antreegonist | [a heart.]

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[a heart.]

There's a moment of nothing but light and sensation. Someone's looking you over and the scrutiny prickles and burns – it's nearly a physical pain, like fine little hooks digging past your skin, into the very meat of you. I know who you are, it says, and I know what you are, and that you don't have any business here --

“But you do,” says Mithos behind you. He's a tired, steady voice in your ear, a light hand on your shoulder. “I don't know what Dream's thinking, but everyone is welcome here in my heart; just keep in mind it's a real mess right now.”

Your vision clears.

((assume your characters wandered in here through a dream. also join #ihateyouihateyouiwanttocuddle on irc if you can!))

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"I...I have friends...? You are...?"

Of course you do. Lots of us... that only want to help you.

"I don't . . . understand . . ."

He's clutching at you sort of desperately, though.

[he strokes his hair, it's okay, tiny half elf...]

It's okay if you don't... As long as we're here, right? You don't... have to do this alone. You don't have to face this alone.

"I don't have to face this alone . . . there are other people . . .?"

He might be fading a little under your fingers, growing less tangible.

Yeah. You're important to us!

[oh-- was... that what I was supposed to do]

"I'm important . . ."

It's growing less dark, so probably . . . you can now make out a leaking box on the floor, just under the hovering Seed.

[he glance at the box, and then takes Mithos's hand and pulls him gently towards it]

... This is yours, right?

He follows the tug of your hand.

"Yes..."

[he picks it up for him, and holds it up to him]

... You should decide what you want to do. I... Um, I'll support whatever you decide. Okay...?

When you touch the box, a tide of sheer, helpless, lost confusion sweeps over you.

He looks kind of tentative when it clears, but . . . reaches out.

"I guess . . . I guess I'd better go inside . . . maybe?"

[I CAN DEAL WITH THAT-- JUST DON'T LET IT SHOW]

... Even if you do, you're not alone.

"I'll . . . I'll try to hold on to that. Thank you . . ."

He touches the box and disappears completely. The lid clicks into place of its own accord. The Seed and Sword are also gone . . .

You're in a large round chamber with a cloth hung all the way around the walls. It's raised a little to leave room for the doors (one on the left and one on the right). One end of the cloth is thick with colourful embroidery, but the rest -- a great deal of it, almost all of it -- is blank white. There's a neat pile of needleworking supplies and stray tags of cloth stacked under the embroidered section.

The top of the chamber is open to the stormy sky.

[lets... out a shaky breath and tries to calm down

carrying the box with him. He said he wouldn't leave him alone. Stores it away for now, and then goes to examine the needlework]

The embroidery is a detailed visual timeline of Aather, from Beauty's forest to Three's cove to the ship to Wonderland itself, beautifully worked -- you can see how realms grew, the people and Personae he talked to, the things he did. Are you examining any particular period closely?

[focusing in on Three's cove...]

Any particular subject?

[no, just going through it, watching it's development]

That is a lot of people and games and unlocks. Three's realm used to be just a huge cliff, a fuckton of sand, and empty cabins: you see it expand, plants appear, animals appear, ocean appear, growing, growing, growing.

You see Mithos and Lloyd speak with Three shortly after arriving; Mithos playing with a little brown bird; discussion discussion discussion; standing in a field with Ryner, whose eyes are bright red; Mithos growing wings; a party game with Maleficent and Goldie, in which he and Sasuke kiss and their mutual lineface is evident; Mithos lying in the Ring with Dream's hummingbird symbol hovering over him; in a bedroom in a strange castle with Lloyd, crying; your own arrival, his confusion, and your first cute interactions . . .

Keep going?

[... No, doesn't want to spy...

backing away, and looks at the two doors]

... Which way should I go?

"...what do you want to do?"

... I don't think this is really about me, Mithos.

"You're your own person with your own desires. Even if they're to help me."

[he closes his eyes...]

... Alright.

[and to the door on the right he goes.]

You're two-thirds of the way up the bark path, on the trunk of the ghostly tree. The door you just exited is labeled MIND. You can go down to BODY, or up to the third branch and HEART.

Re: [future - mind]

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Re: [future - mind]

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