[a heart field trip]

[antreegonist]

*you're back on the island of Mithos's heart, on the dirt path through the meadow. the sky's still clouded and glassy, but it's no longer storming: you've arrived in the middle of a sunshower.

the freestanding door is there in its pool. the surrounding fog has thinned to translucence -- you can see a couple of large, four-legged shapes moving in it.*

Comments

[brotagonist]

[.........I am curious but it is also kind of like those things where you know if you open the chest it will actually be an enemy you are underleveled for........]

[antreegonist]

*THOSE BASTARDS*

[brotagonist]

[WHO DOESN'T HATE THOSE. NO ONE DOESN'T HATE THOSE! ugh I will just go back downstairs, away from temptation D<]

[antreegonist]

*good bro excellent judgment*

[brotagonist]

[has anything changed down here...]

[antreegonist]

*sword on table, scales on floor, water on floor . . . not really.

you may glimpse a thin thread of light that runs from the top of the open doorframe to the table in this tower. in the lit tower is a matching thread of shadow.*

[brotagonist]

[bwuh... follows the light and shadow threads through the door to look at them better, then returns to the tower and takes the Eternal Sword off the table experimentally, watching the threads]

[antreegonist]

*nothing happens to the threads! the water vanishes from the floor.*

[brotagonist]

[... 8( puts it back! tries putting the scales on the table again too, looking for a reaction from the threads]

[antreegonist]

*water reappears when you put the sword back; add the scales and the ground starts to shake again. the shadow thread in the lit tower blinks out of existence, and the one in this tower flickers erratically on and off.*

[brotagonist]

[aha. takes the scales to the other room and tries putting them on that table?]

[antreegonist]

*the shaking stops and the threads go back to normal.

blood wells up from the floor.*

[brotagonist]

[AAAAAH UM. TOUCHES... THAT?]

[antreegonist]

*...grief...*

[brotagonist]

[DO I REALLY WANT TO GET GRIEF BLOOD ALL OVER THE INSIDE OF MITHOS'S HEART... but the scales don't make this table shake... dithers]

[antreegonist]

*while you dither it's going to keep welling up to cover the floor.*

[brotagonist]

[GETTING GRIEF ALL OVER THE INSIDE OF THE NICE TOWER :\a well, I could always take the scales back off, but then I'd have to leave them on the floor...]

[antreegonist]

*blood blood blood...at least it's slower than the water...*

[brotagonist]

[...waits to see what happens when the whole floor is covered like on the other side. :[a]

Blood and water... what the hell?

[antreegonist]

*the blood and water meet in the open doorway. there's a high chiming sound; they begin to flow into each other, combining slowly into some sort of silvery liquid -- like faintly glowing mercury.*

[brotagonist]

[oh. ...goes to dip his fingers in it...]

[antreegonist]

*it doesn't contain an emotion as much as a desire -- the need to atone.*

[brotagonist]

[............ :X goes to shift the scales carefully to the center of the table.]

[antreegonist]

*they don't quite cover the split caused by the Sword, but it'll do.*

[brotagonist]

[sits on the staircase to wait '-']