EVENT: MELPOMENE ▒ HOME

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CHARACTERS: Ensemble production!
LOCATION: Corridors in the belly of the Tranquility
WARNINGS: Creepiness, disturbing imagery, violence, etc.
SUMMARY: Characters discover slices of sanctuary deep in the maze.
NOTES: Open to all! Covers Stage Four of the plot & Escape.

You've been running and fighting for what feels like weeks now. Exhausted and desperate, you find another door, stumbling through into— You're home, finally, far away and safe from monsters or spaceships. You're not alone, someone here who's been waiting for you, and they're so happy to see you. Relief overcomes you; you just want to rest, and there's no reason to believe anything here isn't what it seems, is there?

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[onetouch]

I've been getting that question a lot. [ he admits, shaking his head. there's probably a more tactful way of saying it, but he doesn't stop to think about it. ] This isn't real.

[ it's spills out of his mouth all at once and he needs to amend his statement. ] I mean. This. This exact-- This is real, I remember it. From your memory, but now. We're not.

I think we're still on the ship.

[doggedly]

[But the reality of the dormitory is impossible to argue with, for Sirius. When he looks over to where Ned is, he can see the dent in the wall from the bludger they'd captured after quidditch practice in fifth year, brought it back to the dormitory and let loose. He can see the notch in Peter's bedpost, where James had run into it, broken his glasses, chipped it--

Peter, there's something about Peter to remember. Something about thinking that name makes Ned's face twist, in Sirius' eyes, change, and he looks away, looks out the window--

The ship. But when he looks out the window, he can see the orange-red of the autumn evening sky, clear of clouds. Out there, the trees are bare of their leaves, and the air will be crisp and smell of rotting leaves and woodsmoke and cold.]

It's Hogwarts.

[--Or at least, that's what he begins to say, but James looks up with a slight frown. Sorry-- who are you?]

[onetouch]

[ ned frowns at james when he's addressed, unsure about how he feels conversing with figments. he'd tried to avoid it as much as he could in the past. instead, he turns back to sirius, still working his way closer to his bed. ]

It is, but it isn't. You're older now, just-- you didn't know me then. [ his voice is gentle, trying to ease sirius out of this delusion, knowing somehow that he can't leave until then and that might mean sirius gets trapped too. ]