sleepover sleepover SLEEPOVER

[phantasmagorial]

[ With the handful of new Executors awakening after the first batch, Rei's starting to get a little bit dithery. They're getting to be a big group now and while she's more than grateful for the help (and the company), she still finds herself worried about the group's cohesion. After all, Lion had admitted that he'd lashed out when he'd first awakened, Kingslayer and Pariah were at each other's throats and Iris wasn't even sure she wanted to be here at all.

Not that Rei could blame her.

But if they're going to be a team, then they at least need to be civil with each other. And getting in a bit of bonding before they have to go down and potentially double-die couldn't hurt.

So Rei borrows one of the hotel suites – a 'luxury' suite, according to the receptionist but to Rei's eyes, it just looks tacky as all get out. But it's big enough for the whole group and after spending an afternoon dragging in all the blankets she can find (and a few mattresses – thank god there aren't any other actual guests here to complain about her pillaging their rooms), Rei makes one final trip to the conbini to get... pretty much everything she can carry. Alcohol is right out (sorry, wine grandpa) but she brings back bulging bags of sodas, sweet drinks of all kinds and pretty much anything that looks made to be chugged. After that comes everything vaguely snack and candy-like in the store and a few things that might not actually be good to eat, and Rei feels confident in saying she's done.

She'd mentioned to a few of the others that she was having a bit of a get together that night, so all she can really do is wait for them to show up. She's in her pajamas, she's looked up sleepover games in the library and snacks, there's a TV mounted on the wall and she has... never held a sleepover before.

This is gonna turn out just fine. ]

Comments

[schardynfreude]

Good evening to you. [Goodness, she seems nervous. It's honestly kind of refreshing? Too many of these people either lack tact or just want to Cause Problems On Purpose, it seems. He offers up a smile, and a cup of soda.] You're newer, a bit, are you not? Lovely to see our numbers growing.

[doofyissues]

[Iris thinks it's a little weird how nobody ELSE is nervous. What's not intimidating about being dead, having amnesia, AND having to interact with strangers face to face?]

Yeah... I just woke up pretty recently... [Her demeanor is a bit stiffer than usual, just on account of talking to An Adult.]

[schardynfreude]

[Clearly not just an Adult, but like, a Super Adult. At least according to some. And how much fun they poke at an age they don't even know he is!]

Ah...yes, it's quite disorienting. And we all seem so out of place, a few more than a baker's dozen in the midst of the dead that are still blissfully unaware. Surely some time together will help us feel...

[He falters a little for a proper way to put it. None of it seems quite right.]

Well. At the very least, it'll help us all feel a little less alone.

[doofyissues]

It's kinda... hard not to feel alone, I guess... Just because I can't remember any friends I used to have...

[True loneliness is not only having nobody, but remembering nobody you used to have.]

[schardynfreude]

Hopefully that will come back with time. In the meantime...I suppose this lot will have to do for friends.

[doofyissues]

I guess so...

Oh, I'm Iris. I mean, that's my title...

[schardynfreude]

Your Majesty. My title, in lieu of a name. I promise I didn't pick it myself. It's a pleasure to make your acquaintance, Iris. [He gives a little bow, half being polite and half...because...small, and offers his hand. To shake.]