what in the longdark spitting-pit is that

[inourhead]

This was a bad idea this was a bad idea this was a bad idea.

Holly runs as fast as she can but the demon's faster. She has no idea where Lightning's gotten to; maybe he found a tree to climb. She on the other hand has been diverted into a treeless hill and she's careening down a slope, trying very hard not to trip.

And the demon's gaining on her.

She's never seen anything like it and neither has Crystal; maybe Book knows what it is but Book's asleep. It's mostly mouth - it looks like a cross between a floorlength mirror of a mouth and a snake to propel the mouth along.

And Holly's not fast enough.

The mouth catches her.





But it doesn't hurt.

Where are we?

----


with Minus (kappa)

with Mark (kappa)

with Max (Benedict)

in Terraria (kappa)

with Emma (Marri)

with Erin (Rockeye)

Comments

[unmarred]

"Because I'm a [untranslated word]." He frowns at the desk, thinks, then elaborates. "The other person is Miles. Someone didn't like Miles, so he - made a second Miles. That's me. He called me Miles and taught me to think like Miles and act like Miles, and made me look just like Miles, but I'm not Miles. I... don't know who I am. But when I met Miles, the first Miles, he gave me a different name. Mark."

[inourhead]

Crystal nods. "Holly came up with my name for me. She didn't like that everybody was calling me and Book by her name. Book named himself though."

[unmarred]

"Why was it Holly's name when people were calling all of you by it?"

[inourhead]

"We can't remember how we decided Holly was her instead of me. We were very little. They didn't know we were there," shrugs Crystal. "But it couldn't have been Book, it's a girl's name."

[unmarred]

Mark smiles.

[inourhead]

"Holly is in front a little more than I am even now and it was more obvious when we were kids," muses Crystal, "that might be why."