GRAVEYARD

[dormheads]

graveyard

students in time out: 10

It's a little hard to wake up when the melody that drifts into your ears is so comforting that it'd be so much simpler to stay asleep. Maybe everything that you remember last - the cold seeping into your fingertips, the pain of injury, or the darkness creeping into your vision - will just be parts of a bad dream.

But it's not.

When you wake up, it's probably a little disorienting - you have to push off a blanket and rise from this nice comfortable mat on the floor. Seems like you were all curled up for nap time. Literally. The room that you're in has furniture meant for small humans, children as some might call them, and everything is soft and plush to the touch with rounded corners. Blocks with the alphabet etched onto them, coloring books and crayons, and even a rocking horse dot the room to really give it that childish charm. If you can think of a child-safe toy, it's probably in one of the baskets that line the shelves of the room!

Around the room they'll find baby monitors that broadcast the antics of the living. Hopefully that doesn't feel creepy.

There is a yard outside through the glass doors, but it currently seems to be locked - and the glass won't break no matter how hard you try. There's a large pink door that feels enormous, ten times as tall as you, on one side of the room, but there's no way through that either. At the very top, you might see a directory sign that says: TO ADMINISTRATION BUILDING.

Huh.

Well... for now, get comfortable. It looks like you might be here a while.

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Comments

[wtfox]

[the chances of rupert's reasoning being satisfactory to her are very, very slim.

lan wangji must have a much more open mind than she does - or perhaps he's simply trying to. lila doesn't know. she doesn't know him well enough to say. it had been easy enough to be friendly with him while they were both alive, though...

...and maybe this is why.

in his own way - awkward as it is - he's trying to help.]

Songs of Clarity...? [if they lack power here, then... well, she can put two and two together.] Would they, like, normally make me calm or something?

[souheki]

Mm. They are meant to soothe the mind and soul.

[And also suppress hostile energy and mitigate qi deviations and stuff like that, but he doesn't think he really needs to specify that much. Even if it did make sense to her, it would probably give off the wrong impression.]

[wtfox]

...

[her nose wrinkles a little at that, and she tenses, like she's expecting him to follow up with a seems like you could really use that or something. but it doesn't come, and she breathes out.]

...that's your way of helping, right? [...] Fine. If you feel inclined to play, I'll listen.

[souheki]

[WELL NOW HE FEELS AWKWARD because he's stupid. He glances away, too refined to fidget but looking like he wants to anyway.]

Only if you wish. [It is his way of helping but he can't like. Just say that. That would make too much sense. Either way, he's not going to force her to listen if she doesn't want to.]

[wtfox]

[lwj your words...]

I don't get why you'd want to help someone you don't know that well, but... I'll listen.

[souheki]

[It's his job, Lila!!!

But he doesn't say anything to that either way--he just goes to get his guqin again, gracefully settling into place with it. He knows it's tuned since he was just playing it a little bit ago, so he simply starts to play.]

[wtfox]

[well



even without its power, the music is still really relaxing. lila listens, some of the tension starting to go out of her shoulders... and eventually dozes off. exhaustion has a way of creeping in once anger bleeds out of you!!

she goes zzzz while i listen to this music]