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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 2025-05-18 12:58 am (UTC)(link)
Nice trick. Dunno if it worked exactly how you wanted, but. Impressive. Ow.

[Hey Hatsune, here's Vanity sitting in the bottom of the pool, slumped against the side.]

Definitely shook things up, at least.
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[personal profile] goldendoll 2025-05-18 01:03 am (UTC)(link)
... Vanity. [ she just. blinks from where she's been tackled. ] I'll... ow, take that, considering...
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[personal profile] sweetsynergy 2025-05-18 01:07 am (UTC)(link)
Yup, me. Don't worry, I'll get out of your hair as soon as I can move again.

[She shifts a little, wincing.]

The witch hits like a fucking bullet train.
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[personal profile] goldendoll 2025-05-18 03:33 am (UTC)(link)
You seem like you took it all right.

[ sorry research oomfie the chlorine bomb outweighs that nice day in the library ]
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[personal profile] sweetsynergy 2025-05-18 03:38 am (UTC)(link)
[Deadpan-]

I'll live.
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[personal profile] goldendoll 2025-05-18 03:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, anything's possible.
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[personal profile] sweetsynergy 2025-05-18 09:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Guess we'll see.

[She folds her arms, leaning back against the wall.]

[...maybe once she can walk she should see if the trial room was left open so she can get her jacket back.]


Probably pretty soon, can't imagine things will stay quiet very long after all that.