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GRAVEYARD
Graveyard
Reflexively, you curl tighter. Just another minute. Just another minute of sleep is all you need, but the sun waits for no one. Wait. The sun? After many days and nights with only moonlight to guide you, your eyes snap open and your pupils contract at the light.
It's been a while, hasn't it?
Bask in this euphoria for however long it lasts, until your memory snaps back against your mind like a rubber band. Weren't you dead? No matter how you met your end, you certainly remember dying in vivid detail. The pain that corresponds to the last moment's of your life chooses then to make itself known, trying to wriggle free from your skin almost literally. That mark on your skin wasn't there before either.
Take a moment to breathe and get your bearings, and really take everything into focus. The warm rays of sun that dance upon your skin are colorful and fragmented like a kaleidoscope, the effect of being filtered through stained glass. Of all the places to wake up, it seems you're inside a church that's no stranger to you, St. Mary's Basilica. While the odds are good you've woken up with company somewhere near by, the glint of gold from the altar will likely catch your attention regardless—embedded deep in the altar stands a golden staff, two sculpted wings draped down its sides.
While some things are the same, and some things are different, there are still more questions than answers. But the inscription engraved into the roof of the ceiling of the Church, now visible in proper lighting seems rather apt: Welcome to Krakow (again).
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They gave you your powers? [ She puts away her sword and shield and stares at Hyoubu for several seconds, a slight flare of energy filling the air. ]
Your vessel is a mess. I don't know what powers you had before, nor do I know what ones you have now but they're likely all interconnected. [ She mumbles something about extracurricular studies and continues onward. ]
The details don't matter right now, but the reason you gained new powers and lost the ones you once had are likely one in the same. Your soul, your vessel, can't handle having both from the look of you. [ Hm... ] You were in pain just now, weren't you?
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Ugh, that. Mine was - is? Don't know, haven't tried - but it's so stupid. I thought it would help me carry all the books, all of them! And it did... until the effects wore off and the books were destroyed. Don't tell anyone.
[ sacrilegious!! ]
They also had very encouraging messages to get us to do what they wanted. Pictures of one of them with someone important to us, back in our world, like they were trying to audition for Britain's Next Horror Film.
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Is that reality TV? I've never had the time to watch nor desire to watch such things. [ Shaking her head she brings a plated hand to her helmet. ] And what did they want you to do exactly?
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[ and for her other question: he raises his eyebrows at that, then gestures to himself and hyoubu. she can make a good guess from that answer alone, he's sure. ]
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Anyway. You wanted from the beginning, yes?
Let's go somewhere to sit first. [ Because guess who hasn't sat in several hours. ]
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They told us to meet them at the opera house at a certain time and then bidded us to kill each other. When people didn't kill fast enough for them, they gave... an incentive.
And well. [ He looks to Elliot with a quiet sad look for a second before turning back to her. ] The bait was taken, in more ways then one. Then they held a witch hunt to figure out whodunit. And we both ended up here.
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[ he really doesnβt want to talk about that ever again, thanks. he may talk a lot but talking about death is too much of a reminder that his friends at home could be dead right now, and he wouldnβt even know.
heβs glad they donβt know heβs dead. or βdead.β he hopes they never find out.
(but he hopes they miss him regardless. do they miss him? are they happier without him? ]
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By the way, there's also a staff at the church that wasn't at the "night" version. Any idea what's that about? I touched it and it... almost made me hurl.
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...sheer insanity. [ What else is she supposed to say to any of this? ]
That is mine. [ A beat. ] Well I borrowed it from someone who doesn't have much use for it but that hardly matters. You don't need to concern yourself with the details, but think of it as a beacon.
[ Wait a second. ]
And one you should be grateful for as it's likely the reason you're still here.
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Oh? You think that's what's keeping our so-called souls tethered to this realm?
Ah, is that why you're on probation, for stealing it?
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I think it likely based on the effect it had on you. I don't need or use artifacts like those, but I was running out of options.
[ Also, wow??? She purses her lips. ]
No. [ Whatever it is, she doesn't want to talk about it. ] You should concern yourself with the details that matter, and I will do the same. For now that means verifying any of the ridiculousness that came out of your mouth. If I can't access the night directly, I should at least be capable of cutting through some of the interference to get a snapshot with the right preparations.
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Hmm. Well, if she's up to the same, I'm expecting more people will pop in here in no time. Human nature being what it is can't resist temptation at the best of times
[ A pause. ]Good to work with you then, ojou-san. I'm sure once we reach an understanding, we can work together to do... something about any of this.