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Who: Vivi Orunitia

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Where: The Attic
When: Sat Feb 25
Rating: G.. PG for troll swearing
Summary: People (?) with speech impediments go to the Attic
The Story:

Still nervous about heights, Vivi wasn't sure if he really wanted to go to the roof or not. He'd never been up there before... but he never saw how big Wonderland really was. When he got to the set of doors that led to outside and the attic, the black mage wasn't sure which one he was supposed to take.

Having two doors so close to each other seemed a little odd... but after some thinking he reached up and turned the doorknob to the door on the side. The air seemed a little musty... but he made his way in a bit hesitantly; mostly afraid of how high he would be compared to everything else.

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In one of his ever-present bifurcated moods, Sollux was making his way back down from the roof. It was something of a guilty nostalgia to him, the last time he'd been up there was the last time he'd seen Aradia. She hadn't been there this time, of course, because nothing was ever that easy.

He had opened the door to the sound of the door next to him closing. Weird. But everything else was so quiet and surely those stories that lusii told young grubs about ghosts in the attic were false. (Sollux reasoned that A) his lusus was extraordinarily dumb anyway and B) he didn't even have an attic at home)

But he had to know.

He turned the sister door's handle and peered inside. "...Ith thomeone there?"

It sure didn't look like the roof; or even a way to it. There were a lot of things under blankets and a good handful of dust that made the little mage's nose itch. It didn't seem well lit either.

The sound of the door being opened again caused Vivi to turn, brushing one of the covers and sending dust into the air.

"Uhm...I-I'm h-"

His words were cut off with a sneeze.

Sollux backed off immediately, though he kept the door open. The curiosity thing, it was an awful evil disease.

He waited for any future sneezing to happen, for the dust to clear, and until he was able to locate Vivi. Freaking humans. They'd all been so tall that it was almost like second nature now to look up instead of eye level or lower.

"You're having a itthue? Yeah, I could pretty mutch tell."

"I-I can't find the way t-too the roof..."

Though part of him was relieved. He really didn't want to see how people looked from all these floors above the ground, even if he could see what was around the residence. He went to brush some of the old dust off of his jacket before he stopped. It would just get in his face again and make him have another sneezing fit.

He's relieved, at least, that he totally didn't just half-barge into someone's room. It made things easier, less awkward, more okay to have just obtained some form of lulz out of the whole ordeal.

"You're about tuu thtepth tu far, bro." He half-heatedly motioned in the proper direction, that is, next door. "If you're looking for thomeone, thereth no one up there."

Vivi looked around a bit, hoping no one really lived up here. It didn't seem very nice to be sneezing all of the time.

"O-Oh, uhm, thanks... I-I didn't know this room was here before. I wonder what it i-is?"

So. He knew how to get to the roof but he was holding back a little bit. It would be rude to suddenly leave the person he was talking to.

...

He'd talk a little more. To be polite.

"Ith thomeoneth abandoned rethpite block, ithn't it?" Sollux knew nothing of social etiquette, but Vivi had asked a question, so he had tried to answer it.

Technically with another question, so sue him.

"Ackthually," he stepped back into the room while adjusting his shades, "it lookth like a pretty thweet plathe." Specifically his gaze was focused on the sky-high piles of things everywhere. So many things. So many piles.

"I-I guess so... There w-were a lot of things on the beach... maybe it all got put in th-this room."

Though Vivi never actually saw or heard of anyone bringing things upstairs. And it seemed that the piles were there for a good long time.

"Do you think this is, uhm...th-the Queen's stuff?"

"The Queenth? But tthe ithn't queen anymore right, thatth what I heard. Tho ith not really her thhit anymore." He said it matter of factly only because if she's not there, then the loot is up for grabs.

Not that any of this pertained to his immediate interests, but hey.

"..."

He thought for a moment. He hadn't heard much of anything lately about the Queen and if she did disappear... then it would be wrong for people to be claiming her belongings.

"If she comes b-back she might want these things. I-I mean... they might be important t-to her."

"Yeah, I guethh tho." He mused over Vivi's words. "But if thomeone took it and then the queen wanted it back, why not jutht re-abthcond with it? Oh wait, ith that thhit not acktheptable in human thothiety? Fuck."

The mage stayed quiet for a few moments. The other's speech was a little...strange and but some of the words he used once in a while didn't make much sense.

"Uhm... St-Stealing is wrong."

The other must have been talking about taking things. ...Surely.

"It ith?" Sollux shot Vivi a questioning look. It hadn't been what he was talking about, but hey, if he was willing to share free human trivia, he wasn't going to stop him.

"I'll keep that in mind, thankth. Not that any of thith ith relvant tuu my interetth--" Even though he said this, he was still reaching towards a stack of boxes. He touched them and, oh, Vivi, babby, can you dodge quickly?

"...Thhit."

The tilting boxes startled Vivi as he backed up to avoid them, running into another precarious pile and knocking them over. He covered his head as more crashed to the ground and threw dust up everywhere.

Now there were piles upon piles, and all of them at Sollux's feet. Well that was...unfortunate.

"Tiny dude? Are you under there?"

Thankfully the boxes that did fall on him weren't too heavy... If they were loaded up with old books then he'd be in a bit of trouble. He hoped he hadn't broken anything in them.

"Ow... I-I'm--"

He was cut off by a series of sneezes again. So much dust!

"I'm okay." Vivi started to push some of the boxes away from him.

Sollux grimmaced, just slightly. "Thath...good."

Half of him wanted to help. The other half wanted to psionic the fuck out there, because hey, Vivi had no idea who he was and he could make sure to keep it that way.

Halves were a hard thing to choose.

"Here." He started to move boxes. "Damn, where the hell are you?"

"I think I'm a-at the bottom..."

Maybe if he tried to crawl out... well, no. That didn't work out too well with more boxes shifting to get in his way. And his hat was slipping so the mage pulled on the brim of it to keep it on his head.

Logically, it made sense to the troll that the high boxes would trap Vivi to the bottom. And while Sollux was feeling helpful, he wasn't inclined to be that helpful on pure strength alone.

The boxes raised, psychically.

At least some of the weight was finally being moved off of him! Vivi looked up to see his savior and saw...floating boxes.

"..."

He didn't know there was a spell like that.

"Thanks. Y-you can use magic too?"

Sollux hesitated.

"What are you thaying?" He peered under the boxes and down to Vivi's level. Moving them higher just made too much sense.

"That magic ith real? Thith ith mind powerth, dude." Why yes, he had just described something as 'mind powers'.

He crawled out from under the boxes, not sure how long the other could keep them floating there but he wasn't about to find out.

"Y-Yeah, magic is real..." Vivi dusted himself off when he stood back up, being mindful of the boxes. "I use black magic...b-but I haven't heard of m-mind powers before."

"Thyonickth," He corrected, even though he had been the one to say it first. He stood straight again and set the boxes down back in their mountainous stack. Sure they were in front of the door now, but he could always move them again.

"Ith pretty common in low clathh trollth." Sollux shrugged, shoving his hands into his pockets. He didn't want to outwardly appear so, but the whole magic prospect was exciting. Like. Glubbing exciting.

Even if he was sure magic was fake.

"Whathh it like? Picth or it didn't happen."

"Uhm... w-well I use spells...and they happen."

He was a little reluctant on showing anyone any magic. Despite he had fought some monsters Vivi still didn't feel too confident... plus he didn't want to accidentally damage anything in the room.

"I-It's hard to explain."

"Then thhow me. It would make it even and all that thothically acktheptable jathh." Sollux had no idea what anything socially acceptable was. His lies were transparent.

It was all a part of his humor, honestly.

The mage wrung his gloved hands together for a few moments, really not wanting to use a spell. Zidane had told him he was powerful and he could control it but he mostly used it for defense rather than for show.

Maybe if he concentrated really hard to make sure it was a small spell and not a normal one... he should be okay.

"Uhm... I-I'll try. ...F-Fire."

He held his hands apart while his magic gathered and created a small fireball between his gloves.

Sollux was quiet for a moment, adjusting and re-adjusting his shades as he tried to figure out the connection between Vivi and the magically appearing fire.

He came to one conclusion alone.

"Tho magic. Doeth it happen every time you thay the word?"

He shook his head. "Sometimes it w-works and I don't have to say anything. I just kinda, uhm..."

What was the word he wanted to use? Thinking to himself, Vivi extinguished the flames between his hands by letting the spell spend itself out.

"I-I guess if I think about what magic spell I w-want to use... it works."

He nod in understanding. "Eheheh, okay, pretty thweet thhtuff you got there. Color me the imprethhed crayon in the bockth."

The smile was real, oversized teeth flashing and all.

"You don't have magic i-in your world either?"

It still surprised him a bit. Wonderland seemed to be full of magic, even those communication...devices... that Mister Minato showed him how to use. They seemed to use some sort of magic too.

"Na, man," though he did run his tongue over his teeth in thought. "Unlethh thomeonth been holding out on uth. But thereth not a real need for it either."

That troll urge to go through piles was getting to him again, so he shoved it aside in favor of badgering Vivi more. "Doeth everyone in your world have magic? Maybe thath why no one elthe doeth."

"N-Not everyone... But the people who d-do don't always use Black Magic. I can't, uhm... h-heal anyone b-but a friend of mine could."

Vivi looked at his gloved hands. That spell didn't go so badly after all.

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