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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] trustheart 2025-05-18 01:23 am (UTC)(link)
…You were pretty cool up there.

[ Cue a nervous-looking Chris standing a few feet away. ]

Better than some dumb girl who threw her life away.
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[personal profile] goldendoll 2025-05-18 03:18 am (UTC)(link)
Only because we got lucky.

[ hatsune lets out a breath. ]

You were watching?
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[personal profile] trustheart 2025-05-18 03:51 am (UTC)(link)
[ Luck. What does that make her? The exact opposite of that, she guesses. Chris lets out a small sigh. ]

We all were. How’d you get the guidance counselor on your side?
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[personal profile] goldendoll 2025-05-18 03:11 pm (UTC)(link)
... I wasn't really sure what to expect when I first reached out to her. I just thought that if what I wanted to do was... possible, she would be the only one who could help me figure out how.
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[personal profile] trustheart 2025-05-19 08:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Hm. Honestly, it's been hard to tell what side she's on...but if we can trust her then we might have an ally on the inside...

[ Seems Chris isn't even willing enough to entertain the thought of the Headmistress being an ally, even after that trial. ]