http://cheerhimup.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] cheerhimup.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] lucetilogs2010-11-13 10:46 pm

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Who: [livejournal.com profile] cheerhimup and [livejournal.com profile] soulbait
What: A New Feather has arrived today
When: November 13th, morning
Where: Ciel's house
Summary: Lizzie wakes up in Ciel's house, the Malnosso were nice enough to leave her in a familiar place
Rating: PG
[In her short life, Lizzie had woke up before the maid came to wake her up several times, but never had her maid delayed as it was delaying now. Never had her bed felt so strange, foreign even, not even when she slept in Ciel's place. And never had she woken up with back ache.

She waited, unable to tell for how long, until the light that filtered through the closed window annoyed her enough. Why hasn't anyone come yet? Her feet find the carpet under them as she climbs out of bed, where are her slippers? No matter how much she pats, she can't find them and eventually gives up and moves around barefoot. In the darkness it's hard to move, the room feeling foreign and different, it's hard to get her window to open, but it eventually gives in. When she finally allows the light to wash over her and the room, the very sight is enough to unsettle her.

The place that welcomes her sight isn't London. Wherever she is it's not one of the houses of her family, nor Ciel's mansion.

Eventually she turns to the room and further beyond its closed door, which wasn't locked. Has she been kidnapped? Brought somewhere far away from home? From mom and Ciel? But then why isn't the door locket? She walks through the hall, her hands finding an empty vase somewhere along the way as she explores, trying to find a way out, even if she's unsure of what she could do once she got out. It's not as if she recognizes the city where she is right now, but she assumes that getting away from that house would be the first step. So long as she finds a carriage she probably will be able to go back home or to Ciel's place.

As she turns a corner she hears it, a muffled voice, or maybe it's just a fragment of her imagination. Still she turns towards it and follows the way up to a closed door that again isn't locket. Pushing it softly, she lets it open, revealing the person at the other side.
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CIEL?!!!!!

[The vase crashes against the floor.]

[identity profile] soulbait.livejournal.com 2010-11-14 02:45 am (UTC)(link)
[Ciel meanwhile, is busy being traumatized. He'd taken to getting up in the morning before Sebastian woke him for a while now, but now... this is the first time the demon hadn't shown up and fixed him his clothes. He's still in his nightgownshirt and he didn't even put his eyepatch on yet. He'd been traversing parts of the house for a while now, muttering to himself, knowing the guy should be around somewhere-

Well, now he thought about it, he hasn't seen him since last night, has he? He went to bed alone after willing some inane task on Sebastian. True, he had grown some more skills here but- But.

He'd even ordered the demon to appear. He hasn't. But the real shock was when he entered the butler's room. Ciel is wide-eyed for a while, staring into the empty closet. No cats, not even his suits.]


Sebastian... No- ... [Yeah, this is horrifying, but then the vase dropping draws his attention somewhere else. He turns wildly, still wide-eyed-]

Elizabeth?! [No that's- not possible...

...And yes, his contract is exposed if you're one to take note of such things. But realizing this, he quickly throws up a hand to cover his eye. This is almost as reflexive as. Well. What the hell is she-]

1/2

[identity profile] soulbait.livejournal.com 2010-11-14 05:33 pm (UTC)(link)
[...Crying? Well that's to be expected, isn't it? Just as much as when she dive-tackles him into an embrace. the force of the collision makes him fall back. It hurts his wings to land on them like this but who cares? Sebastian isn't answering his calls and now Lizzie is here? He's already resisting the urge to vomit all over the place here but he has to stay strong. Awkwardly, he pulls one hand around her while the other is still covering his eye-]

Elizabeth! Wha-!

[Get off him, woman. ...Or at least he wants to say that, but his gusto isn't working quite right. Plus, well.]

[identity profile] soulbait.livejournal.com 2010-11-14 05:35 pm (UTC)(link)
[God, if he's even involved here, is an asshole. To see her here is odd enough, but now that he adjusts himself, he looks to the back of her neck. Her hair isn't done up so he can't see what must be here but- she too must be branded. The thought enrages him even through the haze of disgust and fear he's feeling right now.

And she too has wings...?

He really can't bring himself to speak. He's trying so hard not to just collapse into a pile of pathetic goop right now]

1/2

[identity profile] soulbait.livejournal.com 2010-11-14 06:55 pm (UTC)(link)
[She's really- here?! Oh Malnosso, you bastards, this isn't fair at all. AT ALL. Ciel is resisting the urge to do something more drastic, but for now he just tries to peal her off of him. He can't explain anything if she's draping herself all over him.

But to think that she- This- She doesn't belong here. He might not want to be here, but at least-]

[identity profile] soulbait.livejournal.com 2010-11-14 06:56 pm (UTC)(link)
[Calm. He needs to force calm. Still covering his eye with one arm and trying to worm out of her with the other:]

Get off! I am fine.

[identity profile] soulbait.livejournal.com 2010-11-14 08:29 pm (UTC)(link)
[Ugh. He still feels sick to his stomach right now, but keeping one hand over his eye he shakes his head] I have not. There is a village filled with people who have not.

[identity profile] soulbait.livejournal.com 2010-11-15 12:50 am (UTC)(link)
Elizabeth. [Okay he needs to be cold now, so he makes his tone as flat as he can make it.] We are not confined to this household, we are confined to the village it rests in.

[identity profile] soulbait.livejournal.com 2010-11-15 01:13 am (UTC)(link)
No. [And how to make her accept this... oh he'll just say it] The whole village has been kidnapped.

[identity profile] soulbait.livejournal.com 2010-11-15 08:15 pm (UTC)(link)
There is an impregnable invisible wall beyond the edge of the village. [He knows how stupid that sounds. Exhale]

[identity profile] soulbait.livejournal.com 2010-11-15 08:47 pm (UTC)(link)
I had- [Sebastian- the word dies in his throat. He feels the need to vomit once more but he hold it back. No, no, there is no need to mention him.] -heard of others who have ventured that far.

[identity profile] soulbait.livejournal.com 2010-11-16 02:32 am (UTC)(link)
No- I... [...There's really no good way to say this] Elizabeth, I have been in this place for months. [He hands his head here, with Sebastian, but now he's-

He's gone? But that's impossible. Impossible]

1/3

[identity profile] soulbait.livejournal.com 2010-11-16 11:03 pm (UTC)(link)
[Celebrating that- But he doesn't...]

[identity profile] soulbait.livejournal.com 2010-11-16 11:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Elizabeth, I have no recollection of such an event. [This is said flatly, sternly. As in shut up woman. She's not lying but... the future, perhaps? No, that's- ...No, it's not impossible. He steel his resolve and presses forward.]

To my recollection, the most recent time we spent together was when you visited and requested we go on a boat ride together. We invited Ms. Hopkins [Nina, that is] to the manor in order to ready me new attire for the occasion. I awoke in this village sometime after the end of that day.

[Okay... he keeps his eye locked on her while the other is hidden with his hand... he needs his eyepatch]

This sort of discrepancy is not unheard of in Luceti, the village we are in now. In this village people are taken from across both worlds and time by the kidnappers here.

[identity profile] soulbait.livejournal.com 2010-11-16 11:13 pm (UTC)(link)
You would not have noticed me gone. [And now, much quieter. ...So that means that people really do go back and forget, unless Elizabeth is from some other world entirely. While not impossible, he doesn't let himself dwell on that. No, he refuses to] By all accounts, when people are returned to their worlds, no time has past and they have no recollection or evidence of the events which happened to them in Luceti.
Edited 2010-11-16 23:13 (UTC)

[identity profile] soulbait.livejournal.com 2010-11-19 09:41 pm (UTC)(link)
[...Ah] Luceti ignores all conventional logic. Whatever you can imagine may in fact be possible here.

[identity profile] soulbait.livejournal.com 2010-11-19 11:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[...He sighs and stands. He's trying hard, hard to be a man, but it's clear that his stance is even more shakey than usual. Not to mention he's still in a nightgownshit. He heads to the door]

There is much else you need to know, come.

[Yes, his voice is harder than it probably should be but it's hard to feel nice right now]

[identity profile] soulbait.livejournal.com 2010-11-21 06:47 am (UTC)(link)
[He leads her... to his study. There he puts on a simple eye-patch before turning back to her, taking his journal off his desk as he does so. This is important, so...]

You no doubt awoke with a book like this near you. It will be important in future.

[identity profile] soulbait.livejournal.com 2010-11-22 01:11 am (UTC)(link)
...Ah, yes, of course. No one lives in this manor except myself. [WINCE again at Sebastian's recent loss]

[identity profile] soulbait.livejournal.com 2010-11-22 04:50 am (UTC)(link)
No. You will remain here, Elizabeth. [This comes out fastly. Defensively. He can't let her go anywhere else because what if she- ...That- No, no]

[identity profile] soulbait.livejournal.com 2010-11-23 06:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Now... [He's going to open the journal (his) and flip to that guide page of Raine's. He sets that down on the table for her before standing]

You would do well to read that document.

[identity profile] soulbait.livejournal.com 2010-11-23 09:09 pm (UTC)(link)
[...]

We have. [And here, he flips back his hair a little to display the back of his neck for her]