undread | todomatsu

[ ...huh. i don't think he saw what was going on with her on soup night, so aside from that first weekend when he heard her talking to herself, he hasn't really seen her looking this uncomfortable and off her game, and he's not sure what to make of that. ]

...Um, still not great, still could be worse...

[ kind of a confused head tilt like, are YOU okay? ]

Do you think you could tell me about the place you went?

[she does not respond to questions communicated in the form of a head tilt.]

Yeah... uh, it was this city with a castle up on a hill, and a big creepy tree in the middle of town...

[her expression goes very dark at that in the eyes, but she continues to frown, looking at him otherwise calm.]

I don't understand what brought you there, or why.

...Huh? You know that place?

[uncomfortable.]

Perhaps. It has certain aspects that strike me as familiar. But motifs repeat and repeat.

Y-yeah, I guess that's true...

[ a concept he definitely understands as a fourthwalling gag anime character whose series has had two reboots ]

There was this one woman who seemed to be behind everything, but I'm not sure how much that had to do with the location... she definitely seemed to have some kind of connection to that tree, though.

The Sun Tree, yes.

[well, she's not so sure about that.]

The city I grew up in was a Dawnfather city. His sacred tree. Very lush, warm and beautiful. But during hard times, it could change.

Sun Tree...?

[ pretty much the last name he would guess for something so withered and miserable. ]

If this was it, it definitely must have been one of those times, because it was pretty much dead...

Yes, yes. I've seen it in that state, before, too.

You think that was really it, then? The place you know.

[she's been speaking in riddles and being cryptic, but.]

It sounds very similar. And so does she. But I don't know why. I didn't do it on purpose, so don't be angry with me, alright?

[ he blinks; that wasn't a conclusion he'd been planning on jumping to already. ]

I... okay?

[ what the hell does this mean, does her world have some connection to this one? ]

[that's the immediate fear she had the moment this came up - that she'd be blamed for what happened to them.]

Okay.

[ nods slowly... okay ]

Do you think that place is linked to this one somehow?

[ maybe it's not actually about you? ]

[it's true. this seems so egotistical, doesn't it. what's a player cyoa.]

...Maybe Delilah did it. That's what I wonder.

[ yeah! he has no idea!

but yikes, okay, that... definitely seems to solidify a connection of some kind. hm. ]

Well... she seemed to be behind everything that happened to us, at least.

Yes. So maybe she was trying to get a foothold here...

[ nods... ]

She was trying to get us to bring her here, I think.

[this makes her nervous, she starts twisting a strand of hair around her hand.]

She didn't manage it, but she might try again.

You think so? We destroyed the object she was getting her power from... and stabbed her...

The object she drew her power from...?

Yeah, it was... a doll? Kind of like...

[ takes out his little burlap doll ]

But, you know. Not me.

I see.

[that part of the cyoa was more metaphorical than anything so she doesn't know how to react to that.]

I don't think Delilah likes dolls. [it probably didn't kill her.]

Well, I don't think it was hers, exactly, it... belonged to this girl, I think. I'm not sure what the link there was.

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