arsgoetia | [Game 18] The Waking World

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[Game 18] The Waking World

After successfully talking Zan into waking up—the world around you starts to dissolve and break apart. There's a lurch, like the sensation of abruptly falling into sleep, but backwards; and all around you, the glass begins to crack apart, splintering and sending ocean water splashing everywhere, gushing forward, a cascade of blue and black, alternating between starfish and actual stars, suspended in liquid sky.

. . . reality seems to bleed in overtop of it and, sluggishly, you find yourselves waking up all over a suburban basement in New Jersey. There is a lamp on near the bed, where someone is still asleep, though fitfully beginning to wake up.

More noticeably, there is a woman sitting up in bed with him, arms wrapped around her bare knees as she watches them with amusement, extremely beautiful and . . . extremely familiar.

"Wow." One hand drops to Zan's hair. "I don't even know where to start with you guys."

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I'm dating that. Usually more manly but that, yeah.

[splashes him with holy water]

You might want to rethink your dating choices.

He's great, he's just also a demon.

... let me guess from what I've been told. Demon politics where he was given a job and had to be watched for it? But got us involved so he wouldn't actually have to do the thing because he's really on our side?

Your guess is my guess. Or, at least, saw his chance when people showed up.

Nice to know we're on the same page. What now?

Take advantage of it.

... well, while everyone is preoccupied...

[ what if actually going to the bed to pick Zan up in a princess carry as people argue ]

...

[shifts to try to block people's view of that, but...]

[oh good someone else had this idea

my arms were too skinny to do it tho]

MICHAELA! Drop him!

[with the exact tone of someone yelling at a dog picking up litter]

[Yuki be quiet he's trying to escape]

[oi, older Yuki, you can still teleport right? get him to the church?]

[oh]

[yeah]

Actually here letmehelpyouwiththat OKAY

[grabbing for mika and zan]

Una puts a hand on his arm.

"Yuki, we weren't done talking, were we?" She smiles.

[okay. yeah. seeing this and.

steps in to shove Una away.]

Whoa, didn't anybody teach you about bad touch?

Una doesn't lose her vice grip on Yuki's arm—Yuki might find it extremely hard to move.

"Stand down," she commands, turning her gaze to Verity. The compulsion is not absolute, but it is . . . terror-inducing, to say the least.