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Rosenblum Hall ([personal profile] facultwist) wrote in [community profile] 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?
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[personal profile] al_fresco 2025-04-29 06:58 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Is she blushing a little no it's probably just the bad lighting- ]

I appreciate it, but I definitely don't think I was in my right mind. Not that that's going to happen to you or anything! I don't know all the ghost rules, but... I guess I've been doing this for longer than you guys, so if you have any questions... um...
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[personal profile] protomartyr 2025-05-01 09:04 pm (UTC)(link)
It's understandable that it happened to you. I would have been really angry, if I were in your position.

[ No one likes to be sacrificed to an audience. ]

Are you doing all right now?
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[personal profile] al_fresco 2025-05-02 12:24 am (UTC)(link)
Twenty years is enough to get over a lot of things... but also a lot of time to be alone in an abandoned pool. So... fifty-fifty?