♥ v2

[screwthatnoise]

A cold, delicate hand grabs yours and pulls. It pulls, and it pulls... there's a sense of urgency in this icy grasp, as well as a trace of reluctance. Abruptly the hand let's go, right as your vision fades to black, and for a brief moment, only a brief moment, your senses disappear. There's only the eerie sensation of weightlessness before your feet are settled back on solid ground again.

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Comments

Re: library

[brotagonist]

You've had what?

Re: library

[screwthatnoise]

She looks up at the two of you with blank eyes.

"You want her to happy?"

Re: library

[antreegonist]

...we want you to be able to look for happiness without being crushed by unhappiness. And that comes from inside and outside.

Re: library

[brotagonist]

I want you to be able to see something else to do with all her bad experiences besides try to die.

Re: library

[screwthatnoise]

"Call me what you will, but I am not the part of Hail that wants that. I killed it with my own hands. And even if that has been undone... if you let me go, I will just kill it again."

That tone she uses with you is irritated, but she seems calm...ish compared to before. Yes.

Re: library

[antreegonist]

Why? You've got to have a reason.

Re: library

[brotagonist]

You said you refused to change and work with her, not that you couldn't!

Re: library

[screwthatnoise]

"Our goals are completely different. She wants Hail to continue hoping for a fruitless future. I want Hail to be honest with herself. I want her to know nothing will ever look in her favor. I need to remind her, and I realized that I needed to kill that part of Hail."

Re: library

[antreegonist]

You don't have to kill each other. There's a place for hope and for bad feelings both; you're both part of Hail! But you can exist in the same place -- get stronger -- if you boost each other up!

Re: library

[brotagonist]

And you're wrong that nothing looks in her favor. You said yourself that good things have happened to her. Why do you want to live around a lie?

Re: library

[screwthatnoise]

"That's right... there is a place for me."

She pauses, seemingly thoughtful.

"Because this lie was, in that moment, the truth. But it's not true anymore, is it... I'm losing my control..."

Re: library

[antreegonist]

...things change. You can change too, Hail.

Re: library

[brotagonist]

It wasn't true then, either. There's always another hope.

Can you live in a heart where that's true? Hope for something bigger than just dying?

Re: library

[screwthatnoise]

"I don't think I can. I cannot change, I cannot hope for something bigger. At least... personally... I wonder... if I just need to return to my roots now."

A pause.

"Not literal roots. Not those."

Re: library

[antreegonist]

...what'll that do?

Re: library

[brotagonist]

Roots?

Re: library

[screwthatnoise]

The charred person looks off to the side. Her head is hung low as it processes her situation.

"It will allow this heart to prosper. I won't want it. I don't want Hail to hope again... but if I am that overpowered... I need to go back to where I come from."

Re: library

[antreegonist]

Where do you come from?

Re: library

[brotagonist]

[waits...]

Re: library

[screwthatnoise]

"I come from her thoughts."

Re: library

[antreegonist]

So you'd be going back to...being thoughts instead of being things to be acted upon.

Re: library

[brotagonist]

[looks at Janta]

...do you think you could use that kind of determination?

Re: library

[screwthatnoise]

Janta almost stammers, but his answer is firm.

"No way. She can go."

The charred figure just laughs. It's a strange sound.

"Then... back I go. If I cannot rule, then I must recede."

As she says this, her fingers, her hands, her arms... they begin to fade away.

Re: library

[antreegonist]

W-why does it have to be one or the other...dammit!

Re: library

[brotagonist]

[grabs her hand again]

Don't go.