Fractured

Myriad Reality

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*frowns*
We must keep moving.

@Spiritblitz

Where will you go?

Myriad Reality

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*Kneels down and sticks my hand into the doorframe slowly, like testing the temperature of pool water*

@Stratocracy

*The water feels completely neutral, offering little resistance and staying congealed wherever your hand is not*

Myriad Reality

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*Drops my twig into the liquid*

@Stratocracy

*It ripples against the gel and bounces out, but you can see ripples of Eclipse's actions underneath the waves*

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*the word protect comes up from my hand and wraps around you*

@Spiritblitz

*Watches the word circle, and it contracts and lengthens as it moves before stretching too far and breaking into two pieces*
...

Myriad Reality

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Huh?
*Points at myself and then points at you*

@Stratocracy

*Stares at you with a questioning look, barely visible amidst the refraction*

Myriad Reality

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*Raises an eyebrow as I slowly wave at you in confusion*

@Stratocracy

*One word of my voice echoes out of the pool*
Deep.

Myriad Reality

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Hello?
*Looks around momentarily, picking up a small twig and poking the strange liquid with it*

@Stratocracy

*The liquid overreacts to the touch, bouncing back and forth like a gel*
...
*Looks toward you, my feet pointing toward the surface, and waves*

Myriad Reality

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Is anyone down there?
*Waits momentarily for a response*

@Stratocracy

*No sound emerges but the glooping of the liquid, but you catch glimpses of Eclipse and myself in the glimmers of its surface*

Myriad Reality

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*Pauses only momentarily, shaking my head at the sight as I continue toward it*

@Stratocracy

*The skull emits an aura of safety and security, but not absent of its accompanying suspicion—inside is an opened floor-bound hatch full of a thick inky blackness twinkling with faint refractions of light*

Myriad Reality

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*waves*

@Spiritblitz

*Waves back, the word “fear” bouncing against “safe”*

Myriad Reality

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*stares at the words and slowly moves my hand, palm out, up in front of my chest, staring at the words for a moment and touching one of them with a finger*
Safe.
*the word I touch turns into the word “safe” and bounces away*

@Spiritblitz

*At the reverberation of the word, slowly sinks upside down next to you with air bubbling up from me*