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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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You didn't. What I thought Misty did for you, I thought that because I would do it for — for someone. [hence the. weird. story. the least transparent message of all time.] It was just bias. That's all it was.
[her greatest crime was suggesting that misty and lottie were in lesbians together EVEN INTERNALLY]
[Anyway, turns out Lottie is kind of hilarious. She gets a tired laugh out of Anthy.] A delayed summoning is still a summoning.
[. . . wait, actually.]
Was that really y— [Wait. Hold the fuck on. Suspiciously:] Are Vanity and Misty here? [say no say no say no]
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I'd never ask Misty to do that for me.
[ Harsh words, but Lottie is pretty pissed at Misty right now. ]
They are here. [ Unfortunately. But let's not think about them! Let's think about the people we'll never see again!! ] Who would you do it for, if you don't mind me asking?
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[Speaking of dumb, the question manages to take her by surprise despite being a pretty obvious follow-up. She stares at Lottie wide-eyed for a second before words happen.]
It — Utena. She's — I got her picture. That's why I—
[This. All of this.]
But she'd never ask me to, anyway. She'd take responsibility and so on. [Weird girl.]
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Instead, Lottie smiles down longingly at her lap, like she's looking at a picture that isn't there. ]
Neither would Laura Lee. She never had to tell me this one, but I'm pretty sure murder is a sin. She was the type to get worried about mentally calling her piano teacher a cunt.
[ Weird girls, for sure. ]