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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.

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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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[ But at the girl's voice, he turns to her for a moment before returning his gaze to the picture of the woman and then back again real quick, as his eyes widen... ]

Ahh, you too?

Congratulations, you figured me out. [wryly]

There's more to it than that, but yes, me too.

[ More edgy now ]

So why are you really here?

Because he has to protect me from those men.

[She points to the board, presumably at the two men in black.]

Why's that?

If they knew I was alive, they would hunt me down.

[which is clearly still not saying everything, but]

So you got on their bad side too?

You could say that.

What'd you do?

I used to work for them. I refused to continue working for them. So I had to either die, or escape. Turns out I was able to do the latter.

You did that to yourself? Why'd you change your mind?

Because they killed my sister.

[flatly]

[ Oh... ]

I'm sorry.

I'm not really her, you know. I'm just a part of your teammate's heart.

But I appreciate it.

I know that. But I can't say sorry to her so...

What's so important down here anyway?

This is closer to the deeper levels of his heart, but this is only the entrance. If you want to go further, it won't be without pain.

That's usually how it works in these things.

You should know by now he's not about to make it easy to penetrate his heart.

[She goes to the back of the room and pulls the cover off of a low air vent. It's too small for you to fit through.]

If you choose to move on, you'll have to continue through here.

... yeah, that's probably not going to work. Maybe I can make it bigger...

Unless you're trying to damage his heart, you'll need to make yourself smaller.

[she unlocks one of the drawers and pulls out a bottle labeled APTX 4869, shakes out a pill, and holds it out to him]

Fair warning, this is a lethal poison, to most.

... Most? I thought taking something is what made him younger in the first place.

That's right. It was intended to kill him.

Of course this isn't the real thing, so it won't kill you. But it may feel like it will.

Oh, this sounds like a blast... But if it's for Solstice...

[ Will take his pill. Ugh. ]

[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.]

[ NONE OF THAT WAS COOL and he is now deeply upset that that's what Solstice went through. But he's going to direct all those FEELINGS into trying to climb down the now accessible vent. ]

Re: BASEMENT

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