House A-14: Kaji and Ib

[iknowtheconsequences]

It's late at night, after the troubling meeting at the Observatory. Ib is snug in bed, and Pen-Pen is snoozing on the couch, but Kaji is still awake. He's downstairs with the back door propped open so he can maybe sneak a cigarette. Ib'll know, somehow, she always knows, in the morning. But he needs it tonight. One hand fidgets with the cigarette, carefully ashing it out on the porch. His other hand turns a small metal tin over and over and over. Every time it flips over, there is a small clink of something inside. The weight of it is too heavy for him to bear alone, and far, far too heavy for him to ask Ib to carry.

"A direct link to the Calamity, and using them you might hope to become God and create a new world where we are free from this cycle of life and death."

He stays, not quite lost in his thoughts, but he is no closer to any answers, no matter how long he stands here.

Makeover Hijack!

[just_want_normal_knees]

Who: Ruby Rose and Erika Kurumi
What: Erika needs a new model. Ruby's in the wrong place and the wrong time. Maybe?
Where: Fairy Drop, Aqures Ixen
When: 3/21
Warnings: Erika

Ruby, for the most part, had been on something of an autopilot for the past month. Between watching friends and family turn into crystal and disappearing and then watching that video and being told "Hey, want to save the world? Kill everyone and become a God!", Ruby was feeling a little on the lost side. In her little autopilot wanderings, Ruby just so happened to pass by the new clothing store that just opened up...