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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] sweetsynergy 2025-05-17 08:56 pm (UTC)(link)
I've tried and yet people keep talking to me.

[Some of it's on purpose, some of it is being deeply petty even in death.]
ergine: (they give us light)

[personal profile] ergine 2025-05-17 09:04 pm (UTC)(link)
[ which, again: relatable. nevertheless, ]

You're the one choosing how to respond, aren't you?
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[personal profile] sweetsynergy 2025-05-17 09:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, and I'm told lying is much less appreciated when it's not boosting shareholder value.
ergine: (they give us light)

[personal profile] ergine 2025-05-17 09:08 pm (UTC)(link)
[ It is at this point that Kohaku—still smiling with perfect politeness—sighs, shrugs, and turns away. ]