[Day 2] The River

[arsnotoria]

You come around to the sound of gently sloshing water lapping at the sides of a boat-? The shore? It's hard to place, but the rhythmic splash, clap is telling. Aside from that, the air is dreadfully, heavily silent, your own breaths barely audible, almost stifled. When you open your eyes, it's dark-at first (sorry, Itachi). If you let your vision

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[odiousialist]

[nnnot touching that, though it makes my own visage slightly less disgusting, at least]

[arsnotoria]

Your sense of gravity starts to shift beneath you, almost as if the boat is beginning to climb. But that's . . . not strictly possible, is it-? . . . not that "strictly possible" has been a concern for some time, now.

[arsnotoria]

"Um," Lucia says, and takes a secure seat in the bottom of the boat.

[a_mighty_oak]

[sup you're pretty used to me hanging onto you a little now right]

...Are we there yet...

[odiousialist]

[if I was standing, I'm now sitting down, yes]

...woah...

[arsnotoria]

You climb and climb and climb . . . and climb . . . almost until the anxiety begins to drain out of you and a sense of would it just stop already begins to-

And then, you crest the top of the cave, abruptly . . . levelling out into a smooth, bright area, looking down into the city-going down, and down, and down, sloped rock walls going so far-and circling so wide-that (unless you are, perhaps, Fon) you can't even make out the bottom. The city is colossal, crowded, twisted, all gray and sandy and lit with flickering torches that cast too-long shadows on the walls. The streets overlap on each other, the buildings crowded together, giving an impression of endless chaos and complexity.

[a_mighty_oak]

...Uwaaahhhhh. [AT LEAST IT'S CIVILIZATION +_+]

[arsnotoria]

Lucia ...inexplicably buries her face in Shuri Oak's shirt.

[a_mighty_oak]

[...P... PATS HER HAIR??]

--What?

[arsnotoria]

"I don't think I can cope with--" she begins, but...

[odiousialist]

[just. stares, trying to both take it all in and not be overwhelmed at the same time]

[arsnotoria]

AND THEN YOU DROP.

[my_pleasure]

[ THIS IS EVEN LESS OKAY. ]

[arsnotoria]

Lucia screams. Sorry Shuri.

[odiousialist]

[what--]

[a_mighty_oak]

[IT'S OKAY. I'M SCREAMING, TOO.]