[log] Event: Breaking Down [open]

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Characters: anyone pulled into the Escherverse
Location: Escherverse
Date: Morning 220 - Night 221
Summary: All alone/Even when I was a child/I've always known/There was something to be frightened of
Warnings: general horror, violence warnings; make sure to put more specific warnings in the subject lines!

Comments

[spoileralert]

Yeah.

[ She tries to look where it sounds like his voice is coming from, but in the end she's just staring into space. ]

And I don't have the light thing anymore. So there's no reason to attack me.

[ This isn't so much a statement as it is a desperate argument. ]

[thewarningafter]

[He's silent, watching her mouth instead of taking her at her word. He sees no light, and he huffs out an angry little laugh.]

You stole it and couldn't even hold onto it. What's the point of you?

[spoileralert]

[ She flinches. The comment hits close to home. ]

I guess there isn't one.

[thewarningafter]

[Pointless -- he knows what it is to be pointless, useless. He sets what's left of his jaw in the moment.]

I'm not going to attack you.

[spoileralert]

Good. [ She's not totally sure what to do here. Where even is he? ] Um. Thanks.

[thewarningafter]

[Stephen doesn't know, either. He should move on, find someone who does still have a light, take it, but there's enough of the real him left to be concerned for her.]

Who took it? Did it make it stop for them?

[spoileralert]

I don't know. I can't see, remember? And it's not like they told me their name first.

[thewarningafter]

[He growls to himself in frustration, a wet, rattling sound.]

I have to go. I have to find someone with a light. They took mine.

[spoileralert]

[ She does have one small comfort: ]

I don't know where any of them are, either.

[thewarningafter]

I'm going to pretend for both our sake that I don't think you're lying.

[spoileralert]

You really suck at pretending. And anyway I don't even know where I am, let alone anyone else.

[thewarningafter]

You're in the mirror dimension.

[Such confident analysis.]

I'll find them myself.

[spoileralert]

The mirror dimension? Well thanks, that answers all of my questions.

[ He's better off looking on his own anyway. She can't see. ]

[thewarningafter]

Yeah, you're welcome.

[It seems sarcasm is not one of the things Stephen has lost in this transformation. He forces himself upright with a grunt of pain, blood dripping from him. He gives her one last look before he turns to go.]

It's been real.

[spoileralert]

[ She hears him shifting, but she'll wait until she's fairly sure he's actually leaving before continuing on her way. ]

See you around. I hope.