revenance_rpg | ❆ One ❆ To the Lands of Sunset

Characters: Jack Frost & Very Open
Content: Trek to Twilight Town. Jack decides that an open door is there for a reason and flies straight through without bothering to ask if it's safe or not. Feel free to chase after him. Oh and possible Nightmare fights.
Location: Starting at the Train Station, but exploring so who knows where we end up.
Time: Twilight ~~lol~~
Warnings: None.

Jack had watched the others mess with the keyhole with mild curiosity. Okay, it was a little more than mild because, well, he'd never seen magic keyholes or keyblades before. But it wasn't like he could do much to help, not unless they needed someone cold. The light show had been especially interesting when the keyhole had disappeared and turned into a doorway instead. And while it might have been made of light and magic, Jack knew a door when he saw one. He didn't sit and study it for long though. Instead he got this look on his face, a mischievous look that just spelled trouble. Despite the time they'd spent together, Snowball hadn't quite learned when to anticipate Jack's bouts of trouble-making. Instead she just fluttered by his head and kept her focus on the doorway.

His focus was on it as well. Jack had always been naturally curious and there was just something about the doorway that called to him. Adventure and who knew what else were waiting on the other side. He looked over his shoulder to Snowball, "Race ya!" Snowball squeaked in bafflement as if to ask 'Wait...what Jack what are you doing?' Jack didn't answer though, he just flew towards the door with a trail of frost and snow behind him. Letting out a sharp laugh as he realized he'd completely left everyone in his snowy dust.

Should he have thought this out and possibly waited for someone to explain WHAT the door led to? Probably. But what would have been the fun in that? He was 300 years old and hadn't listened to anyone give him orders in centuries. Why should he start now? Jack was through the doorway before you could say Winter Wonderland and he burst out through the other side...and was promptly nearly blinded by the sudden light of day.

Jack stumbled back in the air, hand going to his eyes to block out the sun for a moment. "Okay, okay, probably should have expected a sun...ow," he muttered, blinking out spots and dropping from his hovering in the air to the cobblestone. Once his eyes adjusted he blinked and looked around, "Woah...where are we?" Snowball tumbled out of the doorway behind him and crashed into his shoulder with an infuriated squeak. Jack chuckled and turned to scoop her up, "You really gotta learn how to keep up, Snowball."

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For all that she'd been around more than long enough to begin to get as used to the place as she was ever likely to be, Granny was still not at all pleased by many of the things that had come up over the course of her stay. Dreams or no, it wasn't right to keep a body hostage without their permission and she'd had about enough of trying to deal with things that didn't make any sort of sense*.

Honestly, the only reason she'd even known to come out to the right district to step from one world into another was because it was the sort of thing that witches were instinctively drawn. She would, of course, insist that she hadn't had any inclination to step through to another world, but she was there all the same. She refused to blink in the sunlight. The sun wouldn't get the better of her here.

*Most of which would have, if she'd found it in her to only ask, but her pride would never have allowed it.

Jack was leaning over the small wall of the balcony outside the train station. His eyes were wide and he was already clearly excited about not only a new world but a huge city to explore. It still wasn't home, but it would at least hold his attention for awhile.

Snowball squeaked at him and headbutted at his neck trying to get his attention. "Woah! easy Snowball," he muttered and turned to see an older woman stepping through the portal behind him. She didn't seem as put off by the transition to sunlight as he had been.

It was then that Jack had a brief moment of worry. What if, by coming to this new world, people could no longer see him? Was this also a sleeping world or had they ended up in a new world that was also awake. No better time than the present to test this theory, "Hey, can you see me?" If a woman as old as this could see him he wouldn't have any problems.

Granny, for her part, was entirely uninterested about the prospect of a new world*. It was bad enough the the place wasn't Lancre, but to go and add a new set of places when she'd barely even gotten used to the one? That was all but intolerable, and had there been anyone worth the time of day, she might have bothered to admit as much to them. Since there very clearly wasn't, she instead turned to focus her attention on the young man standing in front of her**.

"Of course I sees you," she answered, in a tone that implied things would have been Very Wrong if things had been otherwise. She might have been fond of ignoring people when the mood suited her, but that didn't mean should couldn't still see them.

*Not that she considered it to be such, but the feeling was the same regardless. More places to go meant more people, and she'd never been one to take kindly to people.
**And ignoring the frankly ridiculous color of his hair. Honestly, what were some people even thinking?

Jack let out a breath of relief. Good, then he hadn't lost his ability to communicate. Jack relaxes, not at all aware of the old woman's thoughts about him. "Good to know."

He pauses and then turns back to admire the view, "This place sure is beautiful. I've seen a lot of sunsets before, but there's something...different about this one." It didn't seem to change. It was as though the sun was frozen in its position in the sky and usually sunsets didn't last quite so long. Definitely strange but at the same time breathtaking.

It's probably for the best that Jack wasn't aware of Granny's thoughts. She tended to be hard enough to get along with when people had only her words to go on, and there was hardly any reason to only make matters worse besides. Regrettably, she couldn't really be said to share Jack's thoughts on the sunset either. She'd seen far to many sunsets in her life, and for all that this one might not have been inclined to change it was still a sunset.

"It ain't that special," she answered after a moment of consideration.

"You don't think so?" Jack sounded a bit surprised. He wasn't sure if it was this world or the fact the sunset was frozen but the setting sun seemed...bigger somehow too.

It was starting to sound like this old lady had no imagination or maybe she just wasn't easy to please.

It wasn't that Granny didn't have imagination. She had plenty of imagination. She just didn't see any good reason to not call it anything out the ordinary. If the sun didn't set then it was damned certainly not a sun. Just like the moon that wasn't a moon in the other part of the world.

"Ain't much interesting in a sun."

Jack gave the woman a look then just sighed. Some people just didn't appreciate things. He shrugged it off. It's not like he was going to debate the sun with her. "Whatever you say."

"Course it is," Granny answered, without so much as a flicker of concern over the fact of how the comment was meant. She hadn't gotten where she was by caring much about what people thought of her, and she certainly didn't own it to be to be nice. She had Nanny for that*. It wasn't her place to correct people's assumptions either, and so there wasn't any good reason to even so much as consider changing things.

*Except for when she didn't, but that wasn't going to bother her.

❆ One ❆ To the Lands of Sunset

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