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[ENTER THE PALACE]
[You find yourself with a sensation like floating in water.]
[Above, the sky is dark. You can occasionally see things shifting, like gusts of wind, or perhaps waves of water. Is it…even a sky above you? Or is it some kind of giant ocean? Whatever it is, you can’t make it out very well. All around you, you appear to be floating in what appears to be water. It looks like a great, wide ocean of…space in every direction around you, with stars and lights twinkling in the distance. It looks like water and feels like water, but it doesn’t make you wet. You can reach your hand into it and pull some out, the purple and violet water and the tiny points of light inside it will even rest in your hands if you cup them to carry it, but once you’re not trying to hold it anymore, it’ll flow off of you, not a single drop remaining behind. You feel something similar if you go underneath the surface. The “water” doesn’t touch your eyes, mouth or nose when give the chance, it merely drifts around you, allowing you to breathe and see unabated. And you can see for a great distance, the twinkling stars illuminating the ocean of space all around you. Though perhaps less dark and empty, it feels every bit as vast as the sky above. You feel like you could swim forever and never reach the edge.]
[It’s quiet, here, with little noise around you but the starry ocean’s waves crashing back into its surface. It’s peaceful. In another situation, it might even be comfortable.]
[Above, the sky is dark. You can occasionally see things shifting, like gusts of wind, or perhaps waves of water. Is it…even a sky above you? Or is it some kind of giant ocean? Whatever it is, you can’t make it out very well. All around you, you appear to be floating in what appears to be water. It looks like a great, wide ocean of…space in every direction around you, with stars and lights twinkling in the distance. It looks like water and feels like water, but it doesn’t make you wet. You can reach your hand into it and pull some out, the purple and violet water and the tiny points of light inside it will even rest in your hands if you cup them to carry it, but once you’re not trying to hold it anymore, it’ll flow off of you, not a single drop remaining behind. You feel something similar if you go underneath the surface. The “water” doesn’t touch your eyes, mouth or nose when give the chance, it merely drifts around you, allowing you to breathe and see unabated. And you can see for a great distance, the twinkling stars illuminating the ocean of space all around you. Though perhaps less dark and empty, it feels every bit as vast as the sky above. You feel like you could swim forever and never reach the edge.]
[It’s quiet, here, with little noise around you but the starry ocean’s waves crashing back into its surface. It’s peaceful. In another situation, it might even be comfortable.]
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[Your hand is on the handle of the door, pulling it closed. You were in such a hurry to leave the house that you almost forgot to close the door behind you. You take one last look at the cabin as you take a couple steps back from it, then you look at the other similar cabins nearby. Then you turn and run, as fast as your small legs will carry you, your feet kicking up dust on the dirt ground beneath you.]
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[You’re standing in front of the door to the temple. You swallow once, look down at your hands and then you push the door open, slipping inside. You walk past the wide tables that everybody sits at for meals and up to a curtain dividing the common area from the rest of the temple.]
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What are you doing here?
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Your hand slowly reaches out for it. Then hesitates. Then hesitates.
Instead of grabbing it, you lightly touch two fingers to the top of it. You feel a pulse coming off of it.
A second later, you’re taking it in your hand and moving the curtain back into place.]
Oh, I get it. She brought you here.
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Too bad for you….
[You’ve pulled yourself into a sitting position. You see her standing above you, her face spread into a wide, sadistic grin. She holds up the weapon in her hand and plunges it down towards you.]
done
[You’re Nessa Houghton, staring up at your cousin as she stabs you in the chest.]
[You’re Tsumugi Shirogane staring up at a white-haired young woman as she stabs you in the chest.]
[The last thing you see before you lose consciousness is the grin on her face.]
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[She tries to say something but all that comes out is a pathetic wheeze]
[The words "No, I won't" are her final thought as she collapses.]
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[CH-THUNK]
[You feel a jolt run through your entire body, jarring you awake and making you take in a sudden, deep breath and sit up straight. Immediately followed by falling back down. You once again feel like you’re floating in water.]
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[Your vision is blurry, but gradually returning to you. If you have glasses, they’re being held out to you. One way or the other, your vision clears up and you can see a woman standing above you, arms crossed, glaring down at you…]
[With a pair of glowing yellow eyes.]
Don’t force yourself to get up too quickly. Your body is still recovering.
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[she blinks, then takes her glasses]
Where am I? What year is it?
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Did I wake up back in the good old 1955?
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[She pinches Tsumugi's cheek.]
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...Um. Do you know your eyes are glowing?
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And if we're going to compare physical abnormalities, I'll take mine over yours, right now. No offense.
[She points at her chest. Whatever she was wearing has been pulled open or outright discarded (well, neatly folded and placed a short distance away). There’s no wound on her chest, but where she was attacked…
…there’s now a small glass sphere, embedded in her chest. Looking at the stars twinkling inside it, it may be a familiar sight to her, but…the one she saw before, in the memory, was purple. This one is a faded white-gray color.]
I have to admit, it was a bit of a rush job, but, well. You were bleeding all over the place, so I skipped the heated seats and the seatbelt covers.
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[She goes to try to cover herself, if she can even move.]
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Oh, please, it's nothing I haven't seen before. Would you have preferred me ripping them to shreds so I could close the hole in your chest?
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[She'll take care of that and redress then.]
What did you do, exactly?
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My cousin did to you what she did to me.
So I fixed it for you the same way it got fixed for me.
[She points at the sphere in Tsumugi's chest.]
That is called the Voidheart. Or...a facsimile of it, anyway.
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Normally, the real thing is right here, doing all of the stuff that my heart used to do. I made a copy to stabilize you.
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Two, no, it is what it is at this point. I need the Voidheart to stay alive. So that's what we're going to be dealing with.
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What about just me?
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...you might have some weird side effects when you get back to the prison, don't hold that against me. I worked with what I had at the time.
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