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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Re: blood (a dull house)

[decider]

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

Re: blood (a dull house)

[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.

Re: blood (a dull house)

[decider]

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

Re: blood (a dull house)

[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.

Re: blood (a dull house)

[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]

Re: blood (a dull house)

[aprettygirl]

Things start melting and dripping on you as you go, though the plants don't get less dead.

There is a dead sapling in a small clear space in the undergrowth -- it looks like it wouldn't have had a chance even in a normal garden, as sunlight wouldn't have reached it down here. The ice around its withered roots has cracked, and the water has melted off it to form a small puddle around it.

Re: blood (a dull house)

[decider]

[wraps a — hand? — around it, staring around him with a twist in his unreadable expression.

then snickers, low, and turns the heat up.]

Re: blood (a dull house)

[aprettygirl]

You get a memory when you touch it, strange and ripply and echoing, of Eve bursting helplessly into tears, at the memory of Lilith's departure, in front of -- well, you.

The garden begins to melt, as a whole, nearby twigs catching afire when the water on them evaporates.

Re: blood (a dull house)

[decider]

[— hunkers down and away from the burning tree in shock, hugging low to the ground, formless and dark in the flames]

Re: blood (a dull house)

[aprettygirl]

Then . . .