thevoidsdarkhorse | Heart Game (Continued)

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thevoidsdarkhorse

Nah, I'll just call you up if I need ya, I think.

[She gestures to the water.] Just need to dive down with the belt.

From:

showyouthesight

Make sure you do.

[ He straightens the belt and then dives ]

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thevoidsdarkhorse

[It's almost hard to notice at first, the transition between water to something else. In the end, both are soothing, a welcoming embrace. Aimless floating without need to worry about things like gravity or even air.]

[The only time it becomes obvious is when it feels like there's something below his back.]

[When he takes in his surroundings, he'll see himself on a swirling pattern of black and white, a mix of the void Roxy knows and the white around Kyriakos.]

[There is one other thing off, a symbol, and in the middle is Roxy, in her Rogue of Void outfit, seeming to almost be meditating.]

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showyouthesight

[ Honestly, void kind of unnerves Sakura, being a creature of pure motion. Stasis is he antithesis. He's unsure whether he should interrupt the meditation though. ]

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thevoidsdarkhorse

[Well, she's just sitting there.]

[For a while.]

[....until she]

[Well, it LOOKED like a snore, except no sound, so...huh.]

From:

showyouthesight

Haa? Roxy?

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thevoidsdarkhorse

[She jerks, head snapping up.]

...

[She was totally asleep.]

From:

showyouthesight

... were you sleeping?

From:

thevoidsdarkhorse

...

[Sheepish shrug.]

From:

showyouthesight

Why were you sleeping?

From:

thevoidsdarkhorse

...

[She gestures around them. Then more gestures, and like the Carapacians, it seems to make words. Or word in this case.]

"Peaceful."

From:

showyouthesight

I guess that makes sense, considering the rest.

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thevoidsdarkhorse

[She nods.]

[She holds out a hand to him.]

From:

showyouthesight

[ He offers it to her. ]

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thevoidsdarkhorse

[When he reaches the void aspect, a thought pops up.]

[I want to exist and be happy.]

[She takes his hand, tugging for him to sit beside her.]

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showyouthesight

[ Well, I guess he's sitting then. ]

You do exist, Roxy.

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thevoidsdarkhorse

....

"It can be hard to remember that sometimes."

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showyouthesight

Why's that?

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thevoidsdarkhorse

"What did you figure out?"

"About how I grew up?"

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showyouthesight

That you weren't used to being around people? Just those weird guys. The ones whose city was always burning. And that you've seen the place you've considered home destroyed more than once.

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thevoidsdarkhorse

"To the Carapacians, I was a hero. No, a 'noble.' That's what the puzzles said. A noble, a mascot, a dreamer. They're NPCs of the Game, so that's what players are to them. I was never."

"Me."

"And when you grow up like that and your aspect is void, it becomes easier and easier to believe you're just another part of the void. Without pesterchum, I probably would have lost who I was completely."

"At least, it's the feeling I get."

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showyouthesight

Is that why it was so important that we kept using it here?

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thevoidsdarkhorse

[She nods.]

"The heart is a self centered place. The moment you entered, you started seeing things from my perspective. Your hearing, how you read people, how it feels to touch others, that's all me. The same with loneliness. Pesterchum was always the easiest way to alleviate it. Everything else either meant luck of who you are." [She gestures to his aspect.] "Or having to work harder for it."