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Promises Promises/Insomnia

Who: Luz and you!

What: Accepting loss and dealing with NEW problems (yay)?

When: The first week of September

Where: Check prompts for locations!

A- Cellar Door

Luz would have said she was being needless emo. After all, there was rainfall here and she was depressed, so she figured being here would match her mood. How more dramatic did you have to be? But Luz wasn't in laughing mood, and it was everything she felt like right now.

Margot wasn't coming. She knew that now, she accepted it, and accepting that meant everything else that came with it. Margot was back in her world, robbed of her ability to think and reason as a person, back to her basic instincts as a wolf. No more playing and late night talks. No more huddles with her adopted sister. No more gardening. She wouldn't even remember Luz when she was there. It would be like she was never with Luz at all.

But Luz would remember. She'd remember and know that Margot wasn't just some person who wandered and left the dream. She was the sister she never had, the girl who'd share a room with her and helped her paint it and watched Eda cook as they eagerly awaited being fed and what the next day would bring.

She'd remember, and now, in the rain, she could at least cry with her hood up, and she'd be as much a passerby as anyone. Just some shadow person passing, weeping about something or other.

Or so she thought anyway.
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B- Cassandra (The Disaster House)

Luz has had some time to think, and it was finally time for her to head to the place that would be her home. It's be nice, honestly, to have a place where there were more people her age, she reasoned. Obviously living with Eda and Margot had been ideal, and after that it had been the Doctors and Vira Lorr. Now she was at a new place, and a new place required a completely new way of living and, most obvious of all, would be redecorating her new place, which was the attic upstairs.

If you were visiting or a resident yourself, you'd see Luz busy at work already trying to make this place her own. There were already several stuffed animals, although Trenchwood seemed to have it's own ideas of what was cute, so the various creatures might be a bit off putting. There were several easels in the corner, one notably a wolf friend she was missing as well as one with various witches: Azura, Miss Hardbroom and of course her beloved Eda. The curtains were pulled back and there was air rushing in, so Luz was having a bit of trouble keeping all the papers from flying away.

"Darn it! This is the fifth time!"

C- Disaster House- I don't need sleep, I need clean!
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Was Luz getting a little unhinged because of her recent depression? Was she just overcompensating somehow? It was hard to tell. What one could SEE, however, was that it was the dead of night and Luz was not at all sleeping, but was instead intent on cleaning the disaster house, half mumbling to herself as she did so.

"I could tackle the living quarters, got to arrange the skulls. I don't want to get to the garden because I'll be crying again, or the greenhouse because I could probably die, or get poisoned. No good. Not going into Fern's room yet, I'll definitely die. The kitchen, YEAH! That sounds perfect!"

She had to go to the bathroom first.

"ARGH! WHY IS THERE A HOLE HERE?! VARIAN! THEY'RE JUST BATHROOMS!"

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D - Drifting into Dreamspace

So after finally "convinced" to try and get some sleep, Luz finally had settled down, her omen (that was new) giving her a reproachful stare.

"I promise, I'll try!" Luz insisted, though Tempest did not look convinced. Luz blew a raspberry at the wolf and added, "thanks, you're the best" and closed her eyes, attempting to drift off. She'd been trying to do this the past few days, and doubted anything was going to happen, but figured if she couldn't sleep, she'd maybe go to the tower and get some reading done.

However, she DID drift off, just not in the way she though. For a moment, she felt a wave of color pass over her, and she figured that she was finally nodding off, but instead of that she felt light. She exhaled and felt herself leave, and for a moment, she was assuming she was unconscious.

But it was a strange feeling. She opened her eyes, and realized she was very much not awake, not quite. She was instead floating, drifting quietly down the attic steps and then out the door. She should have been freaking out, but her body felt so tired, and whatever was happening now felt NOTHING like that.

A passing though occurred to her. Maybe I should try these lamp location thingies out.

But where would she wind up?

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Sleep is not something Varian has really got much of since arriving in Trench. He's remained horribly wired and restless. He struggles with switching his brain off to sleep as it is and now that's in overdrive. It also means he's getting distracted- leaving projects half-finished. Hence the wall hole.

Having Luz and Luca in the house is really nice though, even he has to admit having more people under the roof is making the whole setting in period easier. Reaper and Fern are great, but one haunts the house like a ghost and the other doesn't really get on his case about anything like this. Sometimes, he misses the banter Glitch would through at him for making destructive additions to the house.

"I'm going to install more pipes," oh look here he is, peering in. "We might get a stronger shower flow if I do that."

They don't need this, they absolutely don't need this.

Luca is also trying to redecorate, but he runs into a wall. Figuratively, anyway. Literally he just stares at it blankly for about five minutes before he realizes he has no idea what he wants to do, so he goes and finds Luz. Who is in her room working on decorating it herself.

"Hey, Luz, I had a--"

Then the papers blow across the room.

Going to pick them up, so he can hand them back to her, Luca pauses and looks at them.

"Oh, wow! These are really good!"

Luz leapt out of the hole, shaking the dust out of her hair. She attempted to try and seem imposing, but she stumbled slightly before fixing her stare on Varian. Also, she had bags under her eyes.

"Stronger fl-who needs that?! As long as the water is flowing, we don't need holes in the bathroom! Someone could hurt themselves! Luca could, he's probably still getting used to using it properly!"

Maybe? She was actually not too sure about that and hadn't had the chance to ask him yet.
Certainly Luz wasn't sure she wanted to know that.

"Do you even know how to properly plaster this stuff when you're done?"

"Oh, hey Luca! Thanks, I needed those! They have some of my sketches for things I want to draw later, and some of the plans I want to use for my room."

So far she still wasn't even a third done with how she wanted the place to look.

"How's yours coming along?"

"I...haven't done much. I haven't even decided what color I want the walls to be. I thought of painting my room this really pretty purply blue...then I realized the reason I liked the color was because it was the same color as Alberto's scales. And then I thought...would it be weird for someone to paint their room the same color as your scales? Assuming you had scales, I mean."

Because part of him is still hoping Alberto is going to show up, and Luca doesn't want it to seem too much like he spent the entire time thinking of Alberto.

"Maybe I should paint it sky blue. That might be nice."

"Aw, really?! That could look nice! If Alberto ever comes here I'm sure he'll be super flattered! I mean, if my skin could have those kind of cool colors, of course I'd want to paint my room like that! We COULD do both though: purply blue on the wall, and sky blue ono the ceiling. OR the reverse! That's the great thing about having your own room! You get to choose!"

Luz was actually beginning to get herself even more excited for what she could do with her attic space! Thank you Luca!

"What about posters?"

"Yeah! Oh, I hope he shows up in the Trench, that would be great!"

And he feels a lot more confident incorporating Alberto's scale colors into the color scheme now. As for posters...

"I didn't really think about that. I had a couple pictures in my pack that Alberto drew from back home that I was going to put on the wall, but other than that...maybe something with the moon and stars?"

"Describe him to me and I'll sketch him out. That way if he pops up, I'll make sure you know!"

This Alberto guy sounded pretty special to Luca, so she wanted to be sure that if he popped up, Luca would know about it.

"Sure, we can do that. If they don't have a poster for that, I could always try drawing you one, right?"

Having the house arrive here is a huge relief. Fern isn't sure how it happened, given it was a dream construct, but he isn't about to complain when it means they have a safe, warm, familiar place to live.

He's wandering the house, doublechecking that everything is where it's supposed to be, just in case. There's a whole new floor which is weird and makes him uncomfortable, and he pointedly avoids it since thinking about it for too long makes his anxiety spike for some reason, but the rest of the house is free game! Eventually he'll head on up to the attic to see how Luz is settling in.

He pops in right as a piece of paper smacks him in the face. Making a surprised noise, he nearly barrels over backwards.

"That's a great idea! So he has green eyes, and really curly hair that goes up in front like this," he says, gesturing, "And he's way more tan than me, which...makes sense, because he's spent a lot more time on the surface."

Or maybe he's just naturally darker skinned, Luca doesn't really know.

"He's about this tall..." Luca says, gesturing, "And of course, he changes when he gets wet, same as me. In his other form he's kind of a purple blue, he has really prominent fin spines..." He pauses, thinking about it. "Actually, if you see anyone else like me, I definitely want to know."

Because honestly, even if it's a total stranger it would be nice to be around other sea folk.

Luz was cursing her luck when she hears one of her spare papers make contact with someone's actual face and an exclaim of noise. She looked up and saw that Fern was trying to get one of the papers off his face, and she immediately was trying to stop him from falling over.

"Fern, sorry about that! One of my papers got away, still setting up! You all right?"

Despite herself, Luz is giggling a little.

Luz busily drank on the description, starting to try and draw up the boy. She was erasing and continuing to edit in details, and when she was finally done, Luz showed Luca her rough sketch.

"This about right? Obviously if I see anyone like you, I'll let you know. Still getting used to how we travel around here, since we have lamps and stuff. So that's Alberto? He's cute, in a funny kind of way."

"Oh, wow. You're really good at that!"

He'd thought Alberto's art was amazing, but this just takes it to a whole new level!

"Yeah, that looks just like him!" Then his mind catches up to what she said. Alberto is cute, isn't he? "Yeah..."

He blushes slightly, then quickly moves on. "But yeah, with your amazing art skills, you could draw anything I wanted! Maybe we could draw something directly on the walls!" Then he gets an idea. "How good are you at drawing perfect circles?"

"Thanks! I used do it for fun, but I have slowly gotten better!"

In her first few months? There'd been a lot more time, and while she'd been doing that Margot was in the garden. Luz sighed softly to herself, then grinned when she saw Luca's blush.

Yup, she guessed it.

"Oh well, yes, we can paint murals if you want! I'll sketch you up some ideas and you tell me what works, ok?"

Luz thought a moment. "Decent. You can always use a compass if you're not satisfied anyway."

"Yeah! I was thinking we could do something with a full moon and stars and stuff."

Then he looks around, realizing Luz is still in the middle of decorating her room. Maybe he should leave and let her actually get that done...though for some reason he feels like sticking around. It's a similar feeling to when he saw that fortune teller on the network. While Luca's completely unaware of the effects of his blood this month, he wouldn't really care about that, anyway. After all, he reasons, he should probably help out after pulling Luz into helping him with his own room.

"Maybe since you're helping me so much with my room, I could help you set up yours. Is there anything you need help with?"

[OOC: I was thinking for Luca's room of doing something like this.]

Thanks Luz, he appreciates it. He grabs onto her to keep his balance, removing the paper. "S'all good," he responds, blinking. No harm, no foul!

"How're things going? You sure you're okay up here?" The attic is one space he and Varian never really made use of, so he isn't sure if it makes for a good living space. It seems cozy enough though, and given the downcast weather outside cozy seems pretty important.

"Why wouldn't we need that? It would be more efficient. And I need to make holes in order to get to the pipes, I can't just levitate them out of the ground y'know."

He says that like it's the most obvious thing ever, gosh wow. And at that question, he pauses, looks up at the ceiling, ponders his answer.

"...I'm pretty sure I can muddle my way through it."

She chose to live here, she can't take it back. This is her life now.

"Unless it's some kind of pressure water, we're probably good! Besides, what if we happen to go to the bathroom in the night half asleep! What if Luca did? We have to try and avoid potential death, Varian!"

Luz was trying to sound reasonable as she said this, but her face looked a deal more frenzied than usual.

"Muddle your-are you serious?! How long would it take for you to do that?"

Now Luz was beyond irritated and sounded on the verge of collapse.

Boy she was always envious of his ability to bounce back so quickly.

"Oh yeah, this place is bursting with possibilities! I just have to make it my own, and that'll take time with any kind of space really. I don't even really want to paint the walls, it's rustic enough I can leave it be!"

She still needed to add her touches but otherwise this was going to be a great bunking space!

"I haven't gotten to see your room yet though. Is it pretty much the same as back in Deerington?"

"They have to have something like that out in the market, and if they don't I can always find an equivalent! I don't know if it'll specifically be of our world though, since we obviously aren't there now. They should have something like that though."

Luz would make do with the affects of the moon in her own way. Truthfully, she was more than happy to help Luca with his room: much like Margot, personalizing their own space was a special thing for them and Luz had no problem helping them do that. Luca had just gotten here and was still getting used to their ways, and THEY were all getting used to this world's rules right alongside that.

"Hmm? Oh, my room needs some touches, but right now I kinda like the paneling and the way it feels, you know? It's like somewhere between indoors and outdoors in a way. I do need more stuffed animals though, if you happen to find some send them over! Other than that, I'm just going to be working on some posters myself."

((OOC: That is a GREAT look!))

Fern gives the space a glance around, glad that she likes it, before focusing back on her. "Yup. Looks like someone just picked it up and dumped it here. Feel free to check it out, just watch where you step."

The room is kiiind of a mess because someone is a total teenage boy and doesn't clean up after himself, and with his hobbies of collecting junk and weaponry that makes for a potentially dangerous combination.

"You and Luca have free reign of the entire house."

"Maybe I'll go out to market to have a look around and see what they have. I'll definitely let you know if I see any stuffed animals there!"

And they are pretty cute. He wonders if he'll see one that looks like Camilla--oh! He hasn't told anyone about her yet!

"Oh, and did I tell you that apparently I can summon a crab now?"

"I'll do that! I already know that I'm going to have to start cleaning up most of the house, yours will probably be the most dangerous!"

Why she says this with enthusiasm seems strange as cleaning means work, but Luz had always looked up to Fern and his warrior strength. It was going to be awesome to clean and see all the cool stuff he'd collected in his journeys.

"I'm going to try a keep the place tidy while I'm here. Luca's still discovering things, and even I'm starting to find myself as a person. It'll be better to do that without worrying about stepping on a sword or falling into one of Varian's holes in the house."

All of this she says as if it's the most natural thing in the world, and to Luz? It pretty much is. Varian and Fern led active lives, they were bound to forget about simple house chores.

"Good, GOOD. Soon I will have an army fit for a king, mwah ha ha!"

Luz was instantly reminded of King and HIS army of plushies, which made her wince slightly, but regressed to a sad smile. There were times she absolutely missed King and his antics. He was still her sweetie pie and she missed him a lot.

"Wait, no kidding? That must be your omen! I have one too, but she doesn't always like staying indoors. She's an outdoor...spirit."

Very, VERY different from the otter she'd had as a guide early on.

"So what does your crab look like?"

"...Ah. Yeah. Admittedly I didn't think about that. Probably should have put some glow-tubes around it or something."

PROBABLY. He rubs the back of his neck, raising his shoulders in a shrug.

"I don't know. Probably not that long, I'm not sleeping right now so I have a lot of spare time."

He's definitely noticed her stress, and while he kind of expected a little unsettled issues with settling in, she's a lot...More than he thought she'd be.

"Luz, are you okay? You look...really stressed out."

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