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Atem ([personal profile] metagame) wrote in [community profile] linkingup2024-09-29 12:53 pm

The City of the Specter, Atem's Palace

The corpse sinks to the floor
Even the brightest gold, even the sharpest blade
Becomes sand, becomes dust
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[personal profile] townmusician 2024-10-02 02:25 am (UTC)(link)
[Hey! That scream is horrifying, thanks!]

Soujuurou!

[Idiot! Stupid, stupid idiot!!

Haruka knows better than to reach for a wounded animal, which is what Soujuurou reminds him of in so many ways, especially after seeing his Shadow.]


Whatever you're seeing, it's just an illusion! It might feel real, but it's not!
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[personal profile] emptyself 2024-10-02 02:38 am (UTC)(link)
[ haruka's pleading come to soujuurou as more howls, the pain of teeth sinking into him so genuinely horrifying and painful that all he can do is scream again in agony. it's so painful, it's so genuinely painful and the sight of his own blood in the snow is so horrifying that it almost makes him forget that he was in atem's palace.

wait.

ah. that's right. atem needs him right now, doesn't he? what is he screaming about when there's something that he needs to do?

to haruka, soujuurou's muscles relax as he takes a deep, shaky breath in, holds it in, and breathes out. slowly, he brings his hands down from the sides of his head, and faces haruka. the look in his eyes is as dull and dead as atem's corpse, though that is only a veil for the anger that's been ignited behind it. his voice however, seems affable enough towards haruka. ]


Thanks for the help. I'm sorry about that.
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[personal profile] townmusician 2024-10-02 02:42 am (UTC)(link)
[...Haruka lets out a slow breath.]

Haven't I already told you not to apologize for unnecessary things?

[There's more that he could say to that, and the look in his eyes is unsettling as all hell, but...

For once, he can acknowledge this isn't the right time nor place to talk about these things.]
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[personal profile] emptyself 2024-10-02 02:51 am (UTC)(link)
You did.

[ he nods, obedient as always despite that look in his eyes still not dissipating. the pain in his arms is still ever present, as if his scars had been ripped open...but he knows that's not the case. over and over, he mentally tells himself that he's fine.

he nods again, thought this time mostly to himself. ]


I'll see if I can help the others.
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[personal profile] townmusician 2024-10-02 03:06 am (UTC)(link)
...Just so long as you don't strain yourself too much.

[He says, seconds before he crits Atem, apparently.]