10/29 --- Δ Haggard Traveler’s Reprieve?????

[gluttoning]

Who: ??? & you!
What: Something's starting...
Where: Δ Haggard Traveler’s Reprieve (Twilight Shoreline)
When: Sunday, 10/29
Warnings: Will be added as needed.

( Perhaps intrigued by the mail allegedly sent by CC Corp, perhaps visiting the Shoreline by chance, gating into the Area goes as it always does, until the music stays cut for longer than it should, and the black, liminal transition screen lingers for a little too long. The seconds tick on. They near turn to minutes. You can't struggle, you can't argue— you can only simply be, and it occurs to you that maybe you'll be trapped midway here, conscious, for maybe forever.

And then you hear static. Your vision warps; pixels strain into words, blurred and unstable. You see them combat for your attention; you see— )



( And then you load in. )

( POST NAVIGATION )
( Sign-in Comment (Mandatory) • How to Play • Mechanics

Phase 1 • Round 1 • Round 2 • Round 3 • Round 4 • Round 5 • Round 6

Phase 2 • Round 7 • Round 8 • Round 9 • Round 10 •
Round 11 • Round 12

Epilogue )

Comments

[justonezero]

I can stay.

[ophidie]

[She doesn't have the strength or will to push him away any further, so she just sits there in complete immobile silence for quite a long time, like she isn't even acknowledging his presence.

Finally:]

Why?

[justonezero]

[That's fine, he doesn't need others to pay attention to him.]

Because you're a precious person.

[ophidie]

[For what it's worth, though it might not be worth much to someone who's primed to see those types of actions as rejections, he may be able to get the keen sense that she is simply burying herself somewhere unreachable, rather than ignoring him to be cruel. But the effect is the same, either way. It is cruel.]

Thanks, but I don't believe that to be true. [She winces, from lingering pain or weakness or some other third thing.] That's so far from what I am I could scream.

[justonezero]

No?

...Why not?

[ophidie]

There are a lot of things I don't deserve.

[For the rest of their conversation, she's still been looking somewhere else, completely still, but Miharu does turn her head to give him a rueful smile.] You healed me up, so I'll be fine. You have other things to worry about.

[She's not about to bleed her heart out here and now, even with the horrible snarl of tangled feelings and memories and experiences that yanked out of her just moments prior. It's really, really not the place. Nanashi should go help the others while she gets her wind back. She hates goodbyes, but some people might need to see them.]

[justonezero]

...

Okay. But - you do deserve them.

Even if you don't believe it right now.

[Time to go talk to Beel.]