[Final Day] Endgame

[arsgoetia]

And just as suddenly as everything had began, the demons are gone—all of them. Not a single crow feather remains. As if being sucked backwards out of a vacuum, sound and light flood into the room and the hallway, crashing down on you. You are back in the real world, with noise and physics and sunlight streaming in through the window.

You are also left with two bereft Bellcourt children, the older of which is suddenly doubling over in his wheelchair and shouting in anguish.

Comments

[virtuallyroyalty]

[just... slumps. And waits.]

[delivoreance]

[does that little INTERNAL SCREAMING INTO A PILLOW noise again and gets to her feet, fists clenched]

D-don't you dare hurt yourself more over this!

[virtuallyroyalty]

Trust me, last thing I want to do!

[delivoreance]

G-good.

[okay guess I'm crying properly again, but it's a BETTER EMOTIONAL STATE THAN PREVIOUSLY]

[virtuallyroyalty]

...fuck, I hate this stupid eye!

[delivoreance]

[hugs him from behind and hides her face in his back :(]

S-stupid... we can't even talk around you now, if it's important...

[virtuallyroyalty]

Code? No, wait... ugh, I really didn't think this through.

[delivoreance]

Pacts are a bad idea!

[smacks his back next to where she's crying into, without any force, and then pulls back a little and wipes at her face]






W-we'll think of something...

[virtuallyroyalty]

Are you still offering to eat my crow?

...don't answer that.

[delivoreance]

You don't need me to answer.

[virtuallyroyalty]

Right.

[...she can probably hear his grin.]

[delivoreance]

[more seriously, leaning her cheek against his back]

...I can't promise things will be the same.

[virtuallyroyalty]

... hey, I know that. I've done a lot of stupid stuff in my life knowing that, this definitely isn't the stupidest.

[delivoreance]

[quiet]

All right.

[virtuallyroyalty]

[squeezes one of her hands]