[There's the sound of someone weeping. Faintly ( Read more... )

Hello? Is this a phone? [The quiet voice is that of a child trying very hard not to sound afraid. He can't cry. He has to be brave. That's what Dad would want him to do.] Can anyone hear me?

If--if you can hear this, whoever you are, my dad's a hero. He's really, really strong, and he's going to be here to rescue me any minute. He'll be ( Read more... )

☽{#1:night}

[He doesn't realize the PORTAL is on when the room fills up with fire. Blue and green fire, brilliant and almost impossibly hot. Yet somehow, though it burns brightly, it doesn't seem to set anything on fire, as if it were perfectly controlled, so much so that even its heat and smoke do nothing they are not meant to ( Read more... )