paixaorpg | Unexpected [Closed, Active]

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Unexpected [Closed, Active]

Character(s): Lithuania and NiGHTS
Content: Lithuania goes exploring, and meets someone he wasn't expecting. At all.
Setting: Somewhere around Actua Are.
Time: Midday, week 28
Warnings: ... Sparkles? Bafflement? Baffling sparkles?

NiGHTS had, surprisingly enough, gotten into little to no trouble ever since his return to the city. Maybe it was the fact that everything was so boring here, now that he'd explored everything on his own and (for the moment) was bored of tormenting Hook, though he'd get back to that again once he felt like it. Maybe it was the waiting game, looking to catch people he knew in bits of conversation and, strangely for him, making sure they were alright. At any rate, the Nightmaren was hovering around the Actua Are hotel, playing the invisible flute he always had nearby and idly composing vague hints of melodies before carelessly scattering the notes to the wind, lost.

He wished something would happen, besides the silly fog that seemed to have overtaken the city (and from the looks of it, driving some unfortunate people mad), and thought that maybe the break he'd been giving Hook had lasted a little too long when he saw someone who... felt weird. He couldn't really describe it, even if asked, but it made him curious - and suddenly, NiGHTs wasn't so terribly bored any more. He lowered himself, floating a little above and behind the person, and tapped him on the shoulder. "Hello!" he called out cheerfully. "And who might you be?"

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Lithuania turned and was pretty sure he'd finally lost it. At least Urd, floating as she had been, had looked human. There was no way this--what was he? Definitely not human. Really, this place should have pulled in England.

He took a step back automatically, and once he had gained a bit more personal space the startled confusion that had flashed across his face settled down somewhat.

"I--ah, Toris Laurinaitis," he answered, half-automatically. "A-and you?"

NiGHTS couldn't help but giggle - really, the initial reactions to him never got old. He gave a cheerful little wave, feeling the strange draw of this person more than ever. That was strange. It usually only happened with Ideya, but for some reason, it felt like this person was positively brimming with it. That was impossible, wasn't it? How could one person have so much Ideya?

"I'm NiGHTS!" came the response, the nightmaren keeping his thoughts on the matter to himself for moment. "Nice to meet you!"

"Nice to meet you as well," Lithuania replied, still stuck in the surreality of the meeting. "You're not native to Paixao, are you?"

He wasn't sure which would be better or worse for his sanity. Paixao was a lot to adjust to, and a lot to adjust to quickly.

"Nope!" said NiGHTS, vaguely insulted by the possible notion that he could ever be as boring as that. He brushed it off quickly enough; being who he was, and turned the question around. "And you... where are you from? You're not like any human I've ever seen before." It was doubtful, somehow, that this person was even human to begin with, given the sheer volume of Ideya within him.

Was this someone else who could tell he wasn't human? Maybe he was just going to constantly run into those types. But he should at least try to maintain the impression of being normal (but did that even mean anything here?). "I'm from Lithuania--on Earth?" What were the chances NiGHTS had ever heard of it?

Well, that pretty much answered... nearly nothing. Most of the people NIGHTS met were from Earth, and hearing someone who for all intents and purposes looked, perfectly human admit that meant next to nothing. NiGHTS rolled his eyes, batting idly at the air in what was not quite annoyance. "Yeah, I get it. But you're not like any human I've ever seen." He didn't particularly feel like explaining Ideya at the moment, so he simply left it at that.

As far as Lithuania knew, however, he looked like a perfectly normal human unless you could watch him over a length of time and see how he aged, or rather, didn't. "Ah, what do you mean?"

NiGHTS sighed and crossed his legs, still hovering in mid-air as if to prove a point. "Do you really think someone like me can't tell you're different?" He laughed a little, amused by the way the other was trying to hide it. "Trust me. I know." He really didn't feel like explaining it now... but perhaps he would later. Right now, though, he preferred getting answers to giving them.

Really, was anyone not attuned to this sort of thing? All Lithuania had a sense for was recognizing another nation, and NiGHTS wasn't that. "You'll have to forgive me, but I've never seen anyone like you, so I'd hardly know what you can and can't tell about me."

Another giggle. "Oh, me? I'm from the world of dreams. All of us there have a sense for these things." Not quite a lie; only the Nightmaren could sense it (though others from that realm could see if a particularly strong Ideya was manifesting itself through the visitor) and that was only regarding Ideya, not the supernatural. "So, why don't you tell me who you really are? Don't worry, I'm not going to try and hurt you." That was really more Reala's forte than his.

Somehow hearing this creature was from a dream made more sense than a lot of things he'd heard since he arrived. Fine, might as well see how he reacted. He'd already been laughed at for it, and he doubted anyone here could reach his people to properly hurt him. "Lithuania."

NiGHTS stared. He may not ever have acted like it, but countless millennia of existence had taught him quite a lot of things - including Earth's countries. Still, he wasn't really one to disbelieve, and given the practically countless Ideya inside him, it made a surprising amount of sense. The nightmaren stopped gawking and nodded. "Well, that explains why you felt so weird," he said, mostly to himself. He smiled at Lithuania and bowed. "I can't say I've ever met a country before."

"I've never met anyone from a dream while I was awake," Lithuania replied, though at least there had been no laughter. Shock was expected, of course. "I haven't been here long..." And he would really like to get back to Lithuania, except that was seeming increasingly difficult. He wasn't sure what would happen while he was gone. Surely there was no reason for his nation to simply destabilize, but this wasn't something he had experience with. If China were here, maybe he would remember something back from before Lithuania had existed.

NiGHTS shrugged. "I get that a lot," he replied, sounding a bit bored with it. It had been amusing at first, but that had quickly worn off and been replaced with slightly complacent exasperation. "Anyway, I thought you were new. You had that look about you, like you don't really know what to do about the place." He smiled reassuringly, tilting his head. "Sorry, but you'll likely be here for awhile. Nobody's found a way out yet, aside from some random disappearances."

"Disappearances?" That was new information, and he perked visibly, although with general interest more than any emotion one way or the other. If that means disappearing to home, that could certainly be helpful. But if it meant disappearing at the hands of someone, quite the opposite.

NiGHTS nodded. "Yep. I've done it once myself, and I arrived back at the exact same moment in which I left, without remembering a thing." He paused to reflect on it a little - really, why didn't he remember? And why the exact same moment? Well, he'd been about to die, so maybe that explained it; maybe he'd been given an unexpected (albeit temporary) reprieve. "Even so, I got pulled back in, so it's not like that's a sure thing."

"You didn't remember this place when you got back?" That was interesting; it meant there was no proof he had been the only one ever pulled here from his world, for one. No proof he hadn't been here before, actually, except that no one had said they remembered him. That was probably for the best, though. But at least if he arrived back when he left the time he spent here wouldn't matter as much to his people.

"No, but I remembered this place once I got pulled in again." That was strange - but what wasn't in a place like this? "Well, if you have been here before, I don't remember you. I've been here for a long time," well, a long time for a mortal, anyway - "and I've never seen you around the city before. At least there's that, right?"

If Lithuania hadn't remembered being here before, then, then maybe he hadn't been. Didn't mean no one else had been here, though. "I suppose it doesn't matter, as long as I didn't make enemies or anything."

NiGHTS shrugged. "Even if it did, it doesn't matter, does it? I can't think of many people who could hurt a country." The waking world, from what he'd seen, wasn't at all like the Night Dimension, where places were shaped by thought and thus easily corrupted by damaged psyches. It surely must be harder in the human realm to cause that sort of harm.

"I've never been in a place like this," Lithuania said, still a bit fascinated with how NiGHTS could fly so easily. "I'd rather be safe than sorry, especially if it might affect my people back home."

"Neither have I," replied NiGHTS with a shrug. "What does that have to do with anything?" Well, maybe it did; that this place could hold him, much less a country, raised some questions, not a few of them troubling. "Well, don't worry. It's not going to affect anyone. When you get out - and you will, eventually - you'll end up at the exact moment you left." Well, maybe Lithuania would get out; NiGHTS wasn't sure. A lot of the people he'd known before he left were still here, and showed no signs of ever having left.

"Really?" It reminded him of a fantasy novel--he'd thought of that before. He almost expected some ethereal princess in a tower to be creating all this, held captive by the shadowy organization. But that was silly.

But he'd seen so much strange in so little time here.

"No telling if that will happen tomorrow or a thousand years from now."

He could wait forever, if nothing happened to his people in the meantime. He would wait forever, if he had to.

"Yep!" came the wholly unconcerned reply, NiGHTS being completely at ease and confident with his explanation. Granted, it could easily be wrong, but from his own experience, well... it wasn't. "And no, you can't tell. I guess you'll just have to wait it out.

"Or," he continued, "you could always climb the castle steps. There have been a few new worlds discovered. There must be a way out of there, somewhere."

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augh, sorry; been so busy ;;

No worries; so have I! <3