[RAVEN'S HEART GAME - SESSION TWO]

[selfpreservationist]

The first thing you hear is the sound of rain faintly hitting the exterior of the house. The soft pitter-patter is almost soothing, in a way, but it’s quickly followed up by rumbling thunder in the distance. You open your eyes, and for a second all you see is a flash of light--at first it seems like it’s lightning, but then you see something. A vision of a man dressed in rags, hunched over, waves of demonic power rolling over him. He howls, and something terrible starts to grow out of him: the bloody roots of a massive tree. An immense wave of panic hits you, and you can’t move, you can’t speak, you can’t breathe--

And then it’s over. It’s over. You’re fine.

The sound of rain returns. (This time it’s definitely soothing, compared to what you just saw.) You’re standing in the foyer of a mansion, a wide open living room in front of you. The door behind you is faintly ajar, leading outside.

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[avestan]

[heading over to boy]

Yo.

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[idolpro]

He looks up from his book--two books, actually.

"Hello," he says.

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[avestan]

[gee vergil how come this heart lets you have TWO books-]

Whatcha reading there?

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[idolpro]

He holds up the books--William Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience, which has a large V drawn on the front of it, like someone drew their initial on it so that their stupid little brother wouldn't steal it. The other one is Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days.

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[avestan]

Yeah, both very much on brand.

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[idolpro]

"This one isn't mine, actually," he says, and holds up Around the World in Eighty Days. "Some lady came here and gave it to me."

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[avestan]

I see. It's still very you, though.

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[idolpro]

"... yeah. It's pretty good."

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[avestan]

Adventures, huh... maybe I should've picked something like that as well.

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[idolpro]

"There's lots of books like that in the library, probably."

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[avestan]

Haha, probably. But I think I'll stick with my own choice anyway.