gooseberryhigh | AFTERMATH & DEPARTURE

AFTERMATH & DEPARTURE

Mr. Merrill, still half-asleep, hikes up the hill to Azurcrest to run the last middle-of-the-night headcount. Inconvenience turns to fear as he discovers that half of his students are missing, and the other are in a sleep so deep he can't rouse them.

The unresponsive students are taken to the atrium for Healer Mufferaw to tend to, and Agent Larke is already contacting the MACUSA. The government descends on the school, with Aurors and Hitwizards to lead search parties. They head out immediately to scour the woods for the missing students. Heads of House confer with one another and the agents about the emergency, and decide parents need to be informed about the situation immediately.

There's no sign of any missing students for hours. Furthermore, there's no response from the apparently comatose children in the lodge. Not until 7:14 AM, anyway. The students that weren't taken begin to stir, and within minutes Agent Larke bursts in, clearly having ran all the way there. She announces that the missing students have been found, and are being escorted to the lodge.

Agent Larke had been organizing a new search party when Ivy Templeton stumbled out of their cabin, still half-asleep. It was discovered that inside the cabins, all the missing students had mysteriously reappeared in their beds.

All of the missing students are taken to the lodge by Aurors and Hitwizards, and a thorough headcount is done. Meanwhile, emergency Healers and Healer Mufferaw do thorough checks. The MACUSA representatives interview all the students individually. Students are only in the lodge for about an hour and a half before the order comes down: evacuate students and staff. Students are to be released to their families immediately. Personal belongings will be delivered to their homes at a later date.

The school buses are familiar, but the mood of the bus ride home after summer break isn't quite the same. They don't deliver students to their doorsteps or international stops, but to a staging area in Logan, hidden from Muggle eyes, where countless fearful relatives wait to take their children home.

HOW THIS WORKS:

All dreamers have been rescued. All rescuers have reunited with their friends.

The seven students who took part in the Finding the Heart adventure also wake up at the same time. To their friends, it will seem like they disappeared for 15 minutes max before everyone wakes up. To the seven students, it will seem like they were gone for hours.

Everyone will wake up after 7:14 AM. Ideally, they all wake up at the same time, but if you'd like to put it a bit later for dramatic purposes, you may.

Your character will be picked up at a staging area in Logan by a legal guardian, or escorted by a MACUSA agent to pre-arranged international transportation. If your character has only Muggle relatives, MACUSA will transport them to and from home.

If you are a rescuer or dreamer:
- You will wake up in your own bed, unless for some reason you want your character to wake up in someone else's bed. e.g. Gabi can wake up in the Ribbonfin soph girls' cabin, or she can wake up in the Ebonhide soph boys' cabin with Bash and Wyatt, since she was with them.
- You will keep all injuries you incurred during the event. However, you will not have any traces of ghost blood on you! Or ghost viscera of any kind.
- You will be wearing what you had on when the event ended, i.e. your pajamas and the clothing given to you by Brother. If you gave something away to another student during the event, e.g. a jacket, that other character will be wearing it instead.
- You will have all objects you started the event with, i.e. things in your pockets, unless you dropped them or gave away those items to an NPC. Then they're gone forever, sorry!
- You will not have any objects you picked up during the course of the event. This includes rocks, twigs, and personal items like Diego's crucifix, Sy's captain's badge, etc. All that stuff was imaginary! Those objects still exist in the real world.

If you are a non-participant:
- You will wake up on a cot in the Atrium. Please assume you are decently dressed. You will see Healers checking on other students, and government Aurors guarding the room. Your Head of House will tell you that you were moved here for observation because you were discovered in a state of deep sleep and no one could wake you. If you ask about your other friends, your teacher will admit that they've gone missing and the MACUSA is here to find them.
- Mere minutes after you've woken up, you will all hear from the Aurors that the other students have been found in their cabins.
- You have no memory of your roommates leaving the cabin, or being moved to the Atrium. You slept straight through the night. You did not have any dreams.

» MORNING: You wake up. You're in, well, a bed. It may or may not be your own, and the people you were with when you were in the other world may be with you.

» AFTERMATH: As soon as the staff realize that all the missing students have been found, everyone is promptly escorted to the lodge. Campus is crawling with MACUSA presence, and hitwizards and Aurors alike lead the students to the lodge. Everyone is looked over by emergency healers, and give quick statements to the authorities.

» BUSES: Understandably, everyone's families are impatient to get their children back. Students are hurried onto buses to be taken to a relay point outside of the anti-apparition zone, where their families will be to take them home.

» OOC - QUESTIONS, COMMENTS & CONCERNS

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She feels every bruise and every pained limb as she walks through the Atrium, gingerly brushing her hair away from her black eye. The soft skin around it is tender to the touch, and she can't help but run her fingers over it. She walks away from one of the MACUSA agents, biting the inside of her lip and striding as confidently as she can through the pain. Borgins do not care for the questions of Aurors. There are many things they don't understand. But Sylla doesn't understand much of what has happened either. She tells them of the entity that she fought, of the forest and getting separated from the other girls, but the decision to stay hushed on the mirror and the scissors weighs on her mind as she finds a corner of the room, a space on the wall.

With a sigh, she slumps against it and sits with her legs crossed, tucking her boots under her and wrapping her coat around her like a blanket. She looks out at the other students, resting her head against the cool stone wall. Something solid and real seems to help, and she wraps her arms around her bare legs.

It's all a lot of fuss from strangers. She only wants her family to fuss. She only wants to go home.

The fabric of Dimi's shirt scrapes softly against the wall as he lowers himself down to the floor next to Sylla, an uninvited guest. Hers is company greatly desired, especially after all the rowdiness with his roommates and friends and the olive oil. He's careful not to get too close, although he does let his arm bump against her shoulder.

She is a sight to behold, even with that black eye. Dimi smiles at Sylla; it's as appreciative as it is concerned, brows lifted slightly. "You look like a warrior," Dimi says, like a compliment. "A victorious one. Didn't doubt that you'd be fine, but, very glad to see you're well, nonetheless."

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She's slower to respond to noises and movement when earlier she was on high alert, letting her wand be her warning to not get close, but now she tilts her head up and watches as Dimi sits beside her. She even finds herself slumping a bit towards him, a silent sort of nuzzle of her own shoulder against his, which is strange and new to her, but brings her comfort all the same.

"My small consolation for the pain, I suppose," she smiles softly, blinking softly. Even her lashes closing around her eye send a twinge. "I would have liked more armor and a sword but perhaps next time." Looking up at him, she sighs contented, perhaps the first time since waking up that she has done so. "You appear to be in one piece as well, fortunately."

"You missed all the olive oil," Dimi replies mysteriously, smirking, head bobbing to the side.

He keeps his gaze fixed on her as he scoots a bit closer, eager for contact - for further verification that this is real and they are here. That was a hell of a night, and this morning the whirlwind continues. Thinking about it makes his smile fade.

"After all this," Dimi begins, looking away just long enough to scan the crowds before returning his attention to Sylla. "Still think you'll come back next year?" There's a hint of worry in his voice.

Blinking slowly, she isn't quite sure she gets the joke, if it even is one. "A harrowing obstacle, I am sure," she murmurs quietly, albeit distantly.

Her answer to his question is quick, however. "Yes. Absolutely. I reckon carrying on amidst hardship is our British heritage." That's her idea of a joke, as dark as it is. "The school is still standing. I talked Mummy and Daddy into letting me come back earlier in the year, after all." She sighs comfortably as she leans against him, waiting a moment before admitting, "I will miss you, though."

"I trust you to burn down the forest if it tries anything, again, next year," he says.

Damon's gaze drops to the floor. After a soft sigh, he's quiet, thinking. Sorting through his feelings, most likely. The admission puts a smirk on his lips, though; one he tries very hard not to let grow too broad as he drapes an arm over Sylla's shoulder to pull her closer, fingers tracing circles on her arm. "Don't worry, with all the owls I'll be sendin' you, I'm sure you'll be tired of me in no time." He delivers the line with one of his big grins, but it fades as he adds, "I'll miss you a great deal, too."

AFTERMATH & DEPARTURE

Sylla & Open

Sylla & Dimi

Sylla & Dimi

Sylla & Dimi

Sylla & Dimi

Sylla & Dimi