Alma Heart Game

[imaginemeandyuu]

You fall into mud. It is sticky and sucking and cloying and whether you stay still and try to remain calm or struggle and try to get out, you're sucked downward. You can't breathe, you can't (of course) see, and you can feel the crushing weight of earth on you. When the blackness becomes overwhelming, you find yourself somewhere else...

Comments

Re: UP - RIGHT

[soldieronwards]

Yeah. That's pretty obvious. Still...it doesn't look like he's about to hurt anyone now.

[Sounding a little uneasy, and glancing back at Trisha for a moment with a nod, then at the boy and the feather person again--]

Who are they, and why did he kill them?

Re: DOWN - RIGHT

[imaginemeandyuu]

IT'S NOT FINE! It's never been fine, Y...

Yuu...?

Re: UP - LEFT

[appleofhiseye]

[taking his hands in hers and squeezing them]

Then we'll find a way to make it stop hurting. So please stop.

Re: UP - LEFT

[yourewaitingforagate]

Well you're wrong!

Seeing you tear yourself up like this, putting it away and hiding it—that hurts more than if I saw it in the first place!

Re: UP - RIGHT

[imaginemeandyuu]

"They're -- the scientists. The Order." The boy trembles, arms straining like he wants to bring the weapon down, but can't bring himself to.

Re: UP - LEFT

[seaside_cherry]

These are yours... All these faces are yours, and I love you. I'll love you no matter what faces you make, no matter what feelings you have, so don't tear them away. If these are the emotions you feel, then I want to see them all.

Re: UP - LEFT

[imaginemeandyuu]

Mmm...nah.

Re: UP - LEFT

[imaginemeandyuu]

.....

[staring at her]

You want to see them?

Re: UP - LEFT

[imaginemeandyuu]

Haha... haha, so I can't win? There's no way out?

Re: UP - LEFT

[appleofhiseye]

Do you dislike it that much?

Re: UP - RIGHT

[soldieronwards]

Scientists, huh. What were they doing?

Re: DOWN - RIGHT

[hallucinogenetic]

You protect me just fine.

Re: UP - LEFT

[emomachine]

What are you talking about? You're going to hurt yourself!

[grabbing to pull him away]

Re: UP - RIGHT

[supersensitive]

[this is]

[an obvious question but]

What are you doing?!

Re: UP - LEFT

[karlsefni]

You're doing it right in front of me how can I not notice and how do you even take your own face off??

Re: DOWN - RIGHT

[imaginemeandyuu]

[starts to cry again, big dumb sobs] Then take him, okay? Take him and it'll be okay. I can't leave here, but if I know he's safe it's okay.

[more darts]

Re: UP - RIGHT

[imaginemeandyuu]

"Torturing us to fight a war!" His knuckles tighten on the sword.

Re: UP - RIGHT

[imaginemeandyuu]

"I have to -- I need to live," he explains, pained. "It's him or me."

Re: UP - LEFT

[yourewaitingforagate]

That's not what I meant. Maybe you can't make it so it never hurts—but at least if you show us, if you share it with us—then we can help, we can make it hurt less for all of us.

Re: UP - LEFT

[imaginemeandyuu]

Yup!

Re: UP - LEFT

[seaside_cherry]

[Clasping his hands]

I want to see them.

Re: UP - LEFT

[imaginemeandyuu]

I don't think that'll happen.

Re: UP - LEFT

[imaginemeandyuu]

So what? Pain's meaningless!

Re: UP - RIGHT

[supersensitive]

...Would he kill you?

Re: UP - LEFT

[yourewaitingforagate]

What makes you think that?