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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.]
voidhearts: (N13)

[personal profile] voidhearts 2023-01-29 10:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Eheheheh...!

Yup! That was Halloween! We dressed up as witches...and Puck used his special talent to be our fearsome cat familiar! Nessa says every witch needs a good familiar!

[It's still not clear whether the cat being so big is real or a joke...]

That was my first Halloween....that was great.
messianic: (You efface the Sheen.)

[personal profile] messianic 2023-01-29 10:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Your... first Halloween?
voidhearts: (N02)

[personal profile] voidhearts 2023-01-29 10:25 pm (UTC)(link)
[She blinks, seemingly realizing what she just said.]

O-oh, um y'know, I just mean....









[She's clearly trying to think of something to explain that choice of words away. She's equally clearly not coming up with anything.]
messianic: (the air around us becomes)

[personal profile] messianic 2023-01-29 10:26 pm (UTC)(link)
... Ah. If you don't want to talk about it, I won't pry.

I just wasn't sure what you meant.
voidhearts: (N02)

[personal profile] voidhearts 2023-01-29 10:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Th...thanks. [She looks visibly relieved.]

It's just, uhm. Kind of a long story. M-maybe we can talk about it later.
messianic: (That is best which is not —)

[personal profile] messianic 2023-01-30 02:13 am (UTC)(link)
Okay. That's fine. Whatever you're comfortable with sharing is fine, honest.

[ a beat.

hm.

speaking of uncomfortable-- ]

Those other rooms... they're locked, right? Whose rooms are they?
voidhearts: (N06)

[personal profile] voidhearts 2023-01-30 03:39 am (UTC)(link)
Uhhh...

[She looks at the hallway.]

One of them is Nessa's study. The other is her bedroom.
messianic: (eroded beyond fear.)

[personal profile] messianic 2023-01-31 01:03 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, I see.

[ huh... ]

I guess I shouldn't pry into them. They're locked for a reason.

D'you think I should check into anything else while I'm here, Nell-san? I'm a little anxious about wasting too much time, too, when Nessa-san is suffering.
voidhearts: (N02)

[personal profile] voidhearts 2023-01-31 01:06 am (UTC)(link)
[Nell shakes her head.]

I think it'll be a little while before I find the next crystal...if you have anything else you can do in the meantime, you should definitely take care of that for now.

Don't worry, I'll message you when I have something! Shadow Nessa already gave me your phone num--

...

...

I mean, um.

I got it in a very.

Respectful and polite way?
messianic: (Fulfilling joy; fulfilling pain?-)

[personal profile] messianic 2023-01-31 01:17 am (UTC)(link)
[ omg. He just huffs out a faint laugh at that. ]

Got it. Okay, that sounds good to me. In that case... I'm gonna head out, since you can contact me.

Thanks for all of your help.
voidhearts: (N06)

[personal profile] voidhearts 2023-01-31 01:38 am (UTC)(link)
Okay! Good luck, Minato!

[You can leave the apartment and return to the Courtyard, if you so choose....]