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]

Humanity isn't something you can teach us.

But mercy - [xe laughs.]

You'll see.

[xe touches hir lips to Sion's, briefly] If we meet again, I won't remember this. But I will.

[and then xe leaps back, landing precariously on the shaft of a needle, and leaps back again, disappearing down the pit.]

[the pit closes over hir like lips pressing shut.]

[Riful turns to you, eyes mirthful and half-lidded.]

Now. I really think it's time you left before you do anything else obnoxious.

[madasahero]

[Stands there for a fraction of second, still feeling those lips on lips.]

[madasahero]

[Then he turns to Riful.]

This is not over. I won't give up, you see.

[And then he leaves.]