[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]

Yeah. . .

[antreegonist]

Sorry.

Anyway, they'll wake up in their own time. Probably not for ages, though.

[brotagonist]

Why not?

[antreegonist]

'Cos Colette isn't here in Aather, and he never got to know her very well.

[brotagonist]

Why're they sleeping in the first place?

[antreegonist]

They're waiting.

[brotagonist]

[.......CONFUSED]

[antreegonist]

It's one of those things . . . you can only deal with it when it's there to be dealt with, or it doesn't mean much.

[brotagonist]

...why's it them? And were they in the middle of eating, or what?

[antreegonist]

No. It was just...a good shape for things. This place is all made of memories, you see.

It's them, because...the heart needs a way to remember, all the time, that people are their own people.

[brotagonist]

...why is it scary when you look at it?

[antreegonist]

Huh?

[brotagonist]

Outside. I was nervous to come in.

[antreegonist]

...it's always kind of unnerving to go back to people you've hurt.

[brotagonist]

Oh.

[antreegonist]

*'^'*

[brotagonist]

I don't want to mess with anything in here if they need to wait to get woken up... I dumped a little bit of water on Colette trying. Sorry.

[antreegonist]

*l-laughs, surprised*

No harm done.

[brotagonist]

Would it be better if they were in here, if they're sleeping?

[antreegonist]

...ummm...

[brotagonist]

[s-shrugs, I DON'T MIND LEAVING THEM EITHER...]

[antreegonist]

...I don't know what it'd do. Nothing bad. But it'd make a change.

[brotagonist]

[huff...]

There's something else I'd do, then... but it's not my heart. I don't want to go around... changing stuff in Mithos when nothing's wrong with it...

[antreegonist]

What would you do?

[brotagonist]

Put'em outside where they could see some sun when they woke up.