overclocking: (storyteller)
actual hobbit trash chrono ([personal profile] overclocking) wrote in [community profile] exsiliumlogs2013-11-10 10:15 am

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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.
debtor: (GLANCE ★ big in japan)

[personal profile] debtor 2013-11-18 06:48 am (UTC)(link)
...Chrono isn't an Exorcist as well, is he?
soul_sister: (A little to the right. Yeah by the couch)

[personal profile] soul_sister 2013-11-22 03:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah. Eh, no, not technically.

He's my assistant as far as the Order is concerned.
debtor: (WIDE ★ wow how amazing)

[personal profile] debtor 2013-11-22 08:47 pm (UTC)(link)
The Order? [-of course it's the Order, she's an Exorcist, he shouldn't be surprised, but...]

Sorry, I mean - what is your Order called?
soul_sister: (Neutral)

[personal profile] soul_sister 2013-11-23 10:05 pm (UTC)(link)
The Magdalene Order. [The comment is easy, with the air of someone who's never hid their affiliation, though she is watching him for recognition.]
debtor: (LISTEN ★ lay it on me)

[personal profile] debtor 2013-11-23 10:20 pm (UTC)(link)
[Well. Sort-of recognition, but it clearly wasn't what he was expecting.]

As in Mary? [ that makes sense, he supposes. as if testing the sound of it, ] The Magdalene Order...

[It... feels off, though. ]
Edited 2013-11-23 22:24 (UTC)
soul_sister: (Maybe then)

[personal profile] soul_sister 2013-11-23 10:26 pm (UTC)(link)
[She nods, easily at that. There's a moment, almost a reflex to explain Mary's role, but now, after everything, there's a slight glance towards Chrono. The small demon is more than engrossed in conversation at the moment, but still.... She opts to change the subject instead.]

It's not the same as yours, is it?
debtor: (STAND ★ dramatic)

[personal profile] debtor 2013-11-23 10:40 pm (UTC)(link)
[He shakes his head. And the name doesn't mean anything to anyone outside a very select group here, so:]

No. I'm an Exorcist of the Black Order.

[There might be a slight tinge of pride, and something else - he is proud of it, and he misses it, more than anything. He was an Exorcist for all of maybe four months back home, and it's been eleven months since.]
soul_sister: (I'm not alone.)

[personal profile] soul_sister 2013-11-23 10:46 pm (UTC)(link)
[It's a note she knows... For all it could be bittersweet, or troublesome or lonely.]

It really doesn't matter what their names are, does it?

They're family, after all.
debtor: (SMILE ★ we can shounen the night away)

[personal profile] debtor 2013-11-24 08:04 am (UTC)(link)
Mm. [That word... It sounds nice, 'family.' He'd like to think it's true.

He leans forward, drawing his knees up.]
I hadn't known there might be others out there.

I don't know if any of us did. There are a few more Exorcists from my world here now, actually. [ though he doesn't volunteer their names right away, he can't imagine they wouldn't want to hear about a kindred Order from another world... however distant the relation. ]
soul_sister: (Regard)

[personal profile] soul_sister 2013-11-25 02:54 am (UTC)(link)
[She nods at that, smiling. Having someone, anyone, was more valuable than she could say. She couldn't even imagine having managed to go this far, or dare to be this happy without Chrono here.]

It's nice, isn't it? Knowing you're not alone, even when it's hard.