GRAVEYARD

[dormheads]

graveyard

students in time out: 10

It's a little hard to wake up when the melody that drifts into your ears is so comforting that it'd be so much simpler to stay asleep. Maybe everything that you remember last - the cold seeping into your fingertips, the pain of injury, or the darkness creeping into your vision - will just be parts of a bad dream.

But it's not.

When you wake up, it's probably a little disorienting - you have to push off a blanket and rise from this nice comfortable mat on the floor. Seems like you were all curled up for nap time. Literally. The room that you're in has furniture meant for small humans, children as some might call them, and everything is soft and plush to the touch with rounded corners. Blocks with the alphabet etched onto them, coloring books and crayons, and even a rocking horse dot the room to really give it that childish charm. If you can think of a child-safe toy, it's probably in one of the baskets that line the shelves of the room!

Around the room they'll find baby monitors that broadcast the antics of the living. Hopefully that doesn't feel creepy.

There is a yard outside through the glass doors, but it currently seems to be locked - and the glass won't break no matter how hard you try. There's a large pink door that feels enormous, ten times as tall as you, on one side of the room, but there's no way through that either. At the very top, you might see a directory sign that says: TO ADMINISTRATION BUILDING.

Huh.

Well... for now, get comfortable. It looks like you might be here a while.

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[heartlands]

Speaking of which...

[a beat, before:]

Do any of us, like, really want to go back? I mean, I'm assuming people on that side are going to choose on their own based on who gets the item, but - if there's anyone who really wants to leave here, it might not be a bad idea to try and include that in the message, assuming that won't make it too long. But it might be a good idea to talk about now anyways, so we can tell them when they use the communication item.

[wtfox]

I mean, I definitely want to get out of here. No offense to any of you, but I'm over daycare.

[...]

But I think some of us are a lot more likely to get picked than others. If it's something that lets them choose who to bring back, everyone on the living side is going to have their own opinion about who it should be regardless of what we say.

[heartlands]

No offense taken! It isn't great here.

Yeah, I know. But in case they do ask one of us before choosing... I think it's important to at least check in with each other, you know?

[wtfox]

Yeah, better for us to all be on the same page.

[headmt]

I, ah ...

[Uh, well, it isn't the prettiest of emotions. It's ugly and selfish and he misses them terribly right now, in this moment.]

You know I'm-- ... Did you know I'm actually the impulse control of the three of us?

[heartlands]

...If either of them get the item, I'm assuming they're going to pick you with no questions asked.

[he nods, and then:]

I really want you to be able to see them again. For what it's worth.

[headmt]

He, uh, scratches at the side of his head.]

Don't know that either of them can get the item.

[Take that as you will.]

[battling]

Just say ya wanna go back.

[Slightly amused though.]

Got people waitin' on you.

[headmt]

Oh, I didn't think I was being subtle about it.

[Grateful though, thank you Bradley.]

Feels a bit shite though. Only so many graves one can crawl out of before it becomes a running joke.

[wtfox]

...I think most of us expect it to be you anyway!

[she's just stepping a bit further away out of the range of the emotionshare though.]

[headmt]

[Lila.................

He doesn't follow her, giving her her space. But his face is all concern?]

Whether that's true or not, I've no intention of staying in this nursery shithole or leaving anyone here. No leaving each other behind.

[headsplitter]

You're the only one that died outside of having to. Think it's fair if you got to get back up there.

Back to making places better than how they were. [ Because God knows, he'd be exactly that for Beau and Caleb. ]

[headmt]

[He sniffs.]

Honestly, think I do better at that when I'm resting in a grave than up on my feet and running my mouth.

[souheki]

I do not mind staying.

[Just, y'know. To make it clear.]

[heartlands]

...Not that I'm really that shocked or anything, but can I ask why?

[souheki]

Several reasons.

[...A pause, before he amends--]

Not permanently. [HE DOESN'T WANT TO BE IN DAYCARE FOREVER. But he gestures slightly to the notes.] I believe I can be of greater assistance here. [...Also,] ...Others have those they wish to return to on that side.

[And he doesn't dislike the living, but the people he most wants to return to are back in his home world anyway, so it wouldn't be quite as much of a loss, to him. Also this place is better than the cave he was trapped in before he got to school, but he's not going to say that because then he'll start worrying about Wei Wuxian again.]

[ercnerd]

I also want to go back.

But there are things to be done here as well. If they pick someone else, I'm not going to be angry about their decision.

[wtfox]

...

[she glances over at him, contemplative]

[ercnerd]

[Feeling eyes on him, he glances back.]

What is it, Lila?

[battling]

Like to, but don't expect to.

[Shrugs! He doesn't seem to have very strong emotions about this.]

[heartlands]

Okay. So... That's you, Lila, Sieghart and Molly so far.

[headsplitter]

[ Chinhanding here. ]

I don't wanna go back up there, so you guys can have it.

[headmt]

[Mostly just genuinely curious:]

Not interested at all?

[chevaliered]

I mean, I think most of us want to go back? I know I do? But whether or not we will is dependent on a lot of things. [ that and two of the people he very genuinely misses just exploded or got themselves a ticket straight to daycare so it’s cool it’s cool it’s cool



it is not cool. ]

[heartlands]

[shaking his head]

Looks like it’s closer to fifty fifty right now. But... Obviously it depends on a few things? What are you getting at?