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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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[Such a douchebag.]

Oh, there's always danger, but honestly, if I don't have to fight another vampire and then a dragon, I'll be happy.

[Pause.]

Well, at first it's how you act, a child acting like you can't have an easy life, but either you're the first one from home who has a clone whose a different age, or... [She gestures to the picture of the young woman and raises an eyebrow at Haibara.]

I doubt he would allow such fanciful creatures in his heart, so at least you have that. But there's danger for him as well.

[She closes her eyes and shrugs.]

It looks like you've figured me out. [flatly]

I know, but at they very least I've never made anything worse.

Hm. [She looks at the board.] Well, you and Kaito can't be enemies...are you the people he'll let get involved in that organization?

The people on that board are related to the Organization, in one way or another.

He thinks Kaitou Kid is related?

The possibility is there. Not so much him, but the men he is up against.

[Pauses, thinking on it.]

Yes, I suppose it would make some sense. Especially if-well. [Going over to look at the other bulletin board.]

[Every inch of the first board is covered with overlapping photographs. Nearly all of them are of deceased murder victims, so there’s a lot of blood and some are especially gruesome.]

....

[Eeeeeeh.]

My, he really doesn't forget anything, does he?

[Oh, let's look at the mortuary drawers.] So are these going to be victims of especially hard cases?

[Most all of them are locked, aside from one sitting ajar. The girl doesn't answer.]

[Let's open that ajar one.]

[there's a body inside, though a sheet covers it aside from the feet. An identification strip around the ankle reads BERRY/AOKO (FAKE).]

...

This is the Mirror Aoko from the heart.

That is correct.

....

How bad is this guilt? Here?

If you're looking for his guilt, you'll need to go deeper.

We're still in the clinical part, I take it?

[Sighs and she closes the drawer and turns to Haibara.]

Do you know how I go deeper? Beyond all this...things that are facts?

Yes. Since it's you, I may as well just say it.

[She goes to the back of the room and removes a grate from a low vent there. It's too small for you to fit inside.]

You'll have to take the poison.

...

[HUFFS.] All right. At least it's not the stupidest thing I've done in a heart.

[She goes over to a drawer, unlocks it, and pulls out a bottle labeled APTX 4869. She shakes out one pill and holds it up for her to take.]

A word of caution. It's dangerous ahead, for you and for him. Keep that in mind should you try to change anything.

[Nods.] I know. Hearts are delicate things.

[But first, pill. TAKING IT and bracing for the feeling of burning heart attack WHATEVER THE HELL IT DOES.]

[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.]

[Contemplate? I knew this was stupid and I'm stupid for doing it, but GOTTA HELP THE HEART.]

[But as soon as the fever hit, she dropped to her knees and let herself fall to the side like that. She watched this shit, she knows it's coming, and she'd rather not risk more injury. Her teeth are gritted, eyes shut, and she doesn't scream. It's familiar, in a way, to thinks in Aather, to the Contract, and it's another CHALLENGE, she'll overco-]

[At least until the blacking out happened.]

.... [Just takes a few moments to breathe, calm herself down. She's fine, she's in control.]

[She pushes herself up and thank god for hoody with big pockets. I'd hate to lose the knives.] Just through the vent hen?

Yes. Be careful.

Thank you.

[And THROUGH THE VENT I GO.]

Re: BASEMENT

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