westedge | PC: Mizuki

[ ty: gimme something early game
me, chinhandsing: ty knows perfectly well what happens early in this game

Well. Of all the things for these stupid, goddamn pigs to air out—Mizuki genuinely hadn't expected that. A little horrified, she takes an instinctive step back, gaze hitting the (cloudy?) ground below. ]

No, I— I'm sorry, that shouldn't have...

[ instinctively, he reaches a hand out to stop her from getting too far but without actually grabbing onto her. ]

It's okay. This has been...happening on and off today because of the stupid pigs. I don't think anybody gets to pick what people are seeing. [ which is annoying but that's a whole other problem. he takes a breath though. ]

...are you okay?

[ Is she? After so suddenly reliving one of the worst nights of her life? She shifts uneasily on her feet. ]

Could be better.

Yeah. Yeah, no, I get that that was a...very stupid question in retrospect but you get what I mean. [ there's a pause. ] ...this has been going around all day. Kind of a huge pain in the ass.

[ and then another pause. ]

I'm...sorry. That you had to see something like that.

It's fine. [ """fine""" ] I've... kinda come to terms with it now.

Kind of. [ god. ] It would still be fair even if you hadn't. Did you guys...ever figure out what happened? [ also who's the other guy. he has questions. ]

... Yeah. Date was investigating the case. We were supposed to go after the guy, but...

...did something happen to stop you guys from doing that?

[ she falls silent, shifting uneasily. ]

That’s… It’s nothing really.

[ he is at least vaguely sensitive to this, so: ]

Sorry, my bad. I shouldn't be asking, it doesn't matter in this case. It's still...shitty. [ and you know what else is shitty? this memory lasting to 3:15:57 even if he doesn't entirely recall alex calling out for him. ]

[ lmao @ our mom issues.

WELL. Well. That sure happened. Mizuki looks a little startled. ]

... More of the ghost thing?

[ GOD. ]

...more of the ghost thing. The ghost thing kind of happened a lot that night.

I... found out about that from Alex.

Unsurprising. That was the night Alex and I met, so we lived through all of that together. It was her and her friends' idea to go to the island, but...we tuned into the rift.

Did that music have something to do with it, too?

...that music was just the ghosts messing around and trying to get us closer as a trap. And I knew it was probably a trap, but I went closer to it anyway.

[ ... ]

I guess... if it were me, I might've done the same.

[ ...if he hadn't just seen her memory he'd probably leave it alone, but. ]

She hasn't been gone for very long. So at the time, I was desperate to see her again. Made me easy prey, I guess. Word of advice? If something like that ever happens to you here or otherwise, don't listen until you have more proof.

... Really, I should ignore it altogether. Normally the dead don't speak.

But then sometimes they do and it's ill-advised not to pay attention. [ hah. ] But ignoring it all together is probably a much smarter idea, yeah.

... Will do. Sucks that it took advantage of you like that.

[ shrug. ]

They'd been screwing with us and the timeloops all night. I think we were all just done. Maybe things would've been different if it weren't six in the morning and we weren't trying to save ourselves with a last-ditch effort.

[ ...... uh, ]

Yeah, sounds like an, uh, ideal time to whip out the manipulation tactics.

We were only down there because we were on our way to seal them up and send them back to where they came from so they couldn't, like, eat our souls and use us as bodies to get off the island. So yeah. Ideal timing for them.

... Okay, that ghost thing is a lot worse than I was thinking.

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