purrrnicious | Heart Game: Run #2

Heart Game: Run #2

[Date: February 17, 3:00pm EST
Participants: Five, Eichi, Wednesday, L, Sabre
Channel: kohime-heart]

[1 - This cell looks like the barracks, a row of bunks — but the lights mounted on the walls on one end are all shattered, shards of glass littering the floor beneath. One of the beds is unmade, the blanket torn up and scattered, but among the scraps you think you see something square and hard.

2 - This cell contains nothing but a massive, glowing red crystal. It’s strangely ominous. Unlike the cell below (if you’ve been to the other floor), however, this version has pipes and machinery clamped onto it, leading off into some equipment hastily set up to the side with keyboards and monitors. One of the monitors is on, writing on its screen, though you can’t make out from here what it says.

3 - This cell contains a Catra — only this time, she’s her proper age. She paces the narrow length, agitated, and doesn’t seem to notice you.]

[Eichi knows what those square things are at this point and like... knowing more about Kohime is important but Eichi doesn't have a long time before his phobia of the darkness swallows him again, so he goes for the most important thing-

It's another Kohime. He's not sure if she's different or not, but he's going for her first.]

...What're you doing in here?

[Her uniform is again the Horde's, no trace of Imeeji in her. She doesn't look up at him, and she looks pretty stressed and anxious, to the same level she's displayed in death games.]

––What? Unless you've got something to report, get lost, I'm busy.

Kohime, I think we need to get out of here. Not just me, you too.

[He can almost feel the darkness pressing in on him. It's almost a physical pressure, as the courage he gave himself slipped away.]

[She frowns.]

"Ko-what"? Look, I said I'm busy, I need to find her.

...Adora, right?

[That tracks with the memory he'd seen.]

I'll help you. I'll help you catch her and bring her back or whatever you want, but we... w-we can't stay here.