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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
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
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[ He heard him, but blankly uncomprehending ]
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You were gonna ask him to walk half a day for maybe medicine. That's basically torture.
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he's doing GREAT!
they're doing great?]
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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!
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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.
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fascinating.
anyway he's too old for this, so he will let you monologue forever]
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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 ]
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Alright. Have fun.
[irreverence is a coping mechanism.]
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[ 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 ]
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It's kind of what i was known for, back home. So.
But whenever you get tired, let me know, champ.
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[ 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. ]
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