thevoidsdarkhorse | Heart Game (Continued)

Heart Game (Continued)

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TG: youll be able to feel it
TG: just think u wanna go

[When she does, she'll feel it. An odd sort of just KNOWING the direction. Sbe'll be fairly sure even if she gets turned around, she'll know the way she needs to go.]

[But she is gonna need to go outside.]

[Always wondered, was directions because of the void, or was it because she grew up with chess people with perfect senses of direction?]

[Why yes you can.]

[Silly drone, this is why you fly.]

[Ten sider again.]

Us dying was not preventable, Roxy! As much as we all wanted it, someone had to die for that damned Echo to be satisfied. Even if you had stayed quiet and played along, how many people would have been killed?? It was rigged no matter what we did, you can't talk yourself out of that---!

[Augh, you know what.

Biting back a swear before falling to his knees in front of her and GRASPING her. Anger is his push now, his fuel past the fear.]

You couldn't save them, I know you couldn't save them, and goddammit, I know it hurts to see it again. But the only person who hasn't forgiven you is you, you idiot.

[Burying his face in her hair]

I forgive you. I forgive you, Roxy. Please. Find some forgiveness for yourself.

I don't remember them at all, though. They remember me. It's... actually unsettling.

[She considers.]

Yeah, I think so. Some pumpkin soup?

[You manage to keep ahead of them, but just barely.]

[It's scary it's scary it's scary you thought they were your friends why would they hurt you]

[And then there's a crash as you move from a dark gray square to white as white carapacians appear and bum rush the pursuers.]

Maybe. You do have a way with song. [Teasing.]

All right.

You will have to teach me, then. I have not made that before.

VS: you just said you're tired
VS: you can only do so much when you're running on low

[she's startled by that for a moment, but quickly moves out of the way of the white ones and then continues to run, not bothering to stay and watch]

I can totes do that!

[Gonna pull him into PUMPKIN SOUP making.]

[Weird...but not totally unfamiliar. And if Roxy says it'll work, she believes her. Outside it is, then.]

...

It'd be weird, if it wasn't, honestly. [Squeezes his hand.]

Thank you.

[this... this is fun. '-' it's enjoyable to make things and learn new things with a FRIEND]

[ Well, that feels pretty damn good!

1 ]

I do, don't I~?

I guess I'll just have to try a bunch out.

Do you know how to play any others? Where did you learn how to play the violin?

[I'm sorry that feeling isn't going to last.]

[And that would be how it feels like to have every hope, dream, and everything you cherished violently ripped from you and crushed before your eyes.]

[You are now in a void.]

[ ah, that's kind of nice to feel again ]

Gull showed me a memory he has of me. It made it even more strange.

CW: that doesn't mean i can stop

[It's like a shock because YOU DON'T TOUCH ME ANYMORE, but here you are. Touching me. You're hugging me and yelling and it's all THERE. In his words, in the movements of his body, and the fact he's DOING this.]

[She's still, eyes wide, staring over his shoulder in shock because how. How, how, how could anyone forgive her, she hurt so many, she knew games, and it was HIS team she hurt directly, but he still]

[Still]

[She sobs. After Cry Wolf, she refused to take the comfort. This time, her comes up to cling to him instead.]

[ISN'T IT JUST?]

[Soup making. It's not hard, at least. Pretty quick too.]

When you confessed, your team and one other close to them would die, yes?

[You're outside and you’re amongst fire and structurally unsound buildings. There are also corpses of the black and white Carapacians, blood red as humans, and all very dead. You can see the red stringy mass in the sky, and in the distance you can hear rockets.]

UU: i do know a thing or two aboUt the red miles.
UU: it is the qUeen's favoUred attack. very long distance and omnidirectional.
UU: bUt once Upon a time, her weapon was stolen by a UsUrper. jacked, yoU coUld say, right off her ring finger. and then given a considerable boost in power.
UU: that gave the miles enoUgh of a kick to rip a Universe to shreds.
UU: and they have been doing so to yoUrs and its many instances for eons.
UU: only now have they caUght Up to yoUr instance. it is qUite fortUnate it has taken so long, really.
UU: some instances are tUcked deeper in the speaker's mighty blow sack, and will hold oUt for mUch longer, on a vast cosmic scale of coUrse.
TG: wait
TG: i dont
TG: what? instances
TG: blowb sack
TG: righ now i can hardly walk w/o steppin on my moms scarf ok
TG: so theyre destorying the universe is that the bootom line
UU: yes.
UU: try to think of it like this.
UU: imagine that the Universe is contained inside a very large creatUre.
UU: say, a great big frog.
TG: frog
TG: why a frog thats so silly
UU: it's jUst a frog! that is the way it is, jUst try to imagine it.
TG: k
TG: picturin
TG: big ol space frog
TG: all ribbiting loud an being huge
TG: hehehe
UU: now imagine that not only does the Universe exist inside it, depending on the creatUre's health and well being to sUrvive...
UU: bUt every potential instance of that Universe exists inside as well.
UU: those that are doomed and those with promise.
UU: even those that were reset from scratch, with slightly different starting conditions.
UU: all of those interrelated Universes mingling together inside yoUr frog, inextricable from its physiology.
UU: if the frog dies, they all go with it. eventUally.
TG: then you are saying some rude a-hole is killin our frog
UU: sadly, yes.
TG: wow
TG: that is
TG: just....
TG: the WORST

[You know the way to the lab, though it's some distance away.]

[Roll a 10 sider.]

[There is a Strife going on in the background.]

[And a white one is scooping you up suddenly and ALL THE CONCERN, are you all right Dreamer?]

Yes.

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