metagame: (Murder is probably the thing I do best.)
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
finalmix: (16)

1/2 thank god we have two dice bots in the server.

[personal profile] finalmix 2024-10-02 03:32 am (UTC)(link)
[ unfortunately, the diarama does nothing.

joshua is alone and his city is dying around him and him along with it, and it's easier to just give up now, right, at the very end?

so joshua drifts.

in a sea of shadows it's easy to get lost, to feel like you're drowning. but the shadows aren't as all encompassing as they used to be, and he can hear some things filtering in. sounds of combat, people shouting, and-- right.

this isn't shibuya.

in the background of it all, he hears it - mafuyu's song, the sound of her soul wrapped into a thread like a lifeline and joshua stumbles, follows the faint threads of her music like a beacon of light, and it's like struggling against the current in the oceans but he trusts (14)

(trust your partner?)

and joshua resurfaces-- ]