[a heart.]

[antreegonist]

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!))

Comments

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[antreegonist]

. . . it fades.

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[featherfetch]

. . .

[reaching out to touch a flower again, this time careful to avoid the sap]

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[antreegonist]

You feel that lonely presence more strongly. It's alien to you, mindless, reaching.

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[featherfetch]

[pulls back, and then tries the other vine last]

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[antreegonist]

You're centered in yourself, exhausted and a little achey but flopped over and warm and comfortable after a long day, absolutely satisfied; someone's with you, carding fingers through your hair, and you love them, warm and fierce and true -- all's right in your world --

It's more an impression than a solid memory, but it's so strong it leaves you a little dizzy and weak-kneed, banishing the remnants of the crystal vine's effects.

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[featherfetch]

. . .

[tearing a strip off his shirt and using it to work at sponging off the sap]

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[antreegonist]

You can do this! Very carefully.

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[featherfetch]

[d...oes.... so........

ogod i should have picked 'keep the stranger who was previously my friend company' idek what im doing here 8(]

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[antreegonist]

When you've wiped away all of the sap, you glimpse a flashing from one of the screens.

FUSION AT 93%.

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[featherfetch]

. . .?

Why did the fusion level decrease?

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[antreegonist]

SEPARATION PROCESS AT 7% . . .

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[featherfetch]

But you said that separating them was bad!

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[antreegonist]

SEPARATION WILL RETURN HOST BODY TO ORGANIC STATUS

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[featherfetch]

. . .

[/IGNORE COMPUTER, turns back to the vines and addresses the nice one]



That's a warm feeling, so. . . please do your best and grow strong.

Re: [past - body]

[antreegonist]

There's a little sigh through the chamber . . . perhaps it ruffles the leaves, very very slightly.

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[featherfetch]

[hesitates, and then checks his pockets etc.

sword and knife mmmnnnope :(a]

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[featherfetch]

[...settles on tugging the key from around his neck and tying it carefully around the vines]

. . .It would probably be better coming from someone other than me, but. . . try to remember that you are not alone.







[okok looking for any exits now '-'a]

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[antreegonist]

You find the key back on your neck. Someone gives you a light, invisible bop on the head.

"Whoa, don't give that up!"

(There are doors to your left and right.)

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[featherfetch]

[WHIRLING!!1]

E-eh?!







[what are these doors are they the exact same or are there any distinguishing features...]

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[antreegonist]

They're plain white wooden doors, no labels. Though you could always ask the invisibopper.

"If you leave that in here you won't be able to get in your team cabin anymore."

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[featherfetch]

––Who are you?

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[antreegonist]

"I'm Mithos."

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[featherfetch]

Oh. . .

Is it okay, the way things are in this room? I am not sure what I can do without potentially damaging something that I should not.

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[antreegonist]

"Actually . . . I didn't know if there was a way for others to lessen my body thing at all, but it looks like you figured a couple of ways out. Thanks.

I can't keep your key -- you really do need it -- but I took . . . I guess, what you meant by it. It's part of the vine now."

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[featherfetch]

I see. What are these doors?

[glancing back at the vines as he says it, to see if they look any different]