[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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[oneknightstands]

Mithos. She won't return.

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[antreegonist]

"How dare you."

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[oneknightstands]

You know as well as I do that it happened a long time ago.

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[antreegonist]

"Excuse me?"

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[oneknightstands]

Her death.

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[antreegonist]

"No. It didn't."

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[oneknightstands]

It did, Mithos.

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[antreegonist]

Lightning's beginning to strike.

"It just happened, you deluded fool!"

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[oneknightstands]

What—?

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[antreegonist]

"Don't try to tell me it was a long time ago! As if I didn't know! Don't try to tell me I won't succeed! I'm sick of not succeeding, I'm sick of doing things the way humans want when humans don't listen! I'll do this my own way, and it will work, because I'll make it work!"

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[oneknightstands]

Mithos—calm down!

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[antreegonist]

"Shut up!"

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[oneknightstands]

It's not unreasonable to be discouraged. Anyone would be in such a situation as yours, but that's no reason to take hasty actions that might have consequences that you would not wish to face.

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[antreegonist]

"Everything has consequences! At least it's worth it this time!"

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[oneknightstands]

Mithos . . .

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[antreegonist]

"It's too late, anyway."

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[oneknightstands]

What do you mean?

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[antreegonist]

"It can't be stopped, human. It's already here."

Lightning begins to spear the land below; he watches it. He's not laughing or triumphant, just bleak.

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[oneknightstands]

[looks down at the land, then back to Mithos]

If you could have made them listen, what would you have said?

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[antreegonist]

"...all we wanted was a place where we could live..."

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[oneknightstands]

Without the strife of wars or the injustice that they create?

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[antreegonist]

"That would be nice . . . though injustice is there, even in the places without war."

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[oneknightstands]

Then you could work together to fight it.

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[antreegonist]

"Haha . . . we'll see."

And the lightning hits you both, and oh, it hurts.

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[oneknightstands]

[lets out a strangled sound of pain, gritting his teeth through it]