THE LOST DAYS... Round 1.

[mind_blown]

It's all darkness.

The feeling of nothingness, of being nothing. Of not existing. You have no thoughts, you will never have any thoughts again. While that fact is not comforting, because you cannot be comforted anymore, it is true.

There's a certain rest to being... nothing. And to both knowing and not knowing, that your time is done.

So it's all the more unfortunate when you feel, because you shouldn't feel. And the feeling is burning in your lungs, which you shouldn't have. Because you are- or were- nothing.

And then, you inhale a desperate gasp of air and open your eyes...

Comments

Re: death

[soulcarve]

[ "makes her want to laugh, and maim, and kill, with reckless abandon" —so, perhaps only slightly more than normal, at least insofar as normally she only feels that way while she's being wielded.

She laughs a bit, too. It's relaxing—a little like being a sword again, and not stuck in this all-wrong body. ]

Alright.
Do you want to wield me?

Re: death

[idolpro]

"What if, and stop me if I'm wrong here, we let you wield yourself?"

He giggles at his own joke.

"What would you do?"

There are sounds coming from behind her now. But the Joker is so thrilling.

Re: death

[soulcarve]

[ she tilts her head ]

Ah... I don't know, really!
Swords have wielders, and I don't like to be alone. You can't love anything that way—not very well, at least.

Re: death

[idolpro]

And then, regardless of what she answers, she suddenly finds herself pushed, hard into the pit.

And then, Kiri Hellfire is not Kiri Hellfire. Because when she looks around and feels Harpy's body slide off of the dagger that she is carrying, she does not feel the way she should. She doesn't even realize that she shouldn't feel that way. Instead, she feels aches in her muscles, fear and panic over a closed door, and then suddenly, a sharp, rending pain.

"Vroom, vroom," God's voice echoes behind her.

She turns to look as she collapse. She feels hatred, but also that teasing reminder of oblivion. That it can and will one day come to unmake her. And that it will not be pleasant next time, because oblivion is not kind to those who escape it.

And without realizing, she wakes up screaming.