Mm. There were messages, everywhere, and... even when we saw people we knew, at first, it was wrong. [ thinking about it makes bixing's head spin, now. he's supposed to be able to trust his mind, his senses, and having those all spun wildly into gaslighting misery left him very, very lost. ] I believed it was normal, at the time. I even believed that Iris - a girl very close to Date - had been here... all along. She didn't even recognize him, though, and kept... saying things.
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he chews the inside of his cheek, for a moment, like he's trying to decide what to say, or how to phrase it. ] Ghosts and children. Water, over and over, in almost every... any time we were in danger. And, at the end, when it was...all done, we saw... I saw -
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...It felt too familiar. [ the whole thing was a giant hallucination, really - but the image of that pool at the end's stuck with him. too familiar in the way harrow's story had once, too. too familiar, in the bodies of the people who were denied their chance to live to help someone else survive. maybe if he edges around it, he can talk about it. ]
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Mm. There were messages, everywhere, and... even when we saw people we knew, at first, it was wrong. [ thinking about it makes bixing's head spin, now. he's supposed to be able to trust his mind, his senses, and having those all spun wildly into gaslighting misery left him very, very lost. ] I believed it was normal, at the time. I even believed that Iris - a girl very close to Date - had been here... all along. She didn't even recognize him, though, and kept... saying things.
[
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he chews the inside of his cheek, for a moment, like he's trying to decide what to say, or how to phrase it. ] Ghosts and children. Water, over and over, in almost every... any time we were in danger. And, at the end, when it was...all done, we saw... I saw -
[ ... ]
...It felt too familiar. [ the whole thing was a giant hallucination, really - but the image of that pool at the end's stuck with him. too familiar in the way harrow's story had once, too. too familiar, in the bodies of the people who were denied their chance to live to help someone else survive. maybe if he edges around it, he can talk about it. ]