OCTOBER TEST DRIVE

[rubycitymods]

Thinking of apping a character but not sure they'll fit in the city walls?

Have no fear, a meme for you is here.

Directions:

• Use an RNG to choose a location and prompt, or wait for someone else to tag.


• Post with your character with their name and canon on top!


• If you'd like, leave contact info for people to get in contact for plotting and other such shenans.


• Tag around! Make friends. Don't be afraid to chat OOC while tagging.

Locations

1.TRAIN STATION - The place where everyone gets dumped off at. Your first view of Ruby City, complete with informational posters telling you all about where you've ended up.
2. THE BEACH - Lovely year-round, though in the winter months, you're probably not likely to dip your toes in.
3. THE BLACK STALLION - A rather quaint bar. Supposedly, the burgers are great, but you don't see anyone immediately who's willing to serve you. Maybe you're meant to get it yourself.
4. THE OBELISK - The tall monolith in the center of the city marks the gathering place of many events, though right now it seems to be cold and dark.
5. THE CLOCKTOWER - Offering an impressive view of the city, several residents come here to clear their heads, if they don't mind braving the narrow staircase.
6. THE COFFEE JOINT - the front windows are warm and welcoming, and it seems there's always someone friendly enough to fix you a cup when you wander through.
7. THE CATACOMBS - Intrepid, aren't you? Those weird holes may beg exploring, but go too deep and you're going to be in a lot of trouble, considering the viciousness of the creatures held within.
8. THE CITY STREETS - All told, Ruby City is a lovely place, once you get past the fact that several of the buildings look derelict and on the verge of falling down. There's no harm in doing a little sightseeing.
9. THE PARK - You thought it'd be a lovely stroll, but the park is anything but friendly, if those approaching wolf-like creatures are any indication.
10. CHOOSE YOUR OWN - Don't like what we've come up with? Feel like picking your own place? There's a whole host of lovely locations to choose from in the City.


Scenarios


1. NEW ARRIVAL - Step off that train, walk down the street. People usually latch on to newcomers to try and help them out. Even if you look shy, the other residents probably won't be!
2. WATCH TALK - Feeling lost? Disoriented? Don't worry, everyone feels that way on their first day. Fortunately - if the signs at the station are to believed - the watch in your pocket can be used to talk to whoever else might be here.
3. BAD WEATHER - Aw, man. Whether it's snow, or rain, or just plain cold, today was definitely the wrong day to get dumped off in a City in the middle of nowhere.
4. A RUN-IN - Maybe you weren't watching. Maybe they weren't. Either way, you just bumped into someone. Perhaps apologies are in order?
5. HELP, IT HURTS - Clumsy, aren't you? Perhaps wherever the train brought you from wasn't so friendly, or you just tripped and twisted your ankle. Either way, you're in a bit of pain. Hopefully someone will notice your booboos and help patch you up.
6. HUNGRY - It isn't very obvious sometimes that restaurants are what they are, especially in a place like Ruby City. Where can a person go to get a bite to eat around here?
7. MISTAKEN IDENTITY - Hey, there's someone you know! --Or maybe not.
8. BEING FOLLOWED - Maybe you're just being paranoid, or maybe you've got a reason to be afraid. Whatever it is, it feels like there's eyes on you...
9. EVENTS - Feel free to look through our event tag!
10. CHOOSE YOUR OWN - Don't like any of these ideas? Feel free to come up with your own!

Comments

Naomi Mikano / Original Character

[serenesuccessor]

10-2

Don't fall, don't fall, don't fall.

[The mantra is repeated over and over again as a teenage girl steps cautiously backwards, hands outstretched in case the watch decides to fall from where ever it is precariously balanced. There's a beat before she lowers her hands, clearing her throat.

Then she screams. Did she get your attention? She hopes so.

The scream lasts only a few seconds, and when she's done she straightens. She crosses her arms across her chest, trying to act as if she didn't just scream to get everyone's attention like a five year old.]

Hi! 'm Naomi Mikano. I just got here and I wanna just give whoever kidnapped me the heads up. My brother's gonna wreck you when he finds me.

[Because there were no 'if's in this. After the rather childish threat she relaxes, tucking a piece of black hair behind her ear. She was probably a sight to behold there on the radio, with her black and blond hair, floral dress and over sized motorcycle jacket. What might be even more strange is the glittering teal gems seemingly embedded on the back of her hands.

Normally she wore gloves to cover them but she'd taken them off earlier and forgot to put them back on. Whoops.]

So I kinda got the run down on how this all works but I've got a couple questions for the rest of you guys! [She grins then, pointing at the watch.] Who are you? What d'you do for fun? It sounds like we're all stuck in the same boat so let's be friends!

[She lowers her hands then, moving to pick up the watch. Then her eyes widen and she holds it - perhaps - a bit too close to her face]<

Oh! Oh! Also do the names Markel and Serenity mean anythin' to you?

Also is there a craft store?

4-10

[So after a rather dramatic first message to Ruby City Naomi's gotten a bit more information about what's going on. She's also found the craft store.

Early the next day finds her camped out in front of the Obelisk, seemingly engrossed in making woven bracelets. Her eyes, however, flicker up every so often to people watch. The jacket was tossed to the side, seemingly acting as a makeshift back for her supplies and finished bracelets.

She also remembered to pull her fingerless gloves back on.

Come say hi. You might get a bracelet out of it.]

Mikage | Pretear | Potential for spoilers - HUGE

[maid_mikage]

1.1
The young maid stepped off of the train, seeming very confused. This... was not Awayuki town. She had gone to purchase some vegetables that the cook needed for supper, and wound up... here. Wherever here was. She wandered a bit, lost and unsure, not quite leaving the train station as she read the posters.

"I'm sorry?" she said, to the first person who seemed amiable. "I'm a little lost... Can you tell me how to get back to the Awayuki mansion, please?"

9.10 (This will be replied to from another journal.)

The woman looked nothing at all like the timid maid who had arrived the day before. Her long dark purple hair was almost black as it flowed down to her feet. Her long purple gown met it on the surface she was standing on - not the ground. No. The monster was semi-transparent green with lights moving through its gelatinous body. She stood on one of the many protrusions that could generously be called a shoulder. One hand rested on the odd rounded head, the other gestured, long nails dark against pale skin.

"Hear me now, peasants of this so-called Ruby City. You have three choices. Bring the Knights to me, send me home to my own world.... or lose your precious park, and then your lives. I have every intention of destroying my world, and no qualms in the least about using this one as practice!"

Yeah, The Queen of Disaster was TICKED.

I haven't seen Pretear in forever but oh maaaan!!

[serenesuccessor]

Naomi had been exploring the park when she'd first seen the woman and did a double take when she saw that the Queen of Disaster was perched on some sort of semi-transparent monster. It made her mouth drop into a little 'o', her hand moving to tug off one of her fingerless gloves. When she heard the proclamation it only made her double down on the fact she wasn't going to sit by and do nothing.

"Hey! The park has done nothin' to you!" She hollered up at the woman, the teal gem on the back of her uncovered hand glowing faintly. "And like heck 'm gonna let you destroy anythin' so come down from there! We're all stuck in the same boat!"

9.10

[arken7]

"Oh, you'll get far in all that, definitely. With enough skilled warriors in this city to make a one-being assault inadvisable and seven godlike Overseers with powers likely on par with or exceeding your own around, you'll either die repeatedly – since nobody can truly die here outside their own world, they just die and are forcibly revived – or be locked up like the stereotypical evil monstrosity."

Julian, having sensed the danger present about two minutes earlier, was himself apparently ready to fight, though he stood a dozen metres away. His depth-perception-obfuscating vantablack coat wrapped around his torso, his vibroblades (Furor and Ikazuchi) were equipped in their scabbards and The Revolver was at his hip, loaded with its five remaining everything-buster antimatter rounds. His bionic left arm was set to move with inhuman quickness, capable of drawing The Revolver in less than the blink of an eye.

His face was the epitome of nonchalant, his tone almost bored. Concealment of emotion was something he was proficient in – and he'd seen enough outrageous things in his time here to make the monstrosity that the woman rode feel like something he saw last Tuesday.

"Anyway, the only people who have a vested interest in the park, apart from the Overseers who like as not would simply snap their fingers and be done, technically don't. Their manor just ended up here and not elsewhere. If you expect the very people who ended up here the exact same way you did to be helpful when you're calling them peasants, then you're power-drunk."

shin-ah | yona of the dawn

[jingled]

[It's snowing. Just a little bit; not terribly heavily, not enough that Shin-ah is worried. But snow is unfamiliar, as most things are unfamiliar to him. He walks through the falling flakes with an expression of muted curiosity--or at least half of one, given that only his mouth can be seen under his mask.]

[The instinct of play doesn't come naturally to him, so he doesn't stick out his tongue to catch snowflakes. Instead, he holds out one hand palm-up to net a flake as it falls, only to stare perplexed at it as it melts in the palm of his hand.]

[He gives up on it quickly. It's clear that holding snow in his hands is one of those things that, were he not so ignorant, he'd never have even tried.]

[Everywhere is different here. It isn't his caves, nor is it the seaside, nor is it the open plain of his first few years. Something about it is different, although he can't quite put his finger on what. It looks like home but not.]

[He misses his friends, he realizes gradually as he wanders the city. That's strange and new as well; he's never before had friends to miss.]

[The bells dangling off his mask chime as he makes his way to the center of the city. He wanders in and out of shops, considering the goods in total silence. Food fascinates him, but he doesn't attempt to ask for any, assuming no one would give it to him. Books (in the library and the bookshop) worry him; he can't read, so he looks at the spine while being very careful not to touch in case he gets yelled at.]

[the_human]

[There's a guy with a story.

You learn to see it, when you're a top-notch adventurer such as Finn. Some people just have the look of adventure on them, of a story and a quest and maybe a burning need for some heroic assistance. It's like a firefighter being able to suss out which houses burn the quickest; Finn looks at some people and just knows.

Either that, or he's just really interested in the guy with the mask. Who can say? It hardly matters. He catches sight of Shin-ah as he walks through the snow, but it's only when he sees him at the market as well that Finn attempts to make conversation.]

Hey!

[He grins. It's a grin missing a few teeth, but such is life. Finn offers a wave.]

Need help? They don't have any money here, which is super weird. Totally threw me for a loop at first.

Dr. Alphys / Undertale / Spoilers for the pacifist ending

[entrynumber0]

1.1

H...hello?

[ This is...what is this? Where is she?

Just a few minutes ago, she was following Undyne, greeting the surface world, and all the monsters had gone free. Then, she just...woke up? In a train? And now she's...here.
Wherever "here" is. ]

I-i-is anyone there?...

[ She fidgets her claws, cautiously stepping around in the platform. The train is suddenly gone, and there is no way something that big just disappeared without making any noise.

Looking up, she spots one of the posters- it doesn't make her any less confused, but it's...something?]

..."Ruby City"?

[tonic]

[ That's a ...

Dinosaur.

That's a dinosaur and it's talking it's a dinosaur it's a real dinosaur and it's wearing a lab coat is this okay like theoretically if there are helpful muscle ghosts here then she should be fine with all of this by now, right? Nonetheless, Tonika only pokes her head from around the corner, somewhat worried and stuttering her own words. ]

I'm-- I-I-I'm here. I'm here. I'm so sorry you are, though.

[ BE LESS VAGUELY THREATENING? ]

It's not bad to be here! It's just unlucky.

[serenesuccessor]

[Naomi was skipping by the train station when she saw something yellow walking around. At first she'd thought it was someone in a yellow raincoat, a little giggle escaping her as she changed directions. It was probably someone new, right? She may have only been here a short while but she could at least help give them the basics!

So with a smile she walked onto the platform, call out.]

Hey are you- [Of course she stops abruptly when she actually gets a good look at Alphys.

More importantly she stops the moment she realizes that it was not someone in a rain coat. It was a yellow dinosaur.

Naomi screamed.]

hope you don't mind mute Frisk

[childofmercy]

[Frisk came by the train station every week, hoping for Sans to come back, or his mom. Or anyone from home really. Mettaton being there was great, he'd always been fun. Except when he was tying to kill him.That had kind of sucked actually.

The child, once Alphys is spotted, scrambles towards her and is immediately embracing her with a grin. ]

[mttbrandlegs]

[WELL WELL WELL. WELL WELL WELLY WELL WELL WELL.

Isn't it just Alphys' lucky day that Mettaton's out for a walk? It could be perceived as his lucky day, but let's be real. He's a gift to humanity and monsterkind on any given day. It'll always be someone else's pleasure to be graced by his fabulous presence.

Having said that, he definitely lets out an audible gasp and throws a pose in for dramatic flair.]

Goodness, dost mine eye deceive me?! Alphys, darling!!! When did you arrive?!

I apologize that my icons are not the best, paid ran out.

[agathaheterodyne]

Agatha had been trying to figure that out as well. She Had stepped off a train that oddly wad not trying to eat anyone, and then she was here. Wherever here was.

But seeing the small being - clearly a construct of some sort - she felt compelled to offer assistance.

"Hello," Agatha said. Since she, like nearly everyone in her world, was on the taller side, she crouched to be closer to eye level with the construct. "I'm not sure yet either, but I'm hoping to find out. Want to stick together for now?"

Komaru Naegi | Dangan Ronpa (Another Episode) | May contain spoilers for DR3

[hackinggungirl]

5. HELP, IT HURTS

[Komaru had no idea how this had happened, but she was limping through a town she didn't recognize. Her head in daze, she had left the strange train and taken in her surroundings as if in a dream, as she had walked the streets of this empty place, another empty town like the one she had left behind. Well, not fully, as here there were no kids running in the streets, literally poking the dead bodies of their former family members and other adults with sticks, no Monokumas jumping out at her. But also no Toko to speak to.

She had missed her best friend before, of course, but after she had tripped and fallen off some crumbling pavement, not only grazing both her knees on the hard floor, which now were bleeding, but only twisting her right ankle so badly it was now huge, slowly turning black and blue, swollen to twice its usual size. It also was so painful, she could hardly keep moving, having to try and hold onto buildings so she could keep going. She had to, unsure as she was if something may not be there after all, something that would suddenly appear and try to rip her throat out. Komaru was far too used to that possibility by now to ignore it, despite the town's apparent peace and quiet.]

Argh ... uh ... [The sounds escape her, giving just a slight impression of how bad her ankle really is. One foot at a time, she keeps going, though, until finally she reaches a building she sees light inside of. Her knuckles tap onto the glass of one window, hoping that someone's there. Someone who can help her.]

Hello? Excuse me but ... I'm hurt! Can you ... maybe help me?

[Her free hand grips her hacking gun tightly, half-expecting whoever is inside to attack her, as she presses her body against the wall and eyes the entrance to the building suspiciously.]

4. A RUN-IN & 8. BEING FOLLOWED

[Komaru was running for her life. Not that such a description was anything new if one considered the recent events in her still rather short life. But here, in a lovely looking park such as this she had expected to just sit down on a bench and relax for a moment, enjoying the sun on her face and the smell of the trees.

The peaceful moment had come to an abrupt end when the young woman had heard a noise, as if someone - or something - had stepped on some branched that had snapped as a result. Startled and frightened, she hadn't even turned around and instead started running in the direction of the big clocktower she could see in the distance.

Of course, she had not looked where she was running to, having her eyes focused just on her feet to avoid tripping. Of course, this had made her not see that someone was crossing her path. Someone who she had now knocked down along with her, only to find herself sprawled on top of them. Still breathing heavily, both from the running and the embarrassment of the situation, Komaru exclaimed a heartfelt apology.]

I'm sorry! Something was behind me and I didn't look-! Are you okay?

10. CHOOSE YOUR OWN

Got a great idea how your character could meet and interact with Komaru? Great, go for it! Anything goes!

[4./8.] i was bullied into this, hello. [definite dr3 spoils]

[originalscissorsister]

[it is uncommon for touko to pay little attention to her surroundings. she's a naturally wary individual, has been for years; ever since the childhood that left her with her phobias and a splintered personality, she's strained to listen for sounds, scan surroundings, looking for the closest exit points just in case something goes wrong.

not that that had helped her recently. monaka had turned out to be a dead end (one that was now presumably in space. touko hates kids). she'd been no help at all to any of the now-dead future foundation heads, and wow, wasn't that just grand. though, she supposes it wasn't really her job to help any of them.

ha. that's what they get for making her an intern.

it was. something similar to this train of thought that lead touko to be so completely absorbed in herself, when she found herself abruptly shaken. more like, bumped into, by someone who looked annoyingly familiar.]

--K-Komaru!?

[heirdisqualification]

5;

[Okay, so maybe Togami isn't used to visitors, despite the fact that he runs an actual shop that many people come into on a daily basis. Or, rather, perhaps it's more accurate to say that he doesn't get many visitors after-hours, unless it's someone like Fugo bringing him resources.

Even from outside, his groan is audible, and there's the distinct sound of clicking steps on a hardwood floor before he swings the door open, looking rather annoyed.]

Closed. Come back tomorrow.

lapis lazuli | steven universe

[waterwings]

[ one - bad weather ]

[It's pouring outside hard enough that each raindrop feels like a small sting. Give yourself less than a minute outside and there wouldn't be a dry patch on you anywhere. It's a wonder how anyone is outside right now.

Except Lapis. The rain doesn't seem to bother her as she walks down one of the main streets, passing by the shops and cafes at her own leisure. Only... the rain doesn't seem to be reaching her. In fact, she's completely dry as the rain only seems to hit an invisible barrier around her. It's almost eerie.]

[ two - dumpster diving ]

Peridot? Peridot! [The rain seems to have calmed down from earlier and now Lapis is actively searching for anyone she might know. Peridot, she assumes she might find near any of the damp and dark alleys where the trash is left. That seems like a place Periodt might enjoy rummaging through for her meep morp purposes.

Lapis opens a trash can lid and calls out inside, her expression deadpan and eyes half lidded.] Peridot...? Ah.

2

[jingled]

[So . . . this is happening. For a few moments Shin-ah just watches her do her thing. Then he comes a little closer and cranes his neck to peer into the trash can alongside her.]

Who's in there?

one. and HI

[watermelogisty]

[Oh no! He'd just stepped out to get himself some food, and suddenly it was raining! And he doesn't have an umbrella! Oh, what a mess. He's running through the rain, at risk of slipping on the cobblestone, but he just wants to bring his groceries home. He may have also completely forgot that his powers could definitely shield him from the rain. He stops running when he sees something - someone? - very blue coming up the street. They're just very hard not to notice, with most everything being grey and gloomy and-- oh my gosh. He shields his eyes from the rain.] ...Lapis?

Zoey Redbird | House of Night series

[chosenbynyx]

[Train Station/video]

[The young woman that steps off the train looks... well, not quite like normal arrivals. She certainly looks human, her hair is dark and long, Cherokee features, pale skin, and it's all made sharper somehow by a series of sapphire tattoos on her face and neck and shoulders. There are more but her clothes cover the rest. The central tattoo is a filled crescent moon on her forehead.

She holds herself very confidently considering her apparent age, looking like she's still in her teens (and she is) but she looks around curiously. Strange things happen to her, this doesn't freak her out like ending up in the Otherworld did when she got back from pulling her shattered soul back together.

She at least reads the signs in the station before she grabs the watch and opens it up. Hi Ruby City.]

So, uh, hey. I'm Zoey Redbird, high priestess of Nyx. Um... Guess I'm new here and gonna be here awhile. So that means I'm gonna need some help. I have some... kind of unique dietary requirements? So I need really open minded people.

[Park/bad weather]

[Anyone in the park might come up on Zoey there, snow falling but the young woman not wear even a sweater at the moment. Any normal person would be completely frozen and sick at this point. Instead, she's exploring the park and cleaning it up the best a single person can. Sometimes, if someone is particularly observant, they might notice that the wind specifically shifts away from her. Or the snow evaporates entirely before hitting her skin.]

[WILDCARD]

[what it says on the tin, pick your own adventure with this heavily tattooed young woman.]

Re: Zoey Redbird | House of Night [Park]

[arken7]

Afternoon.

[Julian's not exactly a normal person, as the only person from the thirtieth century, though he's one of the most normal people in the city. Living on a planet with a sub-zero average temperature for a year has made cold weather feel almost normal to him, yet he still likes to wear a scarf when it's windy. He's wearing a black leather coat over a pale grey long-sleeve shirt and equally dark jeans, with a wakizashi at his hip that is far more technologically advanced than it appears to be.]

[Every so often, he takes a stroll in the park to be by himself but not too far from everyone else. Today is one such 'every so often' day, so he's as minimally armed as is comfortable for him. It's a different kind of strange sight to see a young woman roughly his age with summer-appropriate clothes on, especially since he knows that she's new here, so he passes by close enough to begin a conversation.]

Would you mind some help?

Terra | Kingdom Hearts (Birth by Sleep)

[earthsmasher]

OPEN LOCATIONS (and scenarios, actually)

The rain is actually... kind of nice.

So nice, this guy can be seen standing right out in the middle of it, head tilted back for a moment as the rain pours down. Maybe this is a ridiculous idea, considering the temperatures have been dropping pretty low around this time of day. But, to be frank, it's not the dumbest thing he's ever done. Right now, he just needs some time to clear his head, and really? This is about the only thing that's come close to doing it, since he arrived on that mysterious train.

Eyes closed, he releases a heavy sigh, and then resumes looking around. It's definitely not every day that he finds himself in a strange place with no way of leaving... but well, he supposes things could be much worse. The way things had been back home...

...Actually, he's going to stop his thoughts right there, and purely focus on figuring out who else is around. So, he might approach you, asking your name, how long you've been here. He'll be traveling from the train station to wherever his feet can carry him. He won't be stopping any time soon, regardless of this downpour -- though, he will be taking time to dry off in any of those places that seem like they might(?) be restaurants(???)...

So. Much. Squeeing. (also a reminder she is VERY AU and CRAU)

[aquawayfinder]

Aqua had been walking in the rain, also appreciating the feel of it, to clear her head. She was back on the emotional swing between feeling hopeful and feeling useless that she had been on ever since Mickey vanished. Her home for kids had exactly one teenager living with her, and no one else. And while she was happy that every other child here had a loving home, it did make her wonder what she had to offer.

She still hadn't found Chassie.

At least she had been able to help Steven when he came back, though what he told her about leaving and coming back was still swirling around in her head. Of course it had company - the memories she got from touching Mickey's Keyblade, and the memories that came when she arrived at the station one day and came face to face with... herself. A version of her that had spent years in the city, who had been loved and useful here.

It wasn't like Aqua to feel sorry for herself, and she did her best not to. But after everything that happened with her kids back at the mansion, then arriving here, after watching her Master die, after being apart from her two friends for so long...

She called in her Keyblade as she walked, holding it up to see the Wayfinder. "Terra, Ven," she whispered, wondering if they had come back yet. If they would go to that mansion and find her gone. What Filks and Master Xavier and Master McCoy would tell them. What they'd be able to tell them.

Her Keyblade vanished, her arm still raised... and she stopped dead. As if her wishing had worked this time, as if it had summoned him somehow... Terra?

Could that actually be Terra? She was staring at his back... but she grew up with that back, she would know him - back or front - anywhere.

Aqua broke into a run, closing the distance between them. He had to be there, it had to be him. Not another trick of the City's. If Terra was here, then Ven was here. They could find a way back home. Together.

"Terra!" she called, happy tears mixing with the rain. Please. Just this once... don't let the city be this cruel. Just this once... let him be real. Let him be here.

Re: Terra | Kingdom Hearts (Birth by Sleep)

[manga_goddess_skuld]

He wasn't the only person out in the rain. Though Skuld's way of moving through it was perhaps a little different. The best thing about this place was the rain, really. Because when the puddles got deep enough....

Skuld popped up out of a puddle and hovered over it a moment, pleased with herself, until she realized just how close she was to someone, someone she didn't know.

Startled, the young goddess stumbled back, no longer floating as she landed on her butt in another puddle, splashing them both. Graceful, Skuld. Really.

"Sorry," she mumbled, getting to her feet. Where appearing through the puddle didn't seem to make her any wetter or dirtier than the rain did, the fall stained the back of her skirt and leggings with mud and dead leaves. Not that she's noticed quite yet.

Re: Terra | Kingdom Hearts (Birth by Sleep)

[believe_it_or_not]

Ivy and Grey had been in England's tea shop to wait out the rain, giving each other a hard time about what they considered to be tea. Grey usually won because the shop served mundane tea. Had they been in Xanth, Ivy would have had it. When the stranger came up to ask them questions she blinked, then gestured to a char, smiling. "Would you like to join us?"

"Uh... yeah." Grey seemed a little bit less enthusiastic, but just a little.

And she isn't in game, but how could I resist? (also, paid ran out so please excuse the odd icons)

[radiant_bloom]

Kairi was running through the rain. Not that she really minded getting wet all that much, but it was wet AND cold, and she could do without the cold. She did slow down some as she passed along side the buildings. She just wanted to get in and warm and dry up. She stopped in the doorway of one building to check her map when he stopped to ask her something.

Kairi pushed some hair behind one ear and smiled up at him. "My name's Kairi," she answered. He looked as cold as she felt. She'd have called in her keyblade if she knew any magic like Riku and Sora did, to warm them both up. She'd offr her umbrella, but she gave it away already, and hadn't replaced it yet.