hearthebell: will credit if found (You know the preacher liked the cold)
hearthebell ([personal profile] hearthebell) wrote in [community profile] deercountry 2022-03-10 03:34 am (UTC)

I'm not a metaphysicist, or a religious man. Back home, at least, claims of ghosts and souls were usually easy to debunk.

[Through most of the chain of dreams he's wandered through, that sound, deep and low enough to feel if not to hear, has followed him. Infrasound, known to cause a sense of dread or unease, sometimes even hallucinations. Quite literally the sound of fear.

It doesn't seem to be present here. Just the idyllic village lacking both of them, the throne, the man who walked through daffodils to get here.

He shrugs a thin shoulder at Chara's grinning analysis. He knows that he isn't, but in a way it feels like being peripherally seen. His first "friend," after all, hurt him deeply. His first "friend" murdered him, and went on to continue his spree killing for years, presumably.]


How strange that some people still think it's worth it, in the end.

[He slips his hands into his pockets, watching them go about their business.]

Do you think this happened because of friendship?

[This, implicitly, can only mean the sorely-bought massacre of a victory.]

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