EVENT: SPACE PIRATES ▒ APRIL 20-21

[ataraxites]

CHARACTERS: Ensemble production!
LOCATION: Anywhere.
WARNINGS: Pirates, violence, etc.
SUMMARY: Brief encounters, finding ransacked/damaged areas, making your way to the oxygen gardens.
NOTES: Open to all!

The ship has been invaded by pirates. They're noisy on the network, but you haven't seen any, not in person. Though if you go far enough things start to make themselves apparent. Kitchens have been ransacked. Pieces of the walls are torn out, media libraries overturned. Maybe you should get your valuables together and find somewhere safe to hole up...

Comments

[sundroplet]

Not mine!

[ it's more of a frustrated exclamation than yelling really. She sighs, casts a miserable glance at Pascal. ]

Mine won't grow back. At least....it won't be the same.

[ she bites her lip, takes a step closer. ]

Can you keep a secret? A big secret?

[wolfchild]

[ She cants her head. ]

Yes.

[ No one here would know of Arya if it wasn't for Arya's brothers ruining everything :| ]

[sundroplet]

This is my...most important secret ever.

[ she leans closer to look at her. ]

Ever.

So you can't tell anyone. I trust you not to.

[wolfchild]

[ o...kay. weird girl. too close. ]

I wouldn't. It's not like I have anyone to tell anyway.

[sundroplet]

...Alright.

[ she looks around herself, sighs. Pascal moves to sit on her head, gazing down at the girl. ]

I kinda never told about this to anyone ever I never really had anyone to tell but! Are you hurt? Anywhere? It's kind of important. Even an old wound or a scar!

[wolfchild]

I have scars...

[ But she doesn't show them yet waiting to see where Rapunzel is going with this. ]

[sundroplet]

Well. I'm going to have to see one. It's the only way I can show you my secret. Just one! it's all it takes.

[wolfchild]

[ Cat looks at her a long moment before sighing. Turning around, she lifts up her tunic a bit. Her lower back has several, most of them faint from time. They stretch down into her breeches. ]

[sundroplet]

[ Rapunzel frowns; the obvious question of where did they all come from? is on her lips but she doesn't release it. Instead she narrows her eyes and frowns. ]

Ok, this is going to look really weird but you have to be patient for a few minutes!

[ and then she lifts the end of her long trail of hair and begins to casually wrap it around her form; careful circles of silky gold. A good thing her hair is so long, it allows her to keep a safe distance. ]

Ok. Now, I'm going to do something and you will remain calm!

[wolfchild]

I am calm.

[ Not about to flip hair. n o p e ]

[sundroplet]

[ alright well. She glances at Pascal again, takes a deep breath and begins to sing. And as she stars (flower gleam and glow; let your power shine), it begins at the roots of her hair. A warm, golden glow (make the clock reverse, bring back what once was mine) that spreads down from the roots and through the long trail of her hair. Pascal smiles and Rapunzel sings (heal what has been hurt, change the fate's design) and as it reaches the part of her hair that is wrapped around Cat it warms the skin, healing it with ancient magic (save what has been lost, bring back what once was mine.)

When she finishes singing, the light fades. As Rapunzel pulls her hair free, the scars have faded with it. All that is left is skin, healthy and soft as it should be on a girl her age.

Pascal looks pleased, Rapunzel just offers a nervous smile. ]

...See.

[wolfchild]

[ Not very well. But that has more to do with the lack of eyes on her back. Cat twists to try to look at it. When that fails, feels her skin with the back of her hand.

They're really…all gone…

She stares open-mouthed at Rapunzel, stunned into silence. ]

[sundroplet]

...You promised!

[ at least it's the first time she left her speechless. ]

Um. I hope you weren't attached to them. I can't really reverse it.

[wolfchild]

I wasn't. [ It's the only thing she can find words for. ] I never cared for them.

[ She's fine. Chill really. Not questioning her life and her choices. ]

[sundroplet]

Good. So, um. That's sort of why my hair is so important. It heals and restores things to how they should be. When I was small, my mother said some people to cut it and use it for themselves; but the trouble is once it is cut? It doesn't grow back as it were, see -

[ she brushes some of her hair back to show her a shorter strand of dark brown hair. ]

That's why I can't cut it.

[wolfchild]

...Can't you braid it at least so it's not...everywhere?

[sundroplet]

[ she looks down at her hair, bites her lip. ]

Not really. It's a bit too long for me to do it. Maybe if I climb and hang it over a branch -

[wolfchild]

When we get back, I can try.

[ It cannot be much different from weaving rope. ]

[sundroplet]

Really? You will do it for me?

[ careful, Cat, careful. ]

[wolfchild]

If I can.

[ she can feel a trap… ]

[sundroplet]

[ there is a trap, since a moment later she gets an armful of girl, golden hair and a chameleon crawling up to rest on her shoulder. ]

Thank you.

[wolfchild]

[ oh gods it's on me it's on me get it off someone get it off D: ]

I haven't done anything. Let go, we're in the middle of the hall.

[sundroplet]

Oh!

[ she jumps back, all apologetic smiles. ]

Sorry. I simply - thank you. For...offering.

[wolfchild]

Come on. Let's go.

[ WEIRD GIRL ]