[heart game]

[dormancy]

There is a click, a soft urging, almost whispered too soft to hear, but you can sense that you are being beckoned somewhere, lead to an elaborate open door with wood panels and great curls of gold leaf. You cannot see what is beyond the door, but it smells sour and sharp. Before you can turn over the thought of should you or shouldn't you, if you are the kind, there is a quiet push at your back and through the door you go . . .

Join #supersafe, because I like being misleading. When in doubt, use this for flower meanings if you character is the type . . .

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[crueltobekind]

THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH CRYING WHEN YOU'RE HURT!

[surefire]

[hmm. after a moment's consideration, stands over the void to listen for the voices more closely]

[dramatispersonae]

"I don't! I really ... I really don't have a clue what happened here or why it's like this. I was given that key, but I didn't know what it was a key for."

[dramatispersonae]

"IT IS WHEN YOU'RE A MAN! HAVE SOME SPINE ALREADY!!!"

[crueltobekind]

YOU'RE THE COWARD AFRAID TO SHOW WEAKNESS!

[dramatispersonae]

There is a wide variety. Some low and broken, others high-pitched and childish. You have the feeling that even as you hear so many, there are likely many, many more that aren't speaking down there.

"Won't you come down~?" "Gyahaha, she's mine, she's mine! I'll tear her apart!!" "All of you are being very rude. She won't come if you talk to her like that . . . "

[fraternalorders]

[nods in response to Neji's comment about finding the center]

[is going to be most put out if decapitations happen, though]

[dramatispersonae]

"WHAT THE HELL DID YOU THINK I TOLD YOU—?! THAT IS ENOUGH!!! YOU CAN LEAVE!!!!!"

[crueltobekind]

TELL ME WHERE TO FIND VINCENT AND I WILL!

[dramatispersonae]

"I ALREADY SAID NOT HERE!!"

Wow, that may be a few drops of tears or sweat when he shouts that out.

[dramatispersonae]

Well, the path may be a tangle at times, but it isn't impossible to navigate . . . So, the center of the maze awaits you.

[crueltobekind]

[this guy . . .]

You really have no idea where else he might be?

[sightunseen]

...do you know why it was given to you? Any guesses...?

[dramatispersonae]

"Not a damn clue!" Huff, huff. He tosses the ring at Kaoru. "If you find him, give him that! And tell him to show his damn face here, or I will find him!!"

[dramatispersonae]

"Because ... It'd be safe. Damnit, he trusts me, but he still keeps everything to himself. But that's why I have that key, I know it."

Gilbert rakes a hand through his hair, frustrated.

[crueltobekind]

[catches the ring]

I was planning to.

[and with that, turns to head back out to the maze]

[surefire]

[laughs, before shouting back down the void in response]

Now, now, I'm not offended at all~☆ Though I wonder who I'm speaking with?

[dramatispersonae]

You are a bro, Kaoru. If you check your hand, there is more than a ring there, but a brass key, hmm . . .

Either way, where will you try to find Vincent next?

[sightunseen]

...

I don't want to leave it like this. If you have any opinions on how to change it, I'd listen to them ♥

[crueltobekind]

[Let's try gate 2 this time]

[playfreebird]

[UM]

[skeptical]

[fraternalorders]

[well

this is

something]

[dramatispersonae]

There is a quiet laughter as the voices whisper inaudibly, then there is a crack and they are all deadly silent.

"It's good that you aren't, but I don't like to talk to people so distantly like this. Won't you visit? We can have tea . . . "

[dramatispersonae]

"There's more, there's more, shh!!" "I don't want any company, no one at all . . . " "Sad, sad, sad! He's going to cry! Cry a river!!"

[dramatispersonae]

He gives a last glance around before tugging out a handkerchief, scrubbing at the wall.

"Well, I came to clean ... And that book, something should be done to it, too, maybe."