not_meatbuns | Rebel 23 [Action - Foward-dated to tomorrow evening]

[Today has not been an easy day.

It started last night: the steadily rising murmur of voices echoing off the Boundary, so many overlapping and talking at once that the sound has become almost like the buzz of a monstrous insect. She had gone to bed early, entire body aching, hoping that some rest would take care of it.

This morning, it still wasn't gone. The buzz was louder than ever, so loud she could barely hear anything else. And the feedback... the pain was nearly overwhelming. Her head throbbed, lungs burned. But she could do this. She could handle it. Just some tea mixed with the right herbs and the pain will go away.

It took far too long to remember what those herbs were. How many times had she mixed this up before? Why was this so hard now?

Several hours later, as she sat at the front desk of the clinic finishing up some paperwork, the blackouts started.

At first faint, ghostly images of home, familiar faces she knew weren't in Luceti, would flicker in and out around her. And then Luceti began to completely vanish from time to time, leaving glimpses of Orient Town, the lab in Sector Seven, the Kagutsuchi NOL branch, and Ronin-gai to take its place. Memories collided. And the bone-deep terror set in.

It isn't until she starts coughing that she decides to leave the clinic early for the day. Being around other doctors with a blood-flecked handkerchief is just asking for more trouble than she's willing to risk.

Time to go home. Time to just curl up in bed and call it a day and pray that it will be over in the morning.

It isn't until her hand is on the doorknob to her old apartment that Litchi remembers that she doesn't live there anymore. Shaking her head, trying to think clearly, she turns back to head in the right direction.

Disoriented and pained, she starts to make her way back to House 48. But the going is slow; not only is the way blurred from her memory from time to time, but her coughing is just growing worse the longer she walks.

This can't be it. Not here. Not now...!]

[[ooc: The thread with Noel will chronologically come last. ♥ Litchi will not be available after that thread. Beforehand, though, feel free to run into her anywhere along the path from Community Building 2 to House 48.

Also, I gotta leave for work pretty soon, but I will tag when I'm home. ;;]]

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[She slumps down, to her knees.]

What did... What did I do!?

[... dammit. Overly emotional little kids.

He kneels down and sets a hand on her shoulder.]

I don't know. You tell me. When she wakes up, am I gonna have to blast her again or do we need to put her somewhere for safe keeping?

[She flinches when he sets that hand on her shoulder, expecting the worst, but... she relaxes a little when she realizes she won't be observing his memories, too. She holds Lao Jiu even closer, refusing to look up.]

I don't know. M-Maybe. I-I'm not sure if she'll be the same when she wakes up again.

[He snorts at that and stands, going over to Litchi. He's surprisingly gently as he cradles in her arms and gets to his feet.]

We ain't done talking, Blondie, but I don't want anymore damn flaming kicks if she wakes up. Follow me. [Where's he carrying her? To the tunnels, of course.]

[She looks a little worried; what would happen if she woke up while he's still carrying her? ... It doesn't seem like she doesn't have a say in this, though. Noel nods a little, shakily pulling herself off the ground to go and follow Goroh.]

[He makes sure she's following. No way he's letting Noel off the hook.]

Why do you have Lao Jiu?

[Lao Jiu probably has a huge "8C" face, but I do not play Lao Jiu.]

He helped me get away from her before it was too late. [aka: he snapped me out of it before it was too late by pulling my hair.]

[Probably because it's Goroh, too.]

He may have helped you, but can we be sure the little bastard ain't the reason she snapped in the first place?

[Damn it, Goroh.

Noel pauses at that, and only hugs Lao Jiu even closer.] ... I-It wasn't Lao Jiu.

And you know that how?

[Oh look, here's the tunnel. Goroh moves Litchi around and slings her over his shoulder, so he can climb into the tunnel with one hand free.]

[...] She only started acting like that after I touched her.

[...After she accidentally observed her memories from it.]

You touched her? Like what, you tried to cop a feel or what? Litchi's not exactly the type to freak out over something like that.

[In other words, spit it out.]

No! I held her, and-- [Deep breath. How can she ever explain this? Would he even believe something so...far-fetched?]

I-I accidentally... observed her memories.

[Flatly:] You observed her memories.

... And then she attacked me. [And she's still trying to work out if it was because of... what she was.]

So what did you see in her memories? [Oh look, they're in the tunnels now.]

[Hoorah! No risk of accidentally using the Eye here! ... Noel's not sure if it's in her place to tell Goroh what it was she saw exactly, but...] H-Her past. I think I saw some things that... I really shouldn't have known about.

Well, now you do. And there's a chance whatever it is, might explain what's wrong with her. So spill the beans.

[This is a good enough spot. He sets her up against the wall, then pulls off his jacket and rolls it up into a ball and eases her down to the ground, where she can use it as a pillow.]

[She carefully watches the man's actions, taking note of how... gentle he's being here. Though she won't say a thing about it.

Either way, Goroh probably... deserves to know, at least.] There was a power she picked up back in our world from a place no one should have been able to step into called the Boundary. It's... been slowly deteriorating her mind.

... so that's where she gets all those fancy powers, is it?

[He looks down at the unconscious Litchi and frowns.] What the hell would make her do something so stupid?

[That man... and what Litchi had said to that woman...]

I think... there was someone she wanted to help.

... yeah, that figures. Damn woman doesn't know when to call it quits. Messing with supernatural forces to help someone? She's about dumb enough for that.

[He really does care. Kind of.]

[Doesn't make Noel feel any less guilty. She's quiet for another minute, then--] ...What should we do now? [...] Should I warn everyone?

Let's wake her up first. If she's being controlled by someone, [like of the Hazama variety] the tunnels might block it.

[Would that work? It's certainly plausible; Noel hopes that luck is on their side today.] O-Okay.

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