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.]

Comments

Re: TRUE HEART

[silverbulletkun]

He would've been fine if you hadn't gone in there in first place! Now I have to find somewhere else to put him!

["fine," yes, because that room was totally fine. He's grumpy and annoyed, but his conviction falters a little as he says that.]

Re: TRUE HEART

[justkittin]

. . . fine. Of course. Your definition of fine is someone chained to four heavy weights, sitting on top of a cracked and brittle glass floor which, if broken, would drop him into a pit of spikes.

[he sounds very d. . . ry, when he says all of that]

That's a stupid definition of "fine," idiot.

Re: TRUE HEART

[silverbulletkun]

[sIGH.]

Either way, the point is I'm not going to be all right when I wake up. I should be, eventually. . . [he. doesn't sound entirely certain, but]

But it's going to take time to fix this.

Re: TRUE HEART

[justkittin]

[. . . god damn it]

[he slumps]

What did we mess up?

Re: TRUE HEART

[silverbulletkun]

[puts him down, maybe slumping means you won't try to kick me]

How do I put this. . . You caved in the place I used to shove down. . . well, a lot of bad stuff. If that was all you did, I might've been okay after a fashion. Might've helped me get over a thing or two. . . Not that I'm saying I needed anyone to come stomp around my heart like this at all.

[ahem]

But you took an integral part of that out. You even brought him here. But he's too important to just get rid of.

I can't put him back, so that means there are some things I won't be able to suppress when I wake up.

Re: TRUE HEART

[justkittin]

[nope, no more attempts at shin kicking]

[he shoves his hands into his pockets and tilts his chin up, still frowning]

So we were supposed to just let the room cave in around him? Let him die in that chaos? What good would that have done?

Re: TRUE HEART

[silverbulletkun]

[reluctantly]

You saw it, didn't you? It was going to cave in eventually. Naturally.

[glances at the tiny solstice]

He wouldn't have stayed "dead" forever, I'm sure. Not from that.

Re: TRUE HEART

[blackjacked]

[turning away from him a bit, suppressing another curse as he rakes a hand through his hair]

. . . so what will you not be able to suppress?

Re: TRUE HEART

[silverbulletkun]

. . . Guilt. Fear. . . fear of dying. Powerlessness.

[tiny sol slinks guiltily (haha. . .) behind the desk]

Re: TRUE HEART

[justkittin]

[winces; this sounds familiar]

Can you rebuild it?

Re: TRUE HEART

[silverbulletkun]

I may have to start from scratch, but. . . maybe not. You guys did something, something else, I'm not sure what yet.

Re: TRUE HEART

[justkittin]

Something good, I hope.

[pauses. . . then reaches up to tug the hem of his shirt]

C'mere for a second.

[bend down bend doooown]

Re: TRUE HEART

[silverbulletkun]

[man i trust you but i don't trust you that much]

Why.

Re: TRUE HEART

[justkittin]

[rude tantei-kun]

So I can poke you in the eyes-- c'mon, just bend down.

Re: TRUE HEART

[silverbulletkun]

[if you actually poke him in the eyes he's going to bop you so hard]

[bends down]

Re: TRUE HEART

[justkittin]

[thankfully, he does not actually poke Solstice in the eyes]

[he does, however, grab a hold of the collar of his shirt and bop him on the back of the head.]

When we get outta here, you'd better talk to me. You weren't here when it happened, but I was a wreck for a long time after my heart game.

I can help.

Re: TRUE HEART

[silverbulletkun]

[akjdfs seriously though are you still doing that even when our sizes are reversed]

[but kaito's words do seem to sink in]

. . . I'll try.

Re: TRUE HEART

[justkittin]

[OF COURSE HE IS]

[scoffs and lets him go]

Good.

. . . and sorry about the mess.

Re: TRUE HEART

[silverbulletkun]

[straightens and hooks his thumbs in his pockets]

Well, it is you, so a mess was to be expected.

[teasing. maybe.]

Re: TRUE HEART

[justkittin]

[ha ha. he is amused, though]

Oh c'mon, you say that like I'm a walking disaster. My touch tends to be a bit gentler than-- [vague hand gesture] . . . that.

Anything we can do to help while we're here?

Re: TRUE HEART

[silverbulletkun]

Or so you say.

I think you've "helped" quite enough. After all that effort I made to hide everything, too. . .

Re: TRUE HEART

[justkittin]

[rolls his shoulders back in a shrug]

Heart games are bad for people who try'n hide things.

. . . but seriously. I don't want to leave a huge mess if there's something I can do to help clean it up while I'm here.

Re: TRUE HEART

[silverbulletkun]

Yeah. I know.

That room is, for all intents and purposes, gone now. So there's nothing you can clean up.

Re: TRUE HEART

[justkittin]

[SIGH]

You've gotta make everything difficult, don't you?

[. . . though he doesn't sound like he's actually blaming Solstice for that]

Can you turn us back to normal? I hate being short.

Re: TRUE HEART

[silverbulletkun]

Look who's talking, Mr. Theif.



Oh, gee. It must be so terrible, being stuck like that for so long. I just can't imagine.

[the amount of sarcasm is phenomenal]