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]

[Then Satsuki re-enters the building and...Kana crumbles her beret and throws it on the floor.]

I was right?! I'm gonna kick her ass!!

[lifegoalsorwifegoals]

...I feel...weirdly proud of her.

[bellpepperexercise]

She's insane! It's brilliant, but...ugh! I'm gonna throw something at her!

[trustheart]

You’re gonna kiss her so hard you’ll come back to life.

[bellpepperexercise]

...shut up.

[lifegoalsorwifegoals]

[ ...even if it's not over her...

Kana's still really cute when she's incapacitated with embarrassment... ]

imagine this said in the most deadpan voice possible

[trustheart]

It’ll be like Snow White in reverse.

[bellpepperexercise]

She was asleep, not dead!

[trustheart]

Depends on the version.

moved this for organization

[sweetsynergy]

Seriously? I thought that was just Disney trying to be kid friendly.

[trustheart]

The Brothers Grimm purposely made a lot of the stories darker and more fucked up than they were originally cuz they hated women.

[sweetsynergy]

Figures.

[Fuck those guys.]

...so did they actually have the most on the nose surname ever or was that a pen name?

[trustheart]

That was their actual fucking name! Fucked up, right?!

[sweetsynergy]

What the hell, that's messed up. That's like- I dunno, old-timey comic book shit.

[trustheart]

It’s like they were named by the guy who writes those books they based that HBO show on. “A Ballad of Frost & Flame” or something.

[sweetsynergy]

Sounds like they were named by George Lucas.

[trustheart]

I don’t watch those movies.

[sweetsynergy]

...Echo was a fan.

[They're probably all double-dead, and it's not like her sisters in general are actually a secret anymore.]

You're not missing much except spectacle, personally.

[bellpepperexercise]

They were kind of set up to make something messed up from the beginning, huh?

[trustheart]

It’s fucking literary or whatever. I dunno. English Literature wasn’t my best class.

[trustheart]

[ Chris has been quiet up until now.

But then this happens. ]

FUCK YES!

[rosewitch]

[Anthy doesn't even have words, she just scrunches up her fists and dances in place on her tiptoes. It's adorable, to be honest.]

[bellpepperexercise]

[Oh. Anthy looking genuinely excited is really cute. It's a little hard for Kana to stay in her tsundere anger with that.]

[sweetsynergy]

Goddammit. You go, girls.

[banishedfromparadise]

Good girl, Satsuki... well done.

[She's smiling so proudly? Good thing Mariko can't see or she might get jealous.]

Of course, it remains to be seen what will happen next.