I carry my home within me

[homeless_pard]

Who:Khemrys, Any
When: At the start of things
What: A healer stumbles through a portal to find a role such as she has held before.

The cube world she had grown comfortable upon had...faltered. The Elo that had bound her shattered when she stepped upon the paths and she could feel her own world and the Hunt calling her home. The answer, as ever, was to run. There was no bridge back to her temporary sanctuary, but she could flee the bonds of her own world until the feeling stretched and strained and finally snapped, allowing a greater Need to rush in and pluck her from the darkness.

When she woke it was in a simple, molded chair in a hospital built on a larger scale than the one she had worked in previously. The fitful flashing of the Emergency room lights brightened as she watched, flooding the rooms around her with clear, clean light. "Hello Doctor," the voice came over the PA system, simple and clinical.

"Hello?" she offered in kind. "Where is this?"

"The hospital, will you take up a term of service here doctor?"

"...yes, if there is need?"

"Your account will be credited monthly, have a nice day doctor!"

Well, that was certainly...odd? One could probably follow her progress through the hospital by the floors that lit up the moment she came off each set of stairs. This empty hospital had a doctor now, mayhap there would be need in time. For now, well, best she familiarize herself with the layout? Abandoned or no it seemed as if someone or something felt a doctor may be needed...and the longer she kept herself busy the less time she had to mourn the loss of the home she had built.

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[erfingi]

It was odd. He had intended to go out into the darkness to "Find" someone, but had walked much further than he had intended. In the end he had found a door. Curious, Loki had opened the door and stepped through. The door shut behind him as he glanced around.

When he went to open the door and continue his mission, he found a janitorial closet. So no exit back the way he came. He searched through his pockets to see if he could find his Elo, if he could then he could just text message Lea, Chrome, Hiccup, Tazendra, or Khemrys. But try as he might, he couldn't find the device, he knew he hadn't left it behind, that had been very important.

Since there was plenty of light in the hospital, he vanished the lantern up his sleeve and went searching for someone to ask where he was.

He quickly got it in his head that this place was abandoned. It was only when he started hearing soft sounds of something, rather someone, moving that he realized he wasn't as alone as he thought.

He fingered a blade and approached, but when he saw who it was, he didn't draw his blade. "Khemrys?" How had she arrived here? Was she the same shifter he had met back on Penrose?

[homeless_pard]

When she spotted him her eyes went wide and golden for a moment, she'd walked nine floors finding not a soul, so suddenly someone she knew? That was a bit startling. She recovered though, sweeping into a curtsy "Lord Loki, you find me in...a fair strange place." Her eyes were back to a steady grey over green by the time she stood proper once more.

Grace was a good fall back in times of stress.

"My Elo has...shattered. Have you come to find a wayward healer or did my flight through the Darkness carve a path for others?"

[erfingi]

"I had been sent out of Penrose to 'find' someone, however all I found was a door, which led me here. The door no longer goes back to the darkness, instead it is a cleaning closet," he said. "I do not know if your path through the darkness drew me here, but I do know my Elo is now gone as well."

[homeless_pard]

"Mine shattered. I was stepping across to a mission, and it shattered...then I felt the pull of my world and turned my back upon it," she admitted softly. Cowardly? Perhaps, but then she had built a habit of running from the Hunter.

"I was greeted in the emergency room, a voice on the announcement system? And I was offered a doctor's position here. Then I walked eight floors and you are the first soul I have found. You are uninjured though yes? I hope? It would be a terrible thing to come to a new place bleeding."

No excuse, I'm extremely sorry for the delay

[erfingi]

"I appear to be uninjured at the moment," he said. "It is always better to have a healer and not need one, than to need a healer and not have one."

A moment of philosophical advice from Loki of all people. "I hope we are not the only two people here. I also hope some of the others from Penrose have made it here."

He paused, "I do not believe I would have gone back to Asgard, either." He was not looking forward to whatever punishment Odin likely had in store for him.

*snug*

[homeless_pard]

"A saving grace, that, that I am not needful to the first soul I meet..." she chuckled, reaching touch his shoulder gently, just to be certain, but yes, he was whole, that was good. "And yes, one may hope. We are those easily shaken from a world after all, we can hope." She would like her Finding brother to come honestly, she had not had kin before, it was...settling.

"Would you care to tour the remaining floors with me or will you be seeking outward?"

[erfingi]

"I will accompany you through the remaining floors before seeking outward to see if any others have also arrived," he said. He wondered if only those that did not feel bound to their home worlds came here, or if Penrose was still out there.

[homeless_pard]

"My thanks, lord, it can be...odd...moving alone in the silence," uncomfortable at least. "Like I will shift things, to make a smaller clinic on the base floor, a manageable one until such time as we are not alone here." A section one doctor might manage seemed a good idea.

[erfingi]

"Then we should gather anything from these upper floors that you might need so that you do not have to run back and forth," he said. "Point out whatever you need and I will take care of moving it."

[homeless_pard]

"That is a great kindness, thank you," she offered simply. "This floors seems to be pediatrics as it is called in Penrose. I would just take two of the cribs to set up a littles room downstairs. I believed they are wheeled, we may each push one?"

[erfingi]

"I would like to try something first. I may be able to save some time and the number of treks we shall need to make," he said. It depended on how his powers handled. He could feel them there, which was different from how he felt on Penrose. Approaching one of the cribs he placed his hands on one end and swept them in a way like he was going to crush it between his hands. The crib shrank and vanished.

Loki shook his arms a little, that didn't work quite as well as normal, but still worked. He gestured again and the crib reappeared. "It appears, that my powers are in order."

There was something that felt like it was leeching his abilities a bit, it was a tad more difficult to vanish the crib than he thought it should be. Sure, a large object wasn't easy, but it was doable.

[homeless_pard]

Oh. That was...

...

...odd.

"Where does it go when you do such?"

[erfingi]

"A self-created dimension created by making minute folds in the fabric of reality," he said. "The universe is truly filled with empty space, instead of leaving it empty, a properly trained mage can utilize this space."

[fearlessherosheart]

Tazendra had never let being lost bother her; she had been in the Darkness, and now was not. This was neither Penrose, nor her own world, so it must be somewhere new. She hadn't checked for her Elo, but the lantern she'd had held had gone out.

That was mildly concerning. After all, it was the link that lead her back to Penrose.

"But surely there is a Moogle about; I merely need to seek one out."

Which she was doing. Loudly. "Good day!"

[homeless_pard]

"A moment!" Khemrys called back from across the floor. It was a wonder she'd caught the voice, but then she was a cat after all. "Hello? Lady? Are you hurt?"

[fearlessherosheart]

"Not hardly, but- why, I know that voice!" Tazendra had not often spoken to Khemrys, but she remembered the woman from Penrose.

[homeless_pard]

"Ah, good, I had hoped not to be needed so soon!" she laughed, jogging through the halls until she could turn a corner and offer a deep curtsy. "Lady, it is good to see you. I...am rather lost here and my Elo gone. Your own ties?"

[fearlessherosheart]

"Cracks and shards, I had not thought to check my Elo," Tazendra said. "But the lantern I carried as a finder has gone out, and I feel that bodes ill."

[homeless_pard]

"Mine shattered in the darkness as I thought to go to a world mission, from there I fled the pull of my world," she admitted, oddly calm about running away. "I have been offered a place as doctor here, I do not sense ill intent, no stench of evil...but I have not seen beyond this hospital. I do not know where we are."

[fearlessherosheart]

Tazendra looked around. "I have only seen enough to conclude we are not in Penrose, and not likely in my own world. You see, the chairs are sized for a person of your size."

[homeless_pard]

"Yes, the entire hospital so far is of a scale," she chuckled. "And slightly less close feeling than walking the halls of the wards on Penrose. I...do not believe we might return." Another home lost, another life discarded, were they all to drift and be taken in by stranger and stranger places?

[fearlessherosheart]

"Not without assistance, or a great deal of study. That was not in my studies of sorcery."

Which, come to think about it, made Tazendra wonder if she'd kept Penrosian magic with her. Her theory had been that she could use Penrose's magic because of her connection with the Lantern, just as she'd done with the Orb in her home. But if the Elos were gone and shattered, and her lantern was extinguished...

[homeless_pard]

"I will ever go where there is need," she admitted softly. "If there is no other to care for the wounded as might come I will not seek to leave..." but if other 'doctors' came, or healers? Then she might be free to do so. Her people could be bound, easily, by their calling.

"I will miss those I have known, and hope my finding brother may follow...but if I stand as lone healer then so be it."

[fearlessherosheart]

"Your finding brother, yes. Ah, on that matter, have you seen Loki?" Tazendra wondered. If she was going to be in another strange place, and again alone among the people from her world, at least she wanted people she knew.

[homeless_pard]

"He was quite wroth to find himself in a closet here," she admitted, amused. "As this place has thus far proven empty I did not seek to detain him when he sought to see more of this new place..."