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

[rosewitch]

Follow them!

[The, like, living people. Follow the living people WHO ARE CURRENTLY FLEEING]

Watch them! Don't let them back in here!

[lifegoalsorwifegoals]

It won't do to die for them again if they're already fleeing, and- someone will need to welcome Hatsune—!

[rosewitch]

[thank you for understanding rinne she's just going to stay here and try to keep vanity safe]




[wait who said that. what]

[thatsplato]

We can’t just leave Vanity, no matter what a crazy bitch she is!

[rosewitch]

We'll stay with Vanity, they should go!

[WHOSE VOICE IS THIS]

1/2

[thatsplato]

[we.



we







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2/2

[thatsplato]

Right! Go! [Misty will regrettably remember this.]

[rosewitch]

[incredible. another toxic relationship. thanks a lot, vanity]

[who has apparently FUCKING DISAPPEARED DOWN THE HALLWAY SO ANTHY IS RUNNING THAT WAY SHE GUESSES—]

[sweetsynergy]

[There's just an angry scream dopplering out of hearing range.]

[1/2]

[thatsplato]

[Misty hesitates a moment. She should go after them. Anthy especially. She’d said we, hadn’t thrusted Misty out with the others. Staying wasn’t smart, and there’s no Vanity to defend, but something holds her for a few seconds.]

[2/2]

[thatsplato]

[She lets her eyes trace the room. The chains. And she smiles.] So rude. Everyone just leaves, without—-

Byeeeeeeee~

[She waves. And bolts to go after the others.]

[bellpepperexercise]

Rinne's right! We need to watch their backs!

[LET'S GET ROLLING GUYS]