♊ 21 ♊ [Text] [Back dated to within 30 minutes past 'dawn' on the 23rd]

[thii2ii22tupiid]

*The handwriting is sloppy, but being written in the dark and by a shaking hand will do that.*

plea2e tell me you can read thii2.
anybody.
anybody plea2e tell me they can 2ee me, ii don't want two do thii2 agaiin, plea2e 2ay 2omethiing.

IB? where are you? 2tay where you are, ii don't know what happened, even the fake 2un wa2 gone.

Comments

[rocklikerunaway]

No. I can't read it or see you.

But I can hear you just fine.

[thii2ii22tupiid]

2tfu toph, thii2 ii2 no tiime for game2, the tunnel2 are 2preadiing.

[rocklikerunaway]

What tunnels?

[thii2ii22tupiid]

the tunnel2 around the keep, the one2 that fuck wiith 2pace-and-tiime, the one2 wiith no way out.
unle22 2taff help2, ii thiink, ii'm pretty 2ure that'2 how everyone el2e got out la2t tiime, but ii never diid, ii had two take the emergancy exiit.

[rocklikerunaway]

You know what I just heard?

"Bla bla crazy mumbo jumbo bla bla something about space."

[Seriously, you need to calm down.]

Do you have a light?

[thii2ii22tupiid]

fuck you, thii2 ii2 iimportant, iit2 not my fault you can't comprehend anythiing that ii2n't made of diirt.

no, no, not really.

*His psionics kinda glow, but he's not sure how long he can keep them up. Also sometimes his eyes glow, but that's probably not going to last very long either.*

[rocklikerunaway]

Well get one.

And then come and find me.

[She knows it's important. That part, she has no problem understanding.]

[thii2ii22tupiid]

ii can't, ii can't toph, there'2 no way out of here, there'2 no liight but miine and that won't la2t.

ii'm going two diie agaiin.

[rocklikerunaway]

[Ordinarily she'd make fun of him for being afraid of the dark, and the barb's already in her mouth when she hears the last part.

She swallows it like a mouthful of mud.

Die?]

Where are you?

[He can't die. He's her friend.]

[thii2ii22tupiid]

ii TOLD you, iin the2e fuckiing tunnel2, ii don't know how ii got two them, ii wa2 ju2t goiing back two the barrack2.

[rocklikerunaway]

I don't see any tunnels!

[thii2ii22tupiid]

YOU don't 2EE anythiing.
they came out of nowhere and they don't work liike anythiing el2e, ii don't thiink thii2 ii2 2tone, eiither.

[rocklikerunaway]

So, why can't you just go back the way you came?

[Seriously, this is sounding weird, and not in the good way. Quit it, Sollux.]

[thii2ii22tupiid]

iit2 not there anymore, the hall turned iintwo a room, there are no more exiit2.

[rocklikerunaway]

Stop panicking and look for a seam or a trap door.

[He can't die. Not going to happen.]

[thii2ii22tupiid]

ii DIID, there ii2n't anythiing, thii2 place wouldn't let me out 2o ea2iily.