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[advocacy]

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[The first thing Daneca Wasserman does is the absolute last thing she should do.]

[She panics.]

[Something is wrong and she knows it. This room isn't hers. Not the ones she recognizes and remembers anyway. And yet this is her cabin. She checked six - no seven - times.]

[So Daneca panics and then immediately vanishes out of sight.]

No, no, stupid, [she mutters, berating herself as she hurries down the hall, footsteps reverberating off the walls. Normally Daneca would just hide out in her room until she could calm down, but her room isn't there.]

[She throws herself down in a chair in the common room, hugging her knees and trying to take as little space as possible. Maybe if she just keeps repeating to herself over and over again quietly that it's okay she'll believe it eventually.]

[Daneca does gradually come back into view, head buried in her knees, once she manages to calm herself down enough with some deep breathing.]

voice.

[Once she's visible again, Daneca tries her room again. It's still the same - not right, that it is - but she can do this. She just needs to find out what's going on with other people.]

How many people have found their rooms aren't what they remember it to be?

((ooc: daneca is now from haven! her trouble is becoming invisible when she's stressed/anxious. you can still hear her though and see what she's interacting with, but otherwise she's completely invisible.))

Comments

[lastrat]

Is that so?

[His eyes don't follow her movement immediately: he's relying on sound to guess, and it all comes a fraction later than it would have were she visible.]

Must be a pain in the arse super power, if you can't even control it.

[advocacy]

It's not a super power, [she snaps before she can stop herself.]

[Daneca freezes a little once she realizes what she's done, but she's not about to start groveling or anything like that. She can only hope he maybe doesn't notice or doesn't get ticked off or something. Just generally, she'd prefer it if he didn't make a big deal about it.]

It's my Trouble, okay. I know you don't care about it, so stop asking.

[lastrat]

[His smile widens when she snaps.]

Temper, temper. [He holds up his hands innocently.]

I can't ask questions now? That's rather rude, don't you think?

[advocacy]

It's ruder to ask questions to a stranger.

[Daneca crosses her arms, rubbing at one of them with a hand.]

[lastrat]

You'll never meet anyone with that attitude. I'll do you a favor.

[He sticks out his hand, slightly off because he's not sure how tall she is.]

I'm James. Now we don't have to be strangers.

[advocacy]

[She doesn't say anything. More importantly, she doesn't take his hand.]

Daneca.

[lastrat]

[He waits. And waits. And pouts.]

Well, Daneca, you're very rude.

[advocacy]

Yeha, well, somehow I think you'll survive it.

[lastrat]

That's true, I am a survivor.

[He leans forward just a little, whispering conspiratorially.]

Are you?

[advocacy]

[Daneca's heart rate spikes as he leans closer. She wills herself to stay perfectly still, solid.]

I'm still here, aren't I?

[lastrat]

[He swallows a smile and straightens, looking around like her heart isn't telling him exactly where she is.] Are you? It's almost like you're invisible.

Almost.

[advocacy]

If this is the part where you get creepy and say you can hear me or smell me or whatever, I think we're beyond that by now, don't you?

[She's trying so desperately to be brave and not to give into that fear a predator like him puts into her.]

[lastrat]

[She is trying, and he almost finds it admiral. Or he would, if he wasn't busy not caring. Bond lets the smile grow, lets it expand with his teeth, lets his face shift into something monstrous.

He's not really hungry, yet, but she doesn't have to know that.]

It's not that part.

[advocacy]

Look, I know what you're trying to do. [Daneca takes a step back.] And you don't-- [Her voice hitches and falters before she can steady it again.] You don't scare me.

[lastrat]

[He chuckles.]

Are you sure? Because you sound a bit terrified.