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?

Comments

[imperiosity]

It’s not about moral superiority, it’s about not playing this asshole’s bullshit game.

If you wanna tell her that it’s fine to make the same mistake over and over again, then go right ahead. I’m not playing along, though.

[vogelfrei]

[ ....... coming from Aaron, directed at a man who keeps making the same mistakes over and over again, this feels kind of cutting.

Which means the Exisal just. shuts up. ]

[imperiosity]

[oh my god he didn’t even mean to toss shade on McGillis (mostly)

So right now he’s very ??? about this reaction, especially since Aaron can’t see him while he’s in that Exisal.]

Your speakers malfunction or something?

[okay he knows this probably isn’t it and even if it was, he wouldn’t hear a response anyway but whatever!! let him live.]

[vogelfrei]

[ Extremely rude to call him out on his silence, actually. ]

I know when I'm outvoted.

[ But fine, fine, he'll actually respond to what was said as well then: ]

Though I don't believe recreating her past on a path to understanding here says much about the steps she'll be taking in the future. Your past is simply an inescapable part of you, one that no amount of what-if scenarios can change.