I'm in. (Implied suicide) (long as shit)
Shana can hear music coming from above ver, faintly, it sounds like it’s coming from someone’s phone speaker, ve can even make out a few lyrics.
I'm wasting away but I guess it's kinda my fault
You only get in what you put back
Euphoric styled self-indulgence
Live a movie, life is hard
Consequences only matter if
You have a plan to get far~ Ve looks up, only to see a girl sitting on top of a nearby billboard(How the hell did she get up there??) with long black hair, tank top, baggy pants, and a yellow beanie, and- are those ribbons wrapped around her arms? She downs the last of a soda can, crushes it, before chucking it over the side and smacks Shanna directly in the face.
"OW. Acghhhhh" Ve rubs at ver nose, which ve heavily suspects might be bleeding.
The girl pokes a head over the edge, “Sorry.” She does not sound that sorry.
“NO WORRIES!” Ve yells up,
“What?”
“DON’T WORRY ABOUT IT! HEY, WHATS YOUR NAME?”
“What was that? Sorry I can hear you! Whoops!”
Shana grits ver teeth, this isn’t the first time ve’s met someone stubbornly ignoring ver, and ve hopes it won’t be the last. The building closest to ver should be tall enough to at least get on the same level as her hight wise, then ve can worry about that part when ve gets there.
5 stories and several minutes later, ve is standing on top of a building.
“Hey! Can you hear me now!”
“JESU- w. Why?!”
“I’ll take that as a yes?”
“Ugh. Yes. What do you want? You can’t threaten me, I don’t fear death.”
… Is that a joke? She looks really deadpan saying it. …Oh poor kid.
“I- what? No! I’m not here to threaten you I just want to talk!”
“You know threats are usually ver-“
“I KNOW what threats are! Come here!”
She seems to consider this for a moment.
“Whatdo you got?”
“What??”
“I ran outta chips and i’m to lazy to go raid a vending machine. What kinda food do you have on you.”
Shana rummages around in ver pockets.
“Uhhhhh- A granola bar?”
“The good kind?
Ve’s getting a bit annoyed at this now, “The hell does that mean??"
“Does it have chocolate chips?”
“Yes..?”
“Kay deal. Coming over.”
She kicks the short ladder on the side up and extends it just enough so that it can safely rest on the ledge of the building. She sticks her arms out and balances like she’s on a tightrope as she walks down her makeshift ramp, doing a jump that almost kicks the ladder off at the end. She sticker her hand straight out.
"Gimme.”
Now that she’s closer to Shana, ve notices a few more things about her appearance. The first, and most obvious, is that those ribbons aren’t around her arms, they’re in them, woven through hoops pierced through her arms like pink satiny shoelaces. Speaking of piercings, she had a lot. A pair of spiked snakebites under her lip, two rings in her left nostril, a tiny moon and star shaped one above both her cheeks, not even mentioning the many, many on her ears. On her right ear it looks like there’s just a triangular notch just, missing, so that’s something! She also has green, catlike eyes, literally. There are slits for pupils. Contacts probably? Hopefully? God ve hopes so.
She unwraps the granola and takes a bite, talking with her mouth full, “So, what was it you wanted to talk to me about?”
Does she have a forked tongue. Does she have fangs. Is she even human, holy shit.
“Well, first of all, what’s your name?”
“No”
“Hi No! I’m Shana ve/ver/veir an-““Cut the crap, what do you *want* from me?”
Boy, She’s a nice one, isn’t she? “I don’t- want anything from you. Your the first person I’ve seen in weeks!”
“Yeah same here. And i don’t believe it.”
This is going to be hard. “I just want to help yo-“
“Ha! Knew it,” she eats the other half of the granola, “Sorry, continue.”
“… As I was saying, i’ve been looking for other survivors, on our own we’ll probably starve or get hurt but if we pool our efforts togethe-”
“Not interested.”
“WHAT?”
“I won’t starve.”
“How can you be so sure?”
“If I ever run out,” She makes a finger gun and points it at her head. She shrugs, looking almost pleased.
Shanna stares in stunned silence. Ve can’t let that happen, “Well, I have lots of food so-“
“Don’t care.”
“And a fresh water source is close b-“
“More of a soda gal myself,”
“And I have plenty of spare beds so,” She actually doesn’t interrupt at that one, “Everyone will be able to have their own room and personal space, at least for a while.”
Ve waits for her to make a snide remark, but it never comes.
“Like- good beds?”
Holy shit. Ve’s getting through to her. “Yes! Yes, they are I took the mattresses from a furniture store nearby and dragged them the whole way th-“
“Alright, you’ve won me over,” She tosses the wrapper at Shana and starts walking.
“But- i-“
“Sleeping in trees is giving me back pain. I refuse to have back pain at in my early 20s, thats for old people.” she streaches, and leans against the wall next to the door that leads back down the stairs, "You coming or nah?"
…What, the hell? No, no. Ve shakes ver head, It doesn’t matter why it just matters that she won’t hurt herself or anyone else. Ve can start getting into the specifics when ve knows her better. Speaking of,” I still don’t know your name!”
“Savannah. She/her.”