Charonquest

[wooliefrand]

WHO: Lily
WHERE: Lily Barn
WHEN: Early Day 36, post ritual!

[alright nerds lets go get your emotional support shepherd]

Comments

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[spinebuddyandme]

[ Going to try to peek in that slightly ajar door without opening it any further ]

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[endsjustified]

[a child's bedroom. it's well-appointed, if rather plain and impersonal, decorated in shades of royal blue. the bed is unmade, the blankets pushed back, very much as though the occupant got up and left not long ago. where a lamp might usually sit on the bedside table, a pair of pruning snips lies instead.

the only other thing of note in here is a family portrait on the wall, with four central figures:

- a father, serious-faced and redheaded like Charon, but with a more sombre cast to his features;
- a mother, dark-haired and dark-gowned and smiling faintly, with eyes and finer bones that he must have inherited;
- a baby brother, a fat toddler boy of perhaps three, squinting out at the world from their mother's arms;
- a ten-year old version of Charon on the rightmost side, impassive.
- there are many other people behind them, suggested in the abstract whorls of colour and shadow behind the little family, but they're hard to pick out in detail at this time.]

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[spinebuddyandme]

[ Goes a little further in to double-check for any closets or other potential hiding places ]

Charon...?

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[endsjustified]

[he can check under the bed, but it's clean and devoid of stray shepherds.

there is a stray lily petal though.]

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[spinebuddyandme]

[ Picks up the petal before he heads back out into the hall ]

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[endsjustified]

[the flowers in the vase are glowing more intensely now!]

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[spinebuddyandme]

[ ...holds the petal over the flowers, trying to see if it reacts to any one more than the rest ]

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[endsjustified]

[one of these is yours it's yours it's yours it's yours]

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[spinebuddyandme]

[ guess he's picking up this flower then ]

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[endsjustified]

[when you pick your flower out of the vase, it lights up brightly in your hands. so does the spare petal you're carrying.

you can just about make out small, faint human footprints in the carpet that track towards the hall door you're facing. those weren't there before.]

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[spinebuddyandme]

[ Squints at those, following them to the door (and through, if they continue past it) ]

Charon?

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[endsjustified]

[there's a shining metal plaque upon it, partially scratched out:

THE HOUSE OF ■■■■■■■■■■

Where no path exists, endeavor. Where others walk blindly, see them through.

the footprints do go past it. he doesn't get an answer -- Charon is not here -- but he can follow them onward.]