Continuing along, the change is almost imperceptible. For a while, all that they walk past are the shadowy forms of mannequins lining the floors - but at some point, they aren’t just mannequins, but bodies, bloodied and maimed. Before long, there’s nothing but bodies all around, a mountain in front and scattered corpses behind, some still alive enough to groan and cry in voices that, at times, may even sound familiar.
But there’s one in particular, nearer, clearer to see than the rest. Because looking properly, they’ll find the body of Persephone.
His body is cold and frostbitten, curved fangs trailing from his mouth and thorny vines curling around his body, digging into flesh - or, no, growing out of his flesh.
And to top it off - whether or not your character intends to help, they have their own wounds to worry about. A missing right arm will surely need to be dealt with before they can assist. But somehow...
Somehow, your character just knows; for this moment alone, they have regained their powers as a sensitIV. They can heal wounds into scars, mend broken bones, attach or detach limbs or other organs, and manipulate flesh as though it were clay. But...
Is that even sufficient for fixing - for healing all of this...?
Much like the powers, there’s another sense, another tickle of knowledge.
Someone else could do this. Someone else could fix everything - there’s no need to take responsibility, not for something so complex...
Anyway I hope the narration wasn't expecting an answer other than "immediately get to work", cause, we all know what Nyx is going to do when presented by things he can fix using sIV powers.]
[Persephone. If he's bleeding out or something then he can take a break midway to messily seal his wound off really quick, but, first this necrosis needs to go. Live flesh for their resident diva, not dead.]
Oh well, nothing to be done about that, then. Nyx will try and fleshcraft away the chunks of flesh the plants are growing out of, slowly, so he can heal up the "gaps" left behind. You don't need two arms to be tugging away a piece of flesh AND touching a body if you don't care about personal space.]
Well, he doesn't need both legs to drag himself from corpse to corpse later. He'll replace the bare minimum of flesh with flesh from his own leg, keeping that sealed up too as he goes. This is a very guro bodyhorror scene I'm sorry.]
At least with these ones it's a little clearer. An arm next to someone missing it, a leg for another. But bit by bit, diligently, he does his work, and he does it well.
You know in your heart that this isn't the end. They'll die and continue to die, over and over and over. But it's okay. Everyone knows you'll always be there to fix them up, again and again, friendly and smiling. You'll figure out how to fix it all, even past the limitations of your powers. You will never need anyone else to look out for you - you can heal yourself, can't you? Never insinuate anything is needed or desired, nothing that could breed resentment over the power over the lives and deaths of others, the power you never asked for. You'll handle it all, again and again, smiling because at least you aren't helpless, at least you can do something.
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But there’s one in particular, nearer, clearer to see than the rest. Because looking properly, they’ll find the body of Persephone.
His body is cold and frostbitten, curved fangs trailing from his mouth and thorny vines curling around his body, digging into flesh - or, no, growing out of his flesh.
And to top it off - whether or not your character intends to help, they have their own wounds to worry about. A missing right arm will surely need to be dealt with before they can assist. But somehow...
Somehow, your character just knows; for this moment alone, they have regained their powers as a sensitIV. They can heal wounds into scars, mend broken bones, attach or detach limbs or other organs, and manipulate flesh as though it were clay. But...
Is that even sufficient for fixing - for healing all of this...?
Much like the powers, there’s another sense, another tickle of knowledge.
Someone else could do this. Someone else could fix everything - there’s no need to take responsibility, not for something so complex...
What will they do?
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Anyway I hope the narration wasn't expecting an answer other than "immediately get to work", cause, we all know what Nyx is going to do when presented by things he can fix using sIV powers.]
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What next?]
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Oh well, nothing to be done about that, then. Nyx will try and fleshcraft away the chunks of flesh the plants are growing out of, slowly, so he can heal up the "gaps" left behind. You don't need two arms to be tugging away a piece of flesh AND touching a body if you don't care about personal space.]
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But to be fair there's also a lot of corpses and spare body parts just kind of. Around.]
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Well, he doesn't need both legs to drag himself from corpse to corpse later. He'll replace the bare minimum of flesh with flesh from his own leg, keeping that sealed up too as he goes. This is a very guro bodyhorror scene I'm sorry.]
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But it works! Persephone's getting fixed up, bit by bit.]
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Nyx will get Persephone into good enough shape before moving along to work on all the other human puzzles laying around.]
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You know in your heart that this isn't the end. They'll die and continue to die, over and over and over. But it's okay. Everyone knows you'll always be there to fix them up, again and again, friendly and smiling. You'll figure out how to fix it all, even past the limitations of your powers. You will never need anyone else to look out for you - you can heal yourself, can't you? Never insinuate anything is needed or desired, nothing that could breed resentment over the power over the lives and deaths of others, the power you never asked for. You'll handle it all, again and again, smiling because at least you aren't helpless, at least you can do something.
Doesn't that make you happy?
Your character wakes up perfectly healed in a room. Their hangman game has been updated.