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Post by Limen on Dec 13, 2016 16:56:09 GMT -7
Aurora was not one to make these things easy, was she? Limen was beginning to suspect the woman broke out in hives every time someone tried to help her. Thankfully the trip to the chair was a short one, and Limen was able to make the trip without accidentally dropping the writhing Panda on her head. Preventing the chair from fleeing the scene with her foot, she set Aurora down in it as gently as she could without fudging it and dropping her at the last moment.
For fear of this legendary retribution, Limen then immediately trotted a couple of steps back. She crouched down in front of Aurora (far enough away to be out of kicking range), chin in hand and eyes suspiciously set on the super, eyebrow raised for good measure. She hadn’t seen how hard exactly Aurora’d hit her head, but she knew from personal experience that that was a bad place to take one’s blows with. This was besides the fact that she had just collapsed, and bodies usually didn’t let that happen without good cause. Limen was going to bet her afternoon that Aurora was going to send that reason through the mental paper shredder and dump the remains in the office bonfire.
“You mean bed, right? After you go and collapse, picking a fight with the bookcase on your way down, that’s the only acceptable place you could have to be. How long has it been since you last slept?”
The bit about getting out was considered, weighed, and soundly rejected. If Aurora was trying to faint next to windows, someone had to make sure none of them were open.
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Post by Aurora Disicio on Dec 13, 2016 17:40:46 GMT -7
Aurora continued thrashing right up until Limen moved away. Even when she was put in the chair, she was still trying to squirm out of Limen's grasp. Once she finally backed away, Aurora folded her arms, narrowed her eyes and huffed. She looked at Limen for a moment considering what she should do. A wave of dizziness came over her again, and that was enough of a distraction that she didn't even want to deal with Limen anymore at this point. Once she steadied herself again, she slowly stood back up and made her way to the door. Her business was inside of the base, not outside, so there was no need to use the window.
"No, I need to go deliver this food. You people keep telling me I need to spend more time with everyone outside of work, and when I do you tell me I need to go to bed. Make up your god damn minds. I'm not due to sleep for a couple more days anyway, I'm not going to back out on a promise because of a minor inconvenience."
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Post by Limen on Dec 13, 2016 22:25:08 GMT -7
“Minor inconvenience.” Limen repeated, laughing to herself. “At this rate, you’re going to make me kidnap you again.” Limen was no stranger to a lack of sleep, but she always made sure to get as much as she needed, assuming luck wasn’t conspiring against her. This sleeping only ever several days thing had been going on for a while now, hadn’t it? No wonder she acted like she was walking around with a fork in her eye.
Limen rose casually up to her feet. “That there’s a fallacy, you spending time with the faction has nothing to do with me telling you to sleep. It’s ‘cause you just collapsed and hit your head.”
Aurora obviously wasn’t listening to her body’s arguments, so her trying to say the same things louder probably wasn’t going to get anyone very far. Perhaps a more pragmatic argument (because ‘because your body is clearly not well and you need that to be alive’ apparently wasn’t good enough) would get her to listen to reason. No reason not to try.
She crossed her arms, frowned, and put her serious voice on. “You are in no condition to address your faction. You can’t afford to show weakness in front of these people, Leader. You know this and you know why. What’re they going to think if it happens again while you’re out there?” The only issue was Aurora was en route for the door, and as that ran counter to her point, Limen picked up a quick pace in an attempt to cut her off and be a roadblock between her and the door. Trying to sound good and official in spite of what jogging did to one's voice, she gave offer number one. “So, now I’m going to implore you to do the reasonable thing and either postpone it or get someone else to host the event, and you should use the time to rest and make sure your furniture hasn’t given you a concussion.”
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Post by Aurora Disicio on Dec 14, 2016 18:23:04 GMT -7
Aurora was mostly tuning out what Limen was saying because it clearly wasn't important at this point, but she did catch the word 'kidnap.' That gave her pause, but she didn't stop moving for the door. Limen moving close to her however, was considered a clear sign of aggression. Even without mentioning kidnapping Aurora would have considered it a clear sign of aggression given what tended to happen every time Limen approached her. She'd been kind in the past, but she wasn't willing to give her the benefit of the doubt anymore. Her aurora moved in front of her and then leapt onto Limen once she stopped moving. Small rocks started forming inside of it to drop all over Limen, and her aurora started to spin so it'd start rubbing up on her skin uncomfortably. Something like that was unlikely to cause any permanent damage, but hopefully it would stop whatever she had planned. Aurora continued towards the door like Limen wasn't even there.
"I'm fine. I'm well aware of my limits and I'm not there yet."
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Post by Limen on Dec 14, 2016 23:25:34 GMT -7
Limen let out a startled yelp as she was pounced on by an aurora tiger. and instinctively raised her arms to cover her face. When rocks started falling, she raised them further to guard the top of her head and crouched down because that was sure to be coordinated falling rocks’ bane.
Aurora was still on course for a bad idea, and Limen had half a mind to ignore possible resulting injury and make a dive to stop her. She could initiate kidnap plan v2; taze her, carry her to her room and bed, and, if the first didn’t knock her out, employ some of that sleeping gas she’d gotten her hands on.
The issue was, last time they knocked Aurora out, everything in her aurora rematerialized and tried to squash them. Not only were they indoors and that was going to make a huge mess, but Aurora presently had a good sum of sweets in her sparkle dust. Knocking Aurora out meant a good lot of cake, ice cream, and various other forms of sugar were going to be splattered over the floors and, since most people seemed to disagree with her stance that floor food was fine food, be wasted. It was an unacceptable fate for perfectly good sugar. If there was going to be any knocking out of Aurora, it was going to have to wait until after she delivered the food.
“Fine, fine, I’ll leave you alone.” She called between being pelted by rocks.
Aurora would see no further opposition in leaving the room. If Limen was lucky, she also wouldn’t see her, after Aurora left and was out of immediate eyesight, retrieve her bag and bow and climb out the window. That was the plan, anyway; scale down the side of the building to the scene of the party, and find a nice high place to settle down in. Her preference was a rafter in some dark corner, but she’d settle for a windowsill. As long as she could keep an eye on Aurora.
Assuming Aurora made it to the room, of course. Though, Limen figured the woman had enough willpower that she would make it there even if she had to drag herself with one arm, so the chances a search party of her would have to brave the halls for the missing leader was thankfully unlikely.
Treats set up and left but devoid of leader for reasons that leader was sleeping was, in Limen’s opinion, still a perfectly fine way to bolster public opinion, but it would also mean Aurora’s various other things that would be easy to spot as a little off would be scattered around the room. So, Limen’s plan boiled down and solidified into ‘find a nice spot, settle down, and if Aurora suddenly collapses again, then initiate smoke bomb, daring swoop, and then swift escape’. She’d have her finger ready on the base’s power supply for added confusion and easier means of a cover story later. Aurora could test these limits of her, Limen could intervene should limits be crossed, and the Pandaemonium mooks could have their cake and eat it too.
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Post by Aurora Disicio on Dec 15, 2016 0:11:25 GMT -7
Aurora didn't believe her for a moment. She expected her to jump out and try something stupid, because Limen always did, so she remained vigilant even while opening the door. Once she was safely through it, and the door was most of the way close, she brought her aurora back to around her feet, and picked up all the rocks that fell to the ground along with it. Even then, she was still suspicious and remained as alert as she could possibly be while she closed the door and made her way down the hall to the cafeteria on the first floor. It was the ideal place to host such an event because it meant the food wouldn't be ground into the carpet and thus hard to clean.
The dizziness wasn't going away. It was difficult to focus, the noise levels were painful, and it was taking most of her energy just to interact with people properly. She at least had the sense to remain seated for the whole thing, and no one seemed to question it. She was using this as a convenient time to eat, and hadn't eaten much earlier in the day. Aurora hoped she was just hungry, but the food didn't seem to be helping that much. Once it was done the cleanup would have to be handled later, there was too much else that needed to be done and she wasn't sure how much longer she could stay awake like this.
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