01; [holo] enter Hell's Belle
Clearly someone has decided today is 'fuck with Ruby' day. She had been doing her usual walk down a darkened street in yet another quaint-but-not podunk town (since night is when all the fun really begins), and the next minute she's walking off something, stumbling down a few stairs, and landing hard on her hands and knees, mere inches away from having eaten floor.
An actual floor. Not a street, or even anything that looks like it could be from the same county she was in ... had been in?
Shit. She pushes herself up, mentally checking herself for any damage done. No ripped clothes and nothing too unbearable sore except her right wrist. She doesn't give it a second thought as she takes in the sights. Or what there are of them. A door, the platform and stairs she had just gotten well acquainted with, and a pedestal with a single small object on it. Might as well try the door first.
Correction - it's a locked door. Ruby sighs. Of course. It just can't be that easy.
She walks slowly back to the stairs and up to the pedestal. It'd be just her luck if that object was cursed. But no symbols are etched on it, around it, above it or - she lightly nudges it - under it. One quick move and she's got the thing in one hand. Screw the whole 'curiosity kills the cat' saying. She needs answers and she needs them now.
But it just looks like someone's expensive tablet-style cell phone. One word stands out on the screen, like it's the active application.
"'Holo'. Oh that's real helpf-" Wait.
Was that her voice. What the hell (and heaven and everything inbetween for good measure) was wrong with her VOICE?! She clears her throat a few times and tries again.
"What's going-" Crap. It's still off. Although ... that sounded familiar. That actually sounded familiar! It couldn't be. It wasn't possible. Months ago Lilith had ... No. She drops the tablet on the pedestal, both hands flying up to her face. Touching it like she's forgotten what her own facial features are like. Grabbing at chunks of her hair and bringing them within eyesight.
It's blonde.
"What the HELL?!"
An actual floor. Not a street, or even anything that looks like it could be from the same county she was in ... had been in?
Shit. She pushes herself up, mentally checking herself for any damage done. No ripped clothes and nothing too unbearable sore except her right wrist. She doesn't give it a second thought as she takes in the sights. Or what there are of them. A door, the platform and stairs she had just gotten well acquainted with, and a pedestal with a single small object on it. Might as well try the door first.
Correction - it's a locked door. Ruby sighs. Of course. It just can't be that easy.
She walks slowly back to the stairs and up to the pedestal. It'd be just her luck if that object was cursed. But no symbols are etched on it, around it, above it or - she lightly nudges it - under it. One quick move and she's got the thing in one hand. Screw the whole 'curiosity kills the cat' saying. She needs answers and she needs them now.
But it just looks like someone's expensive tablet-style cell phone. One word stands out on the screen, like it's the active application.
"'Holo'. Oh that's real helpf-" Wait.
Was that her voice. What the hell (and heaven and everything inbetween for good measure) was wrong with her VOICE?! She clears her throat a few times and tries again.
"What's going-" Crap. It's still off. Although ... that sounded familiar. That actually sounded familiar! It couldn't be. It wasn't possible. Months ago Lilith had ... No. She drops the tablet on the pedestal, both hands flying up to her face. Touching it like she's forgotten what her own facial features are like. Grabbing at chunks of her hair and bringing them within eyesight.
It's blonde.
"What the HELL?!"