[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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[surefire]

[... I feel like I might have an idea of what this is]

[not approaching any closer, but staring down the void as the best she can from where she is]

[dramatispersonae]

You may have a very good idea of what this is. It is dark, and you can't make out how deep it is, if there is any end or bottom to it. As you get closer, you can make out a few of the calls in clown and child like voices, "Oh, we have a visitor~." "Come and play, come and play, we'll be friends~."

[surefire]

[... exhales a long breath]

[are any of the golden lights within reach?]

[dramatispersonae]

There are a few. They float like small pinpricks of dust, but the glow is warm and gentle.

[surefire]

[reaching out to touch one...]

[dramatispersonae]

It floats away in a new direction when she touches it. There isn't any particular feeling from them, not even warmth.

[surefire]

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

[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 . . . "

[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]

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 . . . "

[surefire]

Hmm. Only if you have teacakes to go with it.

[dramatispersonae]

"Hehe, of course, I do."

[surefire]

Well, that's tempting...

Though I wonder. Will I find Vincent, down there?

[dramatispersonae]

"Vincent!" "She said his name!" "Alice, Alice . . . " "Oh, no."

"Vincent is not here! That awful, mean Vincent isn't allowed in here!!"

Goodness, there's even a quake that slowly dissipates coming from the void as the lights shiver in the air before floating away.

[surefire]

[... wow]

... Hahaha, then I take it he already left his mark here...

[dramatispersonae]

There are a few quiet whispers, but they are quickly hushed. No one is talking now. :'(a

[surefire]

[... laughs to herself]

The silent treatment now? How childish...

[dramatispersonae]

Truly, but what will you do with such a childish person?

[surefire]

[jump down after them apparently]

[#good decisions]

[dramatispersonae]

#yolo