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Solstice Heart

Entering into the heart, you feel a strong sense of resistance pushing you away. It’s easy enough to overcome if you push back, but it soon reverses and you’re pulled into an unfamiliar mansion.

[IRC: #truthless, heart starts at 4pm EST!]

edit: I'm a dumb and forgot to add in the LIBRARY segment: [On the left is another doorway to a staircase leading down.]

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[his mouth twitches]

He should know I don't shy away from pain.

I'm sure he does.

[sure wasn't any judging in that tone]

[but she moves to the back of the room and pulls the grate off of an air vent]

If you're in a hurry to find him, you'll want to head this way.

[It's way too small for you to fit.]

[opens mouth]

[closes it again]

[FROWNS. . . DEEPLY. . .]

. . .

The apotoxin, then?

[HE KNOWS WHERE THIS IS GOING]

You catch on quick. So? Do you still want to go deeper?

[without hesitation, he holds his hand out to her]

[his tone is light]

I'd like to think Tantei-kun enjoys my company a bit too much to kill me.

[MORBID. . . JOKING. . .]

Even he can't always control his emotions. I hope your faith works out for you.

[She walks past his outstretched hand, taking out a key to unlock one of the drawers and pull it open.]

In here. A word of caution before you do this. It's dangerous ahead, for you as well as him. Keep that in mind if you try to change anything.

[. . . follows her towards the drawer, expression even]

I've been through my fair share of heart games, Little Miss.

I know.

[There's a bottle of pills inside labeled APTX 4869.]

Let's hope you do.

[reaches in to pick it up, again without hesitation. he screws the lid open and tilts the bottle over until one falls into his palm]

[siiiigh]

So little faith. . .

[aaaand he tilts this head back to swallow the APTX, and immediately braces himself for its effects]

[The pill goes down easily enough, and you have a moment before it kicks in to contemplate what willingly taking lethal poison says about your life choices. Then the fever kicks in, your body growing unbearably hot in a matter of seconds. It makes you dizzy, and It may be getting hard to stay standing by the time your heart spasms painfully and suddenly everything is pain. It’s a struggle to breathe and it feels like your bones are melting. After a second spasm you black out for a moment, and whether or not the thought was your own it’s the last thing to flit through your mind. I’m going to die-!]

[You come to feeling perfectly fine, if a little winded. And suddenly everything’s really tall…]

[Lucky for you, your clothes shrank with you. But any larger items you had in your pockets may have fallen out.]

[. . . well no wonder Tantei-kun always looks like he's dying when he shrinks]

[slumping against the wall with a pained cry, clutching at his chest as he ducks his head and wills himself to suck it up and take it, it's no big deal, you did this willingly and he goes through it far more often than you do--]

. . . [and then he wakes up, lying face first on the ground, chest heaving with every breath he takes. everything he was carrying was small enough to stay in his pockets, save for his two decks of cards, his materia, and his knives. those are scattered on the ground around him]

. . . well that was a good time.

[SO WRY]

Yes, I know.

[just as wry]

[standing up shakily]

Remind me to give him an earful for this whenever he wakes up.

Any other warnings for what lies ahead?

[heading over to the air vent. can he reach it from this height]

I'm sure I don't need to.

[It's near the floor, so you'll have to duck down to go inside.]

. . . You may see some things you don't like. And if you ask me, some of them could use a change. But some things aren't meant to be changed, at least not like this.

[it's a ridiculously vague warning, but there you go]

[vague. . . but he understands it]

Forced change versus change gradually, through time. Ha. Believe me, I understand.

[gives her a wave, before he crouches down to crawl through the vent]

. . . Good luck.

[and onwards]

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