[OPEN] I'm in here

[immobileyes]

Who: Mary Kozakura (immobileyes) and YOU
When: IC 2/27-3/01
Where: Residential District, right by the not-so-standing apartments
What: Mary tries to dig up things from her fallen apartment over the course of a few days, success is varied
Rating/Warning: None!

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[ It was hard enough, waiting for the water level to go down enough so that Mary could return to where her apartment was (had been) without risk of drowning. Seto's hoodie, the jacket Hiro had given her... they were the only things she'd been able to find at the time, but now she can search for anything remaining from their apartment.

So feel free to come across a tiny teenager over the afore-mentioned days, getting drizzled on and trying to pry up pieces of the smaller rubble - and HNNNNNGHing at the bigger pieces of debris that she can't budge at all - as she hunts about. The stuffed animal she'd received from Lily is gone, the headband from Kaoru and Shiho has been twisted and bent beyond repair when she miraculously finds that... the dried flowers, from the bouquet Elza had given her... no sign of them. All of her tea...

Mary almost wants to cry, but not yet. She just keeps looking.

And don't be alarmed if she seems worn-out when you see her. It's not some weird elemental effect, she's just terrible at stamina. ]

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[overgrowth]

I've stayed in worse places.

[ and as for items he cares about, kanda carries his sword with him all the time, and the lotus hourglass isn't made out of delicate materials and survived. at the moment it's stashed away someplace relatively safe.

so as far as he's concerned, he'll be fine. he doesn't even think to mention things because he doesn't have any he's sentimentally attached to. ]

[immobileyes]

... Just be careful?

[immobileyes]

Here-- [ She points off to her left, where one of her dresses (soggy and muddy and sad-looking) is being used to cradle any salvageable items. ] We can tuck it in there.

[apologetically]

[who is the bigger loser here THAT'S THE REAL QUESTION]

Oh -- [his face turns pink, because not even all the zen in the world can stop him from feeling like a LOSER, but hastily moves on]

Don't worry about me, I'm used to it! [used to what julian] Maybe -- maybe it'd be best if we stopped here for today?

[he anxiously asks because Julian still can't make decisions on his own even when the only other person next to him is an adorable girl who's clearly tired.....]

[deontology]

Yes, that is a blessing. We are lucky there were not too many casualties despite the dangers we were in.

[It's kind of a remarkable miracle, when he thinks about it.]

Material possessions can be replaced, though we will naturally recover what we can.

[coexistent]

[roxas will get to work too, looking around and moving debris as he sees fit in an attempt to help. he's finding a lot of other stuff that presumably belongs to other people. eventually though, he'll stumble across some kind of book—he doesn't open it, just in case it's a diary or something, but it doesn't look like one to him.]

What kind of books were you looking for? I found one over here...

[immobileyes]

... Do you know how? [ Do you have some secret answer that will make it easy to release all of the people dangling lifelessly in... the Nexus whatsit? Because Mary could probably storm in on CERES but it would end horribly. ]

[immobileyes]

[ OOC: We can wrap it up and say they were at it for awhile! ]

[immobileyes]

But they can't! They were things from my friends, so of course they'd be important!!

[ And some of those friends are gone. ]

[immobileyes]

My collection of fairy tales, but there's some manga too-- [ She's calling over from a little further away, dropping someone's gaudy lime-green bra to trot over. ] Does it have pictures on the front?

[immobileyes]

I... yeah, I guess so. [ She's tired, he's... maybe not tired, but he's already fallen, and it's getting darker. ] Sorry.

[ She feels the need to say this anyway. ]

[immobileyes]

If I see some of them again... I'll have to apologize for letting their gifts get ruined.

[ Sorry, Elza... ]

[coexistent]

I'm not sure...

[which kind of sounds silly, but the book is covered in dust and debris, making it hard for roxas to make out the cover clearly. he uses the sleeve of his coat to brush it away (yuck, he'll definitely have to wash it when he gets home tonight).

probably better he was focused on that than the bra, at least. oh boy.] Yeah, it looks like there's something on here.

[it's probably easier if he just holds it up for mary to see, so he does that instead.]

[immobileyes]

[ Clearly... he's made of tough stuff. ]

Really? Worse than here?

[immobileyes]

[ Mary peers closer-- and then brightens, reaching out her finger to clear off a little more dust. Yeah, she's already a mess. ]

Oh! It's one of my manga! See, look, these are the main characters--

[ This blond, wide-eyed boy and the taller dark-haired man holding him possessively and the lilies that were white but are now a lovely muddy brown-black... ]

[deontology]

They will understand. I am certain that they will be happiest that you were unharmed.

[...that said, he understands the value of keeping precious things.]

We will continue looking, however. There is no reason to give up yet.

[coexistent]

[now that he's got a bit of a clearer view, he's looking at the artwork—and looking at bit puzzled at it.]

What are they doing? [he doesn't understand what he's seeing at all. she seems to be happy about having found it, though. so that part's okay.]

[reprizesal]

[OOC: Got it! And I can assume they exchanged names somewhere along the line?]

[cutebutexpendable]

[ Styx hesitates, visibly mulling this over. It really says a lot about the goblin that that possibility didn't even occur to him. ]

What, you mean like... gifts, or something? "Thanks for murdering this asshole like I asked, here's a little something in exchange"?

[ Aaand that probably says even more about Styx. ]

[immobileyes]

... Yeah. Thank you, Sousei-san.

[ SHE'S NOT GONNA GIVE UP. ]

[overgrowth]

Sort of.

[ kanda's answer is more curt this time, but to answer her question he'd thought back to his upbringing, which... wasn't a happy time. ]

There's bullshit going on here, too. Just in a different way.

[babermetrics]

Uh, nooo . . .

[Man, he wishes. Or more accurately, he wishes he knew how to do anything at all to get back at CERES. Knowing how to get into and mess with that Nexus place is even more outside of his knowledge than most things regarding the city, though, and that's saying a lot. He rubs the back of his neck.]

--But people're workin' on it! I've got some friends who're totally looking into it!

[immobileyes]

[ ... Styx... ]

Like... "thanks for being my friend" and things like that. I don't get things like that very often, so of course it's all important!

[immobileyes]

They're in love. [ SAGE NOD. Yes, the two attractive young men with half-open shirts, this is some pure shit right here. ]

[harepiece]

[Mary why... But he'll trot over there without voicing his "Mary why"s aloud, placing the flower in as safe a place as he can find.]

There! It shouldn't get crushed like that.