TAKSHAKA

[soulping]

[The room you step into looks like it could be a miniature ballroom, complete with stained glass windows and vast, ornate mirrors.

Your team's column is set into one wall, easily accessible but as impregnable as ever. One of the mirrors may prove almost as interesting, if you can tear your eyes away from your trapped teammate. Through it, you are somehow able to see every other team's column and what is inside, though nothing beyond that.

The floor beneath your feet polished, patterned wood, inlaid with the pattern of a grand sundial in your team's colors. In the center of the pattern stands a pedestal, upon which sits a collection of colorful glass ornaments. It looks like there's room for other items, but there's nothing else to be found just yet . . . ]

Comments

Re: Choice

[swordedpast]

[tries to grab it out of midair but he's still kind of shaky at the moment so it flies right on by]

[barrette]

[ KICKS HIM IN THE SHINS ANGRILY ]

Knock it off!

[swordedpast]

I'm sorry, but protecting you guys is what I do.

[barrette]

This is not protecting us!

[swordedpast]

Is so.

[ He's basically regressed to five years old at this point. ]

[barrette]

[ looks like she's going to cry angrily! ]

Sit down or I'll push you down.

[swordedpast]

[ At this point the bottle's already been swiped from him, so there's no point in arguing. He sulks and sits down. ]

[barrette]

...

[ she bends down to kiss his forehead. ]

Please, trust us. We won't do anything dumb, s-so you don't need to do anything crazy again.

[ most of his blood was wiped off her hands but some of it lingers on her palms and between her fingers; a reminder of how crazy Swan's first plan was. ]

[swordedpast]

[ He wavers a little, but... ]

You don't get it. I can't do that. I have to keep protecting you guys somehow.

[ Or I'm nothing. He doesn't say that. She'd get mad. ]

[barrette]

Please?

[ her voice wavers and she looks down at his stump. ]

You can't protect us if you die.

[swordedpast]

I probably won't die.

[barrette]

You could. I don't wanna see you or Raven die.

[swordedpast]

If it's a choice between the two of us, it has to be me.

[barrette]

No. I won't pick between you.

[swordedpast]

Then I'll pick for you.

[barrette]

No!