Endgame: This is the Way the World Ends - MACHINE ROOM

[animusmods]

Characters: open to those staying in the machine room
Setting: machine room
Format: any
Summary: The time has come to make decisions about what will happen after everything is over.
Warnings: psychological horror (eventually)

Comments

[pitiedthefool]

[The warmth, despite their bodies, was something he had expected. The clapping, however, was not. When they do pull away, he too would be rather red were it not for their current state of no glamour. Especially when he recognizes the shape and glow of the frame of who is applauding.]

... Ken.

[Little brother... Little brother, please.]

[miseris_socios]

[Ken grins and waves, before withdrawing. All right, all right. He had to just tease Yu. He's going.]

[attheclocktower]

[Xion waits, still pinked-faced, as Ken vanishes back into the crowds. It's half a minute (and maybe a few seconds of leaning her face forward into his chest) before she feels able to speak.

She'd never really... replied verbally to his confession.]

I... I knew. For a while. And I think I felt it a while before I knew but... by the time I did, you'd left. And I didn't know if you'd come back...

[So she'd pushed it aside. Focused on protecting the worlds and stopping the admins, everything she could do. And in a way, that had been the best she could do for him, while he was gone. Because of the danger Ruana posed to the worlds, to everything.]

I didn't ever think I'd get to say anything. But I'm glad.

[Even if she's scared now of what will come.]