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[errandry]

[ from the recording, the noise boils out of the speakers in a torrent of shrieks and chanting and drums. impressions are almost shockingly crisp: the vaulted ceilings, torches leering from the dark, carved idols with all their spines and horns. figures flicker in and out of focus as the recording darts past—stripped bare, every one. well, it's only manners in a cult to go naked to a ritual sacrifice, isn't it?

the tide of sound rises. they're shouting a single name. Esaimu, Esaimu, Esaimu—! ]



[ then, of course, the camera zeroes in to a figure on the outskirts. for a boy surrounded by naked women, he sure looks traumatised. ]

E... saimu...



[ meanwhile, very clearly from the present— ]

I'm totally gonna wreck the video on this thing. How'd it even get inside my mind?!

Comments

[aettir.livejournal.com]

That's where the surprise comes in.

[aettir.livejournal.com]

So do the people in actual accidents, that doesn't prove anything!

[deadliest6.livejournal.com]

It was not important.

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[aettir.livejournal.com]

[aettir.livejournal.com]

What the hell—are you seriously saying that?

[deadliest6.livejournal.com]

Yes.

[aettir.livejournal.com]

Then what's important?

[deadliest6.livejournal.com]

Nothing.

[wind-magic.livejournal.com]

.......You seem easy to trick.

[aettir.livejournal.com]

Bullshit.

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[aettir.livejournal.com]

Wha—where the fuck is this judgment coming from?

[aettir.livejournal.com]

AND I'M NOT.

[wind-magic.livejournal.com]

[Judging without personal experience to back you up is so very fun.]

If some random girl managed to trick you into going to a place like that, I don't see how you couldn't be easy to trick.

[aettir.livejournal.com]

It was complicated! There was a lot of complicated stuff involved!






Not that a two-minute video yanked from my brain's a good way to make conclusions anyway, oi!

voice;

[notflynn.livejournal.com]

Hit your head a little too hard?

[deadliest6.livejournal.com]

Why?

[aettir.livejournal.com]

If nothing's important, then what—what the fuck are you even doing? Why're you here? What're you doing talking to me, anyway?

Don't—you want anything?

voice;

[aettir.livejournal.com]

I wish.

[ the syllables run together fast, raw and a little bitter. but it passes, and he relaxes a bit. ]

Like it matters now—at least I got out of it without them cursing me.

[deadliest6.livejournal.com]

[So many questions.]

I want nothing.

[aettir.livejournal.com]

So why'd you kill everybody in your class?

[deadliest6.livejournal.com]

I did not kill everyone.

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[aettir.livejournal.com]

[aettir.livejournal.com]

Kh... just the ones you had to. That's still important.

[deadliest6.livejournal.com]

The rule was to be the last one alive.

[aettir.livejournal.com]

So why's that matter more than anything else?