What happened

ooc: In typical life fashion my copy of Wizard And Glass has gone AWOL -- there is sad empty place on my bookshelf where it belongs - so I'm not 100% sure if the newspaper they find in Kansas in that story calls the super-flu Captain Trips or not. If it doesn't' … well … it did this time *twists canon to make it more to her liking* . Oh, hi by the way, my name is Kelly, I play Eddie, and I'm new :D

He was pretty sure he wasn't dreaming. For one thing, when he dreamed he dreamed of New York. Or one of the many variations of it. But standing here on the corner and looking around, well this didn't look like New York. Still, he could be dreaming ..

"Wonderful, fan-fucking-tastic."

It did occur to Eddie that standing on the corner talking to himself wasn't exactly making a case for his other option. That is to say the option behind door (because it always came back to doors didn't it?) number two. That it was all real, and somehow, he had slipped away from the others. Gone on to one of the other worlds.

So the question was. .. what world was he in? And when in this world was he in? So far things looked like .. well not exactly like his home turf of New Yawk City, in the year of nineteen-eighty-seven, for one thing he didn't know half of these buildings. Yet the place was too .. alive to be part of Roland's world. Things didn't look like they where breaking down here, and hell he could see some people walking down the other side of the street.

Which meant he was decidedly was not in the Kansas he had jut been in. That place had been permanent population zero every carried off by something the local paper -- or what was left of it -- had labeled; 'Captain Trips'. So, not in Kansas. Not in Mid-World. So where?

"Well that's the million dollar question isn't it?"

He looked up; "Buildings Buildings everywhere, and not a fucking sign saying; 'Welcome To ….' To see. Someone needs to let the tourist board know that weary travelers like to know where the hell they are." Not panicked not yet, Eddie was just pissed off.

While looking upwards at the buildings that towered (hah) above him he noticed something. Something that made his stomach do a little flip flop. The clouds. The clouds now moved in a rather … cloud like way. Not flowing straight and true along the Beam. For the first time since he had lost the others, Eddie Dean began to feel like maybe, just maybe, he was up that fabled shit creek sans paddle.

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Tara Markov had seen stranger things. ‘Seen’ was a poor choice of words, though, because the girl had not only seen these things, but also experienced them and had the unfortunate luck of having to deal with their aftermath. So naturally, the girl dealt fairly well with change, and this would include being swept away from her traveling to here.

Wherever here was. What looked like a cradle of dirt and rock had caught Tara while she had fall from the portal in the sky, and she lie on the brown earth, hurt but whole, and for once in her life, not broken. She wanted desperately to sit up and see where she was, but whatever had happened had sucked most of the energy from her, and this included her powers. She had no fear that her powers had left her (like she’d be that lucky) because just from the height of where she could see and the warmth of the dirt beneath her, she could tell she was the one that had made the earth move. The earth always smelled warm and fresh once she manipulated it; it was her favorite scent.

She couldn’t move thank to that damn thing that brought her here. Tara felt very vulnerable during that phase –something she intensely disliked- but tried to calm herself down. She had faced situations like this before, she could handle herself. She had had to her whole life. And at least the view was terrific, she was faced west towards the setting sun, the sky was illuminated beautifully. She took a deep breath and began to feel the energy flow back to her body, giving her enough strength to sit up, leaning forward to see the city. There was an intense glare from the sun, but Tara could tell it was a large metropolis, which meant there was probably someone there that had heard of her. Someone homeless, like herself, of course. She would expect anyone of status to trust her, or remember her enough

Tara sighed, running her leather-gloved hand through her scraggly blonde hair while she tried to formulate a plan. She glanced over the side of the cradle of dirt and rock, and instantly did a double take when she saw how high she was. Fuck. She was at least ten feet up, and the sides sloped down almost vertically. Double shit. There was no way she could get out of this without someone noticing…but, if anyone could do it, it’d be her own self, right? She could handle this situation, and the park-ish area she had landed in seemed pretty empty. She didn’t even know where she was, so if anyone did see and ask questions, she could BS her way out of it. It’s what she did best.

But good Lord, she was tired. Tara could sit up, but for the moment all she wanted to do was just sit and figure out how she got wherever she was; be somewhat productive. The last thing she really remembered was walking under an overpass and being practically blinded by some idiot driver using their Brights, and then falling. And ending up here. Tara sighed and looked around the area she landed in, towards the city. There was large sky-scrapper office building that seemed to be in the middle of the town. It seemed like a good idea, since it was obviously the most important building in the city, she had seen that before. She stood and positioned herself at a diagonal, sliding down the slope of the hill she had created. Now she was ready to get moving and find out where she was (and where to stay) but there was still the problem of the ten-foot mass of dirt and rock in the middle of the park. That couldn’t just be left unexplained. She sighed and glanced around, making sure the area was cleared before her eyes, hands and the pile of earth began to glow bright yellow. Tara had wanted to keep her powers a secret, but there didn’t seem to be anyone around, and a girl had to do what a girl had to do to keep it a secret.


OOC: Have fun with this. <3

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Inara blinked at the imposing edifice..Starfire said this was a bar, it was surely something. She wasn't entirely sure what to make of the odd structure but her own artistic impressions were less important then the chance to find out if the others had made it into town.

"This looks like as good a place as any."

Inara cast a side long look to Starfire her floating friend before she walked forward heading for the front door of the Lux.

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