clouds came and covered the sun

[hairpining]

[You find yourself in a small, quaint little town. The architecture has a notably late-1800s bent to it, in contrast to the clean, crisp air you breathe – combined with a faint, flowery scent – it's almost as though it is not industrialized at all.

Which would be easy enough to believe. After all, there do not seem to be any people out other than you and your fellow spelunkers – in spite of the occasional whisper you might hear. Hushed and impossible to actually make out.

Far in the distance lies a towering building, similar in shape to a fairytale castle.]

(Castle Town | Atelier | Smithy | Castle Town Revisited |
Painting the Roses Red | The Golden Afternoon | Castle Corridor |
The Library of Babel | The Girl Without Hands | The Garden of Paradise | The White Bride and the Black One |
The Princess Sleeping in the Glass Coffin)

((BGM entirely for ~atmospheric~ and ~stylistic~ purposes and personal reference, feel free to listen if you want to!))

Comments

[hairpining]

No. ... This is my home.

[She seems legitimately calm and content, for once! The expression is probably completely alien to... everyone here, really.]

[provocate]

[wheeze too bad he is too much of a fucking mess to care about the thorns anymore aughalsjdf Gettin his hands all sliced open as he grabs the front of her dress, one hand hooking on the band under her boobs... 8'| and the other grabbing a handful of dress... Going to try to yank her up and toss her out of the coffin???]

[hairpining]

Ah...

... Regardless, thank you for... saving me.

[fangirlitis]

...oh.

Then, what now? I'm assuming you don't want me to stay here forever, even if being inside someone's soul is a fetish I totally didn't know I had until just now.

1/2

[hairpining]

[I TOOK HER

AND THREW HER ON THE GROOOOOUND]

[artsistic]

[Okay, fine, but don't think it's because I like you or anything, except I do!

Kissing her on the lips!]

[hairpining]

[So, that happens. She falls to the marble floor without a sound.

The force dislodges the apple from her throat, apparently, and she wakes up with a start, coughing violently.]

[guardofsteel]

Uh... Yeah. Sure. [ Guy isn't exactly used to people thanking him for things. ]

You wouldn't happen to know the way out of here, would you?

[hairpining]

... Oh, no... ahaha, feel free to stay as long as you'd like... but, this isn't where you belong, is it?

[provocate]

[cr... y... well he is just going to... perch here on the coffin edge and grin at her...??? Laughing this horrible, deeply insane little laugh while he... stares and bleeds from the face..............]

[MORNING STARSHINE 8D]

[hairpining]

[Wow, you gross motherfucker. Dude, she's like... in a coma.

Slowly, she... opens her eyes. You can't really call it waking up.]

[artsistic]

[Look, I'm just following conventions, okay. Also we did this before.]

Michi? Can you hear me?

[kalahiki]

[Oh fuck you lady. DODGING like dodgy mcdodgerson or somthing.

And smacking right into the coffin whoops.]

[hairpining]

-- Ah... this way, please.

[She tries to get out of the coffin and -- very. Nearly falls, it's been so long since she's walked anywhere...

So, a little embarrassed, and cheeks a bit red thanks to that, she just points to the far end of the garden.

In the distance, you'll see a large, ornate silver gate.]

[hairpining]

[.... Wait.

Who the fuck are you and how did you get in here why are you bleeding??? She jumps a little, once she finally calms down.]

... A-Ah, who are you?

[hairpining]

[A noise leaks out of her throat, barely distinguishable from breathing -- it's been so long since she's spoken.]

... Morizawa... san?

[provocate]

[Suddenly right up in front of her and moving to... cup her face and pull her up onto her toesalksdlfjasdf]

Your sssavior~ [...omg Baron no.................]

[hairpining]

[The coffin, being marble, doesn't exactly topple over at the force, but it's quite shaken.]

[hairpining]

[THIS IS NOT HOW THE STORY IS SUPPOSED TO GO

But she is largely unperturbed.]

... Ah... ... Thank you for saving me.

Would you like some tea?

[provocate]

[Das okay he is perturbed enough for the both of them!!! Digs his claws into her face sobs]

Not particularly, darling...~ [But this sure is a skeevy fucking grin??? ]

[hairpining]

[She doesn't bleed! Like, at all. No blood, no black ichor like Biancabella, nothing.]

Ah... I see. ... Um, I'm afraid that I've nothing else to offer you -- though, if you would like to leave, I should at least be capable of leading you to the exit.

[provocate]

[.......FUCK SHE DOESN'T EVEN BLEED SCREAMING HIS LIFE IS SO HARDLAKJSLKDJF For the first time the grin falls and he... glares quite nastily at her...]

[and then honks her boob...............]

[kalahiki]

[...uuugh.]

...I hate you. I want you to know that.

[Since Sei never got the poisoned apple info, he's. He's going in. He'll at least make this thankfully brief.]

[guardofsteel]

[ At least he's nice enough to not say anything about it? ]

All right. Thanks. [ Going towards the gate, then. ]

[hairpining]

[...

..............

...........................]

Nameless Mist.

[The fog thickens again -- and a rather large chunk of ice comes hurtling towards Baron's back. Even if it doesn't hit, it'll freeze the surrounding area within a small radius, so \:D/]