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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.

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[He takes his gloves off, laughing.]

...It seems to me you have an unfair advantage.

[He is not wearing skirts.]

Well... if you don't think you can...

Do not think you will win so easily, sister.

[He takes his shoes and socks off, then tries to draw up his trousers as best as he can.]

[Really, the only grace to all of this is that the mud and water will be gone when they leave.

Rosette creeps to the bank and steps gentle, carefully into the still waters searching out the familiar form...]

We'll see who gets to laugh later~

[Behold, the mighty frog hunter.

Unrolling his sleeves and sinking both arms elbow deep in the mud, he bets that, as the angel of earth, he has a 50% chance of succeeding at catching an amphibious creatures...Yes?]

[As Rosette is still searching, Kevin's fingers brush against something that squirms in the mud. It LEAPS.]

Already?!

[Oh my God IT IS ALIVE.]

Come back, Apple Butter! You have a glorious future ahead of you! ~

[He jumps after the frog, paying no heed to the mud splashing on his impeccable suit.]

[Apple Butter seems to be born a racer! It leaps ahead, settling amongst the reeds.

In the mean time, Rosette shows no such restraint, just diving right for the FROG BORN TO GREATNESS of her own!!!]

[No, no, come here, Apple Butter! Instinctively, Kevin leaps towards the reeds, kind of forgetting he cannot fly in this form.]

[The heavenly bellyflop sends water and mud in all directions... but there! THERE! In his hands, Apple Butter gives him a vaguely vapid, amphibian stare.

To his right, Rosette surfaces with three weeds, a lot of muck... and one enormous, fat frog.]

[He stands up and brings Apple Butter to his chest, stroking his...her?...head as he gives Rosette's fat frog a critical look.]

Do not fear, Apple Butter, gravity and resistance are against them.

Edited 2013-11-17 09:13 (UTC)

PFT! World Hopper has legs out to forever, you're doomed.

[The muddy angel safely guides the tiny frog to his breast pocket.]

Do not tell me I did not warn you in advance ~

You will be calling me Queen Rosette in no time at all.

....

[She finds the usual spot, a sloped hill, running downwards towards a half rotted stump, water lapping behind it.]

First one to the stump wins.

There is only one queen after this game and it will be Apple Butter ~

[Kevin places the tiny frog on the ground, whispering fatherly encouragements over its head.]

[SERIOUSLY TO WORLD HOPPER.] ... No frog is a better queen than I am. GO GET EM.

[She sets the frog down on the slope and with a pat on the frog, yells GO!

It hops once and stares up at her.]

[Kevin gives Apple Butter a benign smile and she hops four times, stopping just before World Hopper to enjoy the nice and fresh breeze.]

Ah~ ~ Isn't she adorable?

Go! Go! You're in the lead! Look at that pond filled with flies JUST OVER THERE.

[It doesn't move, placidly sitting in place.]

[Apple Butter stares at World Hopper, then back at talking lady, then back at World Hopper, then she starts leisurely hopping towards the pond with her skinny legs.]

That is, Apple Butter. You are almost there!

[In the mean time, Rosette is trying to fan World Hopper as if it will cause him to suddenly decide to move.]

Don't let that tart get the best of you!

[And now Apple Butter decides to turn around and go catch some flies.]

...I believe that is the wrong way.

[WHILE HE IS OTHERWISE OCCUPIED..... POKES WORLD HOPPER.]

[Cheating is a sin, and when an angel is involved...

Still, this innocent being of light and fretting is clapping his hands at Apple Butter, completely unaware of Rosette's misdeed. What would Sister Kate think?]

[Lets be real, Sister Kate would have had her in a headlock and bending over for a suplex for making an angel gamble. She might not have survived to the actual cheating phase of this.]

GO GO!

YES!

[SPLASH! The disgruntled frog makes landing in the waters.]

Oh dear, you really won!

[So exited over her victory that he picks her up and twirls with her.]

Congratulations ~

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