[Game 18] The Waking World

[arsgoetia]

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."

Comments

[psychopompous]

[pushes his hand away]

Not my boss.

[his voice is shaking a little]

[liarliarliar]

[...i'm suppose to be mad at you. geez. dropping down beside him]

Niichan, let's get out of here.

[psychopompous]

. . . don't mock me.

[liarliarliar]

[grabs his arm]

I'm not. Let's get out of here.

[psychopompous]

[stubbornly]

Where?

[liarliarliar]

...

[getting back to his feet, shrugging. cuz he really doesnt know WHERE

just knows he's sick of here]

Then I'm going to go for a walk.

[psychopompous]

. . .

[silently stands]

[liarliarliar]

[walks out. FRESH AIR FOR FUSSY CHICKEN AND MEEEE]