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))

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Re: Shrine

[dramatispersonae]

Into Heliodor! The place doesn't have all those vines of course, and the little sun is shining on everything.

Re: Shrine

[familyjewels]

[lifts his hand in greeting at Gara, sitting down wherever there's an open seat]

Re: Shrine

[dramatispersonae]

Gara huffs and kicks his legs. There are plenty of comfortable la-z-boy chairs to sit in! Hail also sits.

"What is the problem."

Re: Shrine

[familyjewels]

[blunt]

I fucked up.

Re: Shrine

[dramatispersonae]

"That is unspecific."

Re: Shrine

[familyjewels]

No shit. I found something in another room that I'm pretty sure was corrupted, and I tried to fix it, but I couldn't, and either I messed something up or said something wrong, and I got kicked out.

Re: Shrine

[dramatispersonae]

"I see. What do you think it was?"

Re: Shrine

[familyjewels]

... I don't know. Sion came in--the Bishop part of him--and I talked to him...

Re: Shrine

[dramatispersonae]

She begins writing notes! It is Hail after all.

"Yes?"

Re: Shrine

[familyjewels]

[gets quieter]

I told him that... if there was ever a time where he wasn't serving Kazuki... if he still needed a king... that I would have him.

Re: Shrine

[dramatispersonae]

She nods and scribbles.

"I see. Did he say yes?"

Re: Shrine

[familyjewels]

No, he didn't. And I didn't expect him to.

Re: Shrine

[dramatispersonae]

"I do not understand."

Re: Shrine

[familyjewels]

I just wanted to tell him that... he'd have a place with me. Always. Even if being a king scares me, if it was for him... I'd do it.

Re: Shrine

[dramatispersonae]

Hail scribbles something.

"This sounds complicated." She decides. "Was he looking for another king?"

Re: Shrine

[familyjewels]

No. That's why I knew he wouldn't say yes.

Re: Shrine

[dramatispersonae]

"But you wanted him to feel wanted?"

Re: Shrine

[familyjewels]

[nods]

Re: Shrine

[dramatispersonae]

"You offered to be his king?" Gara pipes up. "Dumbass, you're lucky he didn't kill you."

Re: Shrine

[familyjewels]

[sighs]

Like I said, I didn't expect him to take it. It's been building up for a while, and I just... wanted to say it. Guess I shouldn't have.

Re: Shrine

[dramatispersonae]

Hail thinks about this.

"But you wanted to say it."

Re: Shrine

[familyjewels]

Yeah.

Re: Shrine

[dramatispersonae]

"Do you regret it?"

Re: Shrine

[familyjewels]

[quiet for a bit]

... I regret scaring him like that.

Re: Shrine

[dramatispersonae]

"I see. What will you do?"