"Road! Stop! What are you doing!"
A man of dark skin bellowed, banging on a wall that was invisible to the naked, human eye. On the other side of this 'wall' stood a girl, who looked no older than fifteen of the same dark skin and amber eyes. The girl stood with her hands splayed out before her, a holographic display before her fingertips that she tapped away at quickly. There was a desperation in her actions, probably in at least some correlation to the explosions that could be heard in the distance.
"Road, if you disable the Ark, our family is done for! Noah will never rise again!"
That was why she had to do this. Why the Ark had to be disabled. The Earl was dead, and the family was done for. Up to this point, the girl's eyes had been cold and hardened, but in this instant, they softened and she turned to look at the man on the other side of the 'wall'.
"Uncle Tyki... I can't. In this World... the Noah are doomed. The Akuma are gone, and the Church killed the Earl! If I don't run..."
No... she didn't need to explain. This Tyki would die, just like the Earl and the rest of her family - but in another world, another Tyki lived, and she was there too. With him. She couldn't stay here. Her finger suddenly struck the holographic pad one more to with a decisive motion and corresponding tone before vanishing. In response, the man outside slide to his knees. Road's heart dropped and she turned away. This world was dying, the part that mattered to her anyway, and she didn't want to be there when it did... she had to escape. Tyki was screaming something again, but she didn't hear it. She chose not to. Instead, a Door opened before her - an ivory gateway that spewed light accented by a macabre black border that looked much like a Victorian doorway.
Then she was gone in a burst of butterflies, that held no physical shape but seemed to suck in the surrounding light.
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In the same, and notably different from those who had appeared before her, the girl appeared. The macabre doorway appeared in a burst of light and a shower of anti-matter butterflies and in what had been a mere moment to the Noah, she walked into the caged room with the other. The Door did not dissipate as it had in the other world, in this one, it flickered and merely sputtered out.
Road was... a bit befuddled, to say the least. Her entrance had been needlessly flashy and she had only realized she'd been crying when she noticed there were others around her, and even more on the other side of a wall of some sort. Glass? Maybe? The girl's dark skin suddenly darkened even more in sudden embarrassment, and just as fast as she appeared she suddenly vanished. With a nearly comical
pop the girl vanished into thin air.
The girl had retreated into the Dream; a pocket dimension all her own that, currently, looked like the inside of a massive top hat. Her wrists rose with haste and wildly whipped away at the tears that had been left behind on her cheeks. Why the hell had she appeared there? She had wanted to watch as her home was decimated before fleeing to another universe. A trap? It seemed others had been drawn into it too. It was unexpected, but she needed to get back in there and blend in. Whoever pulled her Door here must've had access to something like the Ark... which could prove useful. The girl's form changed; the once bubblegum-colored hair became a dark lavender. The dark skin became light and pale. The crosses that bridged horizontally across her forehead vanished and her amber eyes became a deep lilac.
Again, just as soon as she appeared and vanished, she reappeared. The now pale girl stood there with wide eyes before throwing her head back and forth in a feign of surprise as if this had been the first time. It kind of was. Before, she hadn't taken in time to look at people in the cage... and the ones outside it. Some... country bumpkin who'd been hitting the gym too hard, a... a Knight... robot... thing? A... homeless adult? A huge spew of others were there, too. An excitement suddenly filled her and a wide smile spread across her features, that almost masked the sad eyes that still remembered she just left her family to die.
"W-what is this!? Where am I!?"
Her head spun and she looked at the pale, light-haired man who had struck the glass.
"How did someone catch me!?"
To be honest... that question was genuine, and not an act.
