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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

[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?

[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.

1/2

[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?

[deadliest6.livejournal.com]

The coin landed on tails.

[aettir.livejournal.com]

The—




What?

[deadliest6.livejournal.com]

The coin.

[aettir.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I got that part. Fuck... that's how you picked, huh.

[deadliest6.livejournal.com]

If it landed on heads, I would destroy those running the game.

If it landed on tails, I would play the game.

[aettir.livejournal.com]

Like those were your only two options!

[deadliest6.livejournal.com]

There were other options?

[aettir.livejournal.com]

'ch... you could've not done anything about it, right? But both of those were about changing something!

[deadliest6.livejournal.com]

If there was more than one person alive after three days all the collars would explode.

[aettir.livejournal.com]

So, what, you didn't want to die?

[deadliest6.livejournal.com]

I did die.

[aettir.livejournal.com]

You—what?

[deadliest6.livejournal.com]

I was killed.

1/3

[aettir.livejournal.com]

[aettir.livejournal.com]

[ ........... ]

[aettir.livejournal.com]

Did you care?