Can be heard from the hallway?

[fishy_go_byebye]

[Delirium is in her dream again, after she's traveled all over the castle pulling her friends out of the horrors. Everybody was in pieces and she wasn't and it hurt more than even this place and now there was no where to retreat to. Because of this place. This mockery of a memory that made breathing hurt and her head ache and everything itch raw

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[majestic_blue]

[In the midst of all the chaos, Romeo appears a few feet away from the sundial, Delirium's bridge between worlds. He probably rushed down here as soon as she started yelling...]

Del.

[fishy_go_byebye]

[She's sitting leaning against the sundial again, exactly as she did the first time he visited her dream. But this time her face is buried in her bloody hands and her shoulders are shaking and her breath sounds like her throat was in a blender]

Go away.

[majestic_blue]

[Seeing her like this is breaking his heart. But he wants to help.]

No. I won't. I'm not going to leave you like this. [He approaches her without any more hesitation, trying to warm her shoulders or hug her close or /something/-- anything to bring her back to reality.]

[fishy_go_byebye]

[Jerks away and crawls on scraped knees and bloody fingers to the side of the sundial away from him. Why is he looking. Can't he see? There are expanses of ground that have been mutilated with whatever she could find,including herself. There was nothing she could do to the sundial, it had just stood there accusing and nothing would hurt it... and despite it all this damnable place was welcoming and hateful.]

Leave me alone! [Can't he see how dirty everything is?]

[mmm_paradise]

[A few hours after Romeo and Del leave, Joshua comes and stands at the doorway for a moment, hands shoved in his pockets. He's staring at the torn up ground.]

[fishy_go_byebye]

[The field tries to wave enticingly again. Doesn't work out so well this time.]

[mmm_paradise]

[Well... even if it is fake (as fake as everything is in the castle), he can do something about it. It had happened, even if it was cruel and harsh. Del wouldn't appreciate it, but it had to be done. Even if it did hurt. It wasn't hers to change.]

[... Perhaps it wasn't his, either, but then, since when had he ever cared?]

[He disappears. When he reappears, the plot of ground is filled, as if nothing ever happened.]

[fishy_go_byebye]

[Thats okay. Its starts going smudgey tonight anyway~]