02 // video

[stfuelly]

[The Dreamberry turns on just as the tailend of Vanessa's dream has ended. She's been sleeping a while - almost two weeks at this point. The bed is piled high with blankets, as though it had been chilly enough to require so many at the time that she'd gone to sleep, but now in the middle of the day it was just warm enough inside of her borrowed

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[47_l0w]

Ow... That's loud...!

[Have an Atsuro on screen, rubbing at his ear as he puts a few pieces together.]

Oh...! How long have you been asleep? Haha, sleep comas are pretty common here, if that's what you're worried about!

[...Actually. Elliot...? Huh.]

[stfuelly]

Sleep? [For a moment her eyes soften, as though she might actually be thinking about it. However--

She crosses her arms over her chest (not yet realizing that she's still only wearing her long nightshirt) and glares down into the screen.]

How am I supposed to know how long I was asleep for if I wasn't conscious?! And what is a sleep coma?! Explain yourself!

[47_l0w]

[Yeah he has other things on his mind for now and a nightshirt isn't indecent or anything.]

Huh? That's not what you were asking? Well, a sleep coma is just what we're calling it when someone falls asleep for longer than usual. You can usually tell if the date when you wake up is more than a day after you went to bed, haha!

[...Now why is Elliot a familiar name again...?]

[stfuelly]

The date? [Her eyebrows knit together as she tries to recall what day it was last.]

Is today not the fourth day of the month? [And just as the question is spoken, she reaches over to grab the blankets that she just kicked off and covers herself up. Tiny Victorian dignities, you see.]

[namelessqueen]

[ irritated vampire is irritated, having been woken up from her nap. ]

A~ah~ you're so noisy.

[stfuelly]

I have a right to raise my voice! I must have been given drugs to have been asleep so long!

[Spoken with all of the charm of an angry shrew.]

[namelessqueen]

No, you haven't, you stupid girl. [ She rolls around to her other side so you get a shot of her back! ] This world makes you fall asleep sometimes.

[stfuelly]

Stupid--?! Being uninformed doesn't make one stupid! I had no idea that it could happen!

[charientisms]

[Well, well~]

Ah, Miss Vanessa, do relax. There is no need for alarm.

[stfuelly]

[...what the shit.]

You were...t-the party--!

[charientisms]

[That's about accurate, yeah.

He bows his head, hiding that smirk for a moment.]

Allow me to properly introduce myself. I am called Xerxes Break; I am a servant of the Rainsworth family.

[And then he looks into the screen again.]

On behalf of my Lady and myself, welcome to Somarium.

[stfuelly]

[Had they met like this back at the party, she might have done her best to pretend to greet him politely and then immediately turn her back to him, but here in this place...such things aren't allowed to come so easily to her. She swallows and clears her throat, trying to make her voice sound not-quite-so hollow.]

You are a member of Pandora. I saw you there, with all the rest and-- [A short, shuddering breath.] --my...my brother used to speak about you.

...A welcome is hardly necessary.

[unfearful]

[... 'Elliot.' Might this be Vanessa?

... Sorry, Vanessa, but a lot of people kind of hate one of your adoptive brothers. :|]

Y-You weren't drugged. It's common here to fall asleep for long periods of time...!

[stfuelly]

[Don't worry, she hates them both with the power of a thousand suns.]

It really happens so often?! Is there no way to stop it?

[unfearful]

[Then hopefully she won't mind Dominic trying to use her for information.]

N-None that I know of. Most people end up in one at one point during their stay here, and there's no real way to predict when it's going to happen either.

[stfuelly]

[Use away, friend.]

No pattern at all? Of all the annoying things--! [Self important flustered sighhhh.]

[snapekillsedgar]

[When the video of a bedheaded Eliot comes on, and it looks like he's pretty groggy too. He's sitting up in bed in the bedroom Vincent set him in when Vanessa fell asleep. Damnit, he knew he should have stayed with her, but it had been weeks.]

Vanessa, it's the middle of the night! If you need me, call me, but don't wake the whole world up over it!

[stfuelly]

[D'aww, sleepy little brother is so cute. It's a shame that you have to be yelled at now.]

I didn't mean to call anyone! This thing just turned on! Where are you?!

[snapekillsedgar]

[Hey, he's been there recently. He's got no right to judge.]

I'm in the room right next to yours, so calm down!

Do you remember what happened before you fell asleep?

[stfuelly]

You-- [And now there's just the smallest hint of a flush to her face as she snatches the blanket and pulls it up more around her to cover her nightclothes. Little brother is supposed to be at the other end of the house and not see his sister in this state of dress damn it.]

Only that I had gone to sleep, but that was over a week ago. Almost two according to someone else on this...thing. You and I had discussed going to buy some new clothes a few days prior.