PRELUDE; The starting
synopsis. Yume, appears inside a coffin in Twisted wonderland, after having gotten into a argument of conflict with her mother and leaving the cage of her house; this is the first time she is outside of her cocoon, she knows little of the outside world all her knowledge being books but, none of her books taught her of Twisted wonderland, she shall face difficult challenges as she tries to return home.
- Warning: Controlling & Overbearing, Emotionally Stifling, Gaslighting & Guilt-tripping, Child abuse, severe burns
masterlist . . . prelude |
She sits on the floor in front of her book corner immersed in the books of the outside; the light of the stars shining through her window, she wonders to herself how it would be to experience the sensation of the brown leafs of the fall, falling on her face, and how it would feel to spend time with her mother outside maybe playing at the park like those books show. .
Though she has long since given up on those dreams of the outside world they shall always stay as her dreams never to breach outside of her thoughts; she always hated how sad and disappointed her mother had looked when she was merely a child and had dared to repeatedly ask about going outside with her. But shes older now, she knows how her mother only cares for her and furthermore her mother is far more knowledgeable about the outside world then her; who has never been outside.
The clock ticks onto seven pm and she swiftly closes all her books prior to standing up and putting them all into their correct placement, then she leaves her room and goes downstairs to set up the table just as she finishes setting up the table she sits down in her seat and her mother brings out their food before sitting down in the chair across from her and they eat together like always.
“Yume.”
She freezes for a moment at the sound of her mothers calm and suffocating yet sweet and gentle voice and she glances up from the dinner and her expression relaxes into her smile and she speaks softly her hands clasped together on her lap.
“Yes, mother.?”
Her mother stares at her before smiling it feels suffocating and yet so comforting to Yume but, when her mother speaks once more she freezes not at her mothers voice but at her mothers words.
“We should get rid of those stifling books. I feel as if they only upset you, and they aren't good for your health.”
Yume sits motionless for a moment and her shoulders tense up, and she goes to protest for a moment but before; she could her mother continues.
“How about I instead get you a fish tank? When you were a child you always told me how much you wanted one.”
Her mother continues speaking with a smile on her face and Yume's hands clutch together in front of her chest it hurts and she shakes her head her voice quietly and trembling; her quiet voice is drowned out by her mothers happiness until, it is blocked out entirely..
“N-no.. I.. don't.. mother.. please.. I don't want that.. I don't want to get rid of them..”
She stares at her fish tank, that took the place of her book corner and watches the aquatic plants; her mother had told her that because the outside world was so dangerous she had been worried that if she brought fishes they might somehow infect her daughter, because they would be from the outside world. Even so she found herself having gotten attached to those aquatic plants, she thinks to herself as she rests her hand against the tank and tracing against the glass with her finger imagining what she believes fishes look like swimming in the tank around the aquatic plants.
Her mother knocks on her door before coming inside with a tray of fruit and tea then setting the tray down on her desk; and walking over to her and running her fingers through her hair and braiding it gently with care before speaking with a voice of love and cherish as well as a suffocating concern.
“I have been thinking Yume.. how about we get rid of this fish tank?.. This fish tank has made it so, you haven't even left your room and you know that's not good for your health, so how about your mother makes you, your favorite dinner tonight instead and we get rid of this.?”
She tenses up and shakes her head quickly and she sobs turning around to face her mother her hands instinctively clutching together at her chest and she speaks quickly and all jumbled up full of sobs and stutters.
“No! I mean.. Mother.. I.. I.. really like the fish tank that you got me please.. please don't get rid of it..!”
She musters up the courage to speak in the loudest voice she can muster up in the presence of her mother but before she could even acknowledge what she had just done her mother slaps her with a look of hurt on her face; she freezes and her mother also freezes then her hands go up in front of her mouth and she quickly speaks her hands moving in front of her chest her voice wobbly tears falling from her eyes.
“Ah.. wait!.. Yume.. You.. you know.. I didn't mean to hurt you..! I'm so sorry.. Don't.! No.. please don't leave Yume.. Your mother is so sorry you know your mother didn't mean to!..”
Before she can bring herself to listen to anymore of her mother's suffocating words she runs out of her room, she runs out of the cocoon of their house that she stayed put in for her whole life and had warmly embraced; but before she can get far and watch through her jumbled up mind, the beautiful sights of being in the outside world the feeling of the wind breeze brushing against her and undoing the braid her mother never got finished braiding; she hears the sounds of horses and she freezes, before turning to look and the next thing she sees is a carriage with horses then her vision goes black.
When she awakens she wakes up scared and terrified in a coffin a bit dazed and her memories all tangled up but she pushes her hands gently to try push and shove against the top but she stops eventually knowing that she isn't strong enough not to mention shes quite frail something her mother warned her of and what she experienced quite often as a child; so instead she softly speaks her voice muffled and her chest hurting as if shes being suffocated but she hopes her mother comes to her like a savior like she does every time she had gotten injured as a child because she is delicate and fragile and as a child knew no better.
“Where..? Am I..?”
She lets out a soft and muffled sob when she recalls what happened how she had ran away from the safety of her cocoon because her mother hurt her is this..? Perhaps the outside world that her mother had warned her about so many times? Multiple thoughts run through her head but before she can even make out a coherent thought she hears a grating little voice it causes her to freeze.
“Stupid lid.. Try this on for size! Mya-Ha!”
She feels a new sensation the feeling of hot boiling warmth of blue flames sneaking into the coffin and she quickly moves both of her arms to in front of her face blocking the flames from burning her face, the lid blasts open from the fire but the clothes that she only just noticed was on her, catches on fire and she falls out from the coffin landing on the ground her arms hurt but luckily the landing had put out the fire so she runs away; not noticing underneath the robes the flames had gotten to her skin and her arms are now covered in blisters and are swelling while melting and the thing yells while she runs.
“Wha- You ain't supposed to be awake gimme your robes!”
She runs and runs as the thing follows her; her chest hurts so much and everywhere is so unfamiliar to her nothing seems like those books that she had read what even is that thing chasing her, It has ears that hold blue flames and it keeps on speaking as well as spitting out those hurtful blue flames. She runs into a courtyard the thing is luckily far behind her so she crawls into some bushes and as soon as shes far up the thing runs in the next direction and the moment its far out of sight; soft sobs escape her lips and her arms wrap around her legs and she pushes her head into her knees trembling and her thoughts are a warp pool; Where am I? My mother. She must be so worried. She didn't mean to hurt me. why didn't I just.. listen to her.? My chest hurts so much.. its hard to breathe.. I've never even been outside, why did I run? Was.. I simply just tired from everything..?
She's left with her thoughts for what feels like ages before she once more hears a voice it sounds crisp and authoritative but for her it sounds softer, sweeter, and more gentle his voice is similar to her mothers voice but not suffocating and that makes her slowly peeks her head out to see him his hair was red; it reminds her of those red roses with thorns she had seen her mother grow outside of her bedroom window, and his eyes are gray but stern even though his eyes are doe-like eyed he has soft features, but his expression is stern and clearly a bit upset similar to her mothers he even carries himself similarly to her but yet.. she stops herself shaking her head as she hears his voice actually coming closer and his voice is level toned but authoritative with some tone of worry.
“Ace Trappola! Epel Felmier! Where are you? I can't believe this. They both just disappeared from orientation? I hope there wasn't some sort of problem. But I will say this… If it turns out they are merely playing truant, my judgment will be swift and merciless.”
When he moves to continue walking she stands up and moves to go after him but her chest hurts and all the warnings that her mother had always given her makes her stop but he spots her and he swiftly turns back around and goes straight to her with his fists clenched at his sides as he quickly walks at her.
“You stop right there-”
The boy falters for a moment at the Improper sight of the ceremony robes they're messed up completely not to mention the hood is off the individual's long hair spilling out in strands around them and their glassy violet eyes as if they had been crying; while to any person can tell its pitiful and if Trey was here in place of him he'd no doubt try to comfort this individual, but no mercy should be spared on troublemakers just because of appearances especially one of this much offense. He draws his magic pen from his pocket to administer punishment; but he spots something. The ceremony robes sleeves are complete and utterly burnt he can see the individual's skin that shows clear signs of first burn to almost second burn and he swiftly walks closer and pulls the individual out from the bushes and over to him and he speaks.
“How in the world did you your ceremony robes get burnt, especially your arms.. Were you playing with magic as troublemakers like you do.?”
She looks at him blinking once and twice looking at him in the eyes in astonishment but she sees hes paying no attention to her his whole attention is to her arms and his pen that hes holding has a gem but she notices somehow the burns are disappearing she doesn't notice how the slap she had received from her mother had also disappeared, but she quietly finally speaks confused and scared.
“Magic..? What is.. that. I.. All I know is that I had woke up in a coffin and then the next thing I knew is fire breaking it open and then a thing standing in front of it before I ran away from it and arrived here..”
He only turns up to look at the individual when the burn is completely and utterly healed and he stares at them with a upset look he can barely tolerate those who speak quiet and with stutters but now this individual is trying to trick him he speaks in his crisp tone, getting upset.
“So your excuse is fire broke open your gate and a “thing” was outside your gate? If that was the case why didn't you get a vice dormwarden or a staff member. Not to mention “what is magic.?” Anyone in Twisted wonderland should know what magic is, why must you troublemakers lie to me.. Feigned negligence will not save you from punishment.”
He of course doesn't believe this individual but as a negligent queen he should at least give this individual a benefit of the doubt so he activates a detection spell while scolding them but what arrives makes him surprised.
He can't sense a single trace of magic from this individual hes surprised.. Even new born children have a trace of magic so he stares at the person who is clearly on the verge of tears and he really stares at them he thinks back to how their voice sounded it was soft yes but the pitch is a pitch no male could replicate or have not to mention she doesn't have an adam's apple on her throat; with certain certainty standing before him is a lady his mind is completely all jumbled up currently his mind reeling it makes it worse when she speaks again because shes crying and sniffling now.
“I.. don't know how I came to be here, I had just ran away from my mother because we had gotten into an argument and I just.. wish to return back to her.”
She sobs her hands falling onto his chest and her head falling against his chest and she cries into his robes as hes completely lost his mother never told him how to deal with subjects like this no books have ever told him what to do. Not to mention he still haven't found those two students, and the orientation might be over; it would be against every principle to be late to guiding his new freshmen so he softly huffs to himself before clearing his throat.
“I apologize to how I had treated you before, I made a severe mistake in my judgment and had assumed you to be violating the school regulations.”
He glances at the sobbing girl wondering if she would be stopping this indecency but considering she hasn't he simply continues speaking.
“Once more, I apologize for the unwarranted treatment I truly, didn't mean any of it. If you accept I can help you with your current situation.”
He speaks even toned so the issue can be resolved quickly and swiftly before conflicts arise, but they are also meant for comfort for the girl but now he's wondering how he should bring up the question of where is that thing she had mentioned before that had blew the gate open; the more he looks at her the more he can see the tell tales of her clearly having being in the midst of a panic and anxiety attack not to mention he's quite uncomfortable around her. Before because he wasn't thinking with a clear mindset he hadn't noticed, but now he can see the similarities and how she reminds him of his mother except it seems as if she can break at the moment of the slightest touch; while his mother isn't like that he shakes off those thoughts and speaks once more.
“My name is Riddle Rosehearts the dormwarden of Heartslabyul it is only polite to share your name with me as well correct.?”
She takes a few deep breathes breathing in the scent of baked goods roses and tea coming from his person before she finally calms down and she slowly pulls away from him but shes still far too close if you'd ask him; but she looks up at him.
“My name..? Ah.. Its Yume. Its a pleasure to meet you Riddle.”
She says before for a brief moment she smiles she has no clear concept of subjects like boundaries or whatnot and this is the first person who she has met in the outside world hes so kind and gentle, not to mention he reminds her of her mother except his presence isn't suffocating so she can trust him she thinks to herself before looking up at him and nodding her hands moving in front of her chest clutched together as she speaks.
“Also.. yes I would be happy if your willing to help me.”
He nods and speaks “Very well then, follow me.” He swiftly turns around and begins walking back to the orientation while he didn't find those two he now has a more important matter to deal with this lady named Yume.
As he walks he sees Yume walking a bit further behind and he has a tight schedule to meet he cannot be late so against chivalry he reaches out his hand and grabs onto her hand leading her to the sorting ceremony, when they come in he looks around the dark mirror chamber to see where headmaster Crowley is but disappointingly he can't find him so he huffs to himself and brings her to the heartslabyul area before walking towards Trey and Cater he had told Trey to watch over the new dorm students while he had gone looking for the two boys so he looks over at Trey who along with Cater have surprised looks on their faces at the sight of him holding a students hand with the two missing students in sight, but he pays no mind to that he instead speaks.
“Where did the headmaster go.? Orientation should almost be over correct.?”
He asks Trey but for the next few minutes by now orientation is completely over every student has officially been sorted into a dorm but Trey stays quiet reeling from the surprise he only moved to speak when Cater nudges him because the signs of Riddle getting impatient from how long it was taking for a response were beginning to show on his face, but the moment Trey begins to speak the doors are shoved open with Crowley speaking loudly in a croak which makes Yume tense up in surprise and her fingers dig into Riddle's hand as she moves a bit closer to him.
“I most certainly did not!”
Riddle frowns at that but turns to look at Crowley “Ah, speak of the devil.” he mutters to himself the face of impatience disappearing from face as Crowley continues to speak.
“If you must know, I was searching for the new student who'd failed to show for orientation. But sadly I didn't find him.”
Yume looks towards Riddle as he huffs and pulls her along with him as he walks with her over to Crowley and begins to speak.
“Yes, I know exactly who you mean I found her but-”
Before Riddle could even continue speaking Crowley interrupts him with a chirp, and grabs onto Yume's now trembling shoulders at the touch of this stranger.
“Ah, I've found you at last. Splendid. I trust you're one of this year's new students? My, were you ever eager to make your debut. Now you are the only one who has yet to be assigned a dorm. Step up to the Dark Mirror, and be quick about it.”
She freezes as he turns her around and pushes her to the mirror and she tries to refuse; but she knows how fragile she is he does not, if he squeezes her shoulders too tightly he'll leave bruises so she shouldn't struggle or it would hurt her so she decides to go to the thing called the dark mirror as behind her Riddle shakes his head, rubbing his forehead and muttering to himself about the headmaster being a headache and not listening to him but he follows behind Yume not going up to the Dark Mirror but so he can be beside her for the verdict he has a feeling when word gets out shes magic less Crowley will try to interrogate her so he needs to set the record straight.
The dark mirror speaks
“State your name.”
She freezes in surprise she's never heard a mirror speak before or have a face so she turns her head slightly to glance at Riddle in concern believing that if he has no sign of concern neither should she luckily for her, he nods his head as if he understands her concern and gestures for her to continue so she turns back around and speaks.
“My name.. is Yume..”
She says with her hands reflexively grasping together in front of her chest and she flinches back and tenses up as the mirror lights up and begins talking once more.
“Yume.. The nature of your soul is... unclear to me.”
The moment the dark mirror seems like its stopped talking she quickly moves back down the stairs and next to Riddle once more grabbing onto his hand while mutters of chatter go around the orientation Crowley looks quite surprised and then speaks confused and nervous. “What did you say..?”
The dark mirror speaks once again as chatter gets louder and Riddle has an upset look on his face when he spots new members from his dorm doing the same which is an utter distraction from orientation but nonetheless he'll punish them later..
“I sense no magical power from this one. Soundless. Colorless. Shapeless. Utterly vacant. Therefore, no dorm would be appropriate.”
The dark mirror says before the green flame with a face completely disappears and Crowley mutters to himself croaking quietly.
“Are you suggesting that the black carriage went to receive a person who cannot even use magic? But that is absurd! The student selection process has not erred once in its century of existence! How could this have happened?”
Riddle sighs to himself and turns to look at the muttering Headmaster and gestures to him with Yume still clinging on him and he speaks.
“If you had listened to me, I could've told you that Yume; isn't meant to be here shes first of all, magic less completely so I don't believe shes even from this world but that is a assumption on my part, and not to mention shes a lady.”
Riddle sends a glance to Yume as he speaks but the moment he says shes a lady everyone has a expression of surprise on their face and the chatter just gets louder and Crowley croaks to himself quietly; before opening his mouth to speak but before he could on the top of the glass roof in jumps a cat the glass falls as he lands on the spot Yume was just at with him shouting and his paw on his chest.
“"Hey! Let me in! I'm a sorcerer extraordinaire! If you let me take that human's place as a student, I'll show you what real power looks like!”
The moment she spots the thing she shoves her face into Riddles chest tensing up for a moment her hands digging into his chest before softly whispering to him quietly whose face turns a tint of red, it was one thing outside in the courtyard with no one around but its a complete other thing in a public setting especially with that Floyd in the same room but, he'll ignore that so he can focus on her as she begins speaking considering the fact shes a quiet speaker he has to listen closely even though he can hardly hear anything with the cat being so loud.
“That.. is the thing that was outside the gate..”
Riddle is against his normal composure distracted with Yume telling him new information; that by the time shes done speaking blue flames are around the cat having been agitated by other students remarks and now Crowley is shouting out commands, he'll need to correct such behaviors of himself on a later date.
“Someone! Capture that tanuki!”
Riddle hears the sounds of Kalim chiming in “Huh, capturing him already?” then he hears that twin Floyd.. “Hm? Azu~l?” Before Jade adds on to his twins conversation. “Honestly, at a time like this. Where could he have gotten to?” Lastly Idia speaks through his tablet. “There it is, a cheat for boosting his grades.”
Thats when he spots Azul swiftly going over to Crowley and speaking with a hand on his chest and a smirk.
“What do you think? For everyone’s sake, I will–”
Before Azul can continue Riddle after handing Yume over, to Trey and Cater and telling Yume to stay with them for the time being and then telling Trey to watch her; he then goes towards the direction of the cat and pulls out his magic pen and strictly speaks.
“Furry miscreant. I will abide no rule-breaking. You will be judged by my hand.”
She watches Riddle chase after that thing with the boy she believes is Azul? Hm.. can she really call that a thing? Riddle had just called it a furry miscreant.. she stops thinking because, the boy that Riddle told to watch over her places his hand on her shoulder and she tenses up and moves away from his touch before turning; to look at him he has a smile on his face but she spots a look of surprise before it disappeared and he speaks.
“I know your worried for Riddle but hes quite strong so you don't need to worry. Oh yeah, before I forget I'm Trey Clover and this is Cater Diamond we're both juniors and I'm the vice dormwarden of Heartslabyul your Yume correct.?”
Trey speaks with a smile but shes not quite comfortable with him or Cater so she stays silent simply nodding before Cater speaks chirping.
“But Cater is fine. Or Cay-Cay if you're cray-cray!”
She glances at Cater and nods before swiftly turning back around and watching Riddle the worry clear still on her face and Cater and Trey look at each other but soon enough her eyes brighten a bit when Riddle shouts at the creature swinging his magic pen.
“Off with your head!”
A heart-shaped collar clicked shut around the creature's neck and when it tries to blow flames but can't she quickly rushes away from Trey and Cater and grabs a hold of Riddle again while he is distracted with telling the cat hes now but a cat until hes off of campus so she takes the chance to examine him making sure he has no wounds on his person but behind the two Azul speaks and her eyes go to him and she stares at him for a moment before glancing away when two tall student's who look the same go over to him.
“Ha-HA! Good show as always, Riddle. You're signature spell locks down any magic. It's quite handy. I've just GOT to have it—ah, I mean, I've just got to have respect for it.”
Crowley grabs the cat and walks away with it to bring it off of campus and Yume is still examining Riddle except now his focus is on her instead of the cat and she softly speaks tilting her head.
“Are you.. hurt..? I.. That fire is quite painful and strong as well..”
She speaks of concern for Riddle and her hands moving to examine his robes in case the flames may have burnt him, but now everyone is watching the whole thing go on because headmaster dismissed no one; and Riddle proceeds to turn fully flushed before snapping and swiftly speaking sternly.
“Has no one ever taught you boundaries may you.. stop getting so close to me, or you will not go unpunished..”
He says before Trey and Cater walk over with Trey trying to calm him down and reassure him because hes getting more upset.
“Calm down Riddle I'm sure that shes just concerned for you, the whole time you were chasing after that cat she had been watching you so its simply concern.”
Cater joins in. “Yeah! Isn't it cute how this cutie cares about you, even though your totally strong.”
Riddle takes a deep breath ignoring Cater but listening to Trey and just sighs allowing Yume to continue until she sees nothing is wrong but when she does she looks at him with a frown. She is about to continue but Crowley returns speaking cheerful.
“Well, that was quite the unexpected fracas. I hereby declare that orientation has concluded. House wardens, please escort your students back to the dorms-”
He stops short when he spots Yume and coughs loudly. “Ahem.. Sadly you will not be able to stay at this academy but go to the Dark Mirror it shall bring you home.” He gestures ahead.
Yume stares at Crowley for a moment before looking at Riddle and then recalling strange strangers are around she turns red and uncomfortable at having just spoken to Riddle that way in front of so many peoples, they had just met today after all so she swiftly turns around and goes over to the dark mirror but the moment she draws close it speaks.
“There is no place in this world where this soul belongs.”
She freezes blinking multiple times at those words and her hands instinctively moving clutching at each other Riddle and everyone else looks surprised shocked even since while Riddle had a suspicion he hadn't expected it to be confirmed and then Crowley speaks.
“This has never happened throughout my long tenure. I must confess that I am at something of a loss. Tell me: From what land do you hail?”
Yume looks at Crowley for a moment staring at him before quietly huffing to herself and looking away from him staying silent she doesn't feel the ounce of comfort with him considering how he had grabbed onto her shoulders so tightly earlier, he twitches and speaks again.
“What land do you hail from..?”
She turns around and heads back over to Riddle whose quickly shaking his head and sighing to himself he has a feeling this will be a tiring year.
She recalls a memory from her mother from when she was a child, she had told her that if she ever met anyone to stay quiet and never speak to them unless she gave her permission to; Riddle.. Should be an okay person correct.? This is Twisted wonderland her mother isn't here.. so Riddle could take the place of her mothers permission correct.? Those thoughts are what run through her head but then when she really thought about it, she couldn't possibly force a person to watch over her this is the outside world while not the one from her world she should try to experience speaking to people since she had only ever spoken to her mother and Riddle so she grabs onto Riddle's hand using both of her hands clutching it before turning her head to look at Crowley.
“I.. Apologize, but.. I sadly don't know the land that I hail from. My mother had never told me the name of it I simply knew that I lived in my home.”
She speaks which causes a lot of head tilts of confusion even Riddle but he can tell she truly means what she says having even though only meeting her an hour ago she is easy to read, and Crowley croaks in surprise.
“You.. don't know where you hail from..? I find that quite hard to believe, are you perhaps saying that simply so you won't have to return home.”
She freezes her nails beginning to dig into Riddles hand but not hard and she fidgets looking at Riddle to see if he believes her and he nods his head and gestures with his free hand for her to continue so she speaks.
“I.. wish to return home more then anything more.. do you have any idea how worried my mother most definitely is.? Imagine if your child had just up and disappeared off the face of the world..”
She bites back a sob but she breaks down falling onto her knees in front of Riddle her hands letting go of Riddle's hand so he wouldn't fall with her.
“I had ran out of the house just an hour or so ago and she was chasing after me but the next thing I see is horses and a carriage going towards me, and my mother was most likely chasing after me but then I ended up here so that means I had disappeared out of no where from her eyes..! Of course I would love to go home..”
Riddle watches as she cries out sobbing and everyone is just looking at her and then Leona huffs and snaps his hand on his forehead. “Look at what you did, you dumb crow now the girl is crying great what a nuisance.” Kalim speaks after him. “Headmaster, its not nice to make a girl cry..” Jade brings out a chuckle and speaks as well his hand moving under his smirk. “my, my. Look at that Floyd the headmaster made a lady cry how rude.” Azul smiles and places his hand on his chest. “Now, now everyone I'm sure he didn't mean to make a lady cry right headmaster Crowley.?”
Crowley is now sweating as everyone is practically ganging up on him currently and he croaks quickly trying to resolve this.
“Of course not.! Ms.. Yume I believe you, of course its just simply troublesome to not know the location of research I'll have to learn.. do you have anything on you that could help perhaps..? Like identification a phone or Id.?”
Yume stops crying slowly as Riddle kneels down and wipes her tears away with a handkerchief before she slowly gets up when hes done and she grabs onto Riddle once again.
“I apologize.. for crying but may I ask, what exactly are those things..? All the books I've read have never mentioned such things as a phone or id.. Nor do I have any..”
She nervously looks at Riddle and he huffs to himself the headache once again coming back to him and he puts his free hand on his forehead before looking at Crowley.
“I apologize Headmaster Crowley but may we please leave now.? We have a very strict schedule to follow and, this orientation has already cut into the time us dormwardens should have given our new students a tour.”
Yume freezes and looks at Riddle while she has just met him this place is completely new to her while its a new world yes but, she has never been outside of her warm cocoon of her house and hes the first person she met but; he undoubtedly will be leaving because he had said he was the dormwarden.. Amidst in her thoughts her hold gets as tight as she can go but Crowley had already nodded and dismissed them she bites her lip not wishing to be a nuisance so she slowly lets go of him and the moment she does he pulls away sending one last glance to the her before leading Heartslabyul out, while Crowley is a lot of things he should understand his duties in this case correct, he wonders before disappearing from her sight and Crowley speaks.
“Let's go to the library shall we?.”
Her time spent with Crowley was simply her in a daze she can barely recall what they had spoke about in the library she just knows shes here now in this dorm; she had spent majority if not all of her time awake cleaning the dorm so it could at least be a livable place, her mother had always told her if the house wasn't clean it would be bad for her health to sleep in it when finally no dust is in sight she goes to the room that is the most similar to her room at home and lays in the bed and finally when she is in her bed her expression turns dull and blank. Without her mother without someone in her space what use is there for pretend, she asks herself but then she recalls Riddle and her eyes sparkle and a soft smile once more appears on her face and she falls asleep with her arms clutched to her chest.
When she wakes up she gets out of bed and goes quietly downstairs and sits on the couch waiting then the door loudly slams open and Crowley comes inside chirping handing her a bag of food and then a bag of necessities along with clothes then the phone.
“I brought food, and Riddle had so nicely gave me clothes for you and a phone so if need be you could call him, if trouble arises also the heartslabyul book of rules oh yes, but I hope you don't call Riddle during school hours he of course has to go to school you know.”
She gently grabs the bags from him before looking up at him and tilting her head once more she still has zero clue, on what a phone is so she truly hopes he at least teaches her how to use this thing.
He teaches her how to use a phone and she learn rather quickly but then Crowley waits for her to finish the food he had given her and she realizes that rather quickly; so she does, she eats the food Crowley had given her, although she can't taste anything she had found that out when she was around ten she had one day snuck into the kitchen to try and cook something for her mother and while her mother told her the food tasted good when she had ate it herself she tasted nothing, she never really paid any attention to it because at least she could taste her mothers cooking she shakes off her pointless thoughts and continues to eat until she finishes the rest of breakfast the moment she does Crowley speaks.
“You cleaned up the place quite nicely.! No one would even think this place had used to be abandoned, not to boot but your also magic less; I think my judgment was correct! You'll be a janitor here.”
She looks up at him for a moment staying silent before grabbing the clothing bag speaking quietly to him.
“Okay. I'll go get ready then, but please stay so you can give me a tour considering the fact, I don't know where anything here is..”
She follows after Crowley with him leading her around the school their are glances at the two of them every now and again but; she ignores them she has never been outside before so it must be a usual occurrence are her thoughts but before she can continue he leads her to the cafeteria and gestures around it, its full of people having breakfast.
“This is the cafeteria, ahem.. While you aren't a student here, you need to eat as well so you will be eaten in here as well. Me bringing you breakfast was just a today thing.. For lunch and dinner you come here, don't worry it'll all be free..”
He mutters but shes not focused on him any longer she spots Riddle who is coming up to them and now hes standing in front of her his hands reach out and fixes her blouse and skirt before speaking.
“I bought you those clothes, so may you please wear the clothes properly, Yume.. Also have you already ate, if not you could come with me and I can help explain to you all the meals that are here today.”
She nods her head quickly to explain to him yes she has eaten already before speaking softly. “Yes, also thank you for the clothes and necessities, not to mention this thing called a phone I have been meaning to send you a message but I simply haven't had the time, I apologize..” she pulls out her phone and goes to Riddles contact to quickly send a message to him.
In the meantime that's when Crowley finally notices him and he sweats before speaking. “Ah, mister Rosehearts. Ms. Yume is currently getting a tour, so you can go back to having breakfast.. We shall be off now!”
Crowley doesn't even give Riddle the chance to respond and say he already finished and how it would be against rule 271 to continue sitting because Crowley is already dragging the standing Yume to the next place in his tour.
Shes in front of the statues of the seven Crowley having had shortly left after giving her a tour so shes simply cleaning the statues but two students from heartslabyul come up to her while she is cleaning she tunes their conversation out but from what she recalls they had been talking about the statues only once they finish is when she speaks quietly.
“You two.. are students here correct.?”
The first one to respond is the boy with fluffy, messy, bright orange hair he has scarlet-red eyes, and a distinct red, heart-shaped marking over his left eye.
“Yep. The names Ace, and I'm a first year as of today. Pleasure to make my acquaintance, I'm sure.”
She stares at him for a moment before speaking and glancing away.
“Ace?.. I recall hearing Riddle calling out that name yesterday..”
She mutters to herself interrupting him from continuing unintentionally stopping that boy from teasing her, because now he is tensing up a bit and glancing away sweating because it had slipped the housewardens mind completely; if she ever brings it up to the housewarden Riddle he'd undoubtedly be interrogated especially considering how quite literally everyone in orientation saw how close she had acted towards the short housewarden, Ace isn't allowed to continue thinking because luckily the other boy Juice? speaks which changes the subject off of Ace, unlike Ace he has dark navy blue hair and bright cyan eyes, as well as a signature black marking shaped like a spade symbol over his right eye.
“I'm Deuce Spade, nice to meet you.”
She nods her head biting her lip for a moment to think for a moment before quietly speaking.
“I am Yume, it is a pleasure to meet both of you, but should you two not be heading off to class..?”
She tilts her head for a moment before her eyes widen when she sees the cat jump on Ace's head and then onto a statue and then it begins speaking but she tunes their whole thing out completely this whole thing is a complete and utter waste of time, the cat is a complete and utter nuisance a dull expression appears on her face but soon enough a fight breaks out between Ace and the cat that calls himself Grim she decides she hates Grim the only thing he brings is destruction she thinks to herself the moment she sees the queen of hearts statue burn.
Somehow they came to be at the dwarfs mine she believes she helped them with the monster because they had began arguing with each other but for some reason after getting the gem and defeating the monster then them acting as if the three of them became friends which she so deeply in the deepest of her heart wished that she was part of that friendship its coming back up, shes scared shes completely and utterly scared she hates this no.. she despises this. she wishes she was with her mother no if she has to stay in this place Riddle.. she misses him and her mother so deeply.
A small burst of red flames shoots at the monster and then the flames engulfs it and she blinks in surprise multiple times, even though she has never seen Riddle's magic it reminds her of the smell of him so the moment the flame disappears along with the monster; she turns around and spots Riddle hes wearing an outfit she has never seen before and he looks quite upset at the two boys from his dorm who haven't noticed him yet, but she pays no mind to that and swiftly runs towards him she grabs his hand that isn't holding the staff she doesn't speak because he begins to speak in a crisp voice that isn't hinting towards his anger towards the two.
“Honestly. That monster was barely a threat. And still you fools struggle?"
He continues speaking but she only truly recalls him speaking to Trey and Cater telling them. “Trey, Cater. Take those two away.” he tells them and the moment they're gone he turns to Yume whose still holding his hand and he speaks to her.
“Are you alright.? I already had quite a hard time with leaving you to headmaster Crowley when I had told you, I would help you.. I had believed him to be the correct person for the job, but I suppose I was wrong.. I apologize. Now I do need to go back to my dorm, immediately but I shall lead you back to school at least.”
Her eyes sparkle for a moment and she nods her head quickly and follows him as he leads her to the location where they would return, with Grim following behind them as they walk Riddle tells her that she is allowed at Heartslabyul whenever she'd need to come and he comments quietly to himself how he couldn't believe Headmaster Crowley had allowed her to stay in the abandoned dorm as a woman and magic less; but she pays no attention to that only following after him until they arrive back at school and he returns to his dorm as she goes to the Headmaster and gives him the stone and he loudly proclaims.
“Oh, my! You.. You did it! You actually returned with the exact magestone I needed. How extraordinaire.”
He then proceeded to go on a ramble about how she was able to get two students to work together and as well as revoking the duos expulsion he will enroll her and Grim into school as a duo.
Grim returns to her dorm with her, she is now a dormwarden of the dorm with grim as her dorm member; because of him she had also met the ghosts for the first time them having not noticed her presence had popped out to scare Grim, but she pays no mind to them and swiftly goes to her room to get ready for bed sending Riddle a message to tell him goodnight it being refex because she had always told her mother goodnight, after sending him that text she grabs the queen of hearts rule book and sits down on the bed and begins to read it considering it was a gift she should treasure it after all. Whilst she reads she thinks about how Riddle had appeared and saved her after she had thought of him; could it perhaps be fate.? He's her savior.
With that thought in her head she stops reading the rule book after getting halfway through and goes into slumber; she hears her door cracking open a bit in her sleep and feels Grim climbing into her bed and feels him lay on her stomach, while she had originally thought of him as a nuisance he's warm she doesn't know how to think of him but the warmth he holds, is similar to the same warmth that Riddle has.