[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]

[throws it aside]

[gavehimhead]

How incorrigible. Take a breath. And next time, try to use words and complete sentences to explain a situation so we aren't all left in the dark.

[psychopompous]

How dare you criticize me!

[gavehimhead]

Oh, so you can hear! I was beginning to wonder.

[psychopompous]

[IGNORING AGAIN]

[gavehimhead]

You're not helping yourself. Are you going to tell us who she was? It would clear things up, at least marginally.

[psychopompous]

. . . not here. Later.

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