purgastory inbox

[oversea]

HELLO

"What do you want?"

GOODBYE

TEXT | VIDEO | VOICE | ACTION

Comments

[oversea]

It's fine. I've already told some people.

[ there's not much point in saying no now. ]

We all woke up at a brothel. We each individually remembered being killed by someone, but not who or why. We had to figure out who did it to pay back a karmic debt.

[lucentia]

A karmic debt...?

[oversea]

We had to kill them in return, basically.

[lucentia]

... Oh.

[lucien would've failed that cyoa so badly.]

[oversea]

It was difficult, especially since we learned they had killed us for good reason. We upset a rat.

[ a pause. ]

By being human traffickers.

[lucentia]

What!?

[?????]

[oversea]

It's what we apparently did at that world. So, people we knew ended up killing us to get us to stop.

We only learned about all that after though.

[lucentia]

... I'm sorry. Even if it wasn't truly real, it must have been... quite jarring to learn.

[oversea]

... It was. We ran into people affected by it, and even if it was all fake, their emotions were vivid. We hurt them.

[ it's difficult to just brush past it. ]

[lucentia]

... May I ask how things were resolved, in the end?

[oversea]

We all separated, so I don't know how exactly the others handled their situation.

[ he has a very good guess, because of reasons, but he can't say definitively. ]

But I killed the person.

[lucentia]

[a little nod, grim, in acknowledgment.]

Did it end there, then?

[oversea]

... No. But the rest was odd. We had to decided if we all deserved to live or not.

[ metaphors are not his thing... ]

[lucentia]

[well, lucien is not going to be rude enough to ask how thorns answered that.]

Did your answer seem to make a difference?

[oversea]

I don't know. We all settled on the same one, so I'm not sure what would have happened if we answered differently.

[lucentia]

... I see. Then, what happened?

[oversea]

We were brought back here. If anything, that part might have just been to see how we felt about ourselves.

[lucentia]

So, more food for thought and self-reflection?

[oversea]

I believe so. But even if I thought poorly for myself, I need to live for...

[ he trails off, his expression turning confused for a moment. ]

[lucentia]

[he suspects what's going on, but.]

Thorns?

[oversea]

Nothing. I lost my train of thought for a moment there.

[lucentia]

... I see.

Though I can understand that even if you do not wish to live for yourself, there are other reasons to live for. I am glad that you have such things.

[even if he doesn't remember them right now.]

[oversea]

... Thanks.

[ the words are kind, even though there is a sense that something is wrong that is accompanying them. he'll shake it off for now though. ]

I shouldn't keep you for long.

[lucentia]

No, not at all. That should be my line to you, if anything.

[but he gets the feeling that this is thorns discreetly telling him to go away.]

[oversea]

[ talking about feelings is deeply awkward. if it weren't for those dumb shards he would not be doing this right now. ]

I'll probably just run into someone else.