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]

[Anthy doesn't even bother offering it to Hatsune to read first. She just snatches the letter up and reads it as fast as she can before looking up at Hatsune with a feverish energy in her eyes.]

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.

[goldendoll]

[ she manages to give anthy a slight smile at the praise, raising a hand to her chest and giving a very slight mock bow, before she reads the letter herself.

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.