second dream

[rusting]

I slept for a while, it seems. No dreams at all, though.

[Well, if it isn't Sabitsuki. She's walking around the island as she talks, circles under her bright red eyes darker than ever. As she speaks, she trails her steel pipe behind her, wich occasionally gives off a soft bong when it hits a tree root or rock.]

I know I've missed a lot, but the island seems just the same as ever. It never changes... Once in a while, I'd like it to change. I don't like seeing the same things all the time, running into the same trees and the same rocks and the same water...

Sometimes I think it's too peaceful, really. Like that story about people living on a nice island that turns out to be the back of a large sea monster.

[And she pauses, frowning.]

I mean, I don't get it. You're all so happy. But maybe...maybe that's how this place and the people behind it want us to feel. Because one day, when we least expect it, the sea monster will come out and eat us all...and we'll just smile at it like idiots because of how much we've gotten used to living a comfortable life.

...I won't have any of that.
 
[...Sabitsuki, you are weird. 8I]

Comments

[text]

[a_smile]

[apparently the 'smile like idiots' comment can summon smiling idiots. however, Smile is sticking to text for this. the figment doesn't want her to know he's technically breaking his promise to stay away.]

Don't want a comfortable life?

[text]

[rusting]

[She tries her best to quell the sudden feelings stirring up in her at the message, but even so, it's hard to stay calm when she knows what he's done to her friend.]

I can't live a comfortable life. It rejects me. Kind of like a bacteria in the human body. It's not as much as me not wanting it as me not being able to live it. But enough of that.

Lay off her. You're mine. Not hers. Stay away if you know what's good for you.

[text]

[a_smile]

No cure? Or you haven't looked?

Another promise. But what if I don't agree?

[text]

[rusting]

I don't need to look. And what do you even have to say about it? You're nothing but a resident o my dreams.

Then I'll smash those teeth of yours up into your skull and then we'll see who's the one smiling.

[text]

[a_smile]

Two out of the three places are peaceful. The school is only as violent as you want it to be.

Can you, Sabitsuki? And it'll still be me. [he is called Smile, after all.]