Comments | hell_wisconsin: six feet of earth above my head

colla_voce in hell_wisconsin

six feet of earth above my head

Jun 14, 2007 19:49

....there's absolutely no reason the doors at the back of the chapel should be dinging, because that makes no sense, but realistically it really doesn't matter - it's a place without statues and Eden will take it, thank you, even though they don't even have to push the doors open, even though they slide open as though they've been waiting, and it's ( Read more... )

antinora, elevator, puzzle room, colla_voce, myfatherstask

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myfatherstask June 15 2007, 00:04:54 UTC

Mohinder cringes--the screaming isn't any louder in here than it was in the chapel, but the space is so confined that even he's feeling a little claustrophobic, and--oh god there are fucking spiders all over him and he can barely even move to shake them off, oh, god, what if they bite, what if they're poisonous, fuck--

He can handle spiders, ordinarily (as long as they're not snakes. It's snakes that Mohinder positively cannot deal with.) But nothing about this situation is fucking ordinary, okay, and he's about as on-edge as he can possibly get without just falling off.

He drags himself to his feet with no small effort, squeezing Eden's shoulder on his way up because he can't pull her with him, and something falls into his hair. SPIDERS. IN HIS FUCKING HAIR. OH JESUS. He claws at it, trying to get them the fuck out, but it's not a spider, for a change, just...a slip of paper. He calms down, if only because it's really hard to breathe, and holds the note out to Eden so they can read it together.

colla_voce June 15 2007, 00:40:13 UTC

There's not much to read; the paper only holds a few short sentences:

On the lips and hearts of every child a name is written: hers is death. Find her first sin, and find the way.

Eden goes goggle-eyed at Mohinder for several moments, which is only exacerbated by the fact that the spiders are really close to inducing hyperventilation. She punches one of the buttons experimentally, just in case, you know, "L" means Lobby or something useful, rather than cryptic horrible, thanks very much Antinora.

Nothing happens. So....that's helpful.

myfatherstask June 15 2007, 00:53:05 UTC

Mohinder, in turn, squints at the paper with his very best 'what the unholy shit is this business, sirs?' face, perhaps in the hopes that the note will take pity and squeeze out a few more clues as to what the fuck Antinora wants from them.

"Everything this place has put us through, and now it expects us to solve--" He pauses to angrily smack a spider off his arm, winces, and clutches his injured ribs. "--fucking riddles?Yes, Mohinder, it would seem so. Shut your yap about it and think ( ... )

colla_voce June 15 2007, 01:56:54 UTC

Eden is mortified and would like you to stop poking shocky things at once , if you would, sir.

...but at least it reacted to him, which is something. She's not, nor has she ever been, a practicing Jew, but she did have a few relatives who were, and as such is really familiar with all those cute jokes about Eve.

Eden always kind of liked her. But they've already tried something close, so that can't be it. She's trying to think of someone who has death written on their lips...poison, maybe, or the wrong words....

...words.

It's not there, not yet, but it's buzzing around the edges of her mind like one of those spiders, tickling, pressing in and she doesn't want to think, but 'on her heart,' where had her voice been for 17 years ( ... )

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