outside the box

Eirika was awoken by some kid’s shouts just as she saw the first, small rays of dawn come through the wood behind her bed. Then, another guy across from him started yelling, and Eirika tried to curl up and go back to sleep again, desperate to avoid conflict. Especially at the brink of dawn. That was just ridiculous.

Before she closed her eyes, she heard the thud of the cabin door closing. She looked around, and practically everyone had forgotten or ignored about what had just happened, so she snuck down the top bunk, careful not to wake her older brother Ephraim and went to the cabin bathroom. The Other Gods cabin was huge, and no one wanted to use the actual bathroom, so they built an extension. She opened the wooden door, trying not to make a sound and took her clothes in to go change. She threw on a pink blouse and some dark blue shorts and snuck out of the cabin.

As soon as she stepped out and shut the door, she immediately regretted it. The cold bit her skin harshly, but she could manage. After all, it couldn’t get worse. She started to look around for who had left the cabin this early in the morning, and saw few figures. There was a guy on a bench facing away from the fountain, so she stood on her toes and silently snuck over to the closest cabin to him and hid behind one of the walls.

Eirika, admittedly, had never done this before. She didn’t feel comfortable watching others. Well, strangers, at least. She didn’t mind sneaking around to see what her lame brother was doing, because, well, it was her business. Kind of. But now, watching this boy, she felt hesitant, the creak and snaps were Eirika stepping on dead leaves and twigs as she stepped back and forth, deciding whether or not to approach the boy.

She snuck around the cabins to the bench across from where he was sitting and rushed up to it. She crouched down, so the fountain would hide her from view, and finally, after much hesitation, she took a seat down on the bench. She felt her teeth chattering, but she covered her mouth to hide the sound.

She opened her mouth to say something, but nothing came out. She didn’t know what to say.

Eirika was still staring at the spot the boy was sitting in, not realizing that he had stood up and was now walking towards her. When he spoke, everything that she wanted to say to him rushed out.

“Why’d you wake everyone up?” Eirika covered her mouth quickly. “I’m fine,” she answered plainly, crossing her legs and fixing her hair. How normal. She was definitely great in social situations. “Also, hi,” she added. Wow. She was stunning at this.

OOC: Short :(

Eirka noticed that the boy was grinning. Great. She had made a fool out of herself. Though, after deciding to look at him when talking, she saw his eyes look past her and then back at his thumbs.

“Still, you shouldn’t yell,” Eirika said timidly. “Especially when people are trying to sleep.”

“Um...if I can ask, what were you looking at?” she questioned, her tone still as shy and mellow as ever.

Eirika had a strong urge to shush him, but she only ended up telling him, ”Please don’t be so loud…” She didn’t want to get in trouble because some loud, hyperactive dumb@$$ was waking everyone up; not just in the cabin but out in the middle of the courtyard.

”I’d really rather not…” Being loud. confident, and boisterous wasn’t really...her “thing”.

Eirika could tell that she had made him a bit upset or sad, but his weirdly optimistic personality was still there.

“I don’t want to take any chances, really,” she replied. “Nobody wants to get stable duty…” she trailed off, looking elsewhere. You could say that she was just looking at “the world beyond” the boy, but she was just a bit shy and didn’t want to look him in the eye.

Eirika shivered at the sudden blast of cold wind. She wished she had brought a jacket or something, but she was in such a rush to find out what the boy was doing outside at this hour, she just threw on whatever and went outside.

“Chances are also what kills a person,” Eirika countered. Their personalities were obviously totally different. Though, she wanted to learn more about the boy (she wanted to learn more about everyone, but…). There was something to him other than being loud, confident, and, in her opinion at least, a bit annoying.

Being a huge rule-follower, Eirika’s idea of “fun” was much different from others, but she didn’t understand why. Fun was supposed to be safe, right? That was what she believed. You could have fun if you were being safe, yeah. She’d rather stick to that instead of almost getting decapitated or something.

Eirika listened quietly to the boy’s lecture. She rubbed her arm, both cold and embarrassed.

“I’m sorry I made you angry,” Eirika replied, instinctively. Whenever anyone ranted at her, she felt that they were angry at her in some way. She possibly made the boy angry or mad in some way.

“Still...death is the ultimate punishment in all of this,” she said after an awkward silence. “If you die, you die. There’s no rebirth. I mean, there’s Lethe, but you’re not the same person as you were. I like myself. I don’t want to die and spend eternity picking flowers off an infinite field. It’s boring. The fun would wear off in the underworld, and I would be left sitting there. Dead.”

There was a nagging part in her saying that she was going to die anyways, so why shouldn’t she make her life fun? Better to die fun than live a boring life and die old. She brushed the thought off and looked at the boy, standing by her opinion.