[Heart Game] From the ashes we can build

[castaside]

WHO: Macaque, Red Son, Wukong, Korone, Donnie, Cole, Wash
WHAT: Soul fixin'
WHEN: March 9
WHERE: Red Son's house, Blossomcrown
WARNINGS: will be marked

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Re: Level S - South Door

[castaside]

The wind blows up through the sinkhole, seeming to be chuckling.

Re: Level S - South Door

[forgingfires]

UM.

"....it wasn't Epsilon," he said. Because that laughter was definitely not Leonard Church.

Re: Level S - South Door

[noodleboi]

MK stopped. The chuckle. They knew that chuckle. He grabbed the Monkey Keychain and his button hovered over the button. A very angry vengeful monkey chirp erupted from MK. He shook as he was so tempted.

"...You're dead. You hear me? You're dead, bitch."

Re: Level S - South Door

[forgingfires]

Red Son reaches out to put his hand over MK's.

"Its mixed with Epsilon. That's a trap," he said. "If she was most active here, it would have been apparent a lot quicker. This is just a branch at best. A branch of a memory. You can't just wreck bad things in someone's soul."

Re: Level S - South Door

[castaside]

Am I~?

More giggling on the wind. There's no way to get to her from here, since you don't see anything in the sinkhole but blue glow and icicles.

Re: Level S - South Door

[noodleboi]

Red Son's voice was closer, louder, and made sense. It wasn't really her and it wasn't real. Her voice, those two words though, sank in deeper. She was dead. She was dead and gone. MK saw her die. He saw her disappear. Yet those two little words stabbed into his brain and his heart like those sharp icicles. He couldn't dive in there to find her. She was in there and there wasn't anything he could do!

Red Son was right. They couldn't destroy things. Not in Macaque's mind. Never had MK wished the Samadhi fire was around here. If they could toss it in the hole, then maybe that would be better. That wasn't the case. They had to go. They needed to get going.

"Let's go. Now." MK grabbed Red Son's hand and ran for the way back out toward the elevator.

Re: Level S - South Door

[forgingfires]

Red Son moves with MK and-

Pulls out his keychain and activated the privacy bubble.

No more words from the blue bitch.

"Do you need grounding?" He asked. He can see its getting to MK. Red Son can focus on other things. Like Macaque. Like MK himself. He knows how Hearts work know, and already dealt with Nyssa.

He can keep his head on straight.

Re: Level S - South Door

[noodleboi]

The privacy bubble definitely helped. Mk's hands moved to his own head and he kept walking. It was hard to not hear her voice still echoing in his head.

"She's still in my head. She's always all up in my head," MK spoke through clenched teeth. "I don't want her in anyone else's head too."

Re: Level S - South Door

[forgingfires]

"She's in everyone's head with enough exposure," Red Son said, moving with MK until they're out of the room. "You should sit down."

Re: Level S - South Door

[noodleboi]

MK shook his head. Was it a good idea, yes? Was he listening? No.

"We...we need to keep going. The Lady Bone Demon is here. We need to make sure the others aren't in danger. We can't sit down. Not until everyone is back at the elevator." Sorry, Red Son. Your boyfriend was spiraling. Might need to be a bit more stern to get him to listen.

Re: Level S - South Door

[forgingfires]

Red Son moves in front of MK, one hand grabbing his shoulder. He WILL use spring powers to be strong enough to get him to stop moving. The other hand reaching into his bag for the stress ball.

"Sit. Down. Noodle Boy," he said and squeezed the ball.

Re: Level S - South Door

[noodleboi]

MK stopped when he felt himself hit the immovable object. He almost used his Autumn powers on instinct to move Red Son. Then he said those words in that tone. He stopped and sat down. He was still thinking about the hole, that chuckle, and that question.

"What if the others found something like what we found? Do we...have time for this?"

Re: Level S - South Door

[castaside]

When Red Son squeezes the stress ball, his shadow on the ground lengthens, taking on the familiar shape of Macaque. Purple glowing eyes and a soft smile on his face.

He curls forward and hugs MK tightly.

Re: Level S - South Door

[forgingfires]

There we go. There is a sitting Noodle Boy, and a shadowy Macaque.

Red Son kneels down and is going to be joining in on this hug right now.

"When you feel like you have no time, you panic, and then you start to make mistakes. Breathe. Take a minute. Then we'll go," he said. "As long as you keep be grounded, we have time."