[The figure's amused grin doesn't abate through the whole of this, watching her with an air of the step-backed indulgent patience of a teacher letting a pupil mess around and make mistakes on their own. How else do you learn, if you won't listen? The rising blood is instruction enough.
If anything, it gets wider when she trains the gun on it. Not real? Then why are you so scared? It should be easy if it's not real, right?
...
There's a ripple, as she says the name. Across the floor... maybe across the whole of the small dream, like a single drop of water. The grin vanishes off the figure's face, leaving only the silhouette, still. Then it starts walking towards her, fearless as if the gun were a toy, a prop for demonstration purposes.]
Shin Tsukimi, huh... That's a name I haven't heard in a while.
[There's a light touch on her wrist, her elbow, hands that don't feel like anything at all guiding her arm with surprising gentleness.]
If you want to see him, then it's easy enough! Why didn't you just say so?
[That's when she'll realize the position he's putting her in, should she allow it. The gun, up to her head. The trigger still hers. The grin returns, glints like metal.]
All you have to do is follow him! Alllll the way to where dead things like him go. You're practically halfway there already!
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Date: 2022-01-20 10:33 am (UTC)If anything, it gets wider when she trains the gun on it. Not real? Then why are you so scared? It should be easy if it's not real, right?
...
There's a ripple, as she says the name. Across the floor... maybe across the whole of the small dream, like a single drop of water. The grin vanishes off the figure's face, leaving only the silhouette, still. Then it starts walking towards her, fearless as if the gun were a toy, a prop for demonstration purposes.]
Shin Tsukimi, huh... That's a name I haven't heard in a while.
[There's a light touch on her wrist, her elbow, hands that don't feel like anything at all guiding her arm with surprising gentleness.]
If you want to see him, then it's easy enough! Why didn't you just say so?
[That's when she'll realize the position he's putting her in, should she allow it. The gun, up to her head. The trigger still hers. The grin returns, glints like metal.]
All you have to do is follow him! Alllll the way to where dead things like him go. You're practically halfway there already!