So Familiar a Gleam: Conclusion

[voidtreckermods]

Time to leave!

There is not much of the city left, but the park is holding together as those anchoring help those who are not voidtreckers through back to where they belong. Monsters continue to attack and a little further out there is a battle of hearts and minds being fought with the mass of colours and chaos.

Eventually, after the bulk of citizens had been evacuated everyone with SCA's on would hear Jin-Roh's voice after a few frantic beeps, as Chiff aligned everyone's SCA's. "We are almost done here, if you are with anyone not tethered to a voidcraft get them to the evacuation point, as quickly as possible."

Anan pulls out of the anchoring point to call out to any defenders in the park. "Come on! Anyone who isn't a voidtrecker! It's time to go."

Luckily those off fighting the entity headed the message and made their way to the park as Jin Roh spoke again.

"Everyone else get ready. When we call it you need to leave. If you don't have your SCA on then get to someone who does."

As the last people rushed to the park Anan calls out again, through her SCA and outloud to the park. "You need to unanchor, before you can evacuate. Everyone be ready."

She goes in again though, because there are some last people, those from the large battle, getting through as another message was called.

"Almost there. Be ready. On my command..."

Anan unanchored again. "Quick everyone unanchor."

"NOW" Jin Roh's voice came through strong on their SCA's. Hopefully those with SCA's would grab those without.

There is some outside help as well, the train pulls anyone who is unconscious or still under the entity's control, forcibly evacuating them. This includes Wei Wuxian, Lan Wangji and Zagreus.

Luggage Carriage

There has been a mass evacuation before and that was crazy enough but since then the population of the train has almost doubled and now it is an extremely tight squeeze as everyone crashes into the luggage carriage at the same time.

The train jerks and rolls as they enter into the void at breakneck speed and again as they seem to slow, rather than speeding off though the void.

There's a crackling from their SCA's. "Voidtreckers? Voidtreckers come in!" Anan's voice. "Please tell me you made it..."

There's only a few moments of signal and soon they are flying though the void again, away from the strange non-world, the entity sealed for now. To new adventures, but first hopefully some time to recover from all that has happened.

Comments

[nell_of_soulwood]

"... we'uns could do a lot of stretching afterwards?"

She wouldn't really sleep like that. Nell wasn't built to lie around doing nothing. She'd be up and cleaning in no time.

[weifinder]

That had him laugh again, and he grinned, looking sidelong at her.

"Stretching is a good idea." Wei Wuxian, who stretched all the time, particularly if it was going to antagonise someone being rude or self-important. He was also not a man for long bed rests, but having to take them was a matter of course when so severely injured or exhausted he'd had days of sleeping through unaware of the world around him. This exhaustion was deep, but at least he didn't think there was a risk of that kind of slumber.

"Could coordinate everyone to stretch together over the panels for speaking on train, ah?"

[nell_of_soulwood]

Nell looked at him skeptically. "It's been a long time since I've lived with anyone else, but I'm not sure organizing mass stretching would make us very well thought of."

A sudden yawn caught her off guard. "Maybe we should find our way to our rooms. Though... it might be easier to sleep right here."

[weifinder]

"Think of how limber everyone'd feel!" He grinned, nonplussed and amused at his own suggestion rather than particularly serious. Her yawn sparked another in him, like they were contagious and passed down the line, tired person to tired person.

Rubbing his hand over his eyes, he sighed. "Easier, yes, but wiser? The train will leave us in our proper beds come 'night.' May as well take ourselves there to not suffer through feeling stranger for waking up where we didn't go to sleep. I can lend a shoulder, ah?"

Two tired people heading off to their own rooms for an indeterminate amount of sleep.

[nell_of_soulwood]

"True," Nell said and began the process of getting down from the suitcases where she'd been resting. "No need to make things feel any stranger than they already do... Wei-qianbei?"

She tried out the name carefully, with a glance up at him to see if it was still all right, and a smile.

[weifinder]

He smiled in turn, nodding his head to her as encouragement. Her effort was appreciated, and it was familiar, unlike enough of what they dealt with on the train.

"Right, Nellnell. Which, if you prefer me to call you another way... Just let this Old Man know, ah?"

[nell_of_soulwood]

She ducked her head a little. "I kinda got used to Nellnell," she admitted. "It's different, but it reminds me of good things."

She still remembered some of the fake memories. They'd faded and she knew that weren't exactly real, but they were a little comforting in this strange place.

[weifinder]

He smiled, nodding his head to her with less depth than earlier, the exhaustion continuing to settle in deep. "Those are the things worth remembering," he said. "The good ones. Nellnell it is, ah? Until you decide otherwise."

He gestured forward, invitation for their slow progress into the sleeper carriages, to their eventual bunks. "And good rest to both of us, I think."

[nell_of_soulwood]

She nodded and continued her sleepily slow progress towards the carriage where she would be able to crawl into bed and sleep. "Yes. Good rest. Lots of good rest."