☼ 18 {Accidental Video}

[mercifulsun]

[ The image flickers, the silhouette of a young woman appears on screen. She's laying on the floor of what appears to be the balcony of a building; her gloved hands resting on top of her bosom and her curls are spread over the ground. There's blood on her clothes and on her face but no visible wound, not anymore. She's not breathing. ]

Ahh...

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[child_radical]

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[child_radical]

Sha...Sharhazad?

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[child_radical]

What happened, why are you covered in blood?

1/2 hours later the reunion;

[mercifulsun]

I remember you, Huey.

there's still a little bit of you laced with my doubt;

[mercifulsun]

There are voices…. Shahrazad can listen to the echoes of a foreign familiarity that resound next to her body, coming from a compact device, like a computer. The realization doesn’t strike her yet; despite having passed a day, hours, what transpired in István felt like years imprinted in her soul. Instead, she ignores them like phantoms of the past, the living that shouldn’t disturb the dead. Her uncle and family- they aren’t among them.

She’s so cold her arms wrap around herself, folding while her body tries to absorb the safe sunlight from the sunset. The majestic brightness that has no deadly UV light however is too lukewarm to fully comfort her. The summer breeze helps and she wonders if it’s always summer in Esther’s Heaven. A summer with blazing suns and days full of luminosity she has missed in life. She wonders if she will be able to walk with her loved ones under sky during day. And if when she looks up, she’ll see a lapis lazuli shade, the same of Esther’s eyes.

Do Methuselah and Terran live together in Heaven? The idea of

there's still a little bit of you laced with my doubt;

[mercifulsun]

It just happens too fast: the noise of a gun dropping on the ground, the blur of red hair, clear blue eyes blurred in tears, the warm embrace she was so familiar with. She has barely time to turn and take her gaze away from the absent sun. Why are her motions so dulled? Everything happened too fast, here and there, Shahrazad knew the rushing feeling was apprehensive, she was aware there was something wrong, but Esther gave her a pillar of hope, to rescue her family and making it right. Shahrazad didn’t have the heart to tell her fears; she could only express her gratitude. It was so easy to smile near Esther. Because she was like a star, like the…

Shahrazad pauses, bewildered look crosses her features. The young woman holding her clothed in the white religious outfit she wore the first night she spotted her; talking to that despicable man in the balcony of the Embassy. She was solid. She was real and warm.

Esther…

Why is Esther in Heaven? She hasn’t--couldn’t have died. The fright from her expression wanes quickly. Somehow she

[datedkingarthur]

Hey-!

Hey! Are you okay?!

hours later...

[mercifulsun]

I am. Thank you. Please, don't worry.

[datedkingarthur]

It's hard to not worry, you know.

[mercifulsun]

I didn't want people to worry this much-everything is fine.

voice

[a_silent_due]

...alive.

voice (hours later)

[mercifulsun]

It surprised me.

voice

[a_silent_due]

That's - ...your problem.

voice

[mercifulsun]

I'm not troubled by my choices-this is unexpected.

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[mechaeonical]

Shaharzad-san. You have returned.

[mechaeonical]

I apologize

for not being in the apartment right now.

I will return immediately.

1/2 hours later;

[mercifulsun]

Aigis.

[mercifulsun]

It's fine... Esther... she's with me.