-there is a silence, an absence, everywhere-
-like when a background sound you had become accustomed to suddenly, finally, totally ceases-
-before it was unnoticeable, but its lack contrasts its prior existence in sharp relief-
-a thundering silence, so total and so quiet-
-you feel in your bones that things are progressing towards finality-
UN JOUR JE SERAI DE RETOUR PRÈS DE TOIYeah, like a battery. It's—
-She pauses, feeling that odd trepidation-
Oh man...
What if there’s no better word than just not saying anything?Outside
A grid-based map with the room in the center... Why do you ask? (notices the change in noise. W-what's going on here?
C-could that be a sign? (grabs Yanmark and attempts to head up to her room)
Oriana's Room
(Just holding back the tears)
I, uh, never got to s-say goodbye to you one last time... (notices) S-something's wrong here...
Edited by josh6243 on Nov 23rd 2018 at 8:56:02 AM
Eires dissolved into mist and disappeared down the stairs...
Woods
...and reformed deep in the woods. Repeating their actions from the night before, they struck a tree, hard enough to crack the bark from roots to branches.
"I still don't think I quite follow you." She said sheepishly, taking a sip of her coffee to avoid looking strange.
[forum cryptid: it/it's]Throughout the forest
Barriers. Strung up between the trees. Some of them span yards. Some span miles. All made of some sinewy, silver fiber. Like a web. Anyone who attempted to touch it would find themselves attached to it. If they attempted to push against it, push it down, it wouldn't give. It was layered too thick for that. Someone set all this up. But the man — if it was a man at all — that did wasn't anywhere to be found.
dead devotionVery brief, since I can't really stay up long
Half-Hill
(Homura and Sayaka look up just in time to see the fading from above.)
Sayaka:Wait, did that just...
Homura: ...yeah.
Sayaka:Was it supposed to be this fast?
Homura: (shakes head as she looks up at the sky) ...
Sayaka: (follows suit) ...I won't forget you, Oriana.
The damned queen and the relentless knight.-She takes out another one, holding it out to her to touch-
Energon. It's what I eat. I can eat other food I guess, but it doesn't do as much.
What if there’s no better word than just not saying anything?(Whoever this hand is attached to budges a bit. Our grabby friend can now see a shaggy mane of gray hair, just the top of the head poking out... looks like it's got uh... little... frosty donut crumbs matted in it...?)
mmnnhhhh...
(A great, white star, however... It still shines bright in the sky... Its light functuates.) I am sorry... Will not forget.
(Mac stares at the now emptier sky from her spot on the roof as she checks the antenna.)
...blissme... thet's—... ach... hermum... yepoortheng...
(A lump forms in her throat as it all starts to sink in.)
make it through this year if it kills you yet | 2001-2019(A bunch of half-rotted wood flies all over the place as a plump, very disheveled man in a tattered uniform of some sort is yanked from a collapsed section of floor.)
(it just shines... glows... pulsates like a living thing...)
(Something else glows, from the main room. Something bright.)
make it through this year if it kills you yet | 2001-2019

… Oriana...?
-koata stands from behind-
O—Oriana no...
Edited by Lilqueendaisy on Nov 23rd 2018 at 8:45:50 AM
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