Third Floor

As if on que, Sugar and Velvet popped their little fuzzy heads up and mewed. "Yes, this one is Sugar," the white one hopped down from her perch and padded up to Ari, craning her neck so her face was straight up, then mewed at Arabella cutely. She could smell another cat's scent on the girl and Lanuya suspected it belonged to Toulouse. "And then that one is Velvet." The black kitten with the white mark on his forehead yawned lazily but mewed a cute little greeting at the newcomer. He wasn't as interested in her as he was in a nice cat nap, fitting as Velvet was sleepy most every waking moment.

Lanuya smiled and walked over, taking a 5 lb bag of cat food. She had packed two in case she wouldn't be able to go shopping for more, but that didn't seem to be a problem. Standing with the bag, Lanuya petted Velvet's head, who purred in response, before she walked back over and handed the bag to Arabella. "There you go Ari!" Lanuya smiled, "I don't know what size portion Toulouse gets for his meals but this should tidy him over of at least a week if not more." Sugar purred, rubbing against Arabella's leg, obviously the more active and friendly of the kittens.

Lanuya gave a reassuring smile. "You will fulfill it well enough. If you couldn't they wouldn't have chosen you now would they?" she pointed out wisely. Then, seeing that there was not more benefit for her to be in the room, Lanuya quietly fled with her kittens in her arms. "Come on you two," she said softly, "I don't want to be there if fight breaks out and I don't want to give them a reason the fight." Sugar and Velvet mewed, soft and sad, as if to agree with her. As the three quickly snuck up the steps towards the room Velvet suddenly jumped down and mewed for Lanuya to follow. As he and Sugar had discussed earlier, Lanuya had had a room change. Following her kittens, Lanuya found her new room and opened the door. She gasped in total shock.

The room was... perfect. It was very large with a queen sized bed and a grand piano. The two walls facing the outside were glass so she could see the entire, beautiful backyard and forest area. The floor was soft white carpet and against the non-glass wall facing the hallway there was a cat castle for her kittens. A small bathroom was tucked, hidden in the corner of the room but though it looked puny from the outside the inside was very large. Instead of a shower head there was a glass water way that water flowed through the same way it would in a normal shower. Mirror alined the walls on the inside and on the outside the walls hiding the bathroom were white. 

The most astonishing thing was: almost everything was made of glass, and I'd it was not glass it was of the purest white. The bed was glass with white sheets, pillows and a thick white blanket with lacy white drape hanging over and foldin around like the canopy of a royal blooded woman. A glass dresser stood against the wall already with her clothes insides, folded neatly away The cushion on the chair in front of the glass grand piano was white and instead of the instruments Lanuya had brought, there were more expensive ones made of pale white wood (for the wood instruments) or white gold (for the metal instruments). Suffice to say; Lanuya was in complete awe as she walked in and closed the door behind her. Velvet and Sugar ran inside and to the castle immediately.

Closing the door quietly behind her Lanuya entered cautiously, unable to believe that this was all real. It was all so beautiful and perfect- she couldn't have possibly imagened anything as serine! Going to the window Lanuya peered out, gazing at the forest and well-kept yard with a smile. It looked so very peaceful. Speaking of peaceful... Lanuya walked over the the glass piano and sat on the plush white cusion. Running her fingers lightly over the keys she found they had been swept clean, completely free of dust. Tapping the keys soft notes resounded in the room, echoeing momentartally before fading away once again into silence. Lanuya played her scales and listened until each note had faded before alcing her hands in the right position and playing.

The song was sweet and sad, having ups and downs to represent challanges, depressions, victories from beginning to end. It's title was so fitting no one could rebuke it; "Another Summer". As she played everything fell together in a beautiful harmony, captivating the ears of those in the room of those near enough to hear. The song was as cold as ice though as Lanuya played it and a chill that came not from the piano filled the house. This was the song of total and utter loss.

After she finished the remaining chords rebounded in the room, creating a mystical effect one could only achieve from the right circumstances and years of practice. Lanuyas sat back and listened as her music fades away into the silence that overtook her room. Suagr and Velvet lay on the top floor of the kitty castle, gazing at their friend through seperate peep holes. No one moved until finally, after the last note had died, Lanuya sat back and sighed, realizing the whole time she had been holding her breath. "Un autre été..." she whispered, "Comment le raccord." Noticing now goosebumps had overtake her skin Lanuya quickly dawned a jacket. There was a sense of panic, loss and absolute cold that filled the house as if someone had turned the AC way up.

"Stay here," Lanuya told her kittens before going to the door. She could feel pain in all the other's thoughts, and in the very center of it all it felt as if some one's mind was a soild block of ice, only the barest spark of life hidden deep in the frozen core. 'What is going on?' Lanuya thought her herself, exiting the room and going towards the source.

Lanuya, once stepping out the door and walking a few steps, found herself face to face with David. She feinted a smile but tugged her light coat a little more snug around her body. The temperate inside the house was dropping rapidly. What was happening? "G-Good. M-Maybe a w-warm peice of bread will warm m-me up." Lanuya said, her teeth chattering. Few knew this but Lanuya was easily affected by the cold, preferring warmth over any other temperature. That was why, back home, she kept the thermostat in her room on high. She had packet mostly for the summer so was could off guard by the sudden drop in tempture. "Maybe w-we could eat it o-o-outside." Lanuya commented, shivering as she hugged her coat closer.

((I'm so sorry for the extra day- there was an error in my vacation plans and I was a day or so off. But at least now I'm back!))

Lanuya shifted slightly in her sleep until her sleepy golden eyes opened. Her room was dark and quiet, faint noises coming from outside her bedroom somewhere else in the house. 'Ugh, how long was I asleep?' Lanuya wondered, rubbing her eyes as she sat up, the silky white nightdress pooling like liquid pearls around her as her body shifted position. Taking a peak at the small white clock on her nightstand Lanuya was ataken back at how much she had slept. Moaning softly as she placed the palm of her right hand against her forehead she knew she had be asleep for waaaaay too long. The others might have gotten worried about her for she had been asleep for so very long. Lanuya yawned again, stretching as she slipped out of her bed and murmured "Jet lag... my goodness..." as she slowly stumbled to the closet. The feel of sleep was still very heavy on her eyes as it would be for a few more days but at least they wouldn't be as bad as this. Undressing listlessly she changed into a simple outfit with a faint pink blouse and a white skirt that brushed her knees ina flowing manor. It was quite pretty, Lanuya thought loosely as she brushed her long blonde hair and tossed it over her shoulders. Blinking a few more times she went to her door and exited her room without even putting shoes on; looking somewhat like a sleepy little angel.

Lanuya was fast asleep the moment after her words left her mouth. Already her dreams that replayed the day's events were slipping away from her and vaguely she knew that, like her dreams, her memories were fading from her grasp. 'Just like before...' Lanuya recognized as she slept, feeling the familiarity of her own bed though unable to wake form her comatose state. Maybe- just maybe, when she woke up, Lanuya would ask David or Samil what had happened. As the dreams began to end and the faint traces of recognition with them, Lanuya remembered David's promise, and how heartbreaking it had been for him to make it. She recalled Samil taking off into the sky and out of view, and the want to reach out and ask if he would be okay. If eigther of them would be okay. A strange little thought formed in Lanuya's head: if she wasn't there, Samil and David's lives would be a lot easier. Maybe if she wasn't there... Lanuya's simple train of thoughts vanished as her mind shut down to recuperate after the day's events.

Lanuya shifted in her sleep, uncomfortable by the sudden spark of power. Oddly, though the power was intense, there were no thoughts coming from it and therefore it did not bother her greatly. Still Lanuya woke, rubbing her eyes free of sleep. Sugar and Velvet sat on the end of the bed, watching her. "What... What hapened?" Lanuya asked, all memories of the previous' day's event gone and irretrevable. The two kittens only looked at her with a lingering sadness they always seemed to have when Lanuya woke from a deep sleep. "Okay, well, if you won't tell me when happened can you at least tell me what power that woke me is coming from?" This time her kittens truely did not know. There had never been a great power before that had not affected Lanuya's thoughts, which was strange because for power one had to be alive and thinking. This did not appear to meet those conditions... 'How odd,' Lanuya thought as she dressed from her swimsuit (why had she been wearing a swimsuit?) to a more comfortable outfit. It was a simple dress made with a soft, pink colored fabric that reached about to her knees with a gold ribbon that she tied around her waist, as well as an additional gold ribbon she used to put her hair in a ponytail. Onced dressed she scooped up her two kittens and walked out of her room, curious as to what kind of power was so strong but had no negative effect on her.

Lanuya smiled weakly, murmuring a soft "thank you" before she turned, scooped up her two kittens, and ran like the devil was on her heels. She was truely sorry, she had tried to make it right, and she had no desire to stick around incase a fight broke out between the other. In fact, all she wanted to do right now was lock herself in her room and cry her eyeballs out. Yes she was forgiven, which was a huge relief, but it was dawning on her how much danger she had put the others in, just because she wanted a break from hearing everyone else's thoughts. She was a selfish, thoughtless, heartless jerk-off who deserved to cry her black heart out. But she wouldn't do that because it was shameful to cry, so instead she would play herself some music to calm down. And that's exactly what she did. Reatching her room, Lanuya slammed the door and locked it behind her. Samil's wings would hold up until this time tomorrow, so she didn't need to be there. Slowing herself down, Lanuya gently placed her kittens on the bed before flopping onto it herself. Grabbing a pillow she heaved a sob into it. Maybe she would cry, just a little. Once that was over and Lanuya had composed herself she went to the chair where her cello rested and sat, touching the instrument with tenderness. Picking up the bow delicately, she rosined the fine hair of the bow and ran it over the strings a few times, tuning the cello as her kittens watched, sadness in their gemed eyes. Oh yes, they all knew, this would be a song of sorrow, rage and the emotions Lanuya could not express with her words.

((Song: "Variations upon Sakura"))

Lanuya set down her bow after loosening the horsehair and placed the cello back against the wall. She took a deep breath and held it for a short time before letting it out slowly. She felt alright now, and was glad to have gotten rid of her negative emotions. There was already enough of that from the world outside her door and she did not want/need to contribute to that bitterness. Making her mind unlck the door Lanuya looked down at her body, claddly dressed in black. Lanuya's face turned pink an she remembered she had been wearing this... lingerie dress. "O-Oh dear, I should c-change out o-o-of this!" she stuttered, embarrested though it was only her kittens in the room. Quickly taking the dress off, not eager to wear it for another moment, Lanuya walked to the chest-of-drawers to find something more modest to wear. She remained unaware that Samil was at her door or that anything was going on outside of her room because of the sheild David had cast over her doors and windows in addition to Lanuya's own personal sheild: preventing most thoughts, sounds and emotions from getting in.

((New plot idea- Zach, Kyren; do you want to hear it?))