lights out!

[velveteened]

Date & Time: 4/20, all day
Location: the apartments!
Characters: everyone, tag yourselves in!
Summary: as detailed here, the power will be out from early morning to midnight this night.
Warnings: PROBABLY NOT? will update if need be.

[ catch-all log for blackout shenanigans! ]

Comments

[anklets]

I'm sorry.

[Human-shaped and girl-sounding. Lenalee shrinks further away for good measure, her steps feather-light, and squints at what may be the faint outline of a person. The Order's dreary hallways have not left her with any particular skill in seeing in the dark.]

It's- very dark. I didn't hurt you, did I?

[barefootbender]

No, I'm fine, just...

[her scowl fades.] Huh? What do you mean, it's dark? Are the lights off?

[anklets]

[Don't worry, Toph, Lenalee has experience in the field of the capable blind, and it's only a moment yet between confusion and tentative realisation. She hovers on asking, but decides against it, not wanting to irritate the girl further.]

The lights have gone out, yes, and it's terribly inconvenient.

[barefootbender]

Oh.

[well, that would explain why this person ran right into her.]

What's your name? Need help getting somewhere? The dark doesn't bother me.

[she actually appreciates the lack of comment on her blindness. even when it's obvious to people they always still need to point it out! it doesn't make sense.]

[anklets]

[S

udden exuberance. She blinks, tentatively speaking to the darkness in the general area before her.]

My name is Lenalee, but- I wanted to see if I could find someone who might have a better idea than I what happened to the power.

[barefootbender]

Well, I can't help you there. I didn't even know it was out.

[she smirks and holds a hand out, not looking directly at her as she talks.]

But I can help you get around, at least? Where were you headed? If the power's out, I can't microwave anything. That's a problem.

[anklets]

[May be misconstruing that gesture, but

--rrrreaches out and tentatively touches her fingers to Toph's wrist. It only takes two tries to get her aim right.]

Microwave? I wouldn't mind going outside.

[barefootbender]

[Toph snatches her hand, as if to say, yes that's what I meant, silly or jeez, is it so hard to find someone's hand.]

Outside's this way, then.

[tugging her along, she drags her towards the stairs.]

My name's Toph.

[anklets]

T— oph!

[ Lenalee has very little experience in communicating with those significantly younger than she, so she's taking this at something of a disoriented arm's length. Literally, now, as it were... ]

You're. Awfully well-coordinated. [ sounds more curious than surprised; she is most familiar with Marie and how he'd coped with his blindness, and in the dim light, she thinks whatever Toph is wearing on her head might (in daylight) resemble the headphones he wore ] Have you been here long?

[barefootbender]

[nope, thats just her rad headband. with fluffy poofballs and everything!

Toph shrugs her shoulders as she leads her along, facing forward.]

I dunno. I guess a couple of months, now. It's so boring around here that the days just... merge together, you know?

1/2

[anklets]

Months...

[Children should not be caged here.]

[anklets]

I wouldn't call it 'boring', but- [ toes catching on a dip in the floor, though she rebalances herself quick and light ] it is not what I'd expected when I was told of a war. The days do blur, a little.

[barefootbender]

This isn't a war at all.

[Toph says that with the confidence of someone who knows it first-hand. When she senses the door of the stairwell in front of her, she reaches out with her free hand and pushes it open. Ever seen a blind person expertly walk down stairs as if they were flat ground?]

I guess I should be happy, 'cause the war in my world ended right before I got here. So, it would be pretty boring in the same way even if I were back home, I guess...