Heart Game: Sol [#01]

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[sleeplessknight]

[there's a moment of confusion where she just sits there, looking at her surroundings... where is this place?

oh, right. this is inside Eugeo's... heart.

she shivers a bit, feeling a little regret at her ability choice from earlier, but gets up on her feet quickly to start moving.]

Hello...?

[she calls out, as she starts wandering a bit]

[bluerosestyle]

[This is not a Disney movie so the animals won't reply to you, but you can hear a noise from not too far away. A 'thud' sort of noise, like something not too heavy is falling from a high place. And then another. And another.]

[sleeplessknight]

[time to follow that noise!!!]

[bluerosestyle]

[You try to locate the source of the sound, and your quest leads you further inside the forest. After a while, you come out to a clearing and find yourself facing...



...a very big, majestic tree. Well, that’s what you see at first, but then the sight changes even as you look at it, as if that was a vivid illusion; the trunk and its enormous roots take on a deep madder color, and the branches and leaves disappear.

The monstrous tree you first saw is now little more than a gigantic trunk, pruned to exaggeration. It has a couple of branches in moss green and cotton candy pink color, and more than a few in navy blue color. In fact, it looks like the navy blue color is starting to spread onto the trunk. Hm.]

[sleeplessknight]

[um, what???

speeding up to check out that tree, because WHAT]

[bluerosestyle]

[It's a tree!

There are branches on the floor, in many colors. Some of them are cracked.]

[sleeplessknight]

[ooookay,

picks up one of the branches (assuming they're small enough for it??) to Sc it]

[bluerosestyle]

[They are small. It's like they're not being allowed to grow big]

Unit type: Weapon/Branch
Unit ID: UWWP6783 Class: 5 Durability: 300/300

[sleeplessknight]

Hmm.

[well that's not terribly informative but... the durability is nice???

drops the branch on the floor again to go Sc the tree trunk itself]

[bluerosestyle]

Unit type: Divine Object
Unit ID: UWGC7654 Class: None Durability: 127650/320826

[sleeplessknight]

Divine object...?

[she lets the trunk be for now, looking around for a branch that's decently sized to... bring with her. since it said that was a weapon???

????

also what happened to the "thud, thud, thud"?]

[bluerosestyle]

[This trunk is wide enough to hide a lot of things. Since Yuuki is looking for a bigger branch, she'll eventually notice there's someone on the other side of the tree, a bit far from the trunk, sitting in front of a dying bonfire.

This person you know is wearing Taisho clothing and a big scarf around his neck that you may recognize from somewhere... He casually throws a branch into the fire, and murmurs something while extending his hand over it. Almost immediately, the fire is rekindled.

He hasn't seen you yet. There are also no big branches in the vicinity.]

[sleeplessknight]

[Iiii guess we're keeping a small one, then.

walking towards where he is, slowly, and calling out before he's close]

Hello...?

[bluerosestyle]

[That person turns his head to look at her.

Obviously it's Sol, but he is wearing an eyepatch on his right eye. He looks much paler than usual.




He stands up fast when he sees her.]

Y-Yuuki?!

[sleeplessknight]

[alarm alarm alarm]

H-Hi...

[bluerosestyle]

Wh--



You have to be freezing! Come closer to the fire, otherwise you'll get a head cold!

[sleeplessknight]

[steps closer and after a moment of hesitation she sits down by his side]

Are you okay?

[bluerosestyle]

[Now that you're closer, you can see the dark bags under his eyes (one of them, at least). Also, his clothes are torn and have traces of dry blood on them.

He's taking off his scarf.]

Well, I'm hungry, but that can't be helped...

[sleeplessknight]

You look tired...

[bluerosestyle]

[loosely wrapping the scarf around her]

That can't be helped either. Being here is my Calling, after all.

[sleeplessknight]

[what??? too distracted by what he's saying to complain about the scarf, but]

No it's not!!

[bluerosestyle]

[chuckles]

But it is. My job, for the rest of eternity, is to look after this tree. To trim its branches every day, so that the tree can thrive.

[sleeplessknight]

... What's wrong with the branches?

[bluerosestyle]

They stain the trunk. Not all branches act the same, but... This is known as the Tree of Life now. Everyone here needs it to stay the way it is because it's what keeps everyone alive. Letting it change colors is punishable by monochromatosis. So it's my job to prune them. No one else will.

[sleeplessknight]

W-Wait, what?

Who else needs to be kept alive by it?

[looks around]