[log] Event: Lavender's Green, Part Two [open]

[snowblindmods]

Characters: everyone
Location: mysterious, white hallways
Date: Day 193-194
Summary: Find friends. Get lost. Don't look.
Warnings: Potential for gore and psychological horror. Please note any specific warnings in your subject lines!

While confusingly similar, the area is split into a few different sections:

The Core
The hallways here are narrow and twist at a rapid rate. With how dazzlingly white everything is, it's easy to not realize you're coming on a turn and slam right into the walls. There are no rooms here--no one starts here, though they may find it while they wander. At the center is a large, round area, like the center of a spiral. There's a lot of air pressure here.

The Inner Hallways
The largest area, filled with dead ends, gentle slopes and twists, and, occasionally, difficult-to-see drops where a higher hallway intersects with a lower one without a wall to separate them. The whole place tastes vaguely like blood. Most rooms are here--most people start here.

The Outer Hallways
The outer ring of the ball of yarn. It's not as thick with halls and twists as the other two areas, leading to a lot more boring walking in one direction. It's totally possible to circle around the same path multiple times without realizing it, as everything is so similar here. Occasionally, footsteps can be heard just outside the farthest walls. Sometimes, something breathes. There are a few rooms here--some people will start here.


Remember to note what kind of eyes your character has in their top level!

Comments

[peacemongering]

[He didn't pause in navigating further into the maze, keeping one elbow out so that he was in constant contact with the wall. One nasty surprise was enough for the time being.]

No need, Miss Romanov, I already know plenty about you. Your offer is kind though.

[redrooms]

[Natasha smiles, something mocking about the expression.]

Oh, do tell.

[advanced]

No, don't.

[It comes out as an order.

He doesn't want Pierce to start talking, because he knows the Soldier and Natasha have a far different history where they're from to where Natasha is from.]

[peacemongering]

[Pierce turned his head so that he could watch the Soldier in particular between sips of water. That was some outburst.]

It appears your interest has been vetoed. A shame.

[redrooms]

Unfortunate.

[She fights the urge to shoot a look at Bucky. Better to appear as a well oiled team than at odds, but she's annoyed he doesn't trust her.]

This is shaping up to be a very quiet walk.

[advanced]

[He trusts her, he doesn't trust Pierce. At all.]

You don't want to hear anything he has to say, Natasha, it's all lies.

[peacemongering]

[Oh, this was just too easy now. It would have been better if they were all quiet after all, but the Soldier just had to call him a liar, so he would definitely speak a lie now.]

Well, why should I go against the wishes of someone with so much autonomy? [He flicked his eyes at the Soldier and then tucked away his water so that he could swing his pack onto his back again, still walking.]

[redrooms]

[It's such a toothless dig that Natasha rolls her eyes.]

Oh, please.

[advanced]

[He grits his teeth, but it's a pretty cheap dig at him, so he doesn't rise to it. Much.]

You're not making us want to listen to you.

[peacemongering]

[He raised an eyebrow and bumped into a nearly hidden corner. He arranged himself by feel of the wall and continued towards what he assumed would be an intersection.]

Considering your previous orders not to listen to me, it's obvious you don't want to. So contradictory.

[redrooms]

He's baiting you. If he pushes you into doing something angry and impulsive, he has the upper hand. He can tell the entire town that the dangerous Winter Soldier hurt a poor, defenseless old man and I was right here and did nothing to stop it, or he can goad me into trying to keep him safe to prevent it, and then he can run. It's transparent. Don't fall for it.

[advanced]

[He tilts his head to look at Natasha properly then, a little gratitude for her stability in his eyes even if he doesn't say it.]

I won't.

[And then he will, later.]

[peacemongering]

[So much for conversation. It was a pointless waste of words at present, and he was far more intent on reaching the center of the maze than whatever was going on behind him. He was only stating the obvious after all.]

[redrooms]

Good.

[And then, more quietly:]

Be smarter than him. It shouldn't be much of a challenge.

[advanced]

[He almost... almost... gives the ghost of a smile, but he just can't reach that level of levity with Pierce there.]

You can ring hoops around us both.

[peacemongering]

[Time would tell how smart the Soldier would as far as he was concerned. He wasn't intimidated by their little show as it was, and he simply carried on as if travelling on his own.]

[redrooms]

Flatterer.

[She pitches her voice low again, mostly a whisper.]

Don't let him have any power over you.

[advanced]

[Everything Pierce does, from his nonchalant manner to his very presence, gets under Bucky's skin in a way that only one other person ever could. Perhaps even as much as Steve, just in a very different way.

His own voice lowers in return.]

It's not that easy, a part of me still--

[No, he can't voice it, it's too disgusting.]

[redrooms]

[She brushes her arm against his briefly.]

Still what?

[advanced]

[He doesn't shy away from her touch for once, though his voice does drop so low that it's almost inaudible.]

Still feels like I should obey him.

[redrooms]

But you know that's not true.

[advanced]

Yeah.

[Of course he knows it, it's what makes the feeling that he should obey all the more terrifying.]

[redrooms]

You are far stronger than he is, Bucky.

[advanced]

[He blinks in surprise, before gratitude floods his face.]

I'll keep trying to be.