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Tweak says, "ALL OF YOU GO AWAY"

disappearedmods (disappearedmods) wrote in disappear_plot,
@ 2010-07-25 16:04:00

SEIJI'S DUNGEON
Seiji's place is different from last time - for one thing, the Museum has gone. Nothing's filled its space, just white with a thin bridge of land across to the spherical void where Raphael had presumably been staying. Everything darkens when they enter, and here, things are the same as they were - cloudy atmosphere, the rock, and Raphael.

This time, though, he has been pinned rather than chained to it.

The spear through his heart glows faintly, the part sticking out of his chest covered in dried blood, which also runs all down his front. There are other injuries on his body, too - this was a fight, not a clean kill. Some time has passed and much like Paradise, he's beginning to dissolve, light shining out where his fingertips ought to be. There is no smell - despite the blood, the body seems to be made of light rather than flesh.

Those with keen eyes will notice the lily at his feet and the silver wisp of smoke patrolling the perimeter.

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lotus_beyond
2010-07-26 12:45 am UTC (link)

Renju's heart seemed to catch in her throat, then sink into the pit of her stomach, as soon as she saw what Seiji's place had become.

Silently, she pushed forward, ahead of the rest of the group, nearly running, heedless of whatever danger might remain. She had to know--what had happened, why Prometheus's protection had failed, what else they could have done (though she suspected that the answer was "nothing"; she wasn't sure whether this was reassuring or still more depressing). She knew it wasn't her fault, or the fault of the team, but there had to be some reason, some answer they hadn't yet found...

And there was Raphael. Dead, as much as such a word could apply to whatever these beings were.

Her body nearly trembled, wire-taut, as she took in the scene, only barely taking notice of Kiriko's presence. She came as close as she dared to the rock, her mind seemingly too full for her to speak any of the thoughts and emotions that leapt to it, whirling and blending into a confused jumble even she could barely make sense of.

Her gaze fell, and locked on to the lily at Raphael's feet. Flowers--she'd seen far too many of them here, but the purpose of the lotuses and spider lilies had been obvious. This was... what could it mean?

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	disappearedmods 2010-07-26 10:42 pm UTC (link)
	The wisp of smoke follows Renju, breaking away from its slow patrol around the crime scene. It glimmers faintly as it approaches Renju, and comes to a stop between her and Raphael's body, hovering there. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

lotus_beyond
2010-07-26 11:40 pm UTC (link)

The wisp was impossible to miss.

The obvious reason for this was that it was in the center of Renju's vision, but there was also the strange twinge Renju felt when she looked at it, the sense of familiarity, of something lost found again. She reached up towards it, fingertips barely brushing it, unconsciously mirroring a gesture she'd made in a very similar situation not too long ago. (Had it really been so short a time? It felt like so much had changed since then.)

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disappearedmods
2010-07-27 10:39 pm UTC (link)

At Renju's touch, the wisp glows and transforms. It grows bigger and bigger, forming into a roughly humanoid shape, which is further refined into the silhouette of an adult man. The glow subsides to detail, and the figure hovering before Renju is not Prometheus, but someone else - a man in simple red-and-yellow robes, bearing a staff in one hand and a gem in the other.

He floats there for a few moments, holding Renju's gaze, then disappears. Renju can feel her persona again.

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apathyisboring
2010-07-27 10:44 pm UTC (link)

Kiriko watched this transpire in silence, a little further back. She waited a moment once the man was gone, then brushed gently past Renju, bending down to pick up the calla lily at Raphael's feet. After turning it over in her hands once, twice, three times, she looked back to the group, her gaze settling on Renju in particular with a somewhat sympathetic but otherwise unreadable expression.

"I don't think we should stay here any longer than we need to."

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