[OPEN] ❁ don't let it get the best of you, you'll make it out alive

[roseblooms]

WHO: Fawkes and YOU!
WHERE: All around Recolle during the nightmares/fog event!
WHEN: Various times in the month of October!
WHAT: Nightmares, fog encounters, and etc.
WARNINGS: Will be attached to the headers of various top-levels within!

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[roseblooms]

[He stares at the mirror a minute, considering what she's said, and ultimately decides that no, she's right. Maybe the end of this is to remove it, shatter it. In the end, it shatters, and so maybe speeding that inevitability along is the way out.

And yet, dream logic being what it is, he realizes something without any basis for intuiting it, and turns to her quietly.]

You need to do it. It can't — it's not supposed to be me. It's the person I'm with.

[He picks up the mirror, holding it loosely in his hand with the backing against his palm.]

To take aim, and...bang. That's all you need to do. I don't know how, but I'm certain of it.

[evidentiary]

Take aim...?

[ take aim, bang. it doesn't sound like a kick, or throwing it.

after a heartbeat, she makes a fingerguns gesture at the mirror. it's kit's dream; he clearly knows better than kyouko.

no one else will ever know... ]

[roseblooms]

[And because it's his dream, it's precisely the right answer. Though by all rights and common sense, there's no chance that pointing a finger and making a sound with your mouth should be able to do anything —

And yet when she does, all the criteria that apparently matter are satisfied. The person he's with points and shoots, and in his hand the mirror inexplicably shatters once again.

It prompts a scream from the woman in the bed — not out of anguish or pain, but seemingly out of abject frustration, and for a few seconds the world seems to distort and blur before snapping back into focus.

When it does, she's gone, and they're alone on the rooftop. But the moonlight overhead is no longer ominous and oppressive, and there's darkness visible in the penumbras of the rooftop's expanse that hadn't been there before.]

[evidentiary]

[ it's a little calmer, and kyouko isn't certain how it worked, but she's glad it did. she doesn't know how to wake up, or if she hasn't quite finished what needs to be done -

but she glances sideways, and there's a soft, thoughtful frown on her face. ]

- that mirror. Has it ever granted a wish without causing trouble?

[roseblooms]

...I don't think so. It used to be kept under lock and key, with two other artifacts of similarly...troublesome qualifies.

[Two others that he'd helped steal, along with this one. But he'd only wanted this mirror, in the end. Only this one, for what it could do.]

We don't stay here; not for much longer, at least. I think when we both walk to the edge of the roof, that will be the end of it.

[evidentiary]

All right. [ she nods, once. there doesn't seem to be a reason to draw things out, so she'll immediately head to the edge of the roof, figuring he knows the rules better than she does.

...maybe someone else would offer some sort of comfort at this juncture, but he got kyouko instead. ]