EVE'S HEART

[aprettygirl]

A dark veil slips over you, obscuring your vision; it’s cool and clinging, and blocks out all outside sensation. You drift downward . . . as you do, you grow more and more aware of the pulse of your own heartbeat, until it’s a ringing, unpleasant throb in your ears.

. . . after some time, it’s interrupted by a soft splash, and you feel solid rock underfoot.

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blood (a dull house)

[aprettygirl]

Some things have changed.

There are photos in the three frames now, and three planets visible through the window, clumped together for some reason: Earth, Mars, and a small, slightly misshapen third planet that gleams with a spectrum of rainbow colours.

There is also now a door visible in the side of the room.

Most of the rainbow handprints are gone (though some remain in odd corners). Every surface is covered, instead, with a thin layer of dust. The smell of alkali is very thick now, burning your eyes and nose and throat.

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[aprettygirl]

APPLE AND KIT

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[decider]

[HISSES AT THE DUST!]

Who cleans in here?!

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[aprettygirl]

There's no answer.

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[decider]

[STARTS BANGING AROUND THE CABINETS LOOKING FOR SOMEONE TO ANSWER D<]

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[aprettygirl]

YOU EXPOSE A TERRIFIED KID

WOW

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[decider]

[snarls with crackly satisfaction at her, LOOMING BRIGHTLY]

Ah. You're not proud.

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[aprettygirl]

"Go away!"

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[decider]

Why are you hiding in a hovel?

[reaches in unconcernedly to drag her out, hot enough to make her skin feel tight and sunburned]

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[aprettygirl]

"It's my house!"

She tries to hang on to a cabinet door, but the hinges break.

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[decider]

[dumps her on the floor.]

You haven't done much to keep it up, have you? You could fix that.

[he's referring to the hinges.]

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[aprettygirl]

She wipes her face on a sleeve and glowers at him from behind it.

"Not now. You'll break it more."

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[decider]

[rears up again, circling restlessly closer to the table... FLAMMABLE...]

Keep it better, or I'll burn it down around your ears. What happened here?

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[aprettygirl]

"Everyone died...!"

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[decider]

[whips around to stare at her again, threatening]

Yes. And you're alive. For now.

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[aprettygirl]

She very firmly puts the door between them.

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[decider]

[mocking, harsh, and contemptuous]

Is that your nature, little girl? You only wake up when events challenge you?

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[aprettygirl]

Yeah no she's just pretty clearly scared as hell, sorry Mogget.

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[decider]

[swipes a chair at her absently — she can probably hold her door shield up to the worst of it — and breezes over to the door]

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[aprettygirl]

RUDE!!!

The smell of alkali is coming from the door. It too starts to corrode.

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[decider]

[just breaking through it fixing things'll give you something to do kid]

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[aprettygirl]

It's a tangled thicket of a garden: all the plants appear to have withered and died, and then been frozen over.

You can hear water dripping from somewhere in the tangle, but it's very slow and faint, single drops falling from one source. Plink. Plink.

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[decider]

[stretches up and up again, to try to see the layout of the garden from a little above.]

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[aprettygirl]

It's too dense to see through from above...you will notice smoke leaking from a corner of the garden, but the smell of burning blood and boiling metal should clue you in to what did that, and it doesn't seem to be spreading. The dripping's not coming from there, anyway; it's somewhere around the middle.

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[decider]

[hunkers lower again and flows into the garden; not really trying to curb his heat, but since it's all ice-covered probably nothing's going to catch fire immediately at least]