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[kickassqueen]

Who: Charlie Bradbury and anyone!
Where: Hopping from place to place so...anywhere floaty.
When: Feb 28th-March 3rd
Rating: pgish? It's just adventure time!
Summary: Charlie finds herself stranded in the library and decides she's going to risk a few jumps.
The Story:

Charlie's not exactly sure how it happens, or when, but it's easy enough to see something's up when she opens the door to leave the library and finds the hallway not where it should be.

Nothing is where it should be. Happy she didn't have her nose stuck in a book, which would have ended with her falling to her ultimate doom, she leans out the door to peer down at the ground.

The ground that's so far down her head starts to spin a little.

Pulling back, she closes her eyes and concentrates on her breathing. "Okay, relax. No biggie, no biggie. I'm just in a free floating library, cut off from everything. Totally normal."

Naturally, she doesn't manage to entirely convince herself of this. Staying put is tempting, it really is, but there's something that pushes her back to the door, standing on the ledge and looking out at the other rooms that seem to suspend in mid air around her.

Managing to keep her calm, a piece of hallway starts to travel by slowly, close enough that she can just step onto it and travel around.

That seems like a lot more fun than just staying put.

And with a deep breath, she takes a leap, landing ungracefully in the hallway with an 'oomf'. Turning around, there's a slightly astonished laugh from her as the library moves in a different direction.

"Okay. I can totally do this." It's short when compared to most pep talks, but she's feeling the excitement of ADVENTURE coming on, and with that starts to travel through whatever pieces are nearby, careful not to get too cocky with her leaps.

Comments

[inmybook]

There's a piece of the ballroom not far from her hallway, and Henry's leaning against one of the walls on it currently with a book tucked under his arm, and his hand on a door that opens to nowhere, just because the handle makes a sturdy grip to hold onto.

"That was really good timing."

He had to raise his voice to be heard, but he seemed more interested than afraid.

"I haven't tried jumping anywhere, yet. I wasn't sure if it would make the pieces flip over."

It's nice to see she didn't fall, at least.

"Do you think we could make pieces move, doing that?"

[kickassqueen]

She spins around at the sound of his voice, looking back at the leap she took and grinning.

"Hey, thanks. I usually have good timing going for me." Sometimes good timing can also lead to terrible things.. "I was wondering about that, too, but everything seems to be the same. Just...floaty!"

She comes a little closer in his direction, still careful to keep a good measure of distance from the edge at any point. "We might. Maybe they kinda work like speedboats, too. Get a big enough fan and face it backwards, maybe we can just sail through space."

It's an interesting mental image and one she's totally willing to try, even if it doesn't work.

[inmybook]

"If only we could find a way to make one. That would be so cool to try."

He looks around the bit of ballroom but there's nothing particularly useful here. Not for making that sort of thing even if he knew how. And no closet to try and get the pieces from.

"I'm looking for my mom. Do you know Emma?"

It's worth a try, at least. A lot of people here do know her.

[kickassqueen]

Charlie wishes for a closet on her floating piece of Wonderland - probably one of many times to come during this adventure of hers.

She has to think on his question for a second, running through the list of names of the people she's met. "Haven't met any Emmas around here yet. Bet it's only a matter of time."

Charlie's pretty determined to meet everyone she can, in case she runs into more characters from books or movies or video games. It's been a trip.

She starts trying to mentally measure the distance between her location and his, feeling hopeful that she can make it. "What's your name?" She asks as a way to keep herself talking while she gives herself a little nudge to jump.

[inmybook]

"She's a really good person. I think you'll like her."

Don't mind him. Emma is just his personal hero. Then again, she is also his mom, so that might be a factor.

He smiles though, keeping well out of the way. He won't be much help if she misses but he will certainly try. It's a bad habit of his. And this whole thing is making his desire to be a Hero flare up. That and it's a lot like a video game itself.

"Henry Swan."

There's another surname in his head. Mills. But it feels a bit distant, like a dream.

[kickassqueen]

She smiles. "I bet I would. Good people are a rare breed, am I right?"

Finally deciding that she can make the leap safely (mostly), she takes a few steps back, rolling her shoulders. "Okay, Henry. I'm gonna chance it, but if I flail around don't grab me. I don't want to pull you down in case I do fall."

Which isn't the most ideal outcome to this jump, but she'd rather he be safe.

Without further ado, she takes a few running steps, leaping through the air a little ungracefully but making it to his side intact. Stumbling a few steps forward, she lifts her arms up in victory.

"Yesss!" She crows before dropping her arms, grinning at him. "Hi. I'm Charlie."