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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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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.