Eclipse's Heart Game ☉ Session #4

[idolpro]

You drift like you're floating in water. It's almost relaxing, actually. As long as you don't think too hard that what you're floating in may be bottomless, because under you lies only a deep darkness that only the ocean can provide.

Then something grabs you and drags you deeper, down, down, down into the abyssal depths. You can't breathe, but that's not on the forefront of your mind now, is it?

There is a mounting sense of anxiety and dread.

Who do you want to become? Will you even get to see tomorrow? What if all roads lead to ████████? Can you still stay '███'? If people see the ████ you, will they think less of you? Will they feel cheated?

You want to live. Even if it's a ███, even if your hands must be covered in █████, you want to live. You want to be '███'.

Finally, a voice pierces through the darkness. It's a woman's voice.

"My, how unfortunate. Your journey ends before it even begins."

"... Just kidding. That would be terribly boring! I suppose I can do the boy a favour just this once."

You feel someone grab your arm and pull you up to the surface.

...

When you come to, you are standing somewhere else.

Comments

Maze: Purple Alley 1

[intheshade]

The light of the lanterns hanging above you bathes the alley in a purple, neon glow. It's an eerie light that reflects off some puddles in the ground, and in a way it doesn't feel like it lights up the path so much as it emphasises the shadows of the buildings around you. The stench of stagnant seawater permeates the air.

There are paths south and east.

FOR SHO

[intheshade]

As you walk along the alley, the lanterns above suddenly extinguish -- like darkness came down to smother them out and blanket you in its cold embrace.

You find yourself experiencing a very vivid hallucination, like you were the ones in his shoes when it happened.

"If anyone thinks they can achieve all they want to do and hold onto everything they love without ever hurting someone, they should sleeptalk only when they're asleep."

You promised her. Since the first time, in that house, you know that it hurt her to kill and keep dying. More so when it wasn't entirely of her own free will -- when ghosts and scripted roles are overlaid on top of one's consciousness, how much of you is really 'you'?

... She entrusted you with this duty, and only one other person, as far as you have any idea of -- but he's gone, and there is only you now. This is your responsibility.

If only you weren't such a coward, trying to delay the inevitable. Rather than kindness, isn't such hesitation simply making things more painful?

... When it ends, the darkness lifts, and the lanterns flicker back to life.

Re: FOR SHO

[scarvedforlife]

[ Standing there, stunned for a moment before he's able to take a slow, shaky breath and steady himself, then more and more to calm himself. ]

Haah... even the fairy, huh.

[ He's there for a while more before heading south. ]

Re: FOR SHO

[intheshade]

There's probably a reason why there's so much red around.

Re: FOR SHO

[scarvedforlife]

[ Absently ruffling his own hair with his free hand, glancing back the way he came before going east. ]

Re: FOR SHO

[intheshade]

You're getting a closer, possibly.