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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?
rosewitch: <user name="shithouse"> | dnt (⚔ in a deep atlantic trench)

cw suicide ongoing

[personal profile] rosewitch 2025-05-17 08:11 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't know. But if Dorothy or Kohaku did, she'd have access to those too.
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cw suicide ongoing, implied emeto

[personal profile] bellpepperexercise 2025-05-17 08:16 pm (UTC)(link)
…I…I don’t think Satsuki…

But I can’t put it past her to down someone’s poisoned smoothie on impulse to stop them. She’d probably be thinking “oh, if I flush it out of my system right away, it’ll be fine!” since she knows all that medical stuff.

Satsuki—she’s smart, but she’s so stupid.
rosewitch: <user name="shithouse"> | dnt (⚔ ah the fitful sleep)

[personal profile] rosewitch 2025-05-17 08:20 pm (UTC)(link)
[..............................]

[anthy just puts her face in her hands and lets out a strangled scream]


But if she does that, the other person will still have to die. [SCREAMING CRYING THROWING UP (DEROGATORY)]
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[personal profile] bellpepperexercise 2025-05-17 08:27 pm (UTC)(link)
[Yeah, Kana too.]

She probably thought she would have time to fix it up until the moment she got stabbed—-ugh, that’s probably why the room is such a mess, she was scrambling to patch herself up. That way nobody would have to die.

[She’s not sure if this is better or worse than the alternative.]

God, why didn’t you wake someone up for help, idiot?!
rosewitch: <user name="shithouse"> | dnt (⚔ little pistols no more)

[personal profile] rosewitch 2025-05-17 08:30 pm (UTC)(link)
She probably didn't want to put anyone else in danger.

[hello darkness my old friend]

Don't take offense. But I hope you're wrong, too. [there's no good option here, but both of these options suck absolute ass]
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[personal profile] bellpepperexercise 2025-05-17 08:34 pm (UTC)(link)
I wanna be wrong too! I’d rather somebody tried to poison her in earnest and she was trying to not die!!

…why is the best case scenario her getting targeted for murder?! I hate this game!!
rosewitch: <user name="shithouse"> | dnt (⚔ little pistols no more)

[personal profile] rosewitch 2025-05-17 08:35 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't know. I hate it too. [This sucks ass. She wants to chew a hole in this mortal coil.]
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cw suicide ongoing

[personal profile] ergine 2025-05-17 08:58 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Kohaku's face also instantly fell at Kana's question, for the record, but only now does she speak up now. ]

Well... Neither Dorothy or I were taking any prescription medications, at least.
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[personal profile] rosewitch 2025-05-17 09:01 pm (UTC)(link)
That's—

[. . . oh. Oh.]

[Just like at the last trial, Anthy hisses under her breath.]