Yukari Takeba (aimforinfinity) wrote in psym_shadow, @ 2010-03-12 12:49:00 |
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Entry tags: | april 2011, april 2nd 2011, kurosawa izumi, regnet hotaru, sakamoto kaoru, sato airi, takeba yukari |
April 2, 2011: Yggdrassil Night, "Team" 1
Who: “Team” 1. Yukari, Airi, Hotaru, Izumi, Kaoru
What: The first night in Yggdrassil
When: Beginning around 9:00 pm on April 2, 2011
Where: Unknown location among the branches of Yggdrassil
Though earlier in the evening was spent sending emails and responding to comments on her online journal, a notice that Junes was having a sale on high school uniform apparel sent Yukari out of the dorm once again. She made it to the Central Shopping District and to Junes in one piece (and without getting lost for once), but she was too late to find anything worthwhile on the sales racks.
Eventually, she wandered back outside empty-handed and paused underneath a streetlight to rummage in her large purse for her map. Her fingers brushed against the cool metal of one of the Evokers, which caused her to pause. ‘Haven’t used this thing in a year. I wonder if Mitsuru is over-thinking things by giving each group a spare Evoker. It’s not like we’re under imminent attack from Shadows, really.’ And yet, she was grateful regardless to have her paranoia relieved a little.
Yukari sighed, frowning at the map she had managed to crumple and rip slightly. ‘And that dream. Several people mentioned having the same dream. What does it mean? How are these people connected? What’s going to happen?’
“I better get back to the dorm before curfew,” muttered Yukari as she glanced at her wristwatch. “It’s almost nine o’clock.” The veteran persona user then instinctively looked up to check the shape of the pale moon, and then as usual, mentally berated herself for doing so. ‘Even after a year, I still keep checking.’
The screech of brakes caught her attention as a bus pulled to a halt nearby. She began to ran towards it when she suddenly tripped on a jagged piece of concrete. Her hand reached to steady herself on a tree --
Which suddenly wasn’t there. There was nothing to grab on to as both Yukari’s momentum and an inexplicable force brought her down, down, down, down into…
Yggdrassil
Yukari was not ashamed to scream like a girl, and very much like a girl she screamed. Luckily (if you could call it that), her descent was fast and brief; unluckily, her landing was not soft.
“AH!” She had landed on her backside and for a moment, she was more angry than scared. “What the--?!” Shock and pain briefly competed for attention in Yukari’s mind before she opened her eyes wide to take in the scene: shock won.
As the veteran persona user took in the vast leaves and crisscrossed branches, she looked down and realized that she herself was sitting on a large branch, which seemed as wide as a highway. With growing horror, Yukari looked over and down below, where the center of the titanic tree happened to be.
“Oh. My. God.” She scrambled to her knees and completely forgot what she had told Junpei: “first thing we do is to NOT panic.” For while she was alone, Yukari allowed herself to not only panic, but to freak out and develop a phobia of heights.