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[notvitiligo.livejournal.com]

Characters: Jessica + Anyone interested
Date: Present day, present time
Summary: Homesickness + Denial + Magic Dirt = an exciting new feature on the landscape!
Warnings: Mild angstmuffinry?

So, magic dirt. You grab some, you think about the thing you want, and boom, done! Woo.

At least, that's the theory. Possibly it was a bad idea for Jessica to try to develop something while she's stressed and freaking out because the full weight of her situation finally hit. Because now, she keeps trying to make something fortressy, but all she comes up with are things from home.

Beige wallpaper.

A soft peach couch with frayed arms and an old antimacassar.

The carpeted stairs with a stubborn purple stain.

A varnished wooden board with pegs bearing leashes.

She frowns, furrowing her brow, and tries to will everything to take the shape her brain wants, not the shape her heart does. Mind over matter, right? Right.

Stone, thick and solid.

A tower, tall enough to see all the Gardens.

Off-white painted walls with a border of pink flowers.

A desk with a lamp attached, and a built-in holder for pens.

A window with yellow blinds, sunlight streaming in.

No, no, no, stop it!

Her room ignores the orders, sweeping up and over her.

There's a stone tower in the garden, with a window at the top. There's a fully-furnished bedroom inside.

There's a Jessica seated on the bed, hugging a pillow and crying.

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[notvitiligo.livejournal.com]

"y- yeah, um..."

Evasive maneuvers! Quick, windowsill, show her the best answer to get this overwith quickly and without dignity loss!

...dammit, windowsill, why do you not provide a script immediately.

"I'm... OK..."

Jessica: worst liar ever.

Stupid notification mails.

[peachhat.livejournal.com]

...

Tenshi may not be the best observant, but this was too obvious to escape even her notice.

"Oi. I'm not human, but I can spot when humans lie. You don't seem okay. What's up? Did someone trap you in this tower or something? I did hear stories about princesses in towers and stuff, you're one of those now?"

Damn you, LJ!

[notvitiligo.livejournal.com]

fffuuuu this is what comes of not being a social butterfly.

"No... I'm... I just fucked up, OK? I'll... I'll fix it..." She shrinks behind the pillow, trying to hide her embarrassment and awkwardness.

Argh......

[peachhat.livejournal.com]

Tenshi blinked, then she blinked again.

"You...err...slept with someone?" She then asked, perfectly sincere confusion on her face. "Uhm, why are you crying them?"

Re: Argh......

[notvitiligo.livejournal.com]

fdjkfsfjkslfs!

"Oh God, no! No, no, no, who would I even- I don't- Nobody-"

Tenshi seems to be particularly talented at making Jessica's brain blow fuses today.

"No. I just... messed something up, okay?!" It's rather more vehement than she intended. Her ears are burning.

[peachhat.livejournal.com]

"Right, of course you didn't! Obviously, I was totally kidding and didn't jump to that conclusion!" Tenshi said quickly, defending herself with an obvious falsehood.

"Err...right. What DID you mess up, then. The tower? It looks fine!"

[notvitiligo.livejournal.com]

Let us never speak of this exchange again, and wipe it from collective memory.

Done.

"It's, uh..." She becomes inordinately interested in her curtains. "It was supposed to be part of a fortress. Not... my room."

[peachhat.livejournal.com]

Tenshi tilted her head slightly.

"So...you wanted to make a fortress, and added your room instead, creating some kind of unholy combination of the two?"

[notvitiligo.livejournal.com]

"Accidentally," she corrects, self-conscious. "I- I did fine building other things. I just... got distracted."

[peachhat.livejournal.com]

"By what? Must have been something big since you did fine on the other stuff, right?"

[notvitiligo.livejournal.com]

She sighs, hunching against the pillow and studiously avoiding Tenshi's face.

"I dunno... I should be used to this by now. It's not like I've never been away from home before..."

[peachhat.livejournal.com]

"Homesick, then?" Tenshi asked. "Well, can't blame you, I guess."

She wasn't really feeling homesick, but then she didn't care for her home much.

"Why are you so embarassed about that, though?"

Personal space and not asking inappropriate questions? Wrong celestial.

[notvitiligo.livejournal.com]

Another sigh. She'd be puffing her bangs out of her face if she had bangs that weren't already floaty.

"Well, it's been weeks already. It's not really helping anyone for me to be acting like a kid." Never mind the presence of people who act like kids on a regular basis (or actual kids), the important part is Jessica acting wrong! Logic is not connected to this.

[peachhat.livejournal.com]

Tenshi certainly didn't act like a kid. Or well, that's what she firmly believed.

"Well, it's not as if anybody noticed, for everyone else you just built a tower, right?"

[notvitiligo.livejournal.com]

"Not a really useful one."

[peachhat.livejournal.com]

"How come?"

Tenshi hadn't really checked for stairs or doors because, well...celestial. She could fly just fine.

"It seems to suit the purpose just fine."

[notvitiligo.livejournal.com]

"Well, the original purpose was as a lookout. You can only really see out of the one window. And, um, I don't think there's a way in other than, uh, the window. So it basically sucks."

She thinks about this.

"I really hope I can change things after doing the initial building."

[peachhat.livejournal.com]

"Oh. You can't fly, right?" Tenshi asked, tilting her head, as she was pondering.

"I could leave you a keystone here, you can use it as a temporary elevator?"

She used floating rocks as stairs for her floating island home, so this seemed to be a small thing to her.

[notvitiligo.livejournal.com]

"Not last time I checked, no." She's not keen to check again.

"Wow, really? If, um, you don't mind... I'd appreciate it." Assuming it floats under floaty rock power and not under crazy hat angel power. "I mean, I could probably still get out, but..."

Nobody said how they work, so ruling it does work like that is ok. It's magic!

[peachhat.livejournal.com]

"Sure, then."

Tenshi snapped her fingers, creating a roughly person-sized floating rock next to the window.

"Just stomp on it twice to make it go up or down, it'll stop in front of your window. It'll work even when I sleep, so don't worry, you don't have to wait for me to check for you."

She'd probably forget to, anyway, she was not the most responsible person.

Re: Nobody said how they work, so ruling it does work like that is ok. It's magic!

[notvitiligo.livejournal.com]

She stares at it, poking it lightly.

"This place is going to make me actually crazy." Giving Tenshi a bit of a smile, she adds, "Thanks a lot."

[peachhat.livejournal.com]

"You're welcome. Just, like, don't spread around that I did something like that."

Tenshi had a reputation to defend, after all. "And no need to go crazy, really. It's just a floating rock."

[notvitiligo.livejournal.com]

"Your secret is safe with me," she promises drily. Which is technically true, if only because she doesn't see a reason to spread this around, even if Tenshi is slightly ridiculous.

"Where I come from, they tend to fall. Except for in places where there's no gravity and everything floats."

[peachhat.livejournal.com]

"Well, rocks do that usually, but in my home, which is a floating island, they can also float if properly prepared. I just did that. It's not very hard for me, really, since my power pretty much is controlling earth and rock and stuff."

She nodded. "And thanks for keeping it secret."

[notvitiligo.livejournal.com]

"I'll just have to get used to it, along with everything else."