❄ eleventh reminder

[echidna]

[ action ; around mayfield ]

[ Gone. Everyone's gone. She's found little notes here and there, snippets that sound almost like parts of conversation, but they're all gone. Empty bedrooms, empty streets, empty everything. Maybe she should be happy. After everything they've all been through, they deserve this. They should be able to go home, to escape from her. If she has to stay here so everyone else can be safe, that should be okay.

But she doesn't want to be alone.

She's been wandering the streets of Mayfield for what feels like years, searching for someone, anyone. Even a drone would be a welcome sight. She might brush past you, bump into you without even realizing it, sniffling and peering into empty storefronts, down empty alleys.

Anyone. Just one person, just so she doesn't have to be all alone. Anyone. ]

Please...

[ phone ]

[ Jade's voice is barely a whisper, and she very obviously sounds frightened. This is worse than anything she can imagine, scarier than dying. ]

Hello? I- if there's anyone still here, anyone at all, then please- [ She hiccups, goes quiet for a minute. ] I don't want to be alone, not like this, please.

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[echidna]

[ At first, it seems that he's caught her attention, but it quickly becomes clear that she's not looking at him, but through him. She stares intently at a sign that's been hung up in store window.

Jade! I are othery well- Jade! I are okay, the othe othery well- Jad you am glade! I aren't doing vers are othe okay, thers aren't doing vers am glad you aren't doing vers am glad you are othery well-

She whimpers, buries her face in her hands. ]

Oh no, John, oh no.

[windplay.livejournal.com]

Oh no, Jade.

[ He gently places a hand on her shoulder, still unaware she didn't fully recognize his presence. ]

You ate one of those mushrooms, right? It's doing something funny to people... Well, not funny as in "poop in my pants" funny, but in a weird kind of way and- um, why don't we go back home so we can sort this out?

asdkfha john,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

[echidna]

[ Blue. Way too much blue. Of course he would leave so many goodbyes, they were best friends, and now he's going to go home and fix everything. Of course she doesn't notice his hand on her shoulder, just keeps right on walking, trying to keep from seeing all that blue. ]