( may event ) sudden recall

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EVENT: SUDDEN RECALL

On the day of the fifteenth, as the sun finally begins to break through the clouds that have been hanging over the town for weeks, the incessant ringing of your house phone similarly pierces the stillness, and refuses to cease until you answer it. You're free to leave your house and simply ignore it, of course, but judging by the distant sounds of ringing coming from all of the other houses on your street as well, it's probably an important call. It would really be a shame if you missed it.

... or it could just be an update from the mayor on the town's current state of post-flood recovery. But maybe that is important to you. Civic pride is important, after all, you'd never catch Linda missing an address from the mayor. Even one as strange as this one.

The voice on the other line isn't as polished or eloquent as you'd expect from someone in such a high position of authority, sounding rather dazed and distracted instead, with meandering sentences, abrupt stops, and sudden topic shifts. The information's all there, certainly, if you can parse through the mess, but something about the delivery itself is troubling, something that lingers in the back of your mind like a shadow throughout the day.

Maybe it happens the moment you hang up the phone, or perhaps a few hours later as you're gossiping with a neighbor about whether or not the mayor has a drinking problem, but at some point during the day you're suddenly struck, sent nearly reeling by a vision, a... memory? The chill of metal against your bare back, a bustle of men and women around you, like a churning tide of movement. Their voices a steady drone of clipped conversation around you, but the words themselves are indecipherable. It doesn't seem to slot neatly into your misty memories of Wayward Pines, but then, it doesn't feel anything like that troubling other that's been steadily building and growing in your mind since that fateful day you woke up in the hospital not so long ago.

And yet it feels real all the same.

Over the next few days, it quickly becomes clear that you aren't the only one feeling... off. All over town the people of Wayward Pines are acting strange, distracted, wary. Even Linda fails to make any of her weirdly competitive passive aggressive comments when you see her at the bakery. So that's one good thing to come of all this, at least.

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Leia Organa May 15th, open

[oldladyleia]

(The school, open to students or teachers or anyone there.)
[For some reason a phone ringing is still entirely foreign to Leia's mind, so it takes her a moment to realize that's what the buzzing sound is that seems to be filling the neighborhood. More than that, there seems to be an undercurrent of fear right below her heart and she can't help but wonder where it came from. It shouldn't come from her, but somehow it did.

The politician in her listens to the speech, and she's reminded of other speeches that she'd heard elsewhere, the same halting patterns giving rise to the same sorts of thoughts that someone was making them do this. The Empire was what her brain floated towards her, but she pushed it away, along with the idea of a Senate that had hovering platforms so that everyone could speak.

But once she sets the phone down, the pain in her chest seems to explode outward and she gasps as she holds it for a moment, things flashing in her head. Everything feels wrong now, and it doesn't seem to just feel wrong for her. Waves of despair prick across her brain and a memory threatens to surface of another time when she was held prisoner and people did things to her. Leia presses that down, along with all of the other feelings that go along with it, both her own and not.

In the end, it's all she can do to head to the school and leave her door open when her office didn't have someone in it. Leia remembered it was something that she did here, and that kids could come with her when they had a problem. Today, she was expecting both kids and teachers to have a lot of problems. And helping people with their problems meant that she didn't need to think about her own.]

(Evening at the bar, open to anyone else.)
[Leia Organa doesn't often head to the bar these days. She's not someone who prefers to drink outside of her house, and the bar itself has too many memories mixed up in it that belong to her being with Han. Oh, she doesn't avoid Han's memory, but when you drink with a scoundrel like that, no one else ever seems to match up to it. Besides, it's probably not a good idea to be out drinking often when you're the Vice-Principal of the town's only school.

But tonight Leia doesn't want to go home to an empty house with nothing to keep her busy. If she doesn't keep busy she's going to need to think about things. If she needs to think about things of her own then she's going to go completely insane. So it's how she finds herself at the bar, looking at the tender and ordering:]

Scotch. Neat. And don't give me the cheap stuff, I still remember when you were in school there, kiddo.

[It was a threat, and benign one probably, made with her tongue firmly in cheek. Her hair was down tonight, but she was still open for the listening business. She was open for most anything as long as she didn't need to think about herself.]