[open] Landing
"--something I have to tell you about..."
The newcomer's eyes widen and he stumbles backwards until he actually falls and lands on his butt with a thud. He looks ridiculous; maybe 18 years old, with tan skin denoting an indefinable background--maybe Chinese, maybe Thai, maybe Filipino, maybe Persian. His hair is tangerine-orange and he's wearing a striped shirt, sandals and white scarf with a print of little blue fish. He looks like he belongs on one of those weird liberal arts campuses; definitely not in the middle of a forest. Either Mila has some epic new hologram skills and an extremely poor sense of timing, or something even stranger has happened. Trees, dirt, animal calls, the sound of running water nearby. In the blink of an eye, he has gone from a city in New England to a forest in...
"Ohhhhhh crap."
Definitely not Mila's doing. Jin Tian scrambles to his feet, scattering dead leaves.
"Okay, Earth, but not Earth, definitely..." He grabs a handful of dirt and leaves that he kicked up and sniffs it. Then licks it gingerly. "Oh stars and moons, it's like Earth, but oh wow so very different and wrong and oh stars this is impossible and also probably the worst thing ever."
He tosses the dirt aside and dusts off his hands, then starts looking around the woods.
"Mila? Heeeeeyyyy! Mila!" He cups his hands around his mouth and shouts louder. "Hey Mila I really hope you didn't get sucked through too but if you did I think something so incredibly screwed up happened and maybe a Tunnel collapsed near the planet and we've got some weiiiiiird quantum stuff going on but that's not important Mila if you can hear me answer me and please don't be hurt or anything!!"
He listens hard, and though he scared a few birds and squirrels away with his yelling, no one answers. He starts fidgeting with a metal bracelet that looks suspiciously like some kind of shackle.
"Okay, Jin, let's not panic, you're only in some kind of psycho-freaky quantum subspace version of Earth and oh stars this place is so wrong I'm going to be sick no shut up calm down and--okay, first thing is to, well, to find Mila or, or anyone, figure out what's going on and, and how to get home. Oh, jeez, if it's Tunnel related, freaking frick who would open a Tunnel so close to a planet and then go and have it collapse, if it's a Tunnel then Mila could be anywhere, so..."
He heaves a sigh. He's going to have to break a few rules here. Actually a lot of rules, but right now finding Mila and getting out of this...psycho-freaky quantum subspace thing takes priority. So he takes a few deep breaths to calm himself down (slightly) and then pulls off his shirt and scarf, stuffing them into a messenger bag hanging from his shoulder. No sense in wasting clothes. He slips the bag off his shoulder and sets it on the ground, along with a much smaller, plain cloth bag.
"Alright, keep calm, let's just have the wings for now..."
Light seems to flare and dance right under his skin, turning him into a human lightbulb. The muscles on his bare back ripple, showing feathery patterns across his skin--and in the next moment wings are sprouting and growing, spreading wide and scattering a few orangey-gold feathers. Once his wings are free and fully formed, he grabs up his bags and surveys the forest.
"Wow, this forest is ridiculous. Well, let's see if I can get some height..."
He picks a direction, then takes a running start, flaps, and takes to the air. It takes him several minutes to navigate his way around trees and branches finally into the open air above the canopy. Once he's there, he starts scanning the ground below and calling Mila's name.
There is now a guy with orange wings flying around the forest and making a lot of noise. Have fun with that.
[ooc: Feel free to encounter Jin at any point before, during or after his little flight :)]
The newcomer's eyes widen and he stumbles backwards until he actually falls and lands on his butt with a thud. He looks ridiculous; maybe 18 years old, with tan skin denoting an indefinable background--maybe Chinese, maybe Thai, maybe Filipino, maybe Persian. His hair is tangerine-orange and he's wearing a striped shirt, sandals and white scarf with a print of little blue fish. He looks like he belongs on one of those weird liberal arts campuses; definitely not in the middle of a forest. Either Mila has some epic new hologram skills and an extremely poor sense of timing, or something even stranger has happened. Trees, dirt, animal calls, the sound of running water nearby. In the blink of an eye, he has gone from a city in New England to a forest in...
"Ohhhhhh crap."
Definitely not Mila's doing. Jin Tian scrambles to his feet, scattering dead leaves.
"Okay, Earth, but not Earth, definitely..." He grabs a handful of dirt and leaves that he kicked up and sniffs it. Then licks it gingerly. "Oh stars and moons, it's like Earth, but oh wow so very different and wrong and oh stars this is impossible and also probably the worst thing ever."
He tosses the dirt aside and dusts off his hands, then starts looking around the woods.
"Mila? Heeeeeyyyy! Mila!" He cups his hands around his mouth and shouts louder. "Hey Mila I really hope you didn't get sucked through too but if you did I think something so incredibly screwed up happened and maybe a Tunnel collapsed near the planet and we've got some weiiiiiird quantum stuff going on but that's not important Mila if you can hear me answer me and please don't be hurt or anything!!"
He listens hard, and though he scared a few birds and squirrels away with his yelling, no one answers. He starts fidgeting with a metal bracelet that looks suspiciously like some kind of shackle.
"Okay, Jin, let's not panic, you're only in some kind of psycho-freaky quantum subspace version of Earth and oh stars this place is so wrong I'm going to be sick no shut up calm down and--okay, first thing is to, well, to find Mila or, or anyone, figure out what's going on and, and how to get home. Oh, jeez, if it's Tunnel related, freaking frick who would open a Tunnel so close to a planet and then go and have it collapse, if it's a Tunnel then Mila could be anywhere, so..."
He heaves a sigh. He's going to have to break a few rules here. Actually a lot of rules, but right now finding Mila and getting out of this...psycho-freaky quantum subspace thing takes priority. So he takes a few deep breaths to calm himself down (slightly) and then pulls off his shirt and scarf, stuffing them into a messenger bag hanging from his shoulder. No sense in wasting clothes. He slips the bag off his shoulder and sets it on the ground, along with a much smaller, plain cloth bag.
"Alright, keep calm, let's just have the wings for now..."
Light seems to flare and dance right under his skin, turning him into a human lightbulb. The muscles on his bare back ripple, showing feathery patterns across his skin--and in the next moment wings are sprouting and growing, spreading wide and scattering a few orangey-gold feathers. Once his wings are free and fully formed, he grabs up his bags and surveys the forest.
"Wow, this forest is ridiculous. Well, let's see if I can get some height..."
He picks a direction, then takes a running start, flaps, and takes to the air. It takes him several minutes to navigate his way around trees and branches finally into the open air above the canopy. Once he's there, he starts scanning the ground below and calling Mila's name.
There is now a guy with orange wings flying around the forest and making a lot of noise. Have fun with that.
[ooc: Feel free to encounter Jin at any point before, during or after his little flight :)]