alectryon / cats / epona

[soulping]

You appear in a near-empty room. But you are not alone—your team is here, and another. Mirrors line the walls on all sides. Reflected in those mirrors are--

Not you.

Flickering in and out of the mirrors are images: flashes of reds, blues, greens; trees and fields and water; faces you know – all of the "reflections" are images of Kyriakos as you know it.

But it seems so far away—covered in a thick layer of grime.

Those of you whose mirrors are in danger of fading away on the outside know instinctively that you can't simply return. At least, not as you are in your current state. Anyone who looks at them will notice that their forms seem somehow insubstantial, almost see-through. More over: you feel emptied of something, something essential. Whatever it is that makes you care, that keeps you tethered to your very existence has weakened—is in fact failing.

Those of you in the room not in danger of losing yourself understand already that you must aid these people in finding both a new source of strength, new, stronger connections – and clearing the way back home.

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Re: ROUND ONE

[secare]

( running a finger over it. )

Re: ROUND ONE

[soulping]

[ nothing happens. but the thought does occur again that maybe you could polish it... ]

Re: ROUND ONE

[secare]

( attempts to polish it with his shirt then. )

Re: ROUND ONE

[soulping]

[ As Yukine rubs at the surface of the goblet, the reflections on the mirrors around the room begin to swim and change—showing images of the things that make Yukine SAD or LONELY for everyone to see. ]

Re: ROUND ONE

[secare]

( there's a flash of a memory, the reflections of the mirror showing yukine laying in his bed beside another boy. they're laying close, with yukine's head against the other boy's chest, and they're talking. talking about mindless topics like which pokemon is the coolest or what level had been too obnoxious on one of yukine's DS game. it's a trival moment.

but it's gone. it'll never happen again.

the reflection shifts and then it's yukine standing in front of the mirrors, looking at the members of team who had fallen asleep. there are so many of them, too weak to open their eyes, but you know you remember them. you remember everyone who left. )

Re: ROUND ONE

[sweatypalms]

Why's it doing that!

[ TRYING TO WAVE THE IMAGES AWAY, SOMEHOW. ]

Re: ROUND ONE

[secare]

I don't know.

( still cleaning. )

Am I supposed to share these? I don't want people to see this.

Re: ROUND ONE

[soulping]

[ too bad. the more you clean, the more people see ]

Re: ROUND ONE

[waywardapostle]

[ He'd known there had been many who'd left, but-

He stops cleaning for a second, and sets his hand on Ren's shoulder. ]

They will return.

Re: ROUND ONE

[secare]

No, they won't. Kong and Midori went home.

Many of the others. . . They've been asleep too long. Arim, Kushinada, Fox, Zephyrus, Suzume, Tora, Shoelace. . . it's been too long.

Re: ROUND ONE

[waywardapostle]

Then we treat them the way we treat all honored dead, and respect and remember them as they would want us to.

Re: ROUND ONE

[dirtdevil]

[ ah. lovely. he remembers the other kid, of course. he also remembers when someone from his world was on Yukine's team.

this sucks. what is he supposed to say? ]

Sorry.

[ it's a start. ]