Solstice Heart

[dramatispersonae]

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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Re: CELL 2

[dramatispersonae]

[There are a number of folders, though they’re all pretty thin. The files are labeled thusly:
The Organization
Gin and Vodka
Miyano Akemi
Sherry
Pisco
Numabuchi Kiichiro
Snake
Kaitou Kid
APTX 4869]

Re: CELL 2

[justkittin]

. . .

[well okay, he's nosy, checking "Kaitou Kid" first]

Re: CELL 2

[dramatispersonae]

[It contains what looks like a page torn out of a book, though it's all information on Kaitou Kid. There's a picture and general description of him and what he does, etc.]

[Real name Kuroba Kaito. Inherited the role of Kaitou Kid after learning of his father’s murder. Seeks Pandora to keep it out of the hands of his father’s killers. There is a possibility that the ones seeking Pandora and the Organization are related.]

Re: CELL 2

[justkittin]

[. . . hn]

[glancing up at the darkness after he finishes reading, because the feeling of being watched does not mix well with the ever-present nervousness still itching the back of his mind]

Ooooi! Is anyone there?

Re: CELL 2

[dramatispersonae]

[You hear a distant shuffling, and suddenly the feeling you're being watched is much stronger and much more malicious. . .]

Re: CELL 2

[justkittin]

. . .

[stands up on the table, moving his hand so it's covering his fire materia, and calling back out to the darkness]

Show yourself.

[. . . he's trying to sound like Kid, but honestly, that doesn't work with the voice of an eight-year-old. and he's far too on edge to keep himself as calm as he'd like]

[who's there?]

Re: CELL 2

[dramatispersonae]

[Silence, and it almost seems like whatever was watching you might have left. . .]

[Until there's something cold and hard pressed against the back of your head.]

You're a brave one, aren't you?

[You haven't heard that voice before, but it's deep and chilling.]

Re: CELL 2

[justkittin]

[. . . somehow, he manages to not flinch. not even a little bit, despite the fact that his hand at his side is now trembling with fear]

I've seen and experienced things that are far scarier than you.

[his voice is surprisingly calm and even. . .]

Which one are you? Gin? Vodka?

Re: CELL 2

[dramatispersonae]

I wouldn't be so sure, boy.

It's Gin. Not that knowing that will do you any good, where you're going.

Re: CELL 2

[blackjacked]

[his mouth twitches into an unpleasant smile, not that Gin can see, from his angle]

You don't know even one tenth of what haunts my nightmares.

[his hands clench around his materia, and he tries to focus on Gin's voice, to try and locate where the man's face is]

. . . you'd shoot a kid? Just like that?

Re: CELL 2

[dramatispersonae]

[You can't see the cold grin on his face either, but you can hear it]

You're a kid, so what? You know too much, so I'm taking you out. That's it.

Re: CELL 2

[justkittin]

What's a kid going to do with information like this?

[he says dryly, though without humor]

After all, I'm just a kid. I'm perfectly helpless and--

[-- defenseless goes unsaid, for right at that moment he uses his materia to cast a fireball RIGHT AT GIN'S FACE, using the man's voice as a guide for where he should concentrate his aim]

[. . . he is also ducking away from the gun at the same time, just. in case. it goes off]

Re: CELL 2

[dramatispersonae]

[Well, that briefly lights up the gloom, accompanied by the enraged cries of the guy behind you. And the gun does go off with a flash, close enough that he can feel the heat from it on his face.]

You little shit-!

[You may get a glimpse of him; he has one hand over his face, but you can see the dark outfit and long hair and the cold gleam in his eye. He raises his gun to shoot again-]

[-and you suddenly feel yourself yanked roughly from behind, your already dark surroundings blinking out before you suddenly find yourself elsewhere.]