notajar: (sprawl)
The corridors are full of sound now, and Door's glad of that. After meeting for final presentations and final exams, classes had ended. Though birthday and holiday parties had provided some excitement, and Seely and Cally had certainly done their parts to keep things interesting, there hadn't been a lot of people to talk to with so many gone home on holiday.

Though the break's been relaxing, the noise of friends returning and new students arriving is welcome, making the place seem less empty and bringing with it the excitement of a new season of things and people to get to know. Door's left her door open to listen to it as she looks over the course catalog for the new term, as well as to welcome any new or familiar faces that might wander by.
notajar: (reading)
Door's decided to try a different way of arranging her journal, just for variety.

Cut for linkdrop, as you do )

And now she's lying on her bed reading Dickens and wondering if Tiny Tim could get any more disgustingly cute. And she likes children.

[Door's ...uh. The door's open. As is the post.]
notajar: (reading)
...
    18 September, 2006

    I lost my exploration log somewhere in the Underside when I ran from home; it's only now occurred to me that this is...something of an exploration on its own, if an unexpected one.

    cut for leenkdrop of doom )
notajar: (sprawl)
As much as she likes to explore and meet new people, Door found herself a bit worn out from talking to so very many of them in Constant Vigilance on Friday. Thus after her shopping trip to town with people she was at least a bit more familiar with, a weekend spent mostly in her room (aside from Saturday evening, when she'd handwavily taken a wander up to the roof to read in order to let Seely have his movie night with... someone she hasn't met yet) had proved a relaxing change.

Having not quite got as far as learning how to find the World Wide Web by herself in internet class on Wednesday, and with her meeting for Sunday tea with Walter temporarily cancelled, Door spent quite a bit of said weekend poking at the computer on her own -- in between studying for the first real lesson in Cross-Species Communication, and enjoying the fruits of having finally discovered the library. She's not entirely sure about her chances of being chosen as a library aide considering the next-to-nothing she knows about the way this library is arranged, but hopefully the fact that she's trying to learn more will help with that. And even if it doesn't, it should help her find things for herself, so there's really no bad there.

Now, though, Door's getting a bit restless. She's lying on her bed with the laptop, already dressed in some of the new clothes she bought on Friday, and still diligently trying to hunt, peck and click her way past the school website without getting lost on the ever-branching number of paths the internet seems to offer, but she's left the door to the room open, glancing up every so often to see if anyone's wandering past, and pondering the idea of taking a wander herself. Possibly back to London to see if de Carabas has sent some sort of reply, but she's not sure how safe that is, so she might wait a few more days to try that one.

[OOC: The door is.... oh come on. I refuse to say it. The post, however, is totally ajar.]
notajar: (accomplished)
Some time after she leaves the second floor common room, Door climbs until she runs out of staircases and finds a door at the top. She puts her hand on the knob and reaches for someplace that's not on the other side of that door - until it is. Then she opens it and steps out onto the rooftops of another place entirely.

There are breadcrumbs in her pocket, stolen from the common room kitchen -- she still thinks stolen though on some level she understands that the food was free for the taking -- and she sprinkles them on the edge of the roof-wall.

de Carabas: reads the note in tiny printing that Door ties to the pigeon's leg when it flutters down to eat.

I'm safe in the place you set up for me. What are you playing at? They *see* me.

She hadn't signed her name, just drawn a simple, rounded doorway at the bottom of the sheet, then added please hurry.

"You're sure you know where you're going?" she asks the bird for the fourth time. It threatens to peck her on the nose if she asks again. "Sorry, sorry, of course you do."

And then it's gone, into the darkening grey sky, and Door is sitting on a rooftop in London, arms wrapped about herself. Waiting.

_____
[Not open for interaction and NFB due to distance, though it's fine to say she headed up towards the dorm roof.]

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