http://bloodiedshutter.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] bloodiedshutter.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] towerofanimus2011-08-22 05:08 pm

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Characters: Henry Townshend and you.
Setting: Floor Thirteen.
Format: Starting with prose, will match responses!
Summary: Synopsis and exploration, Henry is once again left with too many questions and no reason why.
Warnings: Possible disturbing imagery, oh SH protags and their memories. Also TL;DR.


The sleep paralysis had been the worst part. When his eyes wouldn't open when he felt himself snap awake, expecting to see the ceiling of his newly moved into apartment. His mind had worked over time the longer the seconds dragged on, keeping him still in the dark and he saw the stark red lines of veins running through his walls, sickly mounds forming on top of them, pulsating and squelching, distracting, until a gray skeletal hand suddenly ripped it's way through --

and then his vision was flooded with light and he was greeted to a sight sadly no more comforting than the nightmare he lived through. A strange room with three untouched beds, a trunk with some of his things, and two pieces of paper that explained very little of the things he needed to know.

Let's all be happy here?

Henry had hoped he was finally finished with strangeness and misfortune once he had helped Eileen move out and gotten a new place of his own.

His first day had been a quiet one, of following the letters advice and going to the cafeteria, taking stock of his things (getting out of that suit) and everything he knew. It wasn't much and his list of answers was rather short. There were other people here that he could talk to, ask questions of, but unable to stop feeling the collar around his neck -- what had he become, a pet -- he decided to take more time for himself.

So today he is exploring and without a trace of irony he can't seem to leave the thirteenth floor.

He wasn't expecting a cathedral. Then again, when had anything that happened to him in the last month been expected? Not a particularly religious man, Henry's still always found the aesthetic appeal of churches. There's a peaceful quality they seem to emit too, even when one is lacking in faith. That church in Silent Hill had done the same, his last visit, despite the evil the town itself housed. Was it even really the town or just the people that had come out of it? He still didn't know and the pictures he once hung up with pleasure were abandoned quickly in the trash.

...did any of that even matter? He didn't have a shred of evidence that town was also the reason he was here now. His world was destroyed? How could that even be true? He feels so tired, he ends up taking a seat in the back.

"What am I doing here...?"

Heeeeee, me too. C: Also thanks for getting Namine to finally stop waffling about dat world loss.

[identity profile] lethechained.livejournal.com 2011-08-25 01:31 am (UTC)(link)
--Oops. There she went, worrying about things in front of other people. Hadn't Sora taught her better than that? "I-I'm sorry, I shouldn't have said that." Her shoulders rose slightly, expressing her discomfort. "It's just--" She knew some of the people that died, but that probably wasn't worth mentioning, either. "...Nevermind."

She shifted her weight slightly, hesitated, then said, "I should... probably stop taking up your time."

:D ! No problem <3333

[identity profile] lethechained.livejournal.com 2011-08-25 02:08 am (UTC)(link)
She looked back up as he got tongue-tied - she'd looked away when she'd said that last part - and tilted her head, curious as to what he was trying to get across. The answer wasn't what she'd expected, and she regarded him quietly for a moment, her brow knitting. It was a very kind offer, yes... but maybe too kind. It wasn't that she was overly suspicious of him at that point, but rather that if it was truly as dangerous there as it seemed, she wasn't so sure that involving him in anything that might trouble her in the future was such a good idea. For a good few seconds, she weighed this in her mind.

Well, he did say 'if he could'. If it was something he couldn't help with (or she couldn't let him help with), then she could fail to take him up on that offer without too much guilt. Slowly, she smiled. "...Alright." One of her hands slipped behind her back to hold her other arm. "Thank you. That's so kind of you." Her smile widened. "And... I'd like to help you, too. If I can."