Falling Sky [active/open]

[paixaomods]

Character(s): Anyone and everyone
Content: The domes are falling!
Setting: Entirety of Paixao
Time: Week 42
Warnings: Probably violence and injury.
Note: This will be multi-thread style. Feel free to toss your characters wherever they may be!

There was a loud bang and suddenly the painted skies of Paixao began to crack. Angels and clouds separated from the mural they had once been apart of and began to fell to the earth, crushing anyone and anything they managed to land on.

They were the first, but they certainly weren't the last.

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[limitbreakpilot]

"How in all of Ifrit's hells am I supposed to know that?" Cid answered. "It ain't like I know how far this is gonna spread."

Yes, the domes were falling. But until the dust settled they weren't gonna know how much of the city was still standing, or even if any of it was. For now, the best anyone could do was get the hell out of the way and wait. Still, if Alice happened to have a suggestion, he supposed the least he could do was listen. It wasn't like there was all that much else to do, apart from keeping out of the way of the worst of the falling rubble.

[vorpalrising]

"We could go to Wonderland," Alice blurted, staring uncertainly after Cid and wondering why in the hell she was even mentioning her broken little world. But Cid had been good to her - better than anyone she'd known in London, save for her old Nan, perhaps - and she did not want to see him distressed. "It's here, and it's... mine. I know it well. Perhaps we could find some shelter there."

She was mad. She knew she was, and she was almost certain this place had been all in her head (especially with the revelation of Wonderland), but that didn't mean she could bring herself to stand by and do nothing.

[limitbreakpilot]

Wonderland? Of all the places that could have been offered, Cid wasn't sure what to make of that name. Hell, it seemed almost too good to be true, based on the name alone. But too good to be true or not, if it was in fewer pieces than Paixao was, he'd take it.

"As long as it ain't falling to pieces, I won't complain," he answered with a shrug.

[vorpalrising]

Alice shook her head. "It's already in pieces," she told him, remembering her last trip, "but some of them float, so it ought to be alright." Mostly, and even if it wasn't, she knew Wonderland better than anyone else. "I know places where we can take shelter, and I know how to deal with what's in there." It wouldn't be as safe as the city had seemed, but the city really hadn't been very safe after all, had it?

She only hoped they would make it out in one piece.

[limitbreakpilot]

Already in pieces? And floating pieces at that. It couldn't have sounded stranger if it had tried, between that and the already ridiculous name of the place. Still, if the pieces were floating, then presumably the place wasn't actively falling apart. Or... something like that anyway. Cid wasn't exactly going to claim to be an expert on how other worlds worked.

"Still sounds like a weird place, but hell. I'll take anything right now."

[vorpalrising]

"We should get out of the city, first," replied Alice. She also wanted to make sure that the few people she actually liked in this place hadn't died, though she kept that to herself. She could always look for them once she was safely out of the city. Besides, she couldn't very well do that with her head smashed in, now, could she?

Alice hoped they could at least salvage some supplies from this mess; she had a feeling they would need them in Wonderland.

[limitbreakpilot]

"Course we should," Cid answered. "It ain't like stayin' here is gonna be doing much good." Actually finding a safe route out might be easier said than done, but it wasn't CId wasn't going to try, and so with a nod he once again picked up the pace. Standing around and talking was all well and good, but no one could say that his shop was terribly near one of the gates, and with things still falling to pieces, he wasn't going to risk trying the dragoon's way out, even if he did have confirmation that Alice would be able to follow him.

"It's probably gonna be fastest if head this way," he added, nodding in the general direction of the Joutenheim gate.

[vorpalrising]

Alice didn't bother to reply in the affirmative, allowing her actions to speak for themselves. She ran after Cid, one hand still clutching her knife close so as not to lose it or harm someone who didn't need harming. She thought she heard the sounds of something dark and oily slicking its way towards them, but firmly ignored it; she did not care if there was a monster following them or not (and likely it would only be in her head), and she needed to focus.

It wasn't often Alice could shake the sounds of Wonderland, and she wondered how long she could hold off before falling back into her world. She needed to take Cid there, not simply go on her own.