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theshimmer2020-08-14 09:07 pm
shimmermods) wrote in theshimmer2020-08-14 09:07 pm
Descent.
CHAMBERS.
You've been down here for such a long time.
It's difficult to tell, perhaps, exactly how long it's been; the lack of need to sleep or eat has become more and more prevalent as time goes by, and it's made it difficult to keep to any sort of schedule - and while the darkness remains unyielding and unchanging, the same can't be said for yourself, now, can it? The further you go, the more it feels like maybe you could belong here; the longer you're within this place, the less it seems to want to let go of you.
It begs the question, really: Is it the mine that's making you feel that way, or is it the Shimmer itself?
Something is different today.
There's a sudden feeling that you've found a chamber, that the shaft you've been wandering down has opened up in a way that's more noticeable than the occasional offshoot leading to an eventual dead end - this feels massive, open in a way that clears the air and spreads out far enough in front of you that it's difficult to tell how far out it actually goes. There are a few promising signs here, however, even if you can't see them very well - the sudden clearing of the air's stagnation is one, but the sound of running water trickling through here somewhere is also promising.
There's also a feeling that should be familiar by now; namely, it's the general sensation that you aren't alone, wherever you are.
You've found something, but perhaps more importantly, you get the feeling that you're coming far closer to your goal than you were on the outside; don't get too excited, though, as you still want to be careful - after all, this chamber opens downward as well as outward.
You can get down to the lower level if you pick your way down; it shouldn't be too challenging, and you'll probably have an easier time seeing once you're down there. Just don't fall.
It's difficult to tell, perhaps, exactly how long it's been; the lack of need to sleep or eat has become more and more prevalent as time goes by, and it's made it difficult to keep to any sort of schedule - and while the darkness remains unyielding and unchanging, the same can't be said for yourself, now, can it? The further you go, the more it feels like maybe you could belong here; the longer you're within this place, the less it seems to want to let go of you.
It begs the question, really: Is it the mine that's making you feel that way, or is it the Shimmer itself?
Something is different today.
There's a sudden feeling that you've found a chamber, that the shaft you've been wandering down has opened up in a way that's more noticeable than the occasional offshoot leading to an eventual dead end - this feels massive, open in a way that clears the air and spreads out far enough in front of you that it's difficult to tell how far out it actually goes. There are a few promising signs here, however, even if you can't see them very well - the sudden clearing of the air's stagnation is one, but the sound of running water trickling through here somewhere is also promising.
There's also a feeling that should be familiar by now; namely, it's the general sensation that you aren't alone, wherever you are.
You've found something, but perhaps more importantly, you get the feeling that you're coming far closer to your goal than you were on the outside; don't get too excited, though, as you still want to be careful - after all, this chamber opens downward as well as outward.
You can get down to the lower level if you pick your way down; it shouldn't be too challenging, and you'll probably have an easier time seeing once you're down there. Just don't fall.
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[She drops her hands back down.]
For example... why did you even come here just to tell us that what we're doing is pointless? You didn't stop us from coming in, and you don't seem interested in stopping us from destroying this tree--which, is a shame really because it's a fascinating subject for study, but I can still understand that it's the better decision to be done here to end the suffering of the people within it.
[thank god emma's priorities are apparently still intact as far as that goes, it seems]
It just makes you being here at all seem even more pointless than whatever we're doing... unless it was an attempt to try to understand our way of seeing it better, or checking to make sure we weren't secretly doing something to destroy you? But if you don't care why we're doing it or even want to understand us, and since I thought you've already been watching us on our journey enough that you'd know if we were planning something destructive that hurts you, then... again, why are you even here then?
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[And just like that, Emma claps her hands together and nods, as if we've finally reached a mutual understanding here.]
In that case, you should have opened with that instead of "what you're doing is pointless" when we saw each other! Then you could have saved yourself from having people trying to explain empathy to you or a lot of this other pointless arguing we've all been doing, and we'd have gone on with removing the tree sooner!
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They like to argue about things like that anyway.
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[emma no don't fucking agree with the shimmer on this of all things]