System Glitch: In The City

[theextras]

The artificial sun rises in the artificial sky... just like every day in Taxon. For some of the inhabitants, this has been going on long enough to be very routine.

This morning, though, the light shines over quite a few gaps in the city's architecture. There is no Oxford library, no Hedge Maze. A number of the private residences are simply gone, those that people brought with them to Taxon. And the streets are very empty, indeed: no Extras on the sidewalks, no Extras driving cars. No smiling faces in the corner coffee shop. The trams rattle around the city with nary a soul on board. The streets are silent.

But it's not just the Extras who are gone. Most of the familiar faces are, too. The tablets show only a very short list of 'Contacts'-- those few citizens left in the city proper.

Save for a small handful of Taxon's prisoners-- left rattling around like the last pills in a nearly empty bottle-- the city is deserted, and silent as the grave.


[ OOC: The first of two log posts to kick off the event! For reference, these are the characters who are remaining in the city: Azkadellia, Briar Moss, Charles Xavier (AU), Daphne Powell, DG, Drusilla, Eanes, Illyria, James Holmes, Jenna Sommers, Martha Jones, Remus Lupin, and Wyatt Cain. ]

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[hasaheart]

He clamps down on yet another I don't know, reaching over to rub her back soothingly. To and fro, wind wiper motions. "Maybe she can't face the city just yet, the way it is. Didn't she get back to your message this morning?"

[azoftheoz]

Azkadellia leaned back, looking so close to shattering in that moment as she shook her head.

"No. I only heard from you and Remus, though maybe the tablet is malfunctioning. There are others on there I haven't heard from either."

[hasaheart]

"Give her some time," murmurs Wyatt softly. "She loves you very much, don't ever doubt that."

With all the things that had happened almost right before Azkadellia came to Taxon, he can't imagine it's been easy for DG. And now this... Even though they weren't together anymore (or as far as Wyatt had gathered from Glitch's plans on finding his own place - and he found one, alright), it had to be hitting her just as hard that he wasn't here anymore.

"We'll give her some time. In the meantime, you're sticking to me as much as you want, okay?"

[azoftheoz]

"I... I don't doubt that she loves me," she said, only stumbling over the words for a moment. "It's more my fears of how she sees me after how she first saw me when she came back. The same worries I have with Glitch, and with you."

She wouldn't deny that she was worried about the past, and the woman that she had been back then. Despite the reassurances, the fears still held tight to her heart.

"Are you sure," she asked, ducking her head and then glancing up at him. "I don't want to intrude." There was so many things she didn't want to do. Returning to her place was one of them but she would.

[hasaheart]

Nonetheless, it's got to be wearing her down. It's one thing to be brave when you know someone's got your back, but if you don't...

Wyatt gives a small sigh, and Az a nod. "Of course I'm sure. You're always welcome here, just like Glitch and DG. And you'll stay as long as you want, not one second more or less."

[azoftheoz]

How long she wanted. Her. Not anyone else. Not for any reason but her desires. That was almost painfully stunning. He was offering her herself and it was odd and more than a bit scary for someone who could barely remember the last time she'd had such thing - and as a child, they hadn't been entirely her decisions then either.

"I... thank you," she said, blushing lightly and smiling shyly at him. "You're too kind to me, Cain, but I appreciate it. I will find a way to thank you."

[hasaheart]

Well, thinks Wyatt with an answering smile of his own. Offering is the least he can do. Whether the young princess takes him up on it is entirely up to her.

"You already have."