Early heart run.

[restorefromsave]

As you step through the door a siren goes off, the sound echoing in your ears for several minutes as the world goes completely black and empty.

You’re not falling but you’re not really standing on anything either, and all that you can percieve is the sirens still blaring, loud loud loud in your ears--

There’s an explosion so huge you don’t see or hear it so much as feel it through to your very bones. You feel an impact, strange and unsettling, and you think you might be dead? Because you can’t feel your body anymore.

Slowly the sound begins to fade and light and feeling returns, allowing you to see where you are. You’re also alive, good for you.

You end up here at the end. Unless you're Yuki, who ends up here.

((Join #checkmate))

Comments

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[telepathetically]

...

Um?

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[restorefromsave]

Sion is currently standing over you, staring at you with cold eyes. Both his hands rest on a simple silver Bishop’s crook.

He wears a white cape with black trim, but it’s stained and covered in blood along the hems. Or it’s probably blood? It’s too bright red, it’s vivid. The same bright red stains his face and hands, smearing the silver of the crook he holds, dripping onto the floor and making a mess... But the blood on the floor seems to fade and disappear.

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[telepathetically]

[curls around the tiny sion protectively]

..."Bishop"?

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[restorefromsave]

You... Can't "hear" anything. He might be thinking things but it's silent.

He nods.

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[telepathetically]

Do you want something...?

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[restorefromsave]

He reaches into a pocket....

And pulls out a handkerchief, which he drops on Yuki's face.

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[telepathetically]

T-thank you!?

[wipes his. face.]

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[restorefromsave]

He nods again, looks around the room expressionlessly, and then back at Yuki, still blank.

After a moment he just kind of fades out like a special effect.

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[telepathetically]

Wait!!

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[restorefromsave]

It stops disappearing?

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[telepathetically]

D-do you know what to do?

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[restorefromsave]

"No. The corruption isn't something I can touch."

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[telepathetically]

...I can touch it?

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[restorefromsave]

"Perhaps."

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[telepathetically]

[petting the tiny...]

I should... try?

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[restorefromsave]

Tiny is a asleep and clinging.

"If you wish. It won't kill us. Though the system corruption will result in aberrant behavior and errors if not reset."

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[telepathetically]

Aberrant— aberrant is bad, right?

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[restorefromsave]

"Aberrant--departing from standard."

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[telepathetically]

That's bad!

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[restorefromsave]

"It won't benefit."

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[telepathetically]

[HESITATES... then stands up from the couch, taking off his coat and tucking it around tinySion like a blanket]

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[restorefromsave]

Well if you don't need the murder NPC he'll be departing again???

The tiny just kind of cuddles until he disappears under the blanket. Like a kitten.

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[telepathetically]

GET BACK HERE

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[restorefromsave]

Re-materializes. What do you want :| so demanding.

"What?"

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[telepathetically]

[BRANDISHES THE HANDKERCHIEF AT]

Bend down!