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witheredblum2025-04-19 03:10 pm
facultwist) wrote in witheredblum2025-04-19 03:10 pm
sinking down, down
Death is a drop into a blackness that swallows you. You feel the movement of not air but shadow across your face as you plummet, and there is no bottom. No crash.
If there is another side, you do not reach it.
It is neither the light of heaven or the fires of hell that greets you when you wake. And wake you do, to the buzz and flicker of old fluorescent lights.
You are laid out beside a full-size competitive swimming pool, half-filled with stagnant water. The doors out are blocked off by locked doors covered in caution tape. The locker rooms are long since emptied, paint peeling from the humidity. The only signs of habitation are a few pieces of scattered graffiti.
Welcome to your new home. There's no sunlight, no indication of time passing. Just you and each other and your thoughts. the stagnant water bubbles a little occasionally, but there's nothing in it.
Before long you'll realize that you no longer need to eat or drink. You might notice your hand go through something if you don't focus. You're a ghost now. What's that they say about unfinished business?
If there is another side, you do not reach it.
It is neither the light of heaven or the fires of hell that greets you when you wake. And wake you do, to the buzz and flicker of old fluorescent lights.
You are laid out beside a full-size competitive swimming pool, half-filled with stagnant water. The doors out are blocked off by locked doors covered in caution tape. The locker rooms are long since emptied, paint peeling from the humidity. The only signs of habitation are a few pieces of scattered graffiti.
Welcome to your new home. There's no sunlight, no indication of time passing. Just you and each other and your thoughts. the stagnant water bubbles a little occasionally, but there's nothing in it.
Before long you'll realize that you no longer need to eat or drink. You might notice your hand go through something if you don't focus. You're a ghost now. What's that they say about unfinished business?
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[Kana doesn't think about the implications at all when she sees her again. She just throws her arms around her best friend, because that's all she's wanted to do since she's lost her.]
I'm sorry. I-I hurt you so much, I couldn't even keep your letter safe, I...
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(No one's told her.)
Rinne pushes it aside. It doesn't matter. She holds onto Kana tight. Tighter than she ever has, in her stupid, stupid restraint. ]
No.
No, n-none of it- none of it is your fault!
[ Lottie was right. She bought her a week. That was it. ]
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[Kana is a little hysterical at this point. The fact that Rinne is here and also so upset just makes Kana want to hold onto her and sob until she can barely speak. She's so, so selfish.]
I've been such a lousy friend...!
cw depersonalization
No. [ She pushes it out. ] I w-wanted to- I wanted to keep you safe.
[ And...even with her jealousy— ]
I-if I could just be near you, that was enough.
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If I knew, I...I don't know.
You're still my best friend. Is it selfish of me to not want to lose you?
[Rinne is kind, and probably won't tell her it is. Even so, asking in itself makes Kana feel selfish. Hearing someone tell her they want to be near her is all Kana's ever wanted, after all.]
sorry for the delay mod stuff and deep cleaning u_u
Rinne lets out a soft breath and runs her fingers over Kana's hair. ]
It isn't. I don't want to lose you either.
[ Even if she can't have her in the way she wants. ]