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[cambium]

Who: Keigo, et al.
What: gestures broadly
When: end of may
Where: gestures broadly again
Warnings: none yet

[ Keigo opens their eyes to find themselves standing in the mirror room, staring at their own tired reflection a large mirror — with a pounding headache and the last vestiges of vertigo before the world rights itself again. Thinking back, the last thing they remember is being warm and comfortable under the covers on a cool winter night, the taste of hot chocolate still on their lips, the sound of a movie still playing in the background growing more distant and the lights dimming as their consciousness fades. Their joints are stiff and their mouth dry, their wrist sore from the extra tally mark now etched into it.


...


They spend a long time in that mirror room, sinking down onto the floor at rubbing at their wrist as they stare at the mirrors around them, gaze lingering on dense forest and wooden floorboards, flicking this way and that around halls of the school as if trying to find something— someone. It still feels like winter with how cold it is despite long sleeves and pants, breath fogging the glass even with them sitting an arm's length away, red ribbon loosened then removed from around their neck to replace the empty space around their left ankle.

Muddled memories aside, they're certain they've never been down here before, neither the mirror room nor any of these other rooms in the basement once they finally tear themselves away from the mirrors, letting out a terrified scream when something grabs at them when they try to leave and possibly shattering a mirror or four in the process of getting away, but if they don't turn around and look to confirm then it didn't happen and they don't get bad luck, they decided this rule just now.

Not even going to look inside the bloody summoning room, why is there a summoning room.

The hidden entrances and exits are still hidden to them, but hallways only have two ends: one looks like a shaft they're certain they don't have the upper body strength to climb up more than several meters without handholds, and the other leads out to the forest where they're going to walk out into and get hopelessly lost and eventually make their way back to campus maybe if they're lucky.

Then they'll be around wherever and whenever convenient. ]

Comments

[cambium]

[ Amami: I can't tell you bc I don't remem—-
Keigo: what do you MEAN you refuse to tell me ]

Depends on the salesperson's ability to sell, more than the product itself. [ Like, they were able to sell plain normal boring rocks like what you'd find at the side of the road? they were awesome. it's such a stupid thing, which makes it more and more convincing like that was all just a dream. ]

I'll stop by later, I guess... Where's the workshop?

[ Upstairs? most of their dreams took place in like... the same two or three rooms. ]

1/2

[sisters]

Guess that's true enough. And it's over this way, I'm pretty sure.

( he doesn't exactly spend a ton of time there himself, but he's dropped by to visit ranger here and there, curious about whatever the other's been working on lately. it's not hard for him to figure out which floor they're supposed to be on, and before long he's rapping his knuckles lightly against the door.

knock knock, he's going to lean in to get a look around. )

Ranger-kun, you around?

2/2 the way i thought i responded to this

[rearranger]

Yeppers. What's up?

[ He twists his torso, resting his arm on the back as he looks over his shoulder to see the pair... Ah, there's a face he hasn't seem in awhile. He opts not comment on it, finding that if they haven't had their fill of shock and amazement at their reappearance, they will soon. ]