12 Black Feathers [Action]

[first_darkness]

[ It's early in the morning when it happens.

A small area of black appears near the fountain, just floating in the air. As the minutes pass, it slowly grows until it's about ten feet in diameter, even partially consuming the fountain. About ten minutes after it first appears, Saten fades into view in the very middle, appearing almost as if she's asleep. She floats there for about three seconds before abruptly dropping to the ground.

At that, she seems to wake up. She lifts her head after a moment and slowly looks around. It takes several more seconds before she slowly pulls herself to her feet.

She spends a while looking about her, but before too long the fountain catches her attention. Or in particular, the water in the fountain. When you've never seen anything before, fluid dynamics are absolutely fascinating. So despite the fact that everything non-living within a five foot radius of her turns pitch black, she spends the next several hours running her hand through and splashing at the water. After all, she can see it just fine.

She can be found in the vicinity of the fountain for pretty much the rest of the day and well into the night. Saten is more than content with just staying where she is and observing everything around her for a while. She may not be dressed like a New Feather, but she does seem to be acting a lot like one. ]

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[de_bel_survivor]

That's right! [Hm.] How long have you been here, as far as you remember?

[before_my_darkness]

Hm... [ She looks up at the sky, straight to where the sun is. Then she turns and points to where it was earlier in the morning, when it was lower in the sky. ]

The sun was there when I got here.

[ Saori taught her that the sun has a name! ]

[de_bel_survivor]

Since the early morning...which means you got about the whole week until you're back to normal, Saten.

[Here's hoping she can take care of herself in the meantime.]

[before_my_darkness]

[ She laughs. ]

That makes it sound like a really long time. Is it?

[de_bel_survivor]

[He chuckles and grins.]

It does, but if you have something to do in the meantime, time will fly before you know it.

[before_my_darkness]

Okay. So what sort of thing should I do?

[de_bel_survivor]

That depends on you. Is there anything you enjoy doing?

[before_my_darkness]

... I don't know. I just got here.

[ Read: "I just was born" but she doesn't have that concept well-formed yet. ]

[de_bel_survivor]

[She don't know? Well, this is rather familiar. The person might be different, but Kouki had a similiar conversation about this before.]

I guess you'd have to try out some things and see which one you like the best.

[before_my_darkness]

Oh. That's a really good idea!

... What's there to do?

[ She's played with the water, and made clouds... ]

[de_bel_survivor]

Almost anything!

[Which is a very broad range...] But let's try arts and crafts first, since anyone can do them.

[before_my_darkness]

What are those?

[de_bel_survivor]

They're...creative things you can make with your hands. Like drawing or making sculptures.

[before_my_darkness]

[ Except for the part where she can literally make things out of thin air with her hands, whoops. ]

Oh. So like this?

[ She holds her hands out and a small, black, nebulous blob seems to form above them. Only a few seconds later it fades into a shape: it's a little figure of Kouki, a few inches tall, and made out of what seems to be more or less smooth stone. ]

[de_bel_survivor]

[He watch it curiously before his eyes widen a little in surprise.]

Yeah. Something like that! [Whoa, how smooth is it?] Can I hold it?

[before_my_darkness]

Of course!

[ She hands it over to him.

It's very smooth, much like the texture of the fountain, since that's what she modeled it after. There's a few differences, like it being denser and heavier than one would expect because she didn't know the exact properties of what she was copying. But it's very solid and even the wire of his headphones could probably stand up to a few rough knocks. ]

[de_bel_survivor]

[Holding it in his hand, Kouki feel the texture with his fingers. It's as smooth as it looks and solid as well. And heavier than he expected, so he adjusted his hold before giving it a few, light taps with a finger. Then he looks back up at Saten with a smile.]

This is great, Saten! Did you have fun making this?

[It's the most important part of having a hobby.]

[before_my_darkness]

Oh. Hm... I guess so. Should I have?

[ She has a very tenuous grasp on how "fun" works... ]

[de_bel_survivor]

Well, hobbies are meant to be fun to do. That's why people do them! [Yeah.] When you make it, do you feel like you like doing it?

[before_my_darkness]

... I'm not really sure. I just make it.

[ Creation god is confused about creating. ]

[de_bel_survivor]

You just do... [Like the same way people can just breathe?] And just that?

[before_my_darkness]

I think so. It wasn't hard. Or anything like that. I just wanted to make it so I did.

[de_bel_survivor]

I'm kinda jealous. I don't know how to do something like that. [Yet? There's still some things he haven't completely tapped from the Bels he absorbed.] Should I take it it's something specific to you?

[before_my_darkness]

Hmm... I don't know. I can't really answer that if I don't know about other people. I've met a few already. But I think there's still a lot more here!

[de_bel_survivor]

Well, you don't need to find the answer immediately. Beside, you can try meeting other people here and get to know them. Some of them might even be your new friends!