Shrike's Heart (#4)

[idolpro]

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

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Re: THE BATTLEFIELD

[handpuppets]

[ what the fuckety!

there are actually quite a lot of people in this field, and more of them are walking around than anywhere else you've seen—soldiers, clad in dark steel armor.

Cardigan seems to be questioning an increasingly snitty woman with ash-grey hair who is standing near a pile of corpses. ]

Re: THE BATTLEFIELD

[we_meet_again]

...

[you know what, he goes and throws his spear on the weapon pile. No thanks, he doesn't want it.

In fact, he doesn't like being here very much at all.

Unless someone stops him, he's going to check out the bag of seeds.]

Re: THE BATTLEFIELD

[handpuppets]

[ You check out the bag of seeds! They still look to be in good order—not molding or anything—and the bag is mostly full. Probably for some kind of vegetable? ]

Re: THE BATTLEFIELD

[we_meet_again]

[did you know? seeds are his current favorite form of plant. As long as it's not in combination with a corpse, which he is trying very purposefully not to think about.

This poor fucking field, all trampled flat. He takes a handful of seeds and flings them, a few at a time, into the field. Clearly he has absolutely no idea how sewing seeds works!! Not a godsdamned clue!! But he's trying his best!

Maybe some of these will take hold and there can be life here again someday.]

Re: THE BATTLEFIELD

[handpuppets]

[ You scatter the seeds, and you hope. the ground isn't hard, so maybe some of them will take root; you'll have to hope, since it'll take a while. but that's some hope. ]

Re: THE BATTLEFIELD

[we_meet_again]

[Now that that's done, he's just going to jam a few fistfuls of seeds in his pockets. You know. For later.

Now he's getting back to Wednesday in some thread somewhere else]