Sleepwalking Starlight
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━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━sta 06|eva 07| str 03| wis 09| arc 07| acc 08━━━━━━ Prodigal Astronomy Learner | Wandmaker ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━If anyone was to ask the Ravenclaw why the Astronomy tower was her favourite location in the castle her simple answer would be because astronomy was her favourite subject and well thing ever. Her hoards of star maps and extensive notes were a testament to that. However on a deeper level, she knew it was because it was peaceful. Especially at night. She had spent several nights up here looking at the night sky till dawn. Normally alone but occasionally someone else would join her. Either way, it gave her a minute to pause and just relax.
Perhaps that's why she was back up here again. She just needed a minute of peace. Not from classes. Not from people. But rather, a minute of peace from her own mind. From her nightmares. Her sleep schedule had not improved whatsoever. Neither had her recurring nightmares. Well they had evolved to something new though. No longer did she only her friends being crushed by the acromantulas, she had also begun to find herself drowning in her nightmares. The feeling was so realistic, she had awoken multiple times a night gasping for air.
Now her being up here wasn't exactly the biggest issue. The problem was that she hadn't come here consciously. She had come up to the top of the tower sleepwalking. She had come up here in this state once before, but that time she had left rather quickly. Tonight, she had remained up in the tower. Her eyes were open but hazy. She just stood in the middle of the room staring out into the distance. Did she hear the footsteps of someone approaching? Maybe in the back of her mind she did. But she didn't turn, nor did she react at all. It was as if she was frozen in time, just gazing out to the open grounds.
| INpc: Raphael S. Jourdain | If you feel lost look up at the night sky. The stars will light your path! | Shop!: The Starlight Observatory |
Sleepwalking Starlight
STATS. sta 8; eva 7; str 4; wis 7; arc 6; acc 8x───────────────────────────────────
's grace; Evasive Maneuvers; ability three; ability four; ability five; ability six; ability seven
────────────────────x❝I was good. I was really good.❞x────────────────────
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date; 10/09/26 ──────xABILITIES.I lasted exactly a week and two days before coming back to my old habits. Said "old habits" being walking around the castle at midnight because I can't sleep. Not my fault, though. Every time I closed my eyes, the pictures of certain day danced over my eyelids. My sister fighting a spider. My arm twisted. The fire, the screams, Robin... everything. And when I could finally force those pictures out, new ones replaced them.
The doctors. The exams. What have you done? The scanners. The tests. The panic. What have you done?
What have you done?
So I did what I always did when I couldn't sleep: Walk. Which was a bad idea, considering the fact that the last time I went out for a midnight walk in the castle, I almost lost my sister. But old habits never die, so here I was, taking a well-deserved trip to the Astronomy tower.
Not only because tonight was lovely, but also because this place made me feel... peaceful. More than anywhere else. Stars always made me feel welcome.
That's when I found Fawkes. She was just... standing there. At first I thought "well, she probably couldn't sleep either. It's true, I didn't see her in the room when I walked out". But I remembered that time last week when I studied late at the common room and, when I came back to our room, Fawkes just... wasn't there. And the bags under her eyes during breakfast the next day told me she didn't sleep well. It was easy to recognize a sleepwalker. But now Fawkes was standing on the top of one of the highest towers in the castle so... yeah, no. What if she falls and they blame it on me?
I sighed, massaging the bridge of my nose.
"... Hey there, Fawkes. What's up?"
's grace; Evasive Maneuvers; ability three; ability four; ability five; ability six; ability seven[coded by lauren vanes]
"I was good. I was really good"
| PC: Mikaela Hendricks | Shop: The Hendricks Archives | iNPC: Coming soon |
Sleepwalking Starlight
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━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━sta 06|eva 07| str 03| wis 09| arc 07| acc 08━━━━━━ Prodigal Astronomy Learner | Wandmaker ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━The words were fuzzy. It was as if she had heard her roommate but at the same time she couldn't quite make out what she had said. There was a voice, her own, in the back of her mind telling her to wake up. Someone had called out to her, she should wake up. But.... she didn't..... she just continued to stare off in the distance.
Fawkes could tell she wasn't in her dorm. She knew she was actively sleepwalking. The one perk of her ability to lucid dream was the fact she could tell when she was asleep and when she wasn't. The problem? She knew. She knew and couldn't wake herself up. She was just stuck doing whatever her body or rather her subconscious mind wanted to do. It was terrifying honestly. Being mentally aware about what she was doing but unable to do anything about it.
Perhaps it was the fact Mika had spoken in the first place but Fawkes could feel herself turning around to face the girl. She tried to open her mouth and speak but the only thing she heard was a weird hm? come out from her mouth. It didn't even sound like her. It was this warbled mess. Her eyes still had that same hazy look over them. She just stared at the other Ravenclaw girl in front of her. Maybe some part of her hoped Mikaela would realise what was happening and somehow help her. How? She wasn't sure. But regardless of what she did, Fawkes knew it was too dangerous to remain up here in her current state. In such a state where she had no control over her body.
| INpc: Raphael S. Jourdain | If you feel lost look up at the night sky. The stars will light your path! | Shop!: The Starlight Observatory |
Sleepwalking Starlight
STATS. sta 8; eva 7; str 4; wis 7; arc 6; acc 8x───────────────────────────────────
's grace; Evasive Maneuvers; ability three; ability four; ability five; ability six; ability seven
────────────────────x❝I was good. I was really good.❞x────────────────────
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──────xABILITIES.What worried me the most was not the fact that she was asleep or that she didn't have any intentions to wake up. No, what worried me the most was the fact that she just decided to come to sleep in the Astronomy Tower, out of all places. Truly, wasn't she comfortable at the common room? Normal sleepwalkers just take a walk around the house, they don't go across the whole castle. Such distance was- nevermind. It actually happened.
A shudder traveled down my spine. I definitely needed to stop listening to podcasts until I fell asleep. The habit came back during summer, and true crime ones definitely worked.
I sighed deeply at her sleepy "hm?". Yup, something told me this was going to be a very, very long night.
Slowly, with almost heavy steps, not just because of the tension but also because of the tiredness, I approached her.
"C'mon, Fawkes. Let's go back to bed. Our cats are surely missing us." which was true... for her, surely. Neko, in the other hand, was probably taking the nap of his life and wouldn't care less if I was by his side or not. But in the art of bribery, a girl has to do what's necessary. Deseperate situations usually led to deseperate solutions.
's grace; Evasive Maneuvers; ability three; ability four; ability five; ability six; ability seven[coded by lauren vanes]
"I was good. I was really good"
| PC: Mikaela Hendricks | Shop: The Hendricks Archives | iNPC: Coming soon |
Sleepwalking Starlight
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━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━sta 06|eva 07| str 03| wis 09| arc 07| acc 08━━━━━━ Prodigal Astronomy Learner | Wandmaker ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━As Mikaela started to walk closer, a sense of panic seized Fawkes. Not because her roommate was coming closer but rather because of her body's reaction to her movement. She could feel her body stepping backwards as Mika came closer. Shoot. She knew what was behind her, she had the tower layout memorised after all. She knew she was walking backwards towards the railing.
No no no no no she thought as she noticed herself not stopping. She mentally closed her eyes and yelled in her mind, STOP! She hadn't noticed it, of course she hadn't in her panic, but she had said the word out loud with her voice clear and full of fear. Luckily, her body seemingly listened and did in fact stop, but she could feel her back against the railing.
That seemed to have snapped her out of her sleepwalking though. She tried to lift her hands and her body listened. She was back in control. Awake. And aware of what had almost happened. She slumped down to the floor, her breathing shallow and her heart racing. She had almost fallen off the tower. Her eyes darted around the room, fear clearly visible before she landed back on her roommate. What had she said just before? Something about cats? Yeah... Seren.... What she would give to be cuddling Seren in bed rather than being here.
Seren she mumbled, pulling her legs up to her chest and wrapping her arms around them. She truly was a mess after last year's incidents wasn't she? But to this extent...... Gods she was going to need therapy after all.
| INpc: Raphael S. Jourdain | If you feel lost look up at the night sky. The stars will light your path! | Shop!: The Starlight Observatory |