33. public nightmare/video.

[childrenoflilim]

[everything is deep orange.  faint light streams from overhead--wherever overheard is--piercing some of the darkness, but not much.  and although nothing lives in this mass of orange, there is a single whispered voice.

please stay with me

then another.

i try my hardest, but no one loves me as much as i love them

one more.

i will always be alone

then the

Comments

[hands4healing]

Shinji, are you all right?

[childrenoflilim]

...not really.

[hands4healing]

Is there anything I can do?

[childrenoflilim]

No.

[a beat.]

No, I'm wrong. You can talk about whatever you like. I'll listen.

[infinite_arcana]

Shinji...

[childrenoflilim]

It's just a nightmare, not real life for me. Please don't spend time wondering if I'll be okay.

[hoboheim]

It's just like when the souls of the citizens of Xerxes were inside me. Just a swirling torrent of anger and resentment...

Shinji... What was that?

[childrenoflilim]

The Sea.

[hoboheim]

The Sea? That's not like any sea I know of...

Does this have something to do with that time you... disappeared?

[childrenoflilim]

Yes. It's the Sea left on my world. There's nothing else.

[voice]

[voicewhichcalls]

[ ... You again, boy.

Erik doesn't speak. He only begins to play a quiet, soothing sort of song. ]

[childrenoflilim]

[listening very intently. music does calm the soul. evidence can be seen in how the tension eases out of his shoulders.]