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

[bellpepperexercise]

I wouldn’t hold your breath, Rinne. It’s easier for her to deal with people hating her.

[Kana can take a break from spiraling to be petty.]

[lifegoalsorwifegoals]

[ And, she's all sweet again, like a fucking sourpatch kid. ]

It's like folding cranes, Kana-chan. Even if it's unlikely, I can still hope for a miracle.

[sweetsynergy]

[An angry sigh.]

Fine, to you specifically and in this moment, I am sorry for committing attempted murder, actual murder, desecration of a corpse, and MAIL FRAUD, not in that order.

[bellpepperexercise]

Awww. See, was that so hard, Vanity-chan?

[Kana is absolutely not forgiving her any time soon, but she can pretend to be touched specifically to be annoying.]

[lifegoalsorwifegoals]

[ she's the perfect woman ]

[sweetsynergy]

Yes.

[This reaction is in fact entirely deserved but is also not disproving her reasoning, sadly.]