"the first miracle was that you were born" | HEART GAME

[miraculess]

Th- thump.

Th- thump.

Th- thump.

Darkness. Quiet. A heartbeat. Your heartbeat. Slowly, the murmur of sound. Footsteps. Voices—

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[miraculess]

It laughs, a soft, almost familiar sounding huff— and the door slams shut in xyr face. As the lock clicks, the alarms that had woken xem up shrill back to life at a painful, intolerable volume.

[mentifact]

[ flinches at the sound and just sort of.

stays with xyr hands pressed to the door for a bit.

and with that xe's probably lost track of the other person, too, huh... xe really isn't doing well at this.

still, xe'll turn and go for the door xe saw the person in the labcoat go through. ]

[miraculess]

It opens to another hall— to a kitchen— to a break room to a foyer to a—

—the whole mishmash of rooms blurs, and then clears. What lies on the other side of the door isn't more of the building at all... but a forest.