luministi_logs | ❀ Two Adventures in Two Days [backdated]

Characters: Rapunzel, open to anyone wishing to join!
Location: Luministi Greens West, near A12
Time: Backdated ALL DAY ERRYDAY... say, August 9th thereabouts? With the possibility of retconning. ._.
Summary: Corona and then Luministi? This was an adventure Rapunzel didn't know she was about to take. She reacts accordingly--by freaking out.
Warnings: None

It was all very strange--first she'd been in the kingdom of Corona with Eugene, watching the lanterns lighting up the night sky. It had been everything she'd dared dream, and she'd thought that maybe she'd even been about to receive her first kiss!

So why was she waking up here? Rapunzel looked around the bedroom she'd found herself in, taking in her surroundings. She hadn't been expecting to suddenly wake up somewhere else, and this time...

"Where am I?"

This time she wasn't even sure where she'd woken up. All at once, her mind was flooded with the horror stories her mother had told her--maybe she'd been kidnapped! Something had happened while they were watching the lanterns, and now she'd been captured and brought here. Had they wanted her for her hair? Rapunzel gasped, reaching up to feel her hair. All in its braid, as far as she could tell. She pulled the braid around--still blonde. At least that much was a relief.

"Hello and good morning!"

Rapunzel leapt what felt like a foot in the air in terror, the smallest of shrieks escaping her. At once she slid over the side of the bed, cowering behind it as she stared at the man that had just suddenly appeared, beaming at her from beside the bed.

But he continued to talk regardless, and as he kept on, Rapunzel began to realize that maybe he wasn't actually there. Growing braver, she stood up, rounding the end of the bed to watch him (though she still wasn't getting that close to him, just in case). "...and again, welcome to Luministi!" he eventually finished, and disappeared from the screen.

Rapunzel couldn't help but take a step forward, reaching out for the mysterious man. "Wait!" she cried, even though he was already gone. "But where is Luministi?" It hadn't been in any of the atlases she and Eugene had looked at during the festival...

Wait. Rapunzel twisted around anew, observing the room with a fresh eye. Where was Eugene? He'd been with her--had they gotten to him, too? A wave of panic swept over her: first, she was in some town she'd never heard of. She'd possibly been kidnapped by the sorts of bad people her mother had always warned her of, and to top it all off, Eugene was nowhere to be found.

"Eugene?"

She bolted out of the room, glancing around her for anything that might be helpful. There was a kitchen visible through a doorway. Rapunzel hurried in, rummaging around and--she almost sighed with relief as she caught sight of it. Her fingers wrapped around the handle of a cast-iron frying pan; she lifted it up to test the weight. A touch lighter than her own at home, but she would be able to handle it fine, and just having something to defend herself with made her feel slightly more at-ease.

Properly equipped, she was ready to head out. Rapunzel headed to the door, peering out for anything that might be awaiting her before opening it and stepping out onto the front porch.

"This... what is this place?"

It was so different from anything she'd ever seen before!

[ooc: And after that gigantic wall of tl;dring... Rapunzel will be in the western greens, wandering about, but will soon decide that she needs to go on the hunt to find Flynn, if he's there. So feel free to run into her anywhere in the greens or in the town!]

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[[ooc: haven't gotten that far yet in the conversation with Flynn, but safe to assume he'll give her a description of Rapunzel?]]

Fuu is riding her bike slowly along the main road, headed west towards the bakery to buy dinner...

[ooc: i would imagine so!]

By this point, Rapunzel was a little bit calmer than she'd been upon first waking up. She still wasn't completely at ease, not by a long shot, but she was at least walking now, looking around her as she went.

The sight of a bicycle, though, was enough to set her staring. How did it... how did it move like that? And the girl on top of it was balancing the entire thing like it was nothing! She'd seen carts in the town, but this was something entirely new.

New enough that she almost didn't think to get out of its way until it was nearly upon her. With a gasp, Rapunzel quickly stepped to one side, clutching her frying pan to her chest as she watched.

Fuu was a bit lost in thought, which is an unfortunate thing to be while riding a bicycle!

Fuu vaguely registered the girl watching her in the street, but she was more interested in her long, golden hair in a thick braid. She'd never seen hair that long before! And wait a sec, that was kind of like the description Mister Flynn had given-- and by the time she'd reached this point in her intent thought process, she very nearly upon the girl who was surely Rapunzel.

The girl seemed quite startled as Fuu rode closer, clutching a frying pan - frying pan? - and suddenly stepping quickly to one side once she came near.

Coming to a stop, Fuu smiled reassuringly.

"I'm very sorry if I startled you. Are you okay?"

"Oh!" The girl on the moving device was talking to her!

Rapunzel broke into a smile as she stepped closer--she was fixed on the bicycle at first, but as she turned her attention instead to the girl atop it, her smile grew. This girl reminded her of the many people she'd met in Corona. How could she be a part of any schemes? "Yes! I'm fine," she said. "It's just... what is that?" She gestured toward Fuu's bicycle, though it was probably obvious what she meant. "I've never seen anything like it!"

Fuu watched Rapunzel inspect her bike with some confusion. What kind of world was she from that didn't have bikes? But she returned the girl's bright smile - how could she not!

"I'm glad you're all right! And this-" she shrugged slightly and waved her hand in dramatic presentation, "is a bicycle. You should have one at your apartment as well, and you could certainly learn how to ride it!"

Coming out of one of the other doors in the western greens is a young man wearing a kilt. He's carrying a small pot of his own with a congealed mass of something in it that might have, at one time, actually been food. Now it's barely identifiable as such, and the young man is holding it well away from his face as he goes to head towards the small garden next to his townhouse - perhaps meaning to bury the offending item. Or, possibly, to let some of the burnt smell dissipate before trying to figure out what to do with the pot's contents.

Whatever his plans are, they don't seem to include running into a lassie brandishing a frying pan. As he happens to look up and spot Rapunzel, he visibly stops in his tracks, trying not to look too guilty at being caught.

"Er, hello."

Rapunzel stops short when she sees the man coming out of a house like the one she woke up in. He's... he's not too strange-looking, not after some of the people she's met. And the smell of burnt food is evidence enough as to what it is in that pot he's carrying. What is he doing with it...?

But then he catches sight of her, and Rapunzel feels she's on the spot just as much as he does. "Oh, hiii..." she says, the frying pan disappearing as she clasps her hands behind her back. What does she do? Who is he? Is he one of the people that brought her here? He isn't acting like a kidnapper... and it's not even like she can just ask him; even she knows that's a terrible idea.

Her eyes land on the pot. "Is everything all right?"

"Oh, aye, aye," Jamie replies - perhaps a little too quickly. "It was only a wee problem with the cooker."

Or, more accurately, him not paying attention while he was cooking. Serves him right, really, but the lassie doesn't really need to know that. He doesn't recall seeing her here before, and she'll already have enough to try and sort through as it is.

"I thought I might, er, leave the pot outside for a bit. Get rid of the scorched smell." His eyes dart over to where she's placed her hands, and he blinks a little as he catches sight of the braid. Something about that seems...somewhat familiar. Whatever it is, though, it's not coming to him, and he re-focuses, giving her a questioning look instead.

"Ah...is everything all right with ye, lass?"

After nearly two weeks' time, Flynn was beginning to grow accustomed a little to how things worked in Luministi. The main thing he'd supposedly figured out was that there seemed to be nearly no way out.

Despite knowing that, Flynn spent every day prowling as much area as he could of the town looking for some secret entrance -- some hidden portal -- that he might have missed in his first dozen or so searches.

At the time Rapunzel was leaving her town home, Flynn was actually on his way back to his side of town, looking forward to kicking back and dutifully marking off another section of the town searched on the map he'd been working on.

Spotting her, though, he slowed to a stop, head tilting just slightly in disbelief.

"Blondie?"

Surely not. After all this time he had thought that there was no way she would end up in this place with him. What were the odds?

❀ Two Adventures in Two Days [backdated]

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