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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[strawsandals]

This all feels so senseless. Why were you and Kirumi made to endure all of this...

[ He's getting pretty upset, not gonna lie. ]

[destage]

...Neither of us deserved this.

[It's shaky when she says it, but for once in her life, she's including herself in this. Because fuck that bear.]

She should have been able to keep living her life--this should have never happened at all. All of this senseless death, just for despair...it's...

[strawsandals]

It's sickening.

We'll save her - and you both won't need to go back to that wretched place.

[ He refuses to believe Sayaka is dead. She's here, tangible, and very much alive as far as he knows. He agrees, neither of them deserve that. No one does, really, but knowing they had to endure that leaves a bitter taste in his mouth. ]