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.]

Comments

[youhadmefromhello]

[. . . I will let Sakura talk to you while I look for a way to get you down]

[amivoringyou]

[you can probably yank the rods out of the roof, if you pulled at them hard enough ... the ceiling's been fractured enough, thanks to the gorilla man thing's rampage, that everything up there's a little looser than it should be.]

[pay no attention to the pile o' corpses in the corner, they'll just keep on smelling like death and blood and soiling themselves from pain and post-mortem muscle release.]

[medpacksapunch]

[YES IGNORING THAT PILE AS HARD AS POSSIBLE and kneels in front of maybe-Sion, hesitantly reaching out like she'd like to touch him]

I'm-- I'm sorry, there's nothing I--

[amivoringyou]

[xe breathes harshly]

D-Dauf --?

[youhadmefromhello]

[PULLS ON ONE OF THOSE CEILING RODS like a helper]

[medpacksapunch]

[whatever maybe-sion said doesn't mean anything to her :x, looks up to watch whatever sunlight is doing-- shielding her head and maybe-sion with her arm, just in case of falling debris]

[amivoringyou]

[the rod comes out of the ceiling in a hail of rubble; the rest of the ceiling cracks and sags noticeably, but doesn't fall.]

[xe grunts] D-Dauf - where --