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Nessa ([personal profile] warpweft) wrote2023-01-19 08:43 pm

[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.]
velluminous: (call me Mephistopheles)

[personal profile] velluminous 2023-01-22 08:41 pm (UTC)(link)
[ that prompts a response, but unfortunately, Sprezzatura's response is to instinctively slap Nessa's hand away. not very hard—the gesture is rooted pretty deep in the realm of the matronly—but still. ]

Don't touch me.

[ the girl she knew... a fake? and this is supposed to be her fault, somehow? ]
velluminous: (you make me climb)

[personal profile] velluminous 2023-01-22 09:12 pm (UTC)(link)
[ she reels back from it, despite the dizziness, the despite the ache. all the way to her feet... more or less. ]

I said don't! Why do you not hear my words? Am I speaking Yip-Yak to you?
velluminous: (desire for destruction)

[personal profile] velluminous 2023-01-22 09:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh! Are you in bad mood? So sorry, please continue to sneer and belittle me.

[ where is her blouse? she is stomping over to grab it and pull it on ]
velluminous: (you make me climb)

[personal profile] velluminous 2023-01-22 11:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[ she is, like, || this fucking close to snapping already. so she doesn't catch the phone when Nessa tosses it to her; it lands on the wrecked courtyard ground, and she grinds her teeth at its chimes and beeps while she buttons herself up again. taking such great care not to jostle the mock-voidheart.

this is for her.

this moment is not about you.

this is for her. you're doing this for her.
]