Sweet dreams are made of these...

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ROOMS BY CHARACTER

A Abigail Hobbs Aiya/Gray Nightingale Adrasteius Anor'thalion Ahsoka Tano Alex Russo Allen Walker Anders Anthony Crowley Asteffiel Axel

B - D Belthazar Spellscry Beverly Crusher Bran Stark Caesar Zeppeli Cayde-6 Cheese Sandwich Clay Terran Coil Cole Davesprite Duke Pantarei

E - I Elecman.exe Elena Gilbert Elize Lutus Felix Harrowgate Fenris Finrod Haruka Tenoh/Sailor Uranus Imperator Furiosa Isabela Issac Lahey

J - M Jade Harley James Barnes/Jim James Barnes/Winter Joseph Joestar Katara Katniss Everdeen/Nova Kirito/Kazuto Kirigaya Kurt Wagner Leanne Loki Maladict(a) Max Caulfield Megaman Mordin Solus

Comments

[lightweight]

Hinata doesn't recognize this place, but it sure is pretty. The glass wall and the view it provides catch his attention the strongest by far. He makes the lightest sound of excitement when he sees it, and he dodges whoever might get in his way in order to run out and touch it. It doesn't quite look like Japan; maybe he's in a foreign country?

[timelapsed]

It certainly looks different than Japan. Giant pine trees, a small American town nestled in a bay, an old-fashioned lighthouse. If he looks closely, he can even see the cars moving about, carrying people and cargo to their destinations around town or beyond.

It feels like early autumn, although with mostly evergreen trees around, it's hard to tell.

...It definitely doesn't feel cold enough for that gentle snowfall suddenly coming down outside, though.

There are voices commenting on it. It... doesn't sound like it's coming from anybody inside the exhibit, though.

"What the hell is this?"
"Snowflakes..."
"It's like... eighty degrees. How?"
"Climate change. Or... a storm is coming..."

[lightweight]

Hinata starts looking around for those voices immediately. Someone has to be talking, he can hear them! Is it really that warm? Why is it snowing, then..?

"Ah? Hello?"

He tries, but he's not sure he expects anyone to actually answer him.

[timelapsed]

Nobody seems to be replying to him. But maybe it was one of the visitors mingling about...? He could try prodding some of them, see what they have to say.

Or maybe he should keep watching the outside. The snow seems to be letting up, after all...

Or he could check out the exhibit proper. There are photographs, a statue, or informational pamphlets available, plus the girl sitting in the very back of the exhibit.

[lightweight]

Hinata sees the visitors, but they don't look like they're paying attention to the outside. So he ventures further into the exhibit, glancing at everything he passes. He stops properly at the photographs to look at them, though.

[timelapsed]

The photographs are hung up on the walls in tasteful arrangements. The museum visitors make a few comments around each one, though their voices are muffled unless you're paying close attention - just enough to be considered background noise.

Almost all of them seem to be pictures taken in the same town that's outside of the museum - the same one that Hinata was spending so much time admiring. It must mean a lot to the photographer.

The smaller pictures seem innocuous enough, but the larger ones, the ones that have been blown up, seem to have a different quality to them. And the closer somebody gets to one, the more the background noises - voices, music - seem to fade away.

Which picture is he going to check out first?

A. A shot of the outside of a school - an old, brick building looking dignified, although there's an intensity, as if something's about to happen. ((Ep 2 spoilers, suicide))
B. A scary shot of a tornado, absolutely huge, approaching that very town from the sea.
C. A photograph of two girls, relaxing in an indoor pool at night. ((Ep 3 spoilers))
D. A shot of a short-haired girl, covered in paint. ((Ep 1 spoilers))
E. One of the girls from the pool picture, standing with a playful expression. ((Ep 2 spoilers))
F. A beach with a number of beached whales, lifeless in the sun. ((Ep 4 spoilers))
G. A shot of a large amount of medical equipment, cold and impersonal. ((Ep 4 spoilers, injury, suicide))

H. Or choose the smart option and ignore these photos, something seems off about them.

B

[lightweight]

Hinata can't help himself; the look of impending doom gets him. The town looked so great, so put-together and safe, how is it that this happened to it? Did they repair? Did it miss them?

Hinata approaches the tornado picture and tries to inspect it further without touching, wondering how many people could have been hurt by something like that...

[timelapsed]

The closer Hinata gets, the more the sounds of the museum fade away...

Only to be replaced with the roar of a tornado.

The picture is moving, now, the tornado swirling as it moves towards the town. Rain pelts down against the scenery, the downpour adding to the sounds of the deadly storm.

There's a loud crash as the tornado launches a boat through the air, smashing it against the lighthouse in the foreground. A girl, soaked to the bone, makes her way past just as the top of the lighthouse crashes down behind her.

She snatches something up - paper? A newspaper, maybe? It's difficult to make out. Her voice can barely be heard over the tornado in the distance. "October eleventh? Is this... Friday?" Although hard to hear, it's one of the girls Hinata heard speaking about the snow. "That's only..." Her voice is muffled by the sounds of the storm.

She can only watch in horror as the tornado continues approaching the town. The tornado is huge - it is literally just as wide as the town itself. Soon, buildings are being ripped from the ground. "Oh no...!"

Another girl, dressed in black, approaches the first, putting a hand on her shoulder. And the picture stills, back to a shot of the tornado.

The sounds of the museum come rushing back. This is obviously no ordinary photo gallery - and the town doesn't look like it could have survived that storm, either.

And outside, the snow seems to have been replaced with an incoming storm.

[lightweight]

Hinata's heart is racing. That town, it should be gone. He looks at the window, sees the storm, and the first thing he can think to do is look for someone to ask about it.

... The girl.

"Uh--h-hello?" You can do this, Hinata, it's important. He approaches her. "Excuse me.."

[timelapsed]

The girl seems to be staring intently at a photograph in her hands - one of a blue butterfly, although it seems far too out of focus to be a very good photograph.

She doesn't notice his approach, but when he speaks, she seems to jump a bit. "Whoa! Man, you totally snuck up on me."

...Her voice is definitely the same one from the photograph.

[lightweight]

"--ah!"

He was about to apologize, but now he hears her voice. Hinata takes a moment to collect himself on that front before he goes back to being polite and bows.

"I'm sorry! I didn't mean to scare you! I was just wondering... how is that town okay if that tornado came through..?

[timelapsed]

Hrnk...! Max's expression quickly turns to surprise.

"You heard about the tornado? How?"