IC: Dream Post

[doesnothappen]

The space you are standing in is cold and grey and very still. There is nothing beneath your feet, nowhere to go. You hang for a long moment, in this place with no place, without direction or a proper sense of time, until the light dims...

...and your feet touch ground. Your eyes are closed. When you open them, you find yourself here.

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The Beach

[doesnothappen]

Greyness fills the air, which tastes like ash. It is warm, humid and still, almost sticky. The air is filled with the sounds of birds, oppressively loud, shrieking and fighting in the trees up ahead. The sand is also damp and grey with ash, the beach littered with debris: jagged chunks of trees, lumps of coral, huge clots of seaweed and driftwood. Even the green, ruined jungle and fields ahead of you seem coated with grey -- everything is a mess, muddy and tangled. And the vines are tangled not just with broken branches, but broken bodies... there are bodies everywhere, almost indistinguishable from the rest of the debris at first, except that the birds are settling on them, tearing at them, and now you know why they are fighting.

Re: The Beach

[performing]

[picking his way carefully through the area, going to examine one of the bodies]

Re: The Beach

[doesnothappen]

It's mostly intact: a little girl, coated in grey mud, her limbs bent at odd angles. She looks like she could be related to Mau, but it's hard to tell.

Re: The Beach

[performing]

[... trying to untangle her gently :(]

Re: The Beach

[doesnothappen]

It takes time and care. She's all caught up in branches and vines, but eventually you can free her and lift her down.

There's a rustling in the jungle to your right.

Re: The Beach

[performing]

[setting her down, trying to arrange her respectfully -- not actually looking toward the noise, but still tracking it]

Re: The Beach

[doesnothappen]

She looks like she was about seven, naked except for a loincloth. Her long, wavy black hair is matted with mud and salt.

The sound gets louder, slowly... something person sized is dragging something heavy out of the forest onto the sand.

Re: The Beach

[performing]

[kind of smoothing her hair back awkardly, then getting to his feet and turning towards the sound's source]

Re: The Beach

[doesnothappen]

Mau trudges out of the bush beside you, dragging a man's body as carefully as he can -- it's too heavy to carry. He pays you no attention.

Re: The Beach

[appleofhiseye]

. . .

[stopping to take in the scene, going half a step back--and then heading for the nearest body]

Re: The Beach

[doesnothappen]

It's mostly intact: a little girl, coated in grey mud, her limbs bent at odd angles. She looks like she could be related to Mau, but it's hard to tell.

Re: The Beach

[appleofhiseye]

[fixing the little girl up as best as she can, straightening up the her limbs and making sure her eyes are closed]

Re: The Beach

[doesnothappen]

It takes time and care. She's all caught up in branches and vines, but eventually you can free her and lift her down.

There's a rustling in the jungle to your right.

Re: The Beach

[appleofhiseye]

[focusing too much on the body to take too much notice, only sparing the jungle a glance]

Re: The Beach

[doesnothappen]

She looks like she was about seven, naked except for a loincloth. Her long, wavy black hair is matted with mud and salt.

The sound gets louder, slowly... something person sized is dragging something heavy out of the forest onto the sand.

Re: The Beach

[appleofhiseye]

[looking over at that]

Re: The Beach

[doesnothappen]

Mau trudges out of the bush beside you, dragging a man's body as carefully as he can -- it's too heavy to carry. He pays you no attention.

Re: The Beach

[unionoftheheart]

[picking his head up to look around and]

[oh]

[fuck]

[biting his lip hard against a rush of nausea and then. wobbling slowly to his feet and croaking at the birds] Get off of them.

Re: The Beach

[doesnothappen]

This is as effective as you might imagine, which is to say not at all.

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[unionoftheheart]

[yeah well it's the spirit of the thing]

[reluctantly, after a few moments of painful breathing, summoning his keyblade and healing himself. let's see about at least being able to move effectively. 8| and then dismissing it and quietly going over to pull down the nearest body]

Re: The Beach

[doesnothappen]

It is Selenia's.

Re: The Beach

[unionoftheheart]

[fuck]

[also a lot of work. staggering as the dead weight falls on him, rolling him to the sand as gently as he can, straining]

[and just looking down at him for a long, sad moment]

Re: The Beach

[doesnothappen]

He has all his limbs, at least.

There's a rustling in the jungle to your right.

Re: The Beach

[unionoftheheart]

[you poor dumbass 8(]

[startling slightly, looking over and up]

Re: The Beach

[doesnothappen]

Mau trudges out of the bush beside you, dragging a man's body as carefully as he can -- it's too heavy to carry. He pays you no attention.