[action] the lobby near the dormitories.

[agt-doubletap.livejournal.com]

[Since arriving and being interviewed, Sollux had spent the entirely of his stay at Balamb Garden curled up in his room. He couldn't sleep - not when he was so wound up and distinctively lacking a recuperacoon. But the outward world was a scary place, and he didn't have very high hopes for it. Despite the fact that his hosts had yet to actually do something terrible to him, it was nigh impossible to put the possibility out of mind.]

[But eventually he goes out, if only to prove to himself that he can and that he's allowed to. He's almost surprised when nobody stops him from leaving the dorms, and once he's to the lobby he's officially out of ideas of what to do with himself. Everyone he's seen is the same, pink skinned alien race he saw in Timber, and he doesn't feel comfortable talking to them. At least not of his own accord.]

[So he finds a slightly concealed area of the lobby and perches himself on it, watching people pass by, and trying to coax himself down from persistent idea that he should be trying to escape. It's not like he actually has anywhere to go.]

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[agt-doubletap.livejournal.com]

[He looks away, almost like he's ashamed of it.]

It's kind of a lowblood thing.

[supbroski.livejournal.com]

[ A light punch to the shoulder. ]

Hey dude, it seems pretty kickin'.

[agt-doubletap.livejournal.com]

[He smiles faintly.]

Not to the natives, apparently.

[supbroski.livejournal.com]

Yeah well, fuck them. Who cares what they think?

[agt-doubletap.livejournal.com]

[He glances at her.]

Not you, I guess.

[A long pause.]

How do you time travel anyway?

[supbroski.livejournal.com]

[ She frowns, and looks down at her hands. Jade knows she could get in trouble for this. Splitting yourself apart can cause serious repercussions, and she hasn't done it since she got here.

Oh well fuck the rules she's already serving detention anyway. ]

Hold up.

[ Pulling out her bass, it's like breathing by now -- the slow machinations of time, changing it slightly so that she's pulled forward or backwards. It's not hard to throw them forward in time an hour or so. She makes a note of where they came from, just in case. No need to waste a good hour. ]

[agt-doubletap.livejournal.com]

[He looks at the bass, obviously not connecting how a string instrument = time travel.]

What are you doing?

[supbroski.livejournal.com]

I'm sending us an hour into the future. [ SHE THINKS. Worst case scenario is that's what happens and there will be two pairs of them until one pair keels over and dies in a horrible, bloody way. ] But you gotta make sure you want it, or we'll make a fucked up timeline.

Ready?

[ Linking her arm through his. She's never done dual time travel before. ]

[agt-doubletap.livejournal.com]

[There is really like, no possible way to be ready for a pronouncement like that, but Sollux is too confused to really argue with her logic. He also doesn't really know the potential costs of making a paradox clone.]

Want...what? Time travel? [He thinks he can do that? At the same time, he flinches kind of awkwardly when she links arms with him. Strangers and physical contact, what even.]

I...guess so.

[Part of him doesn't even believe this is going to work, so what is there too lose.]

[supbroski.livejournal.com]

[ With a bunch of things that Homestuck never really explains very clearly WHAM!! they are standing across the room, but it's approximately an hour and five minutes later as designated by the clock on the wall. ]

That's that, I guess.

[agt-doubletap.livejournal.com]

[uuhhhhh what.]

[He definitely just felt a thing happen. He definitely did feel that.]

...how...?

[No, he's still kind of stunned by this.]

[supbroski.livejournal.com]

Shenanigans.

[ A sure nod. And by the looks of things, they didn't leave themselves behind. This is good! ]