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cabin in the woods (yonaka & scarlett)

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...no. I don't have to be either.

[If Scarlett were to be honest...if this really is outside The House (which surely it must be at this point) then she's similarly glad to be away. After all her failure, after all the people she had hurt...it was for the best.

At the same time she also felt guilty and hoped that everyone else had been freed to. Out of everyone she was the one who deserved freedom the least.]

If I may ask, where exactly are you from?

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Tokyo.

[watch as I don't remember shit about canon]

What about you?

[Uh.

She probably should have anticipated that the question would be asked in turn, and she really has no idea how to answer that.]

I'm not...I don't really know. I've lived in the same building all my life. This is the first time I've been outside it.

[Tokyo was part of the True Realm, right? Does that mean that's where she is?]

[The awkward is palpable. Yonaka's mind doesn't go to reality shenanigans - more to being locked in by someone. Who or why is the immediate question: but something too personal to ask on the first day, she thinks.]

Well, welcome to the outside, probably. Enjoy our stunning features like grass and trees.

[Can something be sarcastic and entirely sincere at the same time? She doesn't think much of this new world she's ended up in suddenly, but it is nice to experience the outdoors ever.]

[A dry response, but Scarlett can find some humor in it. She'd rather that, than pity so while still a touch awkward, her smile returns.]

It'll certainly be something I'll take the time to appreciate when it's brighter outside.

[Hopefully that will actually happen and things won't go sour for them. Hopefully. Scarlett in fact does not have that much hope for that.]

With that out, I suppose I'll apologize ahead of time if there is a lot I don't know. But I'll do my best to help the both of us.

That's alright. It helps just to have someone with you.

[Once she was the innocent who knew nothing of the world she'd ended up in, and had to be helped by another at the cost of his life. Now she knows nothing about this world, but she can still be the one to guide someone else.]

[That's true. Or sometimes they could be a hindrance. She just hopes she won't end up being that for Yonaka.]

Is this sort of thing normal? [Come to think of it, Yonaka having mentioned Tokyo made Scarlett assume she cam from the True Realm--but who could be sure? There certainly weren't any Mogekos from what she recalled. And who could really know what it was like now. For all she knew it could be but one year since she existed in The House, or hundreds of years could have passed.] Waking up in a different place, I mean.

I don't think I'm a good judge of 'normal' anymore.

[If she ever was. "An ordinary high school girl," but things had been wrong even before she found herself in Mogeko Castle.]

But I don't think most people wake up in strange worlds? Definitely not twice in their lives.

[She didn't think so. At the very least, the memories she had of True Realm didn't indicate as such, but Scarlett wasn't really sure what to believe these days...or if things had changed drastically since Charles lived]

Whatever the case may be, we'll make the best of it. [Maybe, this one time--this singular time, she could actually help someone.]

Right. It is what it is.

...But I'm really glad I'm not alone this time.

[That's one way this is already so much better than the castle.]

[The ticking bomb that Scarlett had felt in the back of her mind had yet to go off. It was too easy. Too pleasant.

Certainly there were going to be obstacles down the line when they ran out of food, when whoever owned this place returned but...compared to everything that had come beforehand it almost seemed laughable to concern herself over those things so much.

The first two days they had ventured out to get some scope of their surroundings. The garden provided them with food, so long as they maintained that they should be okay. The forest was also teeming with animals...Scarlett had no idea how to hunt, but surely between the two of them they would eventually figure something out.

Scarlett had started drawing them a map and the plan remained to travel each day to fill it out in hopes of one day finding others.

Fortunately other than getting a little turned around for a couple hours once, they had had no problems.

It was the morning of their fourth day here, and Scarlett was stirring from her slumber as sunlight streamed in through a window. She thought it would take getting accustomed to sleeping on a hard floor with just a bunch of blankets, but oddly she found herself having little difficulty...what was more difficult, indeed was waking up.]

Hmmprhf.

[She let out a noise before turning on her stomach to plant her face right into the ground. That was better.]

[Waking up, indeed, is very difficult.

On the first couple nights, it had been easier. The nights when Yonaka wasn't convinced that if she fell asleep, she wouldn't wake up in Mogeko Castle yet again. The nights when she still feared, on some level, having to run at any moment.

But a few peaceful days had helped. Yonaka had never hunted, as such, but she could stab, and that was a decent starting point for acquiring more food if they needed. Despite being a strange, unknown land, this place felt... safe.

And Yonaka really, really needed to catch up on some sleep. Which she was trying to do.]

Someone turn off the sun...

[Mrggh. Five more minutes.]

[Yonaka's voice sounded in Scarlett's ear and despite herself, she shifted back over on her side to look at the other girl.

It was so strange. Scarlett knew this other girl was real. An actual person acting according to her own will. She knew that she herself now had that freedom as well. When she existed in The House it had been impossible to tell given she knew no other way of being. The differences here, however, were to many to count and even fully explain.

The simple act of needing sleep solely because her body required it in order to sustain itself was one such example.

Sleep, in which you got actual rest, was something oddly enjoyable.

Her mind was now to active to really get back to sleep so she slowly sat up, closing her eyes and letting the sun's warmth fall over her. This was nice too.

Living was really, really nice.

After a bit she finally got up (slowly and carefully so as to let Yonaka have her extra minutes) and climbed the latter down to the main room. Breakfast was in order!]

[Eventually, Yonaka does get up. She hasn't put her hair up or even run a comb through it yet when she wanders towards the kitchen, and she has a pretty severe case of bedhead.]

Morning... Do we have coffee?

[Not really a morning person.]

[Scarlett has made some toast for them (she's not particularly good at making much yet) but she got the bag of ground coffee out. There isn't too much of it left, but the fact that such a product is here at all makes Scarlett hopeful that there is somewhere nearby they could get to where such things are sold.]

A little bit. Can you show me how to make it?

[Scarlett tried a little bit...and well. She didn't like it at all, to say the least, but it's better to know than not know.

Oh, sure.

[She hadn't really considered that Scarlett wouldn't know how, but it doesn't surprise her too much either.

blah blah making coffee goes here I don't know how to do it either]

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