Imeeji Idol Productions ([personal profile] idolpro) wrote2020-02-17 09:33 am
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Shrike's Heart (#1)

The woman before you is beautiful—fair of features, with lovely golden skin and luxurious long black hair, petite. You have the immediate and distinct impression that she's just let go of your hand, and she steps back, and smiles.

It's not quite a happy smile.

"I'm sorry," she says. "There's just nothing I can do, as things are. But the way is there; it just needs to be lit."

You open your mouth—maybe to say something, or to express confusion—but you have to cough, and taste something metallic, spattering black blood onto the ground in front of you. Then you realize—blood seeps from opening wounds in your arms, your chest, your stomach, your face. It rims your eyes and trails from your nose and you feel like you're dissolving—

—and you fall through the ground like it's the surface of a lake, and go down, down, down.

> Wake Up
syncintohell: (Elegantly)

Re: THE RUINED TOWN

[personal profile] syncintohell 2020-02-18 03:07 am (UTC)(link)
What?

[ He heard him, but blankly uncomprehending ]
mind_blown: (My god.)

Re: THE RUINED TOWN

[personal profile] mind_blown 2020-02-18 03:08 am (UTC)(link)
His injuries were so bad, he didn't realize his brother had been dead for hours.

You were gonna ask him to walk half a day for maybe medicine. That's basically torture.
syncintohell: (We won’t let you go)

Re: THE RUINED TOWN

[personal profile] syncintohell 2020-02-18 03:09 am (UTC)(link)
I do not care! Torture though it may be, did he desire death? Did he beg for it, or lay down and submit to his fate?!
mind_blown: (Things are looking up)

Re: THE RUINED TOWN

[personal profile] mind_blown 2020-02-18 03:11 am (UTC)(link)
[look he's just not having these arguments!! it's fine!

he's doing GREAT!

they're doing great?]
syncintohell: (From atop a mechanical skyscraper)

Re: THE RUINED TOWN

[personal profile] syncintohell 2020-02-18 03:15 am (UTC)(link)
[ NON!!!!

congrats you have a really loud 18 year old shouting at you ]

You would deny a man his own will! Are you so terrified of suffering!? Do not thrust your own desires upon another man and thus deny them what is theirs to choose by right!
mind_blown: (With a blindfold on.)

Re: THE RUINED TOWN

[personal profile] mind_blown 2020-02-18 03:20 am (UTC)(link)
... You done yet?

Good.

Were you gonna tell him his brother was dead? Were you gonna give him all the information to ruin his life or was that just gonna be a consequence later?

Just wondering. You can't say "it's his right to choose!" while also not telling him his brother is dead. We're in hell, for fuck's sake. Which means, if he believes in heaven, there's a chance he wakes up next to his brother.
syncintohell: (dwells)

Re: THE RUINED TOWN

[personal profile] syncintohell 2020-02-18 03:22 am (UTC)(link)
Non! I am not in any way done! Once he has recovered, if he chooses to kill himself then, that is by his own will and his own hand! You are the one making assumptions! Do you think I have, in my time here, not delivered news that no one wishes to hear? That you think me to be such a coward is mere projection of your own cowardice!
mind_blown: (The price of your greed)

Re: THE RUINED TOWN

[personal profile] mind_blown 2020-02-18 03:24 am (UTC)(link)
[he just looks at him.

fascinating.

anyway he's too old for this, so he will let you monologue forever]
syncintohell: (Sings of all its feelings)

Re: THE RUINED TOWN

[personal profile] syncintohell 2020-02-18 03:27 am (UTC)(link)
[ HE'LL DO THAT ]

And now you think you have the right to lay him to rest as though such a thing could be restful when his fate was wrongfully wrought, a crime done against his will! Give me that shovel!

[ he's tired and exhausted and doesn't actually have the stamina to bury another corpse, but he's going to grab for it ]
mind_blown: (Things are looking up)

Re: THE RUINED TOWN

[personal profile] mind_blown 2020-02-18 03:29 am (UTC)(link)
[he's just gonna watch him struggle with that for a bit, if he's going to.]

Alright. Have fun.

[irreverence is a coping mechanism.]
syncintohell: (Who controls even darkness)

Re: THE RUINED TOWN

[personal profile] syncintohell 2020-02-18 03:32 am (UTC)(link)
[ yanks it and falls over backwards ]

[ and then after a moment of breathing hard, not sure what to do with that response, he says: ]

No one with any shred of conscience would find any part of this fun.

[ And then, using the shovel as support, slowly get to his feet again ]
mind_blown: (Things are looking up)

Re: THE RUINED TOWN

[personal profile] mind_blown 2020-02-18 03:33 am (UTC)(link)
Guess I don't have a conscience, then.

It's kind of what i was known for, back home. So.

But whenever you get tired, let me know, champ.
syncintohell: (to those distant imagined heights)

Re: THE RUINED TOWN

[personal profile] syncintohell 2020-02-18 03:37 am (UTC)(link)
Hmph! I would never ask such a cretin for help! Even if I succumb to the elements and exhaustion, I will get this done myself!

[ how deep did he manage to dig? Though he does mean what he said, and will be doing his best to finish making the hole deep enough to bury him even if it's a rather shallow grave. ]

Re: THE RUINED TOWN

[personal profile] handpuppets 2020-02-18 03:39 am (UTC)(link)
[ it's not too shallow; maybe not as deep as most people would want for a grave, but the earth here is damp and not packed too tight, so it's maybe two and a half feet. ]
syncintohell: (Pilgrims)

Re: THE RUINED TOWN

[personal profile] syncintohell 2020-02-18 03:41 am (UTC)(link)
[ Then he's going to finish the job, even if at the end he's gonna collapse and want to sit down for a while ]