::Open RP - Welcome to the Confusion!::

[hikikomoriways.livejournal.com]

So, the talking hat (which was somehow more intimidating than a talking fridge) had placed Satou in Ravenclaw. The trouble was,he had no idea what that meant, and the bizarre little bug-eyed big-eared creatures he'd seen scuttling around unnerved him too much to try and ask.

He had, however, taken Kurama's promise of free room and board to heart, and a bit of wandering had lead him to the Great Hall, which happened to have a modest buffet laid out. Jackpot! Before anyone could tell him he couldn't, he took a plate and began piling on fish and chips (mostly fish).

That was the board part seen to. Now he needed to sort out the room.

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[hikikomoriways.livejournal.com]

That was a little Misaki-like, and therefore didn't entirely alleviate his suspicions, but it was a beautiful woman speaking kindly to him and Satou was far from immune to such things.

"I feel sorry for him, if he was like me."

[oneof-me.livejournal.com]

"He was similar. He understood clocks, but not humans."

[hikikomoriways.livejournal.com]

"Clocks? Are they difficult? I mean, you look at them and they say what time it is."

[oneof-me.livejournal.com]

"He made them. He was the greatest clockmaker in that world."

[hikikomoriways.livejournal.com]

"Oh..." He got the feeling she didn't mean the sort of clockradio he had in his little apartment. "You mean the kind with gears, that tick?"

[oneof-me.livejournal.com]

"That's right. Of course, he had an advantage in that he wasn't entirely human. He was the son of Time."

[hikikomoriways.livejournal.com]

First there was the guy who claimed to be a country, and now this woman was telling him she knew someone who was the... son of Time? "That doesn't even make sense. How would that work?"

[oneof-me.livejournal.com]

She frowned. "It - can't truly be explained, accurately, in any human language. The easiest way is to say 'the personification of Time'. She fell in love with a mortal."

[hikikomoriways.livejournal.com]

It was still fairly nonsensical, and very much like the guy Satou had met at his sorting. "Is that like the 'personification' of Austria?"

[oneof-me.livejournal.com]

Unity nodded. "Humans always feel a need to imagine concepts like those in their own image."

[hikikomoriways.livejournal.com]

"Wait, how could something imagined have a son?"

[oneof-me.livejournal.com]

"There are - worlds where the boundary between real and unreal things is thinner than in this one." She sighed. "Which, again, is a highly inaccurate way of phrasing it, but it's the best I can do for anyone who can't percieve things in eighteen dimensions."

[hikikomoriways.livejournal.com]

Satou sighed, then laughed. "You must have better drugs than I do, because that didn't make any sense. Where do you get them?"

[oneof-me.livejournal.com]

"It isn't drugs. I - I apologise for not making sense."

[hikikomoriways.livejournal.com]

"It seems like a lot of people here don't."

[oneof-me.livejournal.com]

"This place tends to attract - entities who are somehow unusual."

[hikikomoriways.livejournal.com]

Satou's mouth twisted wryly at that, and he gave a grim chuckle. "I suppose I am an unusually complete failure."

[oneof-me.livejournal.com]

"Complete failure would require you no longer to exist," she pointed out. "I assume that was hyperbole."

[hikikomoriways.livejournal.com]

"No longer existing would be a step up," he groused.

[oneof-me.livejournal.com]

Unity bit her lip slightly, thoughtful. "No, I'm wrong, aren't I? Survival only qualifies as a 'success' if you've never attempted to cease existence. I should have remembered that." The mistake troubled her. She'd been in this body so long...

[hikikomoriways.livejournal.com]

"And you can't die here," he said, remembering having been told that.

[oneof-me.livejournal.com]

A nod. "No one can. And those of us who have cannot remain dead."

[hikikomoriways.livejournal.com]

"That's horrible."

[oneof-me.livejournal.com]

"Yes. Often it is. But I am learning to adjust, I think. Perhaps you will too."

[hikikomoriways.livejournal.com]

"I'm not vvery good at adjusting," he admitted.