14. marmoreal

[exnihilo]

[Private to Iris and Simon, text]

thank you for trying


[Private to Mal, text]

What happened to you?

[After you saw me.]


[Private to Luna, voice]

Do you like pancakes?


[Spam for Mickey, Helena, Cassel, and Stephen]

[Sometime in the night, she breaks into their cabins, quietly. She just wants to watch for a while. Just wants to see that they're okay. If they wake, they might find her perched nearby, scribbling in a notebook. Or maybe just staring, small and still, chin on her knees.]

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[exnihilo]

I was trapped.

[Whispered quietly.]

There was a hall of statues. And I was -

[There.]

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[adelphoktonos]

[Ah. Her eyes track Mira's lips as she speaks and when she stops, Helena's eyes fall shut for a moment before she whispers back.]

You were caught there, when it ended?

spam;

[exnihilo]

I was a statue. I couldn't -

[She chokes. She couldn't anything.]

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[adelphoktonos]

You're not, anymore.

[She brushes Mira's hair back from her face with a gentle hand, soothing; her fingertips shake as she strokes her cheek then still when she rests her hand lightly there.]

You're here.

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[exnihilo]

I don't want to be trapped like that. Not again.

spam;

[adelphoktonos]

No. [Sympathetic, soothing. Of course not. She's quiet for a moment or two, and then, a little cautiously:]

Something like this, has it happened to you before that place?

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[exnihilo]

I. I don't know. I don't remember.

There were times here I moved without wanting to - or, or I wanted whatever someone else wanted me to want. And.

[Quiet, almost a whisper.]

Once before I did that to someone else. Locked all his nerves and made him be still for me.