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annie wheaton is trapped inside her own mind (trappedinatower) wrote in colligo_threads,
@ 2011-07-12 22:57:00

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annie wheaton, nikola tesla

WHO: Annie Wheaton & Nikola Tesla
WHAT: A new arrival.
WHEN: Early evening
WHERE: The Grand Library
RATING: TBD
STATUS: In Progress

There wasn't a sound to be heard when the doors to the Grand Library swung open and revealed a young woman holding a doll in her arms, with a knight standing on either side of her. She solemnly stepped passed the threshold, her gaze flickering upward to the knight at her right as he handed her a PDA.

To Annie, there didn't seem to be a thing amiss about such an encounter. She merely offered him a small, shy little grin then clutched the device to her chest alongside her doll. Her attention fell out to the city, slowly coming to a stop at the top of the stairs. The knights stepped back inside and the doors swung shut once more. Her long, brown locks swayed in the breeze from the shutting doors but Annie gave no acknowledgement to their departure otherwise. Instead she calmly moved down one step then sat, knees tucked together.

She wasn't sure exactly who she was waiting for but she knew that someone would be along soon enough. In the meantime, she turned her attention not to the new PDA she'd been given but rather the doll she'd brought with her. "Shh, baby... don't be s-scared," she assured the doll quietly before rocking it slightly back and forth. Then she let the toy fall to her lap and stared out at the city, mind drifting out toward the others present while still staying just out of reach herself. Someone was coming. She could feel them. Patiently, she waited for them to notice her.

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oncemighty
2011-07-15 03:38 am UTC (link)

Nikola knew that the Sanctuary wasn't in any part his to boast about, but he couldn't help but take a small pride in the building, or at least, in the fact that the building was still standing. Introducing someone else to it was a privilege that was almost always reserved for someone else on the crew, so it was nice for him to have a bit of a change of pace in order to do it himself instead of standing by and taunting when someone else tried to.

Blinking in a bit of surprise at the young girl's reaction to touching the walls, Nikola couldn't help but laugh a bit at her delight. It made sense when he thought about it. Sally was telepathic, and if this young girl was as well, she would be able to sense Sally without having to touch her tank like most of them had to. Two telepathic links had the tendency to shorten the distance necessary between the individuals, and this situation certainly wouldn't have been any different.

But even thinking about it in scientific terms, Nikola was still grinning like a fool. It was a good thing that none of the rest of them could see him now. "I could take you to see her, if you'd like?" Nikola asked. "It might be a little easier to talk to her if you were a bit closer."

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trappedinatower
2011-07-19 05:36 am UTC (link)

Honestly, whether Nikola had offered to take her or not, Annie was fully intending to pay Sally a visit. It wasn't very often that she came across someone talking inside her head and had certainly never come across a fish - no, mermaid, a voice whispered in her mind - that could do much the same. So she was definitely heading there right away to investigate. However at Nikola's offer to accompany her, Annie remembered something her sister used to tell her all the time. Whenever you're at someone else's house, Annie, you need to let them show you around. It's not nice to just walk off by yourself to explore.

Although Annie didn't always know what Sister was saying, she always understood the general gist. So rather than simply ignoring the scientist and taking off on her own to let her abilities guide her, she instead reached out and grabbed hold of his hand. "Fishy!" she insisted, tugging at his arm a bit to get him to move faster. "Sally, 'ikola, S-Sally!"

It perhaps wasn't the nicest way to agree to his help but it was, in Annie's own way, an agreement none the less.

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oncemighty
2011-07-19 09:35 am UTC (link)

Nikola had very little experience with children. What he did have was restricted mainly to distant observation or clinical knowledge otherwise obtained, but this was quite different. As much as he found it straining on a specific set of his nerves, he was surprised to find that he could shrug that off rather easily and fall into the flow of the situation. Not something he really would have expected himself to be capable of doing. His inner Helen must have been strong today.

"I'll take that as a yes," was the only response Nikola offered as he gave in to the insistent tugging and picked up his step, walking with Annie down from the foyer of the Sanctuary and into the different habitat areas that had been set up for the resident abnormals. Sally's tank had been one of the longest present, as far as Nikola could recall, and it was also one of the most striking of the glass from contained environments on the level.

Releasing Annie's hand, Nikola smiled over at her before glancing up at the tank, "Go on over. I'm sure she'd love to speak with someone who doesn't have to use as much effort to get through as the rest of us lot do."

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