soulping | Liter's Heart

[ TIME TO HUG, HUGS HELP EVERYTHING ]

What's wrong?

Everything, can't you see?!

[ hugs tighter ]

I can't. So, please tell me?

I can't!

I can't, I can't...

[ just curls back on himself and makes a vague... motion towards the fire behind him ]

[ does she have to let go of him to investigate the fire? ]

[ yes and no, if she looks hard enough she can make out what's in the fire but if she wants to get closer, he won't budge at all ]

[ she'll definitely try to make out what's in it without letting him go ]

[ That sure is a dead Liter in the funeral pyre that isn't... burning up at all ]

[ UM

her grip on the not dead liter tightens ]

What's... what's going on?

It's... It's ready.

What's ready?

The pyre. It's ready to burn me down.

It's not going to, because I won't let it.

[ :( ]

Do you want me to put the pyre out?

You can't!

I've tried and tried and it just won't go out.

Hmm... Then, what about getting the you that's in there out?

You can try, but...

[ he trails off, not sure what to say here ]

[ on the one hand, i am not going to shove my hands into the fire (yet)

on the other, i am absolutely going to attempt to use these swords to shift any wood/logs the dead liter is on so the body (hopefully) shifts ]

[ The entire set up is immoveable. Really, there's nothing that can be done about this. ]

[ goddammit. ]

Why do you think it's going to burn you down?

Because that's what it does.

It's waiting for me to die.

But you're not dead. You're here with me, right now.

[ goes back to hugging him to emphasize this point ]

That doesn't matter, does it?

I'll die again. I know I will!

Of course it matters!

[ moving to face his front so she can STARE HIM IN THE FACE with earnest, gentle eyes ]

I'm going to die again too, Liter, and it's scary. But you and I are both alive right now, and death is only going to get scarier if we live in fear of it all the time.

I want to stop dying.

I don't want to die.

[ this is the sound sparrow's heart makes when it cracks a little bit ]

...I don't want you to die either.

[ TIME FOR ANOTHER HUG so you don't see me start to cry ]

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