[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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[dormancy]

[glances at the door]

That's all.

[surefire]

That's all?

[dormancy]

I'm kept out.

[and turning around to slowly pad his way in an opposite direction]

[surefire]

[following after]

Ah, what an exclusive bunch... Or is it better that way?

[dormancy]

[picking his way through the darkness with ease, some of the lights cluster near him while the voices still quietly chatter, "Hated, absolutely hated!" "Evil child, always causing trouble!"]

I don't want to have tea with them.

[surefire]

They are a bit lacking in manners...

[dormancy]

They aren't used to company.

[eventually, the path starts to clear with less toys and furniture and into pure black]

[surefire]

Could the same be said of you?

[dormancy]

We're not alike. I don't care for company.

[surefire]

... Haa. Then maybe a place like this would suit your tastes...

[dormancy]

Well, I'm here . . .

[and he's stopping when there is nothing at all to be seen]

[surefire]

Do you want to leave?

[dormancy]

No. I like this place.

[surefire]

... You have strange preferences...

[dormancy]

Do they bother you?

[surefire]

[laughs]

I almost have to admire it.

[dormancy]

Admire? Why?

[surefire]

[shrug]

Because I couldn't think the same way, of course.

[dormancy]

You hate this place?

[surefire]

It'd drive me crazy. Too empty.

[dormancy]

That's probably the idea.

[surefire]

Of course.

Do you even know how long you've been here?

[dormancy]

Not long . . . I wanted to come here.

[surefire]

Why?

[dormancy]

I like it here. There aren't people, and it's quiet.