Voicetesting very, very cautiously

[reopen_the_door]

No. No matter how much you and your friend think it'd make sense - and it doesn't, nothing has made sense or will make sense since six months or sixteen years ago or four years in the future - we are not going to merge my universe with the universe with that SHIELD thing you're obsessed with.

They're not equipped to deal with this.

Now just... get me some water and quit slaving over my backstory. You have school to get ready for. What's there already is what people can understand. If I go to a game, then you can worry about the novel length thing you're working on. Right now I'd be good with some rest. Maybe you can just give me a minute before you decide what to do. One thing I've learned is that everything would've been made a lot better if we'd all thought things out before acting. That's how things got solved, that's how it needs to be.

We'll see how things work out with you and that other guy up here being in a game before we worry about me. Now. Water? It'll help my ribs.

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[iwillprotectyou]

Hey, you're pretty spooky… [ She'd listened to everything and now wears a bit of a disgruntled expression. ] What're you talking about?

[reopen_the_door]

I'm not. I don't think so, anyway. I wouldn't want to be... mostly I just want things to be normal.

It's complicated. You probably wouldn't believe me. And I don't want to look crazy on top of creepy.

[iwillprotectyou]

What's not-so-normal about you? You look pretty normal to me. [ Hero… ]

Aw, c'mon. [ She grins, losing the disgruntled expression. ] You don't look so creepy right now. And I've got great ears! [ She points to them. ] Fire away!

[reopen_the_door]

Good. Thanks.

It's - um, well. Imagine a door. It just appears one day, somewhere impossible. Like in a really high snowdrift or embedded into a mountain. It wasn't there yesterday. You open it and you get sucked in. There, you see lots of tunnels. A maze of tunnels. Levels and levels of them, some hallways lit specific colors. The tunnels lead to the future the further up you go and the past the farther down you go when you open a door - they all open from the inside - and step out. They can lead you to anywhere in the world.

Or to other worlds.

And not everything that comes out of those worlds or got trapped in the tunnels is friendly, sane, sentient or possible with the laws of nature as we know them.

But my mother's somewhere down there. So I opened the Door on our side. I went in. Yesterday, six months ago, sixteen years ago, four years in the future. Depending on what Door leads to your world and time.

[iwillprotectyou]

… [ give Hero a minute. She's trying to take it all in but her head's fiercely hurting. It's…too much to think about. Doors doors doors doors… It's all going in one here, contorting, then out the other. It sounds a lot like the caverns outside of Gareth, but these caverns have doors and and and -- yep. Her head hurts.]

Uhm…so these doors are bad?

[reopen_the_door]

Kind of. They lead to every world, every time. It's the thing in the tunnels that are bad. Evil. Twisted. They're what makes it dangerous. The Doors aren't bad, it's what's on the other side. Both the monsters, and some of the worlds they lead to.

[iwillprotectyou]

That sounds like the worst hallway ever. Why do you put up with it? Are all the worlds bad?

[reopen_the_door]

Not all the worlds. The one my mother's from is pretty nice. But I have to keep looking through all the Doors until I find her. She got trapped down there and I have to bring her back.

[iwillprotectyou]

Oh, so you're from one of those doors, right? [ She smiles reassuringly. ] You'll find your mother, don't worry. You look like someone who'd go through hell and high water for everything.

[reopen_the_door]

The world outside a door, yeah. Siberia. My mother came to our village through a Door fifty years ago. She escaped. And then one opened up again, and now she's gone.

does your story by chance have the theme song from the Twilight Zone?

[iwillprotectyou]

Sigh-beer-euh? [ She tries to pronounce it. ] So if she got to the village fifty years ago, wouldn't that make you…older than what you look? [ She puts her hands out, waving them in "stop stop" gesture. ] Not that I'm judging! Heh heh…please don't hit me.

It *should*. :D

[reopen_the_door]

In Russia. The mountainous cold part above Mongolia? Siberia.

My mother's not human. Found that out when I stumbled onto the Door to her world. I'm fourteen. She's... I have no idea.

we'll call it The Scary Door

[iwillprotectyou]

Oh, right! Those places! [ She rubs at the back of her neck, laughing, while clearly having no clue of either of those places. ]

Pssh! [ Hero flaps her lips. ] There's no way you're fourteen! You look older than me!

ILU for that Futurama reference.

[reopen_the_door]

Fourteen. Although I've been in the Tunnels for a while. I'm not exactly looking my best right now, I guess.

[[OOC: Funnily enough the actress I got her icons from is thirteen.]]

everyone loves Futurama

[iwillprotectyou]

Maybe it's the dirt and junk that's aging you…

[ ooc: excuse me as I spittake. ]

True that.

[reopen_the_door]

I guess so. I lost track of how long I was down there, too.

[[OOC: That was my reaction, too.]]