the barriers in your mind [open]

Asavvi Kouris I'll use you as a warning sign It was difficult at any time for Asavvi to realize that she might not make a decent first impression, and more so at a time when she felt vulnerable. To try and present her usual calm and capable face when she’d apparently just woken up who knows where and had her brain half melted by who knows what was never going to be a realistic possibility but let it never be said that she didn’t damn well try. The kitten was just another item on the list of slightly surreal things that Asavvi wasn’t quite ready to deal with yet and so as it slunk off Asavvi refocused on Edrei. The dark-skinned girl was loud and vibrant in a way that only served to make Asavvi feel a little more unbalanced. When arms reached out she shied away a little on instinct, but that threw her equilibrium backwards and she ended up aving to save herself from tipping straight back but latching her right hand onto the woman’s forearm. Still holding on, Asavvi watched the wild woman speak, expression intent but still wary. Shitsville, bubble, sphere. None of it really made any sense and a long list of follow-up questions were already forming in her mind before Edrei changed tack and tried again. She sucked in a breath at the description, accurate as it was, and tried to feel a little bit consoled at the fact they her situation wasn’t about to sound like the ravings of a madman, but that was hard when the phrase ‘keeping us all in here’ was repeating in her mind like a siren. “Yes!” she exhaled a relieved little sigh and squeezed lightly where her hand still gripped. This served to remind Asavvi that she was still clutching at a stranger and she glanced down a little self-consciously before withdrawing her hand. “Um. Yes, that’s it.” She started again, making a frankly herculean effort to focus on learning how to solve her problem and not on how horrifically fucked she apparently was. Lost and alone and exhausted and worried and without her family or any supplies or a way home “Is--is that something that happens often?” She flicks a wary eye at the edge of the sphere. “What exactly do you mean by bubble? How big is this place?”