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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?
lifegoalsorwifegoals: unseen (and i've been secretly falling apart)

[personal profile] lifegoalsorwifegoals 2025-05-10 04:39 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Rinne's noticed. From the moment they start to follow the others, she's noticed a particularly bright hair color missing.

Of course she's noticed. She was always watching.

And now, she looks...stunned. Like the unnecessary-air has been knocked out of her. Her eyes keep darting from classmate to classmate, as if Kana will show up.

Rinne says nothing. Her eyes brim with tears. She seems in shock. ]
trustheart: (043)

[personal profile] trustheart 2025-05-10 04:44 pm (UTC)(link)
...

[ Chris walks over and stands by her. She doesn't hug her. She just stands by her. Silently. Just. Providing support, quietly, in whatever way she can. ]
lifegoalsorwifegoals: (day by day‚ i'm fading away)

[personal profile] lifegoalsorwifegoals 2025-05-10 05:10 pm (UTC)(link)
[ She doesn't express it. Nor does it show on her face, as she just stands there, wrapping her arms around herself.

But it's appreciated.

She'll remember this. ]
eternalfuture: (thoughtful)

[personal profile] eternalfuture 2025-05-10 08:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Rinne-chan...

[Do you want an Usagi hug? Don't answer that, because Usagi is just going to give her the warmest hug she can.]
lifegoalsorwifegoals: never comes (sometimes the first thing you want)

cw dissociation

[personal profile] lifegoalsorwifegoals 2025-05-10 08:31 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Rinne trembles in it. She doesn't return the hug. She's not...good at this kind of thing. It may be a little ambiguous if she's even aware, really.

But she doesn't pull away. In fact, she kind of bows her head into Usagi's shoulder. ]
eternalfuture: (breathe out)

Re: cw dissociation

[personal profile] eternalfuture 2025-05-10 08:34 pm (UTC)(link)
[Usagi is not going to say that it will be okay. She knows better than that. She will just gently rub Rinne's back. She's not going to let go unless Rinne says to.]