4th Course - Salt [Video]

[starofpleiades]

[In the late evening, the video suddenly turns on as there's a loud thump and a splatter, like something wet just hit the ground next to the vine. At the first, the picture is dark and its hard to make out the shape there. A trembling silhouette, hunched over as it rises unsteadily off the ground - the form seems small and thin, but draped in lengthy darkness - hair? - but also the limbs seems somehow... too long. Claws?

What little light there is reflects off the eyes of the cats coming to greet the new arrival, but as they draw closer, they hiss and their hair stands on end before they turn and run. The figure in the dark collapses back onto the ground again, curling up, shrinking in on itself.

For a moment, all is still. Then there's a soft, muffled noise as that huddled figure trembles. Sobbing. The vine finally sheds some light on the situation, illuminating the curled, dripping wet form of Kazumi, curled up in a glen on the grassy floor, clutching herself and sobbing quietly. It's a few moments before she opens her eyes, looking around, noticing the vine for the first time. She looks helpless, lost, but her first question isn't "Where am I?"]

Who am I? What am I?

Comments

[tookupthesword]

Well... if you're staying out here, so am I.

[starofpleiades]

Mm, okay... [She scoots over a bit so she isn't taking up the whole couch... not that she's very big]

[tookupthesword]

[Well, that's not exactly what she meant, buuut...]

Hold on a moment. [She walks off one final time... and then a blanket comes out.] I figure we might need this.

[starofpleiades]

I'm... really sorry about all this... thanks, Sayaka...

[She's just. Really tired now. Too tired to think about any of it anymore. She just wants to curl up and go to sleep and never wake up again]

[tookupthesword]

Don't be sorry... I've always wanted to be a help anyway. [And with that she... tries to place herself alongside on the couch and lay the blanket over in a good position.]

[starofpleiades]

[Hope you don't mind but she is just going to snuggle up against you now, burying her face against Sayaka's shoulder as she closes her eyes]

Thank you. It's just all been really... really...

[tookupthesword]

[Oh my.]

Be quiet, sleep time is now, okay?

[starofpleiades]

Mm... [And with that, she's pretty much out like a light. With how exhausted she was, it was pretty much adrenaline and panic keeping her awake until now]