Riful's Heart.

[dramatispersonae]

[everything goes away.]

[sight, sound, taste, touch, smell - you lose yourself to the nothing that waits through the doorway. do you have a body? a mind? what is such a thing? for a dizzying moment, you might not even be sure you have a "you" to identify these concepts with.]

[then, wrenching and violent, the confusion of the senses pummels itself back inside you like seasoning pounded into raw meat, and you're left, painfully sensate, on an open plain.]

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[amivoringyou]

[the puppy looks at you, and ... pees, territorially, on your leg instead.]

Aroo?

[oh_brother]

[SIGHS. leans down and tries to bandage the damn thing >(]

Thank you for that.

[amivoringyou]

[it licks your hand and wiggles its butt '-' oh no compliments happy puppy is happy '-']

[then it bites your hand in gratitude]

[oh_brother]

[sfl;a jerks his hand back too]

I hope you feel better.

[and I am going to stuff some supplies in my pocket and go back to that pool to wash off]

[amivoringyou]

[it follows you, because you're Ruby '-']

[you might notice that the blood washing off your hand, against the light of the pool, is the same color as the liquid on the pool's surface already.]

[oh_brother]

[... mmmmaybe I don't want to wash off in that pool after all :( well shit. he walks towards that other opening instead, glancing back at the dog as he does so.]

I don't uppose you'd stay if I told you to, would you?

[amivoringyou]

Yip!

[... that's a no '-']

[are you leaving the cave of pockets, then?

[oh_brother]

[yeah, let's try the other section instead, for now. keeping an eye out for the dog as he goes.]

[amivoringyou]

[you head deeper ...]

[you start to hear the murmur of voices, still indistinct, and ... ahead, there is ... light ...?]

[oh_brother]

[drawing closer then, keeping towards the wall and hopefully at least somewhat out of sight, if someone's there]

[amivoringyou]

[the voices grow louder ...]

[you overhear the tail end of this conversation.]