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Alma Heart Game

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...

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[...huh! chhhecks out the firepit...?]

Just coals.

The air doesn't feel right -- there's no air movement. It could just be a very calm day, but it hardly feels like you're outside at all.

[walks towards the edge of the clearing, towards the forest :|a]

...Those aren't trees. That's just a very beautifully painted curtain that is designed to LOOK like a forest clearing. It's covered quite thoroughly, but when you get close, it's unmistakable. You're not outside at all, it's just decorated to LOOK like the outdoors.

A small lump, which initially looked like part of the a tree root, can be seen behind the curtain on the ground against one wall.

[...pulling the curtain, then, checking out that lump.]

You find a small notebook, open to the first page, with text on it:

I want to believe.

Can I believe? People disappear even from here. Yuu's going to disappear too. Maybe not into the book, maybe not into darkness, but if not that, he'll go home. I can't go home ever again. I don't have a "home". Aather's beautiful, but it's not my home. The Black Order only ever betrayed me. They wouldn't even let me rest in peace. I'm not supposed to continue on to the future.

If I stay here, will I see the others again? Lenalee, and Allen, and ...the others? No, I won't, probably. They'll do what they have to to find themselves and then go home because they have responsibilities they'll be obedient to, like Yuu. I don't have any responsibilities. I went to the enemy, and ruined a little more of the world's hope for the future, didn't I? So when they have to go home and fight, it's at least partially because I couldn't become the obedient exorcist the world needed, and to use my power for good. So what? So what. That world should burn. But they won't see it that way. Just as I became friends with them, they became friends with others. They know there are people out there they'd be friends with if they met them, even though they hadn't, and people who deserve to live even if they could never be friends. So they'll fight. Lenalee, and Allen, and Yuu. They may be in Aather now, close or far, but they'll leave.

But there's a future in front of me. Can I make it as beautiful as this one? What will become of me when I'm by myself?

Regardless, I'll see them off with a smile. My teammates, my friends, Yuu. When they go to their homes, I'll tell them I'll be waiting for their visits, and I will. I'll try to wait. If I vanish, there's nothing I can do about it. But I'll try to make a future as pretty as this one. Even if I can only cover up the truth, I'll believe. I'll believe. Who am I? I'll believe I can become something in the future. Who am I? Where is this? Is there anything for me in the future?

I'll smile and believe. Smile and believe. Smile and believe. Stop thinking about it so much. Just pretend it's as beautiful as you want it to be.

At the end of the text, a pair of lips were drawn in a smile. When you reach the end, they suddenly become flesh and fall off into your hand, still smiling.

[--catches them, taking a long moment with the notebook to consider something]

[...looking around a little more behind the curtain, to see if there's anything left of the supplies used to paint it]

[You find some designing tools! Extra cloth, paints, brushes, etc]

[gathering up a paint as close to Tiger's Eye yellow as he can and whatever fine-tipped brush he can find, flipping through the notebook to find a blank page and painting:]

The future will be beautiful. You can make one as pretty as this even if it's different than what you pictured. Other people will help make it with you. :)

It dries quickly on the page.

[...leaves it there, open to that page, behind the curtain, and then heads back to the other area to try the downward path, taking the lips with him.]

here.

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