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tenebraecious ([personal profile] tenebraecious) wrote2021-07-24 12:36 am

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You wake up— No, you have always been in a white, airy space. The floor is hard and cold, swirled marble, but there is also soil and plant life crunching underneath your feet. Columns raise impossibly high, they are tall enough to hurt your small neck as you crane up to look at them.

After all, you are quite small, hardly a handful of years to your name, and the world is so very large, very big. You do not recall much, not yet, but you are certain of love, warmth, and destiny. You have a purpose.

Among the flowers, herbs, and long, long grass, there are two women seated in chairs with very high backs. You feel the urge to run to them, rest your cheek upon their laps, but you can sense that you should not. The air, no, spirits says you ought not to. Still, they both smile warmly at you.

The one in white and blue speaks, "Hello, my dear. Let us speak."

The one in black speaks, "Little one, what do you seek?"
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[personal profile] worldlyaffliction 2021-07-24 07:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Uuuhm... I seek ta know where I am...?
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[personal profile] worldlyaffliction 2021-07-24 09:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Tenebrae like the same one that floats or whatever? With the garden...
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[personal profile] worldlyaffliction 2021-07-24 09:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Did she have two moms?
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[personal profile] worldlyaffliction 2021-07-24 10:55 pm (UTC)(link)
[Do hate being blessed.]

Oh hey, it's those guys... [Or at least the darker one looks familiar.] They're guide dogs?
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[personal profile] worldlyaffliction 2021-07-26 08:17 am (UTC)(link)
Light 'n dark pairs... Is that how things gotta be? I guess if I'm gonna be given messengers, I oughta try 'n send a message somewhere...

[Who would cause trouble? Leans to study the white dog, wondering if that name will come to him too.]
Edited 2021-07-26 08:42 (UTC)
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[personal profile] worldlyaffliction 2021-07-27 05:35 am (UTC)(link)
Can I just let Glacies-san know I'm here 'n find someplace ta chill?
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[personal profile] worldlyaffliction 2021-07-27 05:44 am (UTC)(link)
[DESTINY IS BUNK AND OBLIGATION IS THE WORST]

Jeez, where'd ya wanna go then?
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[personal profile] worldlyaffliction 2021-07-27 06:37 am (UTC)(link)
[He'll glance at the two women in case they have anything else they want to impart on him, but otherwise he's ready to go if there's the option to go. The gentle maternal energy and yoke of solemn purpose are both things that sit uncomfortable on his shoulders, and he holds tight to that feeling more than anything else, stubborn about his sense of self. He's not sure there's any way to shrug off the weight here, but at least he'll move and observe, following after Pryna.]
Edited 2021-07-27 06:38 (UTC)
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[personal profile] worldlyafflictions 2021-07-30 05:36 am (UTC)(link)
[He does pat Pryna, probably a bit cursorily at first, then a bit more warmly despite himself.]

[He'll lurch, startled, when the scene begins to unfold, disoriented by the players--]

--Set-chan

[--lunges over, dropping down, only coming back to himself when he's unable to touch her, even kneeling next to her. At that he yanks himself back, looking over the whole scene before reluctantly glancing back at Sunset's prone form, and back at Pryna--]

No--who was it?
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[personal profile] worldlyafflictions 2021-07-30 08:01 am (UTC)(link)
[Winces, feeling a bit sick, but this is something that happened to Glacies, he thinks--or he's not quite sure, that feeling of Sunset being kept from his grasp lingering. Cobalt can't encounter Sunset like this; he doesn't know if he can just reach through her and pull her out. This was intuitive when he as a ghost in that one monster-themed game, but... well, what else is he here to do?]
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[personal profile] worldlyafflictions 2021-08-02 04:49 am (UTC)(link)
[Gathering himself]

I dunno how ta resolve her regret...

[personal profile] we_meet_again 2021-07-24 10:09 pm (UTC)(link)


...

I want...

...my mom.

[personal profile] we_meet_again 2021-07-24 10:22 pm (UTC)(link)


[Is this allowed? He feels like he shouldn't. It's hard to tell which of these feelings are his and what might belong to someone else.]

[...But then, she said it's okay, and he trusts her to know best. Hesitantly, he gives in to his desires and wanders closer, seeking comfort.]

...Are you Glacies' mom?

You look like her.

[personal profile] we_meet_again 2021-07-25 07:16 am (UTC)(link)


[He indeed glances at Gentiana before looking back to Sylva.]

Are they here too?

[personal profile] we_meet_again 2021-07-25 07:29 am (UTC)(link)


[He leans into it, starving for the embrace of a mother's warmth. He holds her, small fingers curling into the fabric of her clothes.]

Yeah...

[personal profile] we_meet_again 2021-07-25 07:43 am (UTC)(link)


[His fingers curl a little tighter.]

I can't come back? But why? I just got here.

[personal profile] we_meet_again 2021-07-25 08:11 am (UTC)(link)


[That sounds like such a tall order for such a small person]

What am I supposed to do?

[personal profile] we_meet_again 2021-07-25 08:19 am (UTC)(link)


[CLING]

What if I want to stay here?

[personal profile] we_meet_again 2021-07-25 08:30 am (UTC)(link)


Do I have to go alone? I don't even know where I am...!

[personal profile] we_meet_again 2021-07-25 08:39 am (UTC)(link)


[He doesn't understand what his duty even is. But two cute, strong dogs as companions does make him feel a little buoyed, so eventually he pulls himself together a big and slides off Sylva's lap.]

[Still holding onto the fabric of her shirt, he looks back at them.]

Will I see you again?

[personal profile] we_meet_again 2021-07-25 09:01 am (UTC)(link)


Okay...

[He rubs his eye. Leaving is so hard. Even though this is someone he just met, he can feel the bond of love, and that's hard to want to stray from when he's been aching for it for so long.]



...Okay. I'll... I'll go.

[It takes some effort, but he forces himself to detach from Sylva's clothes. Instead, he reaches out to sink his palm into Umbra's soft fur, as if to say "lead the way."]

[personal profile] we_meet_again 2021-07-25 09:11 am (UTC)(link)


[He stumbles along after Umbra, trying to keep up.]

[He's never actually been a very strong boy. He's never been very good at goodbyes. And he misses his mother so very badly, this brief experience just didn't seem like enough.]

[He sniffs and scrubs at the tears on his cheeks, not looking back, still stumbling forward after Umbra.]

[personal profile] we_meet_again 2021-07-25 09:48 am (UTC)(link)


[Oh Six]

[Leaving Sylva was a mistake.]

[This is beyond horrifying, so much a shock to his system that he isn't sure whether to scream or cry or throw up so instead he locks in place, frozen and overwhelmed, mouth hanging open as if to call out for someone, but the words choke in his throat.]

[The scene freezes with him and in the quiet, he breaks out of his paralysis and stumbles toward the scene in mindless panic. Thorn is being taken already -- Good, that's good! We have to run! Run, Pink!]

[Cobalt feels--remembers?--"DO NOT MOVE" and the sensation of blades at his throat, but why? When was that? Why is this happening? What is his duty??]

[He doesn't know!! All he knows is sheer, blind terror, lunging forward to try to grab Pink's hand to pull him in the direction Thorn's parent(?) is heading.]

[personal profile] we_meet_again 2021-08-13 07:31 am (UTC)(link)


[What is his duty? To "discover until he's satisfied"? Or was it something else? He can't quite remember. But whatever it was, surely it can't be more important than what's happening around him right now. Surely it must somewhere higher up the pyramid of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs than running the fuck away from whatever the heck is happening here!]

[He continues running in slow motion, trying to press through the time dilation and drag Pink along behind him, if he must.]