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themiddleway (themiddleway) wrote in thedeadland,
@ 2011-10-28 18:46:00

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+ in person, rat, shion

[Settling in: Shion and Rat]
Actually Shion thought sticking with the others in the apartments would be the better idea, after all there wern't many of them and a lot of monsters, and surely helping each other out would be much easier than everyone going alone. But of course this was Rat so Shion really wasn't surprised. Allen had gone and Rat walked off in the opposite direction. Shion looked down at the mouse at his feet and picked it up. "Come on then Horatio," he hurried after Rat.

The sounds of monsters had become almost normal and none sounded too close... as long as they got inside quickly. "Where are we going Rat?"

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themiddleway
2011-10-28 10:53 pm UTC (link)

Shion checked his pockets as well but there all there was was a handfull of bronze pieces, his latest pay from the Dogkeeper, completely useless here. He put them on the table anyways as well as Horatio.

A room full of books, some mice and not much else, really a universe apart and not much had changed. Shion grinned. "It's enough for now," his optimism was back it seemed.

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smokefall
2011-10-28 11:23 pm UTC (link)

"We've moved up in the world."

Rat didn't keep his money on him, so he didn't add any pieces of metal to the small pile. Shion was right, they didn't exactly need money here. It made him wonder if they even needed to get jobs - the others seemed pretty keen to stay active and organised, but as far as he could see, their only job requirement was to stay alive so their energy could feed the world. They didn't need governance or groups for that.

"Tomorrow we'll work on monster-proofing the shop," he decided, before crossing the room to sit and slouch on the mess of sofas. There were already several piles of books stacked next to it.

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themiddleway
2011-10-28 11:47 pm UTC (link)

Shion smiled and nodded, even though they wern't in their own world they got to help this world and maybe if the child was telling the truth they could use their wishes to help their own. Unlike Rat Shion was interested in getting to know the others and helping them.

He nodded and sat more upright perching at the end of the couch turned bed. "You think it will be alright for tonight?" He couldn't hear any monsters but they might come back.

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	smokefall 2011-10-29 10:02 am UTC (link)
	"We can put something heavy in front of the door." It wasn't that Rat was complacent, but he was tired, and surprisingly well-fed from their foraging, and the city was warmer than he was used to. With the monsters quiet in the nighttime, he was being unusually indulgent towards his feelings. "The bigger ones won't even fit down that alley, anyway." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	themiddleway 2011-10-29 10:20 am UTC (link)
	Shion nodded and looked around, there was a wardrobe and when Shion went to look in it there was a coat in it, and some hooks for more coats. "This could work," he tried to push it to the door, it was way too heavy for him to move alone though. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	smokefall 2011-10-29 10:41 am UTC (link)
	After a minute of watching Shion struggle, Rat deigned to get back up and help. Not that he would have been able to push it on his own either, but the more difficulty he had pushing it on his own, the more reassured Shion's analytical brain would be about the effectiveness of the wardrobe as a barricade. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

themiddleway
2011-10-29 11:19 am UTC (link)

It was working as well, Shion was pretty sure that at the very least the amount of noise the monsters would get trying to get through the door baricaded with the wardrobe would be enough to wake them. It took a lot of effort for the two of them to push it up against the door and Shion breathed heavily, exhausted.

"They... can't get in upstairs all the shutters are down," he said mainly to reasure himself.

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	smokefall 2011-10-29 12:08 pm UTC (link)
	And there was no way Shion could leave the building without getting Rat to help him move the blockade. All in all, a satisfactory solution. He made his way back through the store to the counter, and picked up his radio again from where he'd left it. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

themiddleway
2011-10-29 12:26 pm UTC (link)

Shion followed him back into the shop and sat down. He had his radio as wellit seemed strange that they had all just been given one but they were definitly useful.

He took a small piece of bread and ate it looking around the store again. "So do you recognise any of the books?" Because if they were in a different universe, then surely the books would be different.

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smokefall
2011-10-29 09:46 pm UTC (link)

"Nope," he leafed through the open book, raising an eyebrow at some of the sentences. It was a romance novel, no question about it, and one written in what Rat would have called the recent past. The dialogue read like Shion had written it, too. He closed it and a puff of dust rose from the counter. "Compared to the number of books that exist in the world, the ones I'd recognise are a drop in the ocean."

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	themiddleway 2011-10-29 10:02 pm UTC (link)
	For a boy who had seen maybe two or three books in his life before he had went to the West Town, Rat's house full of books had seemed so much, and yet there were so many more... "Well at least you have new reading material." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	smokefall 2011-10-29 10:10 pm UTC (link)
	Shion received a quirked eyebrow for the comment, but Rat scooped up several books from the section marked Theater on his return to the back room. "You've got no excuse to shirk off your education, either," he called, once he'd reached the sofas, clambered over the arm and settled across them. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

themiddleway
2011-10-29 10:21 pm UTC (link)

Shion smiled but didn't say anything, he hadn't thought for a moment that an entire new universe would make Rat go easy on him when it came to learning none scientific things.

Even so his eye was drawn to the section of atlases, it would not hurt to learn more about this world.

He grabbed a few and returned to the other room. He sat upright at the end of the bed and opened the first one, a map of an island. "Asper," he read, he turned the page and frowned.

He turned another, and another and picked up another atlas. "Rat look at this..."

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	smokefall 2011-10-31 05:33 pm UTC (link)
	Rat had rolled his eyes when he'd seen what Shion had picked out of the entire stock on offer, but at his shift in expression, he sat up and took one of the discarded atlases off the pile. His reaction was basically the same. "Huh," he leafed through the pages again, and then went back to one of the identical maps. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	themiddleway 2011-10-31 06:44 pm UTC (link)
	Even atlases in Number 6, as censored as they had been had shown the other cities. "Do you think this is the only place left in the world?" Though if that were true, why make atlases with repeated identical picture. It made no sense. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	smokefall 2011-10-31 06:48 pm UTC (link)
	"Use your head, Shion. Why bother printing out so many books, all with the same page? You might as well just use one sheet of paper." He flicked through another of the books, frown deepening. "This isn't right." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	themiddleway 2011-10-31 06:59 pm UTC (link)
	"I don't know... It makes no sense." He leafed through another, exactly the same. "Something strange is going on..." Stranger even than being transported to a dying universe by a small child and hunted by monsters. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	smokefall 2011-10-31 11:27 pm UTC (link)
	"There's nothing about this that isn't strange," he pointed out, "I say we just accept that until we're in a position to actually do something about it." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	themiddleway 2011-10-31 11:53 pm UTC (link)
	Shion nodded, for once they agreed. They had to learn as much as possible, and then find a way to help the world and get home. "Perhaps we can get back in contact with the child, and ask him." (Reply to this) (Parent)

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