[Action] - Awakening

[wildprincess]

[Nothing was more difficult than trying than trying to rouse from the sleep. A sleep brought on from intense emotional turmoil. A sleep as if her very life had escaped. A sleep filled with dreams of her surrounded by cat-like cubs pouncing on her, overlooked by a ferocious parent. A happy dream.

Arietta's grip weakly tightens, feeling the plush, comforting fabric of her fonic doll. Was she alive? Was she dead? She couldn't tell. She managed to weakly sit up. Something is on her lap? She managed to open her eyes to find the box.

One small question on her mind, "Who is it from?" She found necklace inside. How pretty. And a odd device. Some red papers? They look like money. It's not gald, for certain. Claiming the items, brochures included, she eases her way off the bed, or whatever this was, and out of the cave. Waking up in the cave wasn't the weirdest thing. It felt like home, but less foliage and monsters.

She was now awake enough to be aware of her surroundings. There was no such advanced city near the Cheagle Woods. The haze on her memory lifts... What is going on? Where are her friends? Largo? What about the duel with Anise? Clutching her doll tightly while holding on the items she found, she roams the city searching for her comrades, a forest with monsters, or any sort of clue. But to start, she tries to call for her monster friends...

...But nothing came... Arietta was all alone. Once more, everything was taken away from her.

She can't help but suspect that Anise is behind this. Anise is the origin of all her problems.]

"Largo? Where are you?"

Comments

[jadedkill]

"Ah. I see."

[Ion isn't here either, despite stories of people being brought back to life through sacrifice or simply arrival of entry in this world.]

"If you're looking for Anise, she isn't here. Like I said, in Genessia, there's only me. You're the second from our world."

[He's not going to stop her. With his hands in his pockets, he watched her walked away. He lets her go.]

[wildprincess]

[Good. The less of Anise anywhere is better for her.

Hopefully she's going in the right direction. She'll figure it out.]

[jadedkill]

"That's the wrong way, Arietta. And the city is not a suitable environment for you. You're a forest type, are you?"

[Hooray for Jade's skills of knowing people's weaknesses.]

"If you don't like cold nights, and you wish to live, follow me to the archway to Fayren at least. I'll even show you one of the inns where you can stay for the night."

[wildprincess]

"I lived in Daath, too."

[She knows how to handle both environments. Though the forest is the home she always knew.

She didn't want to accept his help. But she'll suffer his company just long enough to get somewhere where she can collect her thoughts. Arietta stopped her trek and waited for Jade to lead the way.]

[jadedkill]

"Yes, but there is no Daath here. You're off the planet and woke up on another."

[Yes, that's right follow Jade now to the archway. It wasn't much of a long trek.]

[wildprincess]

[That's crazy. You're crazy, Jade. Arietta refuses to comment further. But she certainly doesn't recognize the names Genessia or Fayren. So is there actually some truth?

How can she be sure if the only person telling her had a hand in her mother's death?

She does start inching closer to believing as they arrive at the archway. Nothing like this existed on Auldrant. Not to her knowledge, at least.]

[jadedkill]

"Use your pendant whenever you need to cross this gate. Don't loose it."

[And Jade disappeared to the gate, appearing on the other side, waiting for her to join him.]