cabin in the woods (yonaka & scarlett)

[ascapegoat]

Continued from here.

...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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[chasescenes]

[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.]

[ascapegoat]

[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.

[chasescenes]

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.]

[ascapegoat]

[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.

[chasescenes]

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.

[ascapegoat]

[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.]

[chasescenes]

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.]