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[needafullbarrel]

[5 has not-so-conveniently missed any of the answers about the pumpkin, and with 7 voice plaguing him, guilting him, threatening him... God, he's starting to wonder if he went to hell when he died.]

They won't st-stop! They won't stop! Someone... Please!

They won't stop...

I'm sorry...

Comments

[unit_67]

Woah, woah! 5! If you destroy your pumpkin, you won't hear the voices anymore.

[needafullbarrel]

Lily!

I-It's too late! It's too late...

[unit_67]

No, no, it isn't.

[Now that she can't hear the voices anymore...]

Hey, look, I'll go find it, alright? And the voices will stop. I promise. Do you wanna come with me, or...?

[needafullbarrel]

It is!

[A sigh.]

I-I'll come.

[unit_67]

Okay. Okay, 5, where's your room? Or, uh, where are you? I'll come get you.

[needafullbarrel]

The library... I'm in the library.

[unit_67]

Good. Good, the library is a good place.

[Yes. Good. It's also a place that Lily knows how to get to.

Lily shows up at the library not long after, carrying her record in one hand and an axe in the other. Lily has found that axes are pretty good for destroying pumpkins. She skirts around that one weird pumpkin at the entrance (creepy fucker) and jogs into the library.]

5? Heeey, 5? Where are you?

[needafullbarrel]

Lily!

[5 has crawled onto a books shelf, between two thick volumes. He pokes his head out and looks around for the girl.]

Lily, where are you?

[unit_67]

5?

[She hears a voice, but she... doesn't see anyone. Is 5 secretly a ghost? Invisible? But she saw him in their video thread, wh -

...

Oh wow. Lily just kind of... stares at 5.]

Oh my god, you are little.

[needafullbarrel]

[Nod nod nod.]

I-I am. Lily, did you make it stop for you?

[unit_67]

The voices? Uh, someone else did it for me. But yeah, they stopped.

[Lily puts on a reassuring smile and holds out one hand.]

Here, you can sit on my shoulder.

[needafullbarrel]

[He manages a smile himself.]

Good. That... That's good. I'm glad.

[And now he'll just be crawling up her arm.]

[unit_67]

[GOD HE IS SO CUTE.]

Yeah. So, they'll stop for you soon, once we get your pumpkin.

[Once 5 is settled in, Lily leaves the library, once again circling far, far around the pumpkin at the entrance. That one... She seriously doesn't like that one.]

So, hey, tell me about yourself. What's it like where you come from?

[Anything to get his mind off those voices.]

[needafullbarrel]

[He's not sure how much it'll help, but he nods. As for where he came from...]

It's... Not really a nice place. Actually... Everything there was dead, except me and the others. There were only a few left...

[unit_67]

Oh.

[Wow, way to not help at all, Lily. Awesome.]

Well, I came from a pretty awful place too, so it's really nice to be here at the Keep.

[needafullbarrel]

...What's it like where you're from?