Twenty-Third Drop: going home, now? (accidental videopost)

[spiritofsorrow]

(Above the top of the Lighthouse, there is a tear that descends like lightning across the barrier and falls to the edge of the sea. The beams from the tower are a stunning deep sapphire color tonight, sweeping long and far across the City as if fueled by a blue flame within. The rocks shine dull navy shades splashed with azure

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Action;

[horrible_penny]

[It's cold out, but Sorrow's network post is disturbing enough to motivate Penny to leave the apartment (not that moping about Billy's personality change there was doing anyone any good, but it had been a very cozy kind of moping) for the lighthouse.

She can see the tear in the barrier, but she can't see what Sorrow sees. That makes sense, though... they would all see something different.]

Sorrow? Hey...

Action;

[spiritofsorrow]

(He lowers his hands to his knees, where he sits for several long seconds after he hears Penny's voice. She sounds so far away as he looks up again, and there in the gap is a face looking back at him, Adamska perhaps sixty years in the future with his light eyes and pale gray hair. His arm is replaced with something futuristic and mechanical. He and Jack's descendant fighting to the death...

A cold wind blows in off the sea, and the tears on his lashes begin to crystallize. He mutters something in Russian, something that sounds apologetic:)

Izvinitye.

Action;

[horrible_penny]

[Penny just barely hears him. Not that it matters, since he's speaking in Russian.]

...What?

Action;

[spiritofsorrow]

(He manages to tear his thoughts away enough to translate, leaning his head enough toward Penny that one of his eyes can catch sight of her. It is barely open, silver in the blue light.)

...Pardon me.

(He tries not to look up, but his eyes are sliding away again...)

[hidesinrestroom]

...

wordy conversation they're having here

[spiritofsorrow]

(He feels someone watching, a little. When he glances over at the Network device and notices who it is, he manages to pull himself together just a little, but only succeeds in staring at the device.)

...

ikr?

[hidesinrestroom]

It might not be real, you know. They could be tricking you.

[spiritofsorrow]

You know Ad--Ocelot. I have seen his fascination with Volgin's torture...I do not want him to be as your Colonel. Not my son. He cannot...there must be something...

[harrysbackup]

It's a lie, Shadow. You know that.

I like his new name. XD

[spiritofsorrow]

...It is so hard not to believe.

Thomas does that...I mean, he called the Archive "cutie" :D

[harrysbackup]

I know. When I look through a crack, I see the woman that means more to me than life itself, but it's a lie. They can't all be right outside that barrier. It's just not possible.

[spiritofsorrow]

The woman that means...

And if we go? What happens then?