring this place out myself.