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ohthehumanities) wrote2023-06-26 10:47 pm
ohthehumanities) wrote2023-06-26 10:47 pm
catchall; valerie
this one is more for you lisa than for val tbh
this one is more for you lisa than for val tbh
this one is more for you lisa than for val tbh
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But Kaveh is... well, his major injuries aren't visible if she's standing in front of him, but he's holding himself upright, so there's that. The visible cuts and bruises are also partly healed, so he's not bleeding everywhere.]
Where did you end up?
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Horrible endless desert world with evil murder cults.
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But it's a cult pretending to be a church. And it's full of basically every bad thing you can think of.
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Did you recognize anything about it? Where you were?
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[Though he says it gently, since he remembers being traumatized on his first CYOA about this.]
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[ but then wraps her arms around herself, small, like a futile attempt at self-soothing ]
...but then also Fei Du, and--and Alex, and...someone I knew from home.
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That happened on mine as well. It took a long time to believe they weren't really there with us.
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I mean, I know they weren't. But that doesn't exactly help when they nearly kill you...and you nearly kill them.
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Mm. I know. [They're memories that won't go away, unfortunately. He, Alex, and Eiden died so many times--but even knowing that they're safe here, at least for the next few hours, can't erase the memories.] Were they part of that cult? Or was it something else?
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These... illusions, or whatever they are--they're so cruel.
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...I think it occupies a dual space. [He says, finally.] It wasn't necessarily real--but the pain it inflicted on you is.
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It's...what I thought I wanted. It's what I'd been trying to do, back home. But actually managing to do it... [ she shakes her head ]