[open] suddenly there are clouds all around and the clouds all around her are warm

[likeseggos]

Who: Eleven and you!
Where: Library
When: 11/21
Rating: Probably not more than PG-13 lbr
Summary: Eleven wakes up in Wonderland. It's fine. Everything is fine.
The Story:

[the last thing she remembered was stopping the demogorgon. disintegrating it into nothing … didn't she die? she was so spent, and it took so much of her, she thought that was the only way it could end. but instead of the cold, dark, dampness of the upside down, or simply the nothingness of being dead, she found herself here. wherever here was.

as she takes in her surroundings, she realizes she's surrounded by books. she doesn't really care about books — she can read, sort of, but giving her a proper literary education was never really a priority in hawkin labs. what she does know about books in general though, is that the best ones are big and heavy. and that is why she starts grabbing the lengthier hardcover tomes off the shelf without so much as really glancing at what they are. because in a corner, she's … building a fort out of books??? or at least a sizable small collection. to chuck at people's heads.]

Comments

[needlebearer]

[Arya doesn't spend too much time in the library, especially not since Joel had managed to set her on fire in there. Today however she finds herself particularly bored, and she's searching for some adventure stories to drag back to her room and read. Having spotted something interesting on a higher shelf, she reaches for a thick tome to lay on the floor and use as a step to grab for it, but just as she does so another girl has taken the volume.]

Hey, I was about to use that.

[likeseggos]

[eleven stares at the other girl, frowning. that was ... kind of rude??? the other person who took a book from her asked to borrow it.]

Use?

[needlebearer]

[Arya frowns right back at her, then glances down at the book in her hand.]

Only for a second. I was going to stand on it, I need a little more height for the book I want to get down. You can have it right back.

[likeseggos]

[she looks up at the shelf like she's briefly considering something, but then wordlessly hands arya the book.]

[needlebearer]

[That was ... far easier than she expected. Arya takes the book, running over to a nearby shelf and placing it on the floor, stepping on top of it and rising up on the tips of her toes to grab the volume she'd wanted, before handing it back to Eleven with a small smile.]

There, all done.

[It's only then that she really takes stock of the fort behind the other girl, and she looks pretty impressed.]

Did you build that?

[likeseggos]

[she nods, almost smiling a little. acknowledgment for her accomplishments feels good, who would've thought. she places the book back where it belongs in the structure of her fort. if you could call it that.]

Safe space.

[needlebearer]

It's really good. [She wonders what Evelyn will say when she sees how the books are being used, but it's far better than just leaving them to gather dust in her opinion.] I turned my room into a fort, but that's made of blankets and something called 'cardboard'. Yours is much better.

[likeseggos]

Show me. [she seems ok after all. and forts are cool.]

[needlebearer]

All right. [She's always excited for any chance to show off her makeshift fortress, whose composition still changes daily as she adds another string of lights or partitions off a section in a certain way. The book she'd come for forgotten for the moment, she grabs Eleven by the hand and drags her toward the corridor leading to her room.] I'm Arya, by the way.

[likeseggos]

Eleven. [when they get to arya's room, eleven seems really impressed, okay. she's never seen anything like it before, so to her THIS IS AMAZING.]

It's really good.

[needlebearer]

[Arya grins, far too pleased with herself that other people are impressed by her efforts here.]

Thanks. You can come and visit it any time you want.

[likeseggos]

Okay. [she smiles. did she ... make a friend?? this is so great. NEW FRIENDS.] I will. ... Thank you.