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?

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cw suicidal ideation, suicide, somewhat victim-blaming/derogatory language

[bellpepperexercise]

[She has to believe that. She made the mistake of not believing in Rinne before, so Kana has to believe in Satsuki. She’s shaking every time she hears somebody double down on the idea that Satsuki ended her own life. Yes, she was doing badly, but then why leave her room in such a state? How did the knife end up thrown away? Why was she trying to plug the wound?

Satsuki just wanted to keep people alive. How can everyone think so little of her?]