welcome to the jungle / it gets worse here everyday

[lucetimods]

Who: All draftees
What: Arriving at the (temporary) dorms
When: 9 AM of the 3rd. They'll be able to stay there until 1 PM of the same day.
Where: Dorms; location unknown.
Summary: Here is the hallway; here is your room. (Here is some additional info.) Go forth and mingle.
Rating: PG or PG-13 ish, I imagine.

Whether by their own power or by droid, your characters are arriving one by one to the dorms. Each room is specific to a single character; others can only be invited in by that character's allowance. Requested effects will already be present in the rooms. While you're here, you may want to request some last-minute supplies... this is your final chance to gather them. A final note: Shift incompatibilities will not kick in while characters are in the dorms; only once they are out in the field.

Comments

[fabrecation]

[The door is open, but Luke doesn't feel like barging in. For a second, he even hesitates outside of it. How is Xion really feeling about this? Would she... want to see him?

But he gets over that moment of uncertainty enough to step forward and knock a couple of times on her door before he leans around so that his head and shoulders come into view.]

Xion?

[fourteen]

[ Xion's not the type to tell anyone to go away, or just not to come in. If she really wanted solitude, she would have closed the door.

So she certainly doesn't mind when Luke startles her out of her unhappy thoughts. Her eyebrows draw up and together, but she smiles -- faintly. ]

Hey.

[fabrecation]

[He smiles too - faintly, and he steps inside and shuts the door behind him. For a second he stays standing there, but then he strides over to the bed and sits down beside her, close enough so that their sides touch, and he slides an arm loosely around her lower back.]

Hey... How're you feeling?

[fourteen]

[ She leans against him instinctively, appreciative of his warmth, but her expression falls back into the quiet, thoughtful unhappiness from before. ]

... I don't want to go.

[fabrecation]

[Luke leans a little more, enough to rest his chin on her head, and let out a little sigh. Yeah... he knows the feeling.]

I don't think any of us do. [Except for the crazy ones.] I know you don't really need it, but... Let me watch out for you, okay?

[fourteen]

[ The words "Oh, Luke" escape her on a very quiet sigh.

She doesn't really want him to -- if only because they'll all have enough to worry about there -- but ... ]

Okay. [ She shuts her eyes, her arms sneaking out of her blanket so her hands can lightly grip his shirt. ]

[fabrecation]

[He shuts his eyes and brings his other arm around to cross over her collarbones and hold her shoulder, pulling her a little closer to himself. "Okay". Even if she said no, that he had to worry more about himself, he'd still look after her, just as he'd look after Ion, Tear and Jade, and everyone else he knows are going. This time's more dangerous than before... Luke can't help being afraid for the people he knows and cares for.]

Let's... Let's do the best we can. [Let's stay alive... Let's keep everyone else alive.]