Kirumi Tojo's Palace | The Ultimate Maid's Failures

[kandata]

By now everyone may be used to find themselves in bizarre locations, between going into palaces and visiting Nekyia. It might not come as a surprise that it has happened again.

What might come as a surprise, though...is how empty this place is.

All around you there's nothing more than a large, gray, featureless expanse. In the distance there seem to be bars, curving upwards to gather so, so high above you, possibly hundreds of miles above, so high it’s hard to distinguish.

It’s a cage. So unfathomably large. You could escape, were you to get to the edges of the cage, but...it would take forever. No matter how you look at it, you're trapped. The atmosphere is so...hopeless. Devoid of anything even remotely positive.

Not that you want to hang around for long, do you? After all, this is someone's palace. Not a place to stick around at. What to do, though?

It’s all so...empty. Silent. Featureless. A flat expanse of hard gray tiles.

Gather together, everyone. Gather and choose a direction. North, East, West, South. All directions look completely identical, but could it affect your time in this place, somehow? Probably not. But all treks start with the first step. Perhaps, if you get moving, you'll progress?

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[imperiosity]

[There’s a small ‘hah’ at the final sentence, like she just stated the most obvious thing in the world.

As he picks up the note and glue, a few more words slip from his mouth, even though he’s fairly certain she’s already gone, if she was ever technically here in the first place. Still, he feels the need to say it, so he will.]

I’m saying that ‘cause I know exactly what it’s like to lose it.

[He doesn’t think their experiences are remotely comparable to each other, not at all. That note alone already shows they’re complete opposites in a number of ways. But on this minute point, he may be able to find some degree of common ground.

In any case, after those parting words, he will head back over to where the others are collecting the shards.]