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episode 10

all that's left of mayim is the echo of her last words: oh no no no no.

pretty much sums it up, actually.

thank Odd she untied you first -- but she'd promised to show you how to open the hollow tree. and you're betting she had no extra ( Read more... )

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episode 9

still sitting, mayim lifts her eyes. she and crane pass a stare back and forth that is visibly new and unpleasant for both of them. each time the stare jumps from one to the other, it gathers like a lightning storm: disbelief, disappointment, defiance.

' ( Read more... )

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episode 8

'you're schizophrenic?' mayim takes a step back from you, dry leaves crackling underfoot. 'oh no.'

you stare at her in dismay.

'i gotta go,' she says. 'sorry. if there's anything i can't deal with, it's someone rick says is not right in the head.... oh come ( Read more... )

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episode 7

mayim frowns, stares off into the lurid trees. sunlight glints red in her hair. you sit on your hand to keep it off her.

'to get into this dimension,' she says, 'the one we're in now, rick would have to...'

'drop acid?' you say helpfully. 'well he -- '

'drop... ( Read more... )

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episode 6

you freeze in your tracks. a growling pile of logs! you think. if only! in this dimension, whatever-it-is likely has teeth. at least logs wouldn't...

paws patter through leaves. you're crouching on the ground, arms over your head, before you realise the paws are ( Read more... )

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episode 5

you swallow the lump in your throat, eyes wandering past rick's glare to the ugliness surrounding you. lucid. i'm lucid and this is what it means? a reeking dumpster house, a sole-stabbing street and a sky full of moth-grey sick sunlight you could technically call ( Read more... )

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episode 4

day-glo tree roots grab at your feet as you run back to the house. you stumble over one particularly mischievous root. with a cry of outrage, you stop running, backtrack, and jump up and down on the bad root until it pulls back into the earth with a squeal.

you shove open ( Read more... )

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episode 3

okay, blanket girl, you think, feeling your face contort in disbelief. you really are crazy! you picked being naked and chained up in a little treehouse full of ash and toy trucks over...

(and then you realise)

...over being naked and chained up in a mental hospital -- ?

she is ( Read more... )

ok, as threatened two weeks ago, this is part two of http://labrysinthe.livejournal.com/164090.html. advisory: read part 1 first! yeah, yeah...

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mayim and crane take your hands and lead you to the door in the crooked knots of trees. you look back at mayim, betrayed. 'we're not kicking you out, little froglet,' she says. 'it's not a door out, but in ( Read more... )

everyone back home had you figured for a total acidhead. you were always from another less-deadly-serious planet, slinking around hooded and breaking into inappropriate giggles. but your dread secret was that you'd never even smoked pot, forget dropping acid. nobody ever got close enough to ask if you wanted drugs.

plus, it seemed you didn't really ( Read more... )