thefolder | HOLIDAY ARRIVALS.

Characters: Everyone! (Only new arrivals are allowed in the Terminal Room)
When: Starting December 3rd, 2013
Where: Terminal Room or all over town!
What: An open mingle log for everyone to play in!

It has been a long November, and the weather is starting to get colder, a side-effect of the worlds merging. Maybe it's welcome, maybe it's a hindrance, but a rumble rises at the start of the day, signalling new Chosen are starting to arrive. Culumon bounces about the Terminal Room, lonely after waiting so long. Stepping outside, the Chosen will find a bit of a mess before them. The city's been through a lot lately.

Outside the Main Terminal, there is a bin with pamphlets to help supplement the information received on the new Chosen's D-Terminals. The information is...a little bit outdated, with last month's troubling reveals.

OOC: Feel free to mark your characters in different locations! They can be just arriving in the Terminal Room you read about in the arrival post or anywhere on the map! Also feel free to mark the day for each thread. You can also request to play with Culumon, too! Have fun, guys!

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Chika nodded. "Yeah. I... none of us really asked to be here. Even Biyomon and I were taken from another world and brought here. We had it easy though, since my world also had a Digital World and we already knew each other."

Though considering that Duo was saying that it was better than a cell again, he probably wouldn't want to go back home. Even if he was here, right?

"I didn't have anything like this. Didn't have much of anything." He shrugged and looked back at the door, like he's trying to keep an eye out for something. Or someone. Biyomon?

Chika was about to say something, but soon enough Biyomon came back, holding out the towel towards Duo. "Here you go!" he said, sounding pretty cheerful for a digimon who's partner went out without him and brought a strange kid that he didn't know home.

Duo accepted the towel with a quiet "thank you", and stepped back and away from the giant bird. If anything, he moved closer to Chika as he draped the towel on top of his head. He pulled his braid over his shoulder and untied it, his fingers working slowly and carefully to let the chestnut strands free.

"...Doyouhaveabrush?" Duo's cheeks turned pink, and he dropped his gaze to the floor. He hated being so reliant on her, but he knew his hair would just get tangled up if he didn't have one. He just hoped she didn't make fun of him for it.

Chika blinked when she saw Duo move away from Biyomon, wondering what was up with that. But then she's distracted by his question about the brush, and she nods, moving to go get it really quick and moving back to him. She held out the brush for him, and it was pink. Sorry if that really mattered Duo.

"I really like your hair," she said, lips curling back into a smile. "A lot of boys would be all silly and think that having long hair is only for girls, but it really looks good on you."

Pink. Blue. Green. Purple with yellow polka dots. Duo didn't mind the color, so long as it helped to get the tangles out of his hair. If it served a purpose, Duo would use it no matter the color or condition.

He started at the ends of his hair, just like Sister Helen always did, and worked his way up in careful strokes. "Thanks," he mumbled. "I like my hair long. Had it like this for a long time. The braid is just somethin' Sister Helen showed me." Even if he fought her over it the first time...

Chika nodded, not saying anything for a few moments as she watched him brush his hair. Though she had to admit, the braid part was definitely a good idea, since with hair that long it could get in the way all the time without one. "Do you usually have help with setting that braid up, or can you get it done right on your own?"

Duo stopped brushing and didn't look up at Chika when he shrugged.

"Sister always did it. I did it once..." He chewed on the inside of his cheek a moment before he set the brush down on the bed. He thought about asking Chika to help him, but this was something personal. So with a glance to her, he began separating his hair to braid it.

It's slow work, and not very neat when he finished. But it was done, and not all that bad for an 8 year old.

Chika didn't say anything in response to what Duo said when he started to braid his hair like that. She could tell that he was having a hard time, but she chose not to say anything about it.

Besides, it's not like she could do a braid with her own hair any better. There's a reason why she kept her hair in simple pigtails. And well, it didn't really look all that bad either. "So, umm... is there anything else you want to ask about while you're here?"

He let the braid go when he was finished and even cleaned out the brush before holding it out to Chika with a quiet 'thank you'. It was more out of sentimentality that he kept it in a braid. It reminded him of the only home he knew.

Oh, but she was talking to him. He looked at her for a moment, quiet, before he shrugged his shoulder. "I dunno. I mean, I dunno why I'm even here. Just that the Alliance had me and now they don't."

Chika nodded, smiling when she took the brush back, but then frowning again when he mentioned that part. That was... that was really a lot to explain. "Do you have your D-Terminal on you?" she asked, before moving to pull hers out of her purse to show him what it is. "I mean, there's really a lot to go over, and there's a guide that you can access from this that'll probably explain it a lot better than I can."

Duo shook his head slowly and looked away in embarrassment. He had thrown everything at the geared Digimon before taking off. He didn't want to listen to what he needed to. He had just wanted to get out and as far away as he could.

"Oh," she said, frowning a bit before moving to rummaging through her purse to go ahead and get hers. Once she had it on the needed information, she handed it over to him. "Go ahead and read this really quick. It'll go over a lot of the basics and stuff that you really need to know."

Duo took the D-Terminal and looked it over once, turning it upside down and to either side before he settled down on the floor next to the bed to get to reading. “These are different from the comm devices the Alliance carries…” It was mumbled, a sort of thinking-out-loud thing as he started going through the message that Chika had pulled up. Some of the words he stumbled over, but he slowly powered through it. At one point in his reading, he had lowered himself to lie down on the floor, curling up slightly with his eyes still glued to the screen.

With all the adrenaline in his system from so much excitement finally leaving his system, Duo didn’t even realize just how tired he was. If anyone asked, he would tell them that he didn’t remember going to sleep on the floor of Chika’s room. The D-Terminal fell over as his grip loosened on it, the only sound he made was that of soft snores as he slept.

Chika just turned over to Biyomon for a few seconds after Duo fell asleep, letting out a sigh and a few giggles. The digimon moved over to scoop Duo up into his arms, and place him on Chika's bed.

He just hoped that Duo would actually, you know, wake up before it was time for Chika to go to sleep herself.

HOLIDAY ARRIVALS.

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