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[overclocking]

Date & Time: Several days after the necromorph outbreak
Location: A VR room
Characters: Chrono + Rosette + open!
Summary: Lil bit of coping in-between zombie apocalypses and civil wars, nbd
Warnings: None! KEVIN AND BREAK
Notes: Feel free to tag around also! ♥


[ Chrono doesn't bother to close the door when he finally decides to try one of these rooms for himself. Something about the last few days (weeks) (months) has left him unwilling to stay in enclosed spaces too long, with no obvious path of exist. Too much like a lab or an undead-lined hallway.

But these concerns slowly melt away as he sets about instructing the AI, and the room gives way to a place that isn't a room at all.

Mountains rise up in the distance, framing a blue, clear sky, and a faint breeze rustles the treetops of a thick Michigan forest. Birdcalls ride that wind, and the air smells cleaner, fresher, than any moon base could reasonably boast. Where the blanket of trees ends, a large, glassy lake gleams in the sunlight. He takes care with this part—instructs the AI to make the water a temperature a bit too low to be entirely comfortable for swimming, knowing full well that this won't actually be a deterrent. But it wouldn't be right, otherwise.

He takes his time strolling from one familiar landmark to the next, having the computer make adjustments as necessary. He doesn't miss details, either; for all the times that Rosette brought him to this very place, his eyes had missed nothing. They were wide and all-absorbing, like someone who had been born anew and was discovering the world for the first time.

(Likely because, in all honesty, he had been.)

He stops once he circles back around to the open door—a black silhouette hanging oddly in the landscape, and the only giveaway that none of this is real. It's here that he surveys the scene as a whole, the sum of all its little memory-parts. ]

Perfect.

[ Well. There's still a thing or two missing. ]

... Almost.

Comments

[boundbydevotion]

[Link is a silent shadow, as Allen explores, following off to the side and a little behind, not intruding on Allen's line of sight unless the boy decides to turn his head. He doesn't try to interrupt Allen's thoughts with conversation, and even his footsteps might barely register above Allen's own. Instead he is preoccupied with watching how this plays out and how it compares to the first time Allen went through this, and the problem of what he ought to do--whether to try to improve things or leave them alone.

Perhaps the novelty of the environment here will provide the improvement to this particular situation without prompting, though. Certainly there is, at least, no lack of distractions.

Link stops when Allen does, not actually peeking in, though he does lean a bit, curious despite himself.]

[debtor]

[It does seem to take his mind off things, if nothing else.

Allen is beckoned in by Chrono and Rosette, but don't think he's forgotten Link's there, either (okay, maybe he did for a bit, but-)]

You can come in if you'd like, as well.