[there's a sort of very gentle refutation that comes down the line, not judging or fearful, just wordless fact: if he binds one, he actually binds them all. Hope's ego might be a thing apart, in this small secret way, but metaphysically he is fucking with something that had deeply murky definitions of objective individualism before it became an MMORPG endboss. he will have to be careful.]
Yes.
...I don't think I can speak very much longer, but...I'll keep the light going.
I am with you.
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featherduster) wrote2023-06-15 02:30 pm
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I gave you a memory, when you reached for me. It was from...the start of our long, long journey.
To step into the light together...I don't know how it can be done. But I'd like that, I think.
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As long as that's true . . . you have limitless potential. Don't give up. We will find a way. ]
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I will wait for you, and all the others. I'm only sorry...I can't do more in the meantime. But I'll keep trying.
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Actually . . . I should be thanking you. You helped Crescendo, didn't you?
And you're still fighting to help even now. ]
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there's something chime-bright and flustery in the fading line for a moment.
Could you please tell Crescendo...I would like to speak to him again? But, um, maybe not the same way. It was really...really very bad for him.]
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Like this, with me as the conduit. I could keep him from touching the shared consciousness himself.
. . . He really wants to talk to you too. ]
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I left him a word. I don't know why they were hiding it, but, I think it might help?]
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"Eternity"? ]
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a dark thrum full of teeth and the ringing of bells...descends. he can feel it drape over her
(not just her not just her)
like a net.
she is still. she does not fight it. it's another point of connection, though it doesn't naturally belong to either of them. he can feel what it does.
luckily, at this point in real time, her sisters are still asleep.]
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HEY. WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS. He doesn't want this--
Shit! I'm sorry. ]
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But . . . I can see where it'll be useful against your sisters. ]
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Yes.
...I don't think I can speak very much longer, but...I'll keep the light going.
I am with you.
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And if you don't -- I'll come find you. ]
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then he drifts away, to another dream, in peace.]