Imeeji Idol Productions ([personal profile] idolpro) wrote2020-02-21 02:33 pm
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Shrike's Heart (#4)

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
we_meet_again: (Σ(꒪Д ꒪ ))

Re: > START

[personal profile] we_meet_again 2020-02-22 02:22 am (UTC)(link)
—Woah!

Wednesday?

[slogging over to check on her]
wonderlandgirl: (✽ still frail right now)

Re: > START

[personal profile] wonderlandgirl 2020-02-22 02:25 am (UTC)(link)
[She doesn't hear at first; she's drawn breath to scream again.

[Oh no oh no oh no--

[What is this place...?]
we_meet_again: ((ó﹏ò ;))

Re: > START

[personal profile] we_meet_again 2020-02-22 02:27 am (UTC)(link)
[He stands in front of her where she can see, hands out in a pacifying gesture]

Hey, it's alright, you're okay..!
wonderlandgirl: (✽ also i think i'm stuck)

Re: > START

[personal profile] wonderlandgirl 2020-02-22 02:31 am (UTC)(link)
Cobalt-san--!!

[She's just going to throw herself at him, sorry.

[For a moment she just stands there, trembling, trying very very hard to calm herself down. Maybe, if she keeps her eyes closed--

[This is awful.

[What happened here?]
we_meet_again: ((ɔ ˘⌣˘)˘⌣˘ c))

Re: > START

[personal profile] we_meet_again 2020-02-22 02:37 am (UTC)(link)
[Holds her tight, letting her hide her face in his chest]

It's okay.

I think it might be a dream or something.
wonderlandgirl: (✽ another sweet taste of misery)

Re: > START

[personal profile] wonderlandgirl 2020-02-22 02:40 am (UTC)(link)
A... a dream?

[She raises her head, just a little.]

So it's not real?
we_meet_again: (pic#12576821)

Re: > START

[personal profile] we_meet_again 2020-02-22 02:47 am (UTC)(link)
I dunno.

I had a dream about this place, once. It felt real that time, too.

[he looks down at her feet in the corpsewater]

...Would you like to ride on my back?
wonderlandgirl: (✽ don't look at me)

Re: > START

[personal profile] wonderlandgirl 2020-02-22 02:49 am (UTC)(link)
... would that be okay?

[She really, really wants to.]
we_meet_again: (( `v ´  ))

Re: > START

[personal profile] we_meet_again 2020-02-22 02:51 am (UTC)(link)
[He turns around and crouches, assuming the piggyback position]

No problem at all.
wonderlandgirl: (✽ pastel bloom)

Re: > START

[personal profile] wonderlandgirl 2020-02-22 02:53 am (UTC)(link)
Really?

[Wednesday smiles, and hopes he can at least hear it in her voice.]

Thank you, Cobalt-san.

[Yes let's get up and out of Death's wading pool. She clings to Cobalt like the lifeline he is.]
Edited 2020-02-22 02:55 (UTC)
we_meet_again: (suri136)

Re: > START

[personal profile] we_meet_again 2020-02-22 02:58 am (UTC)(link)
No worries, I've got you.

[Up you get!

He gathers her comfortably up on his broad back like she weighs nothing, and together they wade through the field of corpses until they unaccountably find themselves at the edge of the Weird Hole]
Edited 2020-02-22 02:58 (UTC)