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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?
thatsplato: (same as you)

[personal profile] thatsplato 2025-05-10 05:50 pm (UTC)(link)
I don’t know, it took everyone a while to figure out what was up with me.
sweetsynergy: (B)

[personal profile] sweetsynergy 2025-05-10 06:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Wow, you're right, we should have leapt immediately to getting in each others' space and inhaling deeply.

[oh god is misty the only one willing to talk to her now]

[truly this is hell]
thatsplato: (just a smile)

[personal profile] thatsplato 2025-05-10 07:22 pm (UTC)(link)
It was a little drawn out.
sweetsynergy: (F)

[personal profile] sweetsynergy 2025-05-10 07:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Are you really critiquing how long it took us to kill you?