The 20th Day

[endswithme]

Yuck.

Another screwed up curse to remind us of how creative you can get, right, deities?

Guess I should count myself lucky. Seems like I got out of this one. Not that I've really... killed. Not in the conventional sense, anyway. Erased, yes, but... that's different. It was them or us. It's not like I really enjoyed it or anything. That's just how

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[obliviomancy]

Somehow, I don't think your Noise'd count.

[endswithme]

I guess not. Not that anything really bleeds in the UG.

Did the curse get you?

[obliviomancy]

I don't know. The things I killed didn't really bleed either.

[endswithme]

Guess we both lucked out, then.

So all those monsters you fought... they didn't have hearts?

[obliviomancy]

Guess so. It'd be hard to type while dripping blood.

Well, they were called Heartless. ... What are the Noise, anyway?

[endswithme]

Bet that'd be a lot of fun to clean up.

The Noise? I'm not really sure, myself. I think they're, like, souls that get gathered up and turned into monsters. Most of them look like some abstract artist's idea of what an animal should look like... if you get what I mean.

[obliviomancy]

Souls?

... I looked at some art books at the library the other day. Abstract art's the kind that makes dogs look like cantelopes, right?

[endswithme]

The UG's weird like that. The people there are... souls. I mean, you have to die to get there, so it makes sense.

Er, not like the specific art form. I just mean, they look like really twisted versions of regular animals.

[obliviomancy]

So you're... dead?

Kind of like the Heartless, then.

[Private]

[endswithme]

I was dead. It's kinda hard to explain.

What're the Heartless like, exactly?

[Private]

[obliviomancy]

Does the Reaper's Game have anything to do with it?

There are different kinds. Some of them look like... twisted versions of regular animals. Most of them look like giant bugs.

[Private]

[endswithme]

The game's for dead people, pretty much. The Reapers are all dead, too.

Why do they attack people? Just for the heck of it? Or does someone control them?

[Private]

[obliviomancy]

A game between dead people... Do you get anything for winning?

I don't think anyone can control them. They just want hearts.

[Private]

[endswithme]

Yeah... a second chance at life. It's not like people willingly go to the UG. They end up there after they die. Usually it's something unintentional, like an accident or something like that. So it makes sense that they'd want a second chance.

Do they eat the hearts or what? I don't get it.

[Private]

[obliviomancy]

Huh. ... The UG sounds pretty interesting.

I guess so. It's complicated.

[Private]

[endswithme]

When you can look at it without being there? Yeah. I never could've imaged that a place like that existed in my world... until I ended up there, that is.

Isn't everything?