006 → Wandering soul

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Characters: Wriggle Nightbug, Open
Setting: Floor 48
Format: Post in action, tags in prose or action
Summary: If you venture up to the graveyard tonight there seems to be something lurking about.
Warnings: None

[It certainly had gotten colder all of a sudden. Though the graveyard might be dark a few scattered lights dance in the distance. Faint at first but they gave a distinct, warm glow. Getting a little closer it appears that they're surrounding a small figure draped in white. The folds of the fabric billowed ever so slightly in the breeze as they drifted through the collection of stones. Even though they haven't noticed you, you might have noticed their feet never once touched the floor. If they had feet. It was hard to tell.

Without a sound they stopped. A slight turn of the head, had they noticed you? Maybe not but there's a quiet sniffle and a few gasping breaths. Were they crying or...?]

Ah-ch!

[Probably not. Oddly enough it seems like there are more worms around than usual. Perhaps they have something to do with it]

Comments

[geometry]

No, I... I wasn't.

[Urk.]

I... I was waiting for Gamzee to find and... kill me.

And he did.

That was my second death.

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[Slowly it was starting to come back to her, the reasons why he was scared and how she'd been trying to reassure him that Gamzee was a nice person. Maybe she'd been wrong about that, it felt like she had the evidence both for and against. And she remembered that she'd left to do something or other for him and forgotten to return]

Was that after I left you...?

[She doesn't look up, scuffing her feet against the floor]

[geometry]

...

Yes.

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... M'sorry.

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S'alright.

[Masters of eloquence, Equius Zahhak and Wriggle Nightbug.]

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[Maybe if she'd stayed a little longer she would have been able to protect him, to prevent it or something. He was still alive now, so it didn't really matter, right? So there was no point in feeling guilty... right?

Wriggle pulled the sheet over her head and stood up. Even if she was there maybe nothing would have been different. Things are the way they are now and there's nothing she can change so that's that. She gave another loud sniff and mumbled something]

I'm going to bed...

[geometry]

...

[There was nothing to be done about it. That was a long time ago. Equius folds his arms, looking at the floor, and speaks only after a long pause.]

...Do you want me to go with you?

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[For a moment, she didn't say anything then she gave a small nod]

[geometry]

Alright, then.

[And he begins cleaning up the dishes.]

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[Wriggle sat back down and waited with her knees drawn up to her chest. This was really dumb. Equius was annoying, he apologized too much and tried to hurt her friends. She didn't understand why she felt so guilty about this, especially considering it didn't seem to matter. He was still alive, she was still alive, it didn't matter. In Wriggle's mind, there was no reason this should be so upsetting to her]