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Claire Bennet (notsobreakable) wrote in mirage_rpg,
@ 2008-08-24 18:52:00

Entry tags:

arrival, claire bennet, complete, day 12, kadaj

Who: Claire Bennet & OTA
What: Her arrival.
When: Day 12, morning
Where: The beach.
Rating: TBD
Status: In progress.

It was just one of those days. Upon waking and moving out of bed she had managed to step on a forgotten hairbrush on the floor, resulting in a brief but painful encounter and a squeal loud enough to wake a sleeping Mr Muggles who had been curled up on the edge of her bed. Her arrival downstairs had not been any more successful, if breakfast being burnt and the lethal hairbrush were any indication the rest of the day would gradually get worse. This was confirmed the moment Lyle entered the living room. Claire had for once ignored his brotherly taunting and leant back deeper into the sofa, bringing her hands up to cover her face. Of course ignoring said taunts only spurred him on further and she tried her damndest to tune him out, squeezing her eyes shut tightly behind her hands, reminding herself that yelling at him would only make the situation get even more annoying.

It was strange how life had slipped back into something somewhat ordinary, it had only been two months since the drama that was her dad's not-so-real death but now it was like it had never even happened. Claire could not forget what had happened, even if her family were insistent on doing so themselves. The unspoken words and the tension still hung in the air, even if the forced normality was doing a good job at masking it . Not to mention she missed her other family, Peter especially, it had been so long since she last saw them and..it was painful to even think about it.

“Just shut up!” Claire yelled suddenly, snapping out of her thoughts and bringing her hands away from her face with an intent on glaring. Only what greeted her wasn’t the sight of her brother or her living room for that matter, it was some sort of beach. "Huh?" She muttered, blinking a few times as if expecting it to be an hallucination of some sort. Nope, it was real.

Climbing to her feet Claire absently dusted down her jeans and turned in a slow circle to take in her surroundings. What the hell? Had she been drugged? She had no recollection of how she had arrived, one minute she was being taunted by Lyle and the next on a beach! It didn't get any weirder. "Oh my god." Claire gasped, the Haitian! it had to be him, right? No, no.. her dad wouldn't have allowed her to be dropped off on some beach. "Hello?" She called out finally, hoping that someone, anyone, would help her out with what was going on

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notsobreakable
2008-09-12 11:56 am UTC (link)

Claire stayed where she was, she had no need to go look around the room because she had seen it all before. She curious to see if her clothes were the same though, there would be a slight not so important problem if they weren’t. Unless of course they were new and the style she liked, but fashion wasn’t the most important thing on her mind. Everything looked how it did back home so far, except for the view out of the window, now that was different.

“Like me?” She laughed a little, trying to decide if that was a compliment or not. “Is that a good or bad thing?”

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mothersbestson
2008-09-12 12:20 pm UTC (link)

"Hn, I guess that's a good thing." He didn't feel at a complete loss for words but searching for relevent comments had never been a challenging thing for him. Not one to slouch, he nonetheless stood up at tall as he could possibly be and he paced toward the door, then away.

He stopped to give her a direct, open look. "I don't know what else to say. The room is light and you have a light smile. So it's like you, isn't it? It's..." He turned around again, waving his gloved hand. "It's familiar but it's not..."

Kadaj stopped at the door. "Let's go see what you think of my room."

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notsobreakable
2008-09-12 12:57 pm UTC (link)

“Thanks,” Claire kept her smile in place, so it was a compliment. She was never sure how someone would take her, she was more than just a pretty face and blonde hair. In fact she hated when people made the assumption she was a stereotypical cheerleader, so it was a relief and acceptance was sort of something she always looked for.

Claire followed him toward the door, stopping when he did. “Ok,” she agreed brightly, making sure she had her room key on her, the last thing she wanted was to be locked out of her room on the first day. Claire waited for him to lead the way, her curiosity was poked again and she briefly wondered if everyone had kept their rooms like back home.

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mothersbestson
2008-09-12 01:38 pm UTC (link)

Kadaj unlocked Room 200. He left the door wide open when he walked in, apparently fading away into darkness. For a moment even his silver-coloured hair seemed to vanish.

Yet the room wasn't unrelenting blackness. His was silver and graduated shades of blue. A beautiful array of stars and moon stretched overhead in a ceiling that seemed to be the sky. Two walls curved away like the interior of a massive shell, forming an interior cove which had large cushioned chairs in it. The rest of the space attracted the eye with a display of glowing trees. The trunks and branches looked like a negative image. Part of this mini forest made the headboard for a dark platform bed. It had to be optical illusion but the branches seemed to tower far overhead.

Kadaj stood in the middle of the room with the moon over his shoulder. He watched Claire's reaction.

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notsobreakable
2008-09-12 03:42 pm UTC (link)

Claire had hesitated at the door, the darkness had given her the impression he had actually disappeared into it but a closer inspection told her a different story. Her eyes widened and her mouth opened, she had never seen anything quite like that before!

“Wow!” She breathed, stepping further into the room and continuing to let her eyes sweep around. “This is amazing!” And she meant it, her room seemed boring in comparison. Everything from the stars to the glowing trees was responsible for the expression of awe on her features. If she had a room like that she would never leave, there seemed to be something to catch your attention wherever you looked.

Her eyes moved back over to Kadaj and instantly fell on the moon behind him and then back again. “No really, this is amazing.” Claire repeated with a wide smile.

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mothersbestson
2008-09-12 10:22 pm UTC (link)

He nodded, looking subdued though her reaction pleased him. Kadaj lifted his left hand and indicated the trees off to one side. He gazed at them fondly.

"That looks like the Sleeping Forest on my world," he explained softly. "You can see it's a beautiful place and unlike anything else I've ever seen. I liked living there." He turned slightly, waving at the sitting alcove. "And that's sort of like a house of the Ancients in the Forgotten Capital. You can make your room look like anything so here is what I created."

Sighing sadly, Kadaj gazed up at the moon. He wished his brothers were here.

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notsobreakable
2008-09-13 09:55 pm UTC (link)

As he indicated toward the trees she looked toward them, her mouth still hanging open slightly at the sight. She had never seen anything so breathtaking in her life.

“I bet you liked living there, it looks beautiful and..wow,” Claire looked sheepish for a moment, she had been saying wow a lot but when she was shocked her vocabulary was limited. “House of the Ancients?” She repeated curiously before looking toward the alcove. “Well I can definitely see why you’d choose your room to look like this.”

Claire flickered her eyes toward Kadaj at the sigh, her smile faltering slightly. “Do you miss home?” She asked gently, she had only been there for a short amount of time and she already wanted to go back.

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mothersbestson
2008-09-15 12:40 am UTC (link)

Kadaj nodded that yes, he did miss home, to put it in her words. She was very impressed with Mirage's mini recreation of his world but her tone made it clear she'd rather be in her room, the one that was back at her home -- no matter how beautiful his environment seemed to be.

"I miss my brothers," he said softly, sinking down to sit on the bed. He stared down at his boots for a few seconds before raising his head. "Supposedly we're stuck here. We'll see about that..."

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notsobreakable
2008-09-19 11:53 am UTC (link)

Claire understood, she missed home already. She would even rather be sitting on the couch with Lyle in her ear taunting as usual, but the chances were she really was stuck there and she would have to accept it sooner or later.

“I miss mine too, even if he’s the most annoying person I know.” She offered a small smile, staying put not wanting to invade any personal space. “Who’s your brothers?”Claire asked curiously, he didn’t have to tell her but she left the question open if he did want to talk about it.

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mothersbestson
2008-09-19 04:54 pm UTC (link)

Not sure about what to do but not concerned about following social norms either, he just reacted to the situation as it happened. After all, who was to decide which social structure you heeded when someone you talked to was from an entirely different world?

Kadaj straightened his posture from forlorn teen to military man but it was the sad brother who answered Claire. "Loz and Yazoo. We've all got silver hair. Who's your brother?"

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