Room 515, Tuesday Afternoon

[anarchist_queen]

Leda was not hiding. Okay she totally was. Just what and who she was hiding from she didn't particularly know. Just, hiding in general. From the world she supposed.

Spending the weekend as Florida again had been an oddly enjoyable experience. Odd considering it was due to a cursed necklace. But she had liked spending time with Momoko and James and others while in her wee state. It reminded her of happy times with Wolfboy.

But then things had taken a drastic turn for the worse.

So, now she was hiding in her room, huddled on her bed, trying to ignore the ache in her shoulder, which was harder every time she tried to adjust the sling. Which she probably shouldn't be doing anyway.

She was trying to hide from the memories as well, hiding in memories of better times. Making pizza with Momoko, flirting with James and his sword, playing with Jello with Karla, or her reunion with her mother and Mooner.

She even tried thinking of fairly innocuous things like the first time she saw Kurt without his disguise. He'd been so cute, she kind of had a minor crush on him. Which made her think of meeting and flirting with some of the new kids.

But then she'd think of something like learning fencing from James, and the events of the day before would come crashing back down upon her.

[Door is closed, post is open.]

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[squire-hand.livejournal.com]

James knocked on her door. "Leda? You inside?"

(phoneping.hope this works.)

[anarchist-queen.livejournal.com]

She considered not answering,but not for long.

"No!" she called out in a falsely cheery voice. "But come in anyway in case I'm lying."

[squire-hand.livejournal.com]

"I will, whoever you are." He entered, closing the door behind him and resting against it, as if barring the exit.

"You appear to be in here. And alive." He lead with the obvious.

[anarchist-queen.livejournal.com]

"Some might say I earned it." she said, with only a slight trace of bitterness in her tone.

[squire-hand.livejournal.com]

"So have I. And some others, too," he said. Like Helen. Locky.

Anita.

"I have something to tell you," he said, forcing a smile on his face.

[anarchist-queen.livejournal.com]

"Oh yes?" she asked. She appeared outwardly very calm. Which of course meant she was anything but.

[squire-hand.livejournal.com]

"If you get kidnapped again, I'm not going to be happy," he informed her, arms crossed.

[anarchist-queen.livejournal.com]

That made her laugh. "Well we can't have that can we. Thank you, by the way."

[squire-hand.livejournal.com]

"I'm glad you're still here," he said. He moved away from the door, almost in hugging range. "How's the legs?"

[glacial_queen]

After getting Leda's message, Karla headed up to her room. "Kiss kiss," she said, tapping on the door. "Leda? Can I come in?"

She wasn't going to ask if the other female was okay. The message had indicated the answer to that was a solid 'no.'

[anarchist-queen.livejournal.com]

For Karla, Leda would even get out of the bed to open the door for her.

"Thanks for coming." she said, doing so.

[glacial_queen]

"Course I did," Karla said, leaning over to give Leda a hug. "You sounded like you needed me."

[Errands call. I'll be back in a bit, cool?]

[anarchist-queen.livejournal.com]

Leda hugged her back with her good arm, as tightly as she could without aggravating her shoulder. She could only guess what her psychic scent was like. Almost being killed, having a family heirloom cursed against you, and then of course, the killing.

[No prob.]

[glacial_queen]

It was jagged, filled with sharp spikes of pain and fear and grief. "What happened?" she asked, gently guiding Leda over to her bed so she could sit. "Tea. I'm thinking this conversation will need some tea."

Lavender and chamomile, for soothing.

[anarchist-queen.livejournal.com]

"Tea sounds good." Leda nodded. Once she was seated, she tried to gather her thoughts. "I got a package in the mail, a few days ago. That was in it." She pointed to the necklace hanging from her desklamp. "The note said it was a family heirloom. But when I put it on, it turned me into Florida. That's, that was my name when I was little."

[glacial_queen]

Karla nodded, bustling around to set up the tea things. "So it carried around some kind of curse?" she asked.

[anarchist-queen.livejournal.com]

"Which at first wasn't even so bad. I mean I was scared at first, because I didn't know how I'd gotten here, but everyone here was nice. 'Specially James and Momoko. But...it also allowed Crystaviel to control me."

[heromaniac]

Momoko tapped lightly on the door, not really even sure if Leda was wanting company.

[anarchist-queen.livejournal.com]

"Whozit?"

[heromaniac]

Ah! She was in!

"It's Momoko. I came to see how you're doing? May I come in?" She totally understood if not. "If you're sleeping, I can come back later?"

[anarchist-queen.livejournal.com]

"Come on in." Leda said after a moment. She spoke a word in Elvish and the door opened for her. Leda was still somewhat huddled on her bed.

[heromaniac]

"Hey!" Momoko's smile was genuine as she stepped in. "So did they let you leave the clinic or did you sneak out? And just to let you know, I will totally fly you back if they didn't let you go." She pulled a desk chair out to sit on.

[anarchist-queen.livejournal.com]

A ghost of a smile travelled across her face. "No they let me go. They got me pretty much all better except for my shoulder."

[heromaniac]

The smile was good to see!

"Including your arm? That's good! You looked pretty bad;, I'm glad they were able to help so much. How is your shoulder?"

[anarchist-queen.livejournal.com]

"There's uh, still a bit of a hole it it, but not as bad as it was. Said it should be okay in a few weeks."