sinking down, down

[facultwist]

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?

Comments

1/2

[thatsplato]

Oh, hey—— [Misty freezes, realizing too late who is in front of her.]

2/2

[thatsplato]

[She turns around. Starts quickly moving away.]

[banishedfromparadise]

Misty Quigley do NOT make me chase after you! I am not in the mood!

[No, this isn't a gagtag.]

[thatsplato]

[Maybe she can phase through a wall and put herself in a locker, save them all the time. She briefly considers it, but… well, she’s Misty. She turns around again.]

Oh, hiiiiiiii!

[banishedfromparadise]

Misty. Have you been haunting us this whole time?

[She demands with all the tired authority she can muster, being freshly dead and all. Forget being weirded out by ghosts being real, this is the real pressing issue at hand.]

[thatsplato]

No. Just the past week. Unless you mean haunting as a whole. I've been in the locker rooms for weeks, now. You wouldn't believe the condition people left them in, before I got to them.

[banishedfromparadise]

Uh-huh.

[She does not know what to make of that. At all.

So on to the next question for one of the resident oldest ghosts of their group.]

... You wouldn't... happen to have seen a man with a bell pepper head around? I think Kana said he was wearing a tracksuit?

[thatsplato]

[A pause.



Then, Misty laughs, as cruelly as she can manage.]

Oh. I get it. You're still making fun of me!