action; [QUAD] a very unexpected occurrence

[macgyvered.livejournal.com]

[ two and a half months ago, and einiona canning is setting her maths textbook on her chest and closing her eyes for a short rest, expecting to be woken by some passing instructor shouting at her for oversleeping close to curfew or some odd nonsense like that. she closes her eyes on the warm glow of a midday sun.

[ two and a half months later, einiona canning opens her eyes and it's still midday and she is suddenly very aware that something unnatural has just happened, although she can't explain why or what causes her to think this except the color of the sunlight above her face. she doesn't see anything missing, so -

[ it's just a feeling. but it's a bloody pissing persistent one and it won't go away, not for all the repeated attempts at sleeping again einiona makes in the whole wide world.

[ so she begins investigating her surroundings. as you do, when you're a right and truly obnoxious utterly manic welsh problem child from a family of problem children with a marked tendency towards obsessively picking and pulling apart everything you can get your hands on to find out what makes it tick so as to make it all a little less intimidating and upsetting to deal with. nothing immediately leaps out and screams "I AM WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOUR SIGNAL" until ...

[ until einiona looks at the calendar display.

[ and looks.

[ and looks.

[ and looks. ]

... aw, now that's not humanly possible.

[ i'm afraid it is, einiona. you've somehow lost nearly three months' time and you'll have to make up all the homework you've missed for the duration. best come to terms with it; your teachers sure aren't going to be very happy with you for it. ]

((SLEEPING BE BACK TOMORROW))

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[derped.livejournal.com]

[Normally, Rion is trying his best not to do things that get him noticed more than usual. He's embarassed about doing things he frequently wants to do, he's shy, he's flaily, he's... er, he's a bit of a derp.

A lot of a derp.

Anyway. That's not really the point here. The point here is the normally shy little flailderp has just caught sight of Einiona, who has not seen in months and who he likes quite a bit - they connect in a way that he doesn't really with anyone else - not even with Quistis or Minako in those idealized relationships he has in his head.

Screw the fact that everyone is about to probably look at him funny, he bolts across the quad to basically tackle her, because screw what they think right now, he doesn't care, Einiona is back. (Note that he will care about half an hour from now.)]

[macgyvered.livejournal.com]

[ things einiona is somewhat expecting: the sensation of the entire world pinwheeling above her head like she's just been hit by a very large car. (einiona would know. although technically, she was a bit too young to ought to have remembered that bit, she's seen pictures.) things einiona is not expecting: for that sensation to have a real, physical cause, and for that cause to be a tiny derpface the size of rion. einiona fails to see him coming and so they both go tumbling to the ground, einiona yelping and flailing her way down. ]

WHOAWHOAoiiiii wait a minute.

[ blink, blink. headtilt. a wild rion appears?]

You're still here?

[ a smile explodes onto her face. ]

You're still here! Yes!

[ she yanks him tight into a hug - and then gives him the noogying of his life, using her bad arm to crush the life out of him while her good hand expresses her glee at seeing him again with furious, head-rattling joy. sry rion, casual violence is how her family says hello. ]

[derped.livejournal.com]

[Normally, Rion would be trying to figure out how to escape this, how to get out of here because seriously Einiona you know how he normally is with casual violence (not so much a fan) but it's Einiona and for Hyne's sake it does not matter that everyone is looking at them funny because this is taking place in the middle of the Quad.

There is a lot of strength coming from those tiny arms right now, but thankfully all of it is being used up in hugging her and not letting go because it's Einiona and no she's not allowed to leave again (unless it's to go home. if she wants to. NOWHERE ELSE THOUGH.)]

[macgyvered.livejournal.com]

[ she laughs, quick and sharp and glad. ]

You've got more muscles than you look like you do, you know that? Have you been working out since I saw you last?

[monkingaround.livejournal.com]

[Aang is walking around the quad with nothing in particular to do when he sees a girl staring at the calendar. He stops his stroll and looks at her in curiosity.]

What's not?

[macgyvered.livejournal.com]

[ yipe! einiona startles for a second - oh, it's just a small bald kid with an arrow painted on his head. that totally wouldn't have fazed her if she weren't already tense. she gives him a shrug and a sarcastic eye-roll for his curiosity. ]

... ah, I only managed to fall asleep for three months, nothing serious. I'm sure it happens all the time. You know how it is.

[monkingaround.livejournal.com]

Three months? That's nothing! I was asleep for a hundred years once! [He grins proudly, half-bragging, half-joking.]

[macgyvered.livejournal.com]

A hundred years? You're having me on. How'd you do that, then?

[fierybluebird]

You all right there? [Arches eyebrow in passing.]

[macgyvered.livejournal.com]

[ she waves a hand (the bad hand, so it's more like she's waving a half-closed fist). ]

Oh, sure, I deal with things like losing three months of my life all the time, I do, it's nothing.

[ she's doing a passable job of sounding like that might actually be true, too. the sarcasm's barely audible. ... although that may just be that her accent's particularly strong at the moment, silly welsh girl. ]

[fierybluebird]

[Just sighs and tosses her a green tea.]

Really, I should tell this stuff.

Do they know how it happened or are they just saying "Time Compression" and leaving it at that?

[macgyvered.livejournal.com]

[ she whips her other hand - the good one - around to catch it out of the air smoothly, and nods a thank-you, but doesn't open it just yet. ]

No idea if they know it's even happened yet, I haven't. Happened literally - [ she pauses to check her own internal clock off the one in the quad - ] say, five minutes ago, my count.

If anything counts as Time Compression it'd be crunching three months down to a few minutes - or whatever just happened, only reason I clued in anything happened at all was it felt like something did - but I was fuzzy on all that stuff to begin with so you're asking the wrong person. Next time I'll pay better attention.

[heartcorrupt.livejournal.com]

...Um. Are you okay?

[macgyvered.livejournal.com]

[ she shrugs. ]

Mm. Nothing major. Just saw something a bit upsetting, is all.

[heartcorrupt.livejournal.com]

[He gives her a curious look.]

[macgyvered.livejournal.com]

[ she eyes him. sir concerned-a-lot, meet lady poker-face. she's opened up about it to enough people at this point, she's starting to feel pressed in. ]

Not a crime, you know, having a disappointment.

[ready-set-fire.livejournal.com]

[macgyvered.livejournal.com]

[ eeGAH. hello, grumpy scary man. DON'T DO THAT, YOU ... YOU LOOMING PERSON. you LOOMER. as she calms, she rolls her eyes and gives him a weak, only somewhat twitchy smile. ]

... thanks, Mr. Spock. Never heard that before.

[ready-set-fire.livejournal.com]

[redcinemareel]

Unless you're not human~. [Grell being random and practicing his whip movements. Without a whip.]

[macgyvered.livejournal.com]

[ ... righty-o, then. it's a drag queen.

[ that's ... actually, more familiar than it has any right to be, in einiona's opinion. familiar things like drag queens shouldn't exist in a universe so completely unlike her own. it offends the mind's ability to compartmentalize, dammit. ]

That's very twee of you, Nancy. Accurate, but incredibly twee.

[redcinemareel]

[Pauses at the new language.]

...pardon? [Blinks.] Twee?

[zeroth-card.livejournal.com]

[Minato notices the girl staring at the calendar. Normally, he would find nothing peculiar about this, but he has heard rumors about how some of the disappeared people have been popping back in without knowing it, and so he decides to approach her.]

Well, that depends on the human.

[macgyvered.livejournal.com]

Technically, I'm only halfsies, but I'm pretty sure this wasn't included in the package.

[ she says this without turning around, her hands on her hips, still looking at the calendar with something torn between bafflement and rueful appreciation of the by-now-apparent humor value in her situation. she turns a little and glances over her shoulder. ]

Why, what you hearing?

[zeroth-card.livejournal.com]

Well, the latest rumor I've heard is about offworlders who found themselves back home, only to later find themselves back here, and having to make up for the lost time in the previous quarter. That happen to you, or did someone change the days of the week around and that's why you're staring at the calendar?

[He has to admit, that's pretty lame for an attempt at humor, but it looks like she's not too nervous about the time jump - if that's what happened to her.]