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Re: [night 61]

[featherduster]

[ It's pretty romantic!

Mostly there's just a sharp pang of guilt, also quickly reeled in. A dude with intense fear of nothingness dies, experiences nothingness, then falls asleep and experiences the creeping horror of a world consumed by it. Cool. ]



Shit.

Re: [night 61]

[endsjustified]

Don't.

I agreed to the conditions just as much as you did.

Re: [night 61]

[featherduster]

[ don't tell him to don't ]

I'm gonna see if I can stop it.

Re: [night 61]

[endsjustified]

...

[that is a step MUCH further than 'I'm gonna see if I can guide your dreams in a better direction']

Minuet...

Re: [night 61]

[featherduster]

You'd do the same.

[ (ACCUSATORY) ]

Re: [night 61]

[endsjustified]

[shit. he's got him there

...

makes a decision.]

Come here a moment.

Re: [night 61]

[featherduster]

[ ...?

Doing so ]

Re: [night 61]

[endsjustified]

[he may mark Charon dipping the other hand in a pocket for a moment, before reaching up toward's Minuet's face with it.

he smells blood.]

Re: [night 61]

[featherduster]

[ heLLO???

It's a testament to his innate trust in Charon that he doesn't duck out of the way ]

Uh--?

Re: [night 61]

[endsjustified]

[the blood's drawn in a stripe acoss his forehead, like an Ash Wednesday cross half-done. it feels too hot.]

I am taking no chances. If you run into him, it's hard to keep him from killing people outside of my family, but I will try.

Re: [night 61]

[featherduster]

[ Gross........... but he doesn't try to rub it off or anything ]

Don't worry about it. What's the worst he can do to me in here?

Re: [night 61]

[endsjustified]

[tilts his head]

Kill you.

Re: [night 61]

[featherduster]

[ Flaps a hand ]

It's a dream. I'll be fine.

Re: [night 61]

[endsjustified]

[grips his upper arm, with painful urgency]

Treat it like it's not.

Re: [night 61]

[featherduster]

[ Pauses ]

Why?

Re: [night 61]

[endsjustified]

Because if you're trying to stop this, you are interfering with a contract, not a dream.

Re: [night 61]

[featherduster]

... Alright. I'll be careful.

Re: [night 61]

[endsjustified]

[swallows

then nods towards the east library wall. there's a door visible past the shelves. was that always there? who knows]

Re: [night 61]

[featherduster]

[ Squeezes Charon's elbow for a second -- doesn't want to grab a hand that's crumbling away ]

I'm sorry. I'll do what I can.

[ Off through the new door!! ]

Re: [night 61]

[endsjustified]

[he is in a small inn room. it is nondescript, furnished in the impersonal way most inn rooms are. there is a great deal of what seems very much like dried blood on the floor, even if it's greyscale like the rest.

there is a knife on the table.

there is one door out. it's not the one he came through.

the curtains over the small single window are drawn, but the light flickers through them strangely.]

Re: [night 61]

[featherduster]

[ Looks kinda like sketchy demon summoning behavior in here idk!

He actually goes to the window first, pulling back the drapes to peer outside. Still gray and crumbling? ]

Re: [night 61]

[endsjustified]

[still grey and--mm

remember how in the library the view was of burned down city blocks. well this one shows probably the same city blocks but now actively on fire. cool]

Re: [night 61]

[featherduster]

[ Cool!

He lets the drape fall over the window again, turning back to the table. Are there any runes or candles or otherwise occult shit lying around here? ]

Re: [night 61]

[endsjustified]

[the knife itself looks pretty occult! it looks very old and there's writing carved into the blade he can't understand. there's also the edge of a metal bowl just poking out from under the bed -- if he pulls that out, the grey blood in it is still liquid.]

Re: [night 61]

[featherduster]

[ OF COURSE IT DOES!!!! He picks up the dagger, and assuming nothing buckwild happens when he does so, pockets it. If this is Charon's blood, then in some morbid way he's getting the impression it will be good to have. ]