COURT: Heart Game!

[upmoving]

[Your consciousness drifts in to the sound of discordant whispers. It sounds like a hushed argument in another room, something you can't quite catch. You're cold. Your skin tingles slightly, and then...]

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Re: the normal house

[restorefromsave]

...Okay. How about the other two?

[That's a face. It doesn't mean he won't check it out but now he's wary at least. Warier.]

Re: the normal house

[upmoving]

The white one... okay. The other one... That's somewhere else.

Re: the normal house

[restorefromsave]

Do you have an idea where?

Re: the normal house

[upmoving]

I dunno. [But you're being leaned on a lot.] I don't feel good.

Re: the normal house

[restorefromsave]

Yeah. Sorry about that.

[He'll head to the smell of cookies, maybe there's a glass of water he can get the kid.]

Re: the normal house

[upmoving]

[There's a sink, though a very old fashioned one, so presumably there are glasses in the cupboards somewhere?]

Re: the normal house

[restorefromsave]

[He will hunt through the cupboards for a glass and get some water for Ariel.]

Re: the normal house

[upmoving]

[You do find glasses and hooray, water! He might need help with that though and the two of you only have so many arms.]

Re: the normal house

[restorefromsave]

[He'll set the glass on the counter and then set Ariel down, so he's sitting on the floor or if there's a chair nearby that, before getting the water and holding it for him.]

Re: the normal house

[upmoving]

[You have a tiny prince on the floor with water. It doesn't seem to clear the effect, but he drinks eagerly (but daintily) anyway. And then just kind of slumps sideways against the counter, half-asleep.] Don't... go there.

Re: the normal house

[restorefromsave]

Can you tell what's beyond there, why it's dangerous?

[Is it something I should light on fire]

Re: the normal house

[upmoving]

It wants to hurt everything. [And this piece doesn't really grasp why that's a bad thing either but what it does grasp is--] I think-- it wants me to disappear.

Re: the normal house

[restorefromsave]

Ah... Can I destroy it like I did that other room, without engaging it?

Re: the normal house

[upmoving]

I don't know. I suppose? But--

[hold on I may be a drunk five year old but all this is still not settling well with me ok]

You shouldn't?

Re: the normal house

[restorefromsave]

It'll be fine.

Re: the normal house

[upmoving]

But you're hurting me-- us? Aren't you?

Re: the normal house

[restorefromsave]

Do you think it won't help?

Re: the normal house

[upmoving]

I don't understand-- help what?

Re: the normal house

[restorefromsave]

You connect to people more. If there's a part of you that wants to hurt everything, then it won't help you be less alone.

Re: the normal house

[upmoving]

So it's okay to kill parts of me? [He doesn't get it. He doesn't understand it, except that Sion's been nice to him, this part, and helped some places, but he's murdering others and he's not really equipped to understand why. Just that he doesn't want to be abandoned, so he can't argue very strongly.]

Re: the normal house

[restorefromsave]

You say that one wants you not to exist, right?

Re: the normal house

[upmoving]

[ok he can follow this logic that's very Ariel thinking] So I make it not exist first?

Re: the normal house

[restorefromsave]

Not... Quite.

[This isn't quite--well no it's exactly what he's doing but the kid shouldn't think this way.]

You can be better than you are, but not with something like...

Re: the normal house

[upmoving]

[He doesn't get it. He's also still really intoxicated so he's just staring at Sion like ??? explain this?]

Re: the normal house

[restorefromsave]

Killing things just because they're a threat isn't right or good. But this thing, specifically, it won't let you grow. So I'm going to do something that's not good, but I hope will end up good for you. But it's not something to take as an example to follow. This is a desperate measure. Maybe someone better than me would find a better way--

Maybe you'll become someone better who can find ways to do things that aren't violent or cruel. That's what I want, I think that will help you. Can you understand a little?

This isn't right but it's the option I see, and eventually you might be someone who sees even better options, that don't hurt anyone.