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witheredblum2025-04-19 03:10 pm
facultwist) wrote in 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?
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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You did it! [She's whispering ferociously instead of yelling for some reason. She doesn't know how to express this emotion. Aaaah?] You broke it. I don't know what's going to happen, but—
[Wait. What's that? Is that the thing from Isabella? She sits back on her heels, thus freeing Hatsune, to peer at it.]
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Dear Hatsune et al,
If you are reading this, you have started to fight back. And as ghosts, there is one more thing you can do.
My children are being held captive in the basement of the Administration Building. If they are still there, I am worried I will be ordered to kill someone to try to keep this game on track. It would be a shame, I think, if there were some kind of interference that took away the leverage that the Headmistress (and the Witch) have on me.
I am able to help you break in in a day or two, but you will have to do the majority of the work in the building itself. The Witch thinks you are not a threat but I know better. I'll wait for contact and we can discuss.
Yours,
Isabella Gracefield
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I need to know everything you talked about with Isabella.
[She hands the letter over.]
It can be tomorrow. But I need to know all of it. And then we need to make a plan.
You did incredibly.
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it was a good idea to work with isabella, after all. ]
We'll go over it soon. And... thanks. It's good to see you, Anthy.