who stole your heart and the key?

[steelmyself]

In the dark, you taste something sweet and tart on your tongue, almost like apple but not quite: pomegranate juice, out of nowhere. A hint of something metallic accompanies it.

You fall down.

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Re: THE FIELD

[steelmyself]

"You don't?" She pauses at that. "It's a good thing I'm an English teacher! A boyfriend is a lover, a beau, a paramour, a romantic partner. And he's mad at himself, not you."

Re: THE FLAMES

[steelmyself]

"I can't just cry on command like that!"

[steelmyself]

She holds out one of the swords. Its blade is glowing slightly. "Here you go."

Re: THE FIELD

[steelmyself]

She beams. "Dinner!"

Shirou leans over the pot. "You idiot, we can't eat this! It's terrible! Ugh...I hate wasting food, but we'll have to dump it out and I'll start us a new meal."

Re: THE FIELD

[steelmyself]

"It's T̶̢͝a̵̧̨̛̕i̴̧̧͟͏-̴̴̧-̴̵̧̕. What's yours?" She doesn't seem to be aware she said anything strange.

Re: THE CHASM

[steelmyself]

Eventually, you make it to the other side, and the urge subsides, just like that.

Ahead of you, it looks like the ground slopes down, and the scent of flame drifts back here.

Re: THE CHASM

[lonelydemon]

[sits down hard on the other side.

b. breathes. it's okay to live. really, it's okay for someone like him to live. ferris said so.

picks himself up and starts down the slope.]

Re: THE FLAMES

[unaffective]

If you're unable to do something so simple as shedding tears, perhaps you would rather burn to death. If you don't want to die, then you should cry more.

Re: THE FIELD

[swordingitout]

[She watches all this, seemingly content with the interchange.]

[Then leans over to inspect the food herself. Curious about it.]

Re: THE FIELD

[hailstormed]

[ ... ???? ]

But... he gets mad at me? I, um. I don't... think it's anything like that, either...

[mentifact]

[ it's like u kno me

takes it, very carefully ]

Thank you.

Re: THE FIELD

[steelmyself]

"That's because he's a bit of an idiot."

Re: THE FIELD

[steelmyself]

They start to bicker about the food a bit. Meanwhile, as far as you can see inside the pot...this is a really bad combination of ingredients. No one in their right mind would try to make a meal out of this.

Re: THE FLAMES

[steelmyself]

She glares at you, but more tears start to roll down her face.

[steelmyself]

"You're welcome. Have a safe trip, okay?"

Re: THE CHASM

[steelmyself]

The ground grows warm beneath your feet as it slopes down, and the air smells of fire as you continue onwards.

Re: THE FLAMES

[unaffective]

[Hate away, sister, hate away.]

That's right. You'll die. You'll be burned to death here through no fault but your own. I similarly experience difficulty shedding tears - perhaps a death consumed by these flames is what best suits you.

You monster.

Re: THE FLAMES

[lonelydemon]

[...he could do something about being seared by the fire but honestly his motivation is pretty low right now, so he presses forward until he finds the woman, then just. lifts his hand in a wave.]

[mentifact]

I'm sure I will. I hope the meal is good.

[ company makes the food

toooooo the other end of the cavern again, now +1 sord ]

[steelmyself]

You make your way further down the slope. Soon, the rocky walls close in around you...

Re: THE FLAMES

[steelmyself]

She's barely a woman--little more than a girl. But she is pretty. She wears her long black hair half down and half in two tails at the sides of her head. It's hard to make out exactly what she's wearing--her long gown glints and glitters as if lit by stars, but there are no stars here.

She keeps her head up, trying to gaze above the flames, but tears glitter in her eyes. "Hello...? You came to Hell too."

What she's sitting on is not, in fact, just junk. It's a pile of seven swords, somehow arranged so they can be safely sat upon.

Re: THE FLAMES

[steelmyself]

She cries harder. "I'm not a monster!"

But the flames are starting to dim.

Re: THE FLAMES

[unaffective]

Are you certain? This place is Hell; humans have no place here. Any human that would lose themselves and fall into Hell is nothing less than a monster, besides!

[mentifact]

[ WWWWELP

stumbles back a few steps before twisting and dropping to the ground. reorients xemself to face forward and then army crawls... into the tunnel?? ]

Re: THE FLAMES

[lonelydemon]

Yeah, I guess I did. Hello.