HEART GAME: REQUIEM (run 1)

[idolpro]

You awaken in the ☆ZRAEL dorm common room. It’s dark. Darker than usual, and the reason why is immediately apparent: the lamps are all extinguished, the stars have disappeared, and the moon has shifted to new. The ocean below the glass panes of the floor is silent and still. Everything feels cold and unmoving, not unlike a painting.

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[stakesthesame]

Quiet.

But the monster's form shrinks, slowly, until all that's left is Requiem. A little younger than you know her, maybe sixteen, her hair no longer than her shoulders and a little messy.

But still injured, still holding her shoulder where that gunshot wound bleeds, and the other couple of stab wounds bleeding sluggishly. She's frowning, head hung, but she slowly and uneasily tries to make her way down from the roof.

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[avestan]

[getting up and going over to try and help her get down]

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[stakesthesame]

She'll hesitate, noticeably, but after a moment accepts your help, if only because it's kinda hard to drop like ten feet from the roof while injured and not regret everything.

She doesn't say anything to you, though.

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[avestan]

...You didn't want me to give up. So that means you want me to help you, doesn't it?

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[stakesthesame]

She's quiet for a long moment.

"... even if you tried to kill me, I still love you."

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[avestan]

[an even longer moment of quiet]

I love you too. Even if I tried to kill you.

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[stakesthesame]

A beat. And then she carefully leans in against your shoulder, stiffly.

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[avestan]

[carefully goes to hug her, ready to pull back if she doesn't accept it]

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[stakesthesame]

I mean the hugging is fine she is just also in a lot of pain right now.

Eventually, Hurricane and Nemesis come back over, both looking a little worried.

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[avestan]

...Hey. You guys wouldn't know any healing spells or anything, would ya?

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[stakesthesame]

"Uh-- yeah, of course..." Hurricane comes over as the True Heart carefully unleans from you to sit; his staff glows gently as he starts to heal her wounds. Nemesis hesitates, before sitting next to her as well-- all three of them begin to talk, quietly. It's nothing you can really focus on... just background noise. But it makes you feel warm.

There's a weight in your hand that wasn't there before.

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[avestan]

[what is it!]

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[stakesthesame]

It's a key!!

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[avestan]

Oh, nice.

[time to go open that door then!]

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[stakesthesame]

Opening the door shows the ZRAEL dorm again-- lit and colorful and warm and comfortable, like normal.

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[avestan]

Guess it all worked out after all...

[wanders in]

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[stakesthesame]

The True Heart looks up, and watches you go.

You walk in. Feels like... Home.

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[avestan]

[turning back to look at her through the door]

Wanna come in?

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[stakesthesame]

She hesitates-- gives Hurricane a brief hug as he finishes healing her-- and slowly gets to her feet with a hand from Nem.

"... can I?"

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[avestan]

Of course you can. It's your home.

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[stakesthesame]

She's quiet for a moment. But she gently ushers Nemesis and Hurricane ahead of her, into the house, before crossing the threshold herself, cautiously.





And she tears up, a little, sinking down into one of the beanbags with palpable relief.

Then, for you, everything fades.