[ JACKSON HEART ]

[socialcapital]

[ THIS HEART WILL HAVE CWS FOR:

- CANON-TYPICAL VIOLENCE
- SLIGHTLY ABOVE AVERAGE FOR CANON-TYPICAL VIOLENCE
- CHILD ABUSE
- SLAVERY
- DRUG AND ALCOHOL ABUSE ]

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Re: [ PAVEMENT ]

[demonicdomestic]

I...

[The dim light helps hide how his cheeks flush warm in the wake of that small gesture.]

I'm glad. That it was.

Re: [ PAVEMENT ]

[socialcapital]

He smiles, practically sparkling. There is a little something of little Tali's joy and enthusiasm in him still - it doesn't feel like the smile is fake.

"And let me know next time you're gonna drop in! I can put slower songs in the setlist."

Re: [ PAVEMENT ]

[demonicdomestic]

[Radiant songbird.

The danger here isn't less at all. If anything, it's worse. But this isn't the time or the place (or the person), and the most he does is take Totality's hand in his, squeezing gently.]

If I'm able to give you that forewarning, I will.

[He lifts his other hand, and the drywall panels shift silently over, leaving an open gap.]

May the rest of this night be all you want it to be.

Re: [ PAVEMENT ]

[socialcapital]

"I'm sure it will be. Bye~"

He waves and scoots back into the room past the drywall.

Re: [ PAVEMENT ]

[demonicdomestic]

[And if "this night" is the night he's set more permanently free... maybe that will be for the best, too.]

Fare well, Totality. Until our paths cross again.

[He waits until Totality is clear, then shifts the panels back into place, hiding that illicit exit from view.]

Re: [ PAVEMENT ]

[socialcapital]

Satin is now alone in a storage room with autographed song lyrics.

Re: [ PAVEMENT ]

[demonicdomestic]

[He sure is. a storage room connected to a half-formed idea of a performance venue connected to adolescent memories.

Surely this will be fine.]

There has to be a way back to the garden here somewhere. Worst to worst, being kicked out will almost certainly put me in the right direction.

[And, in true Sun Sign fashion, he just takes the direction that didn't lead to the pigeons and starts walking.]

Re: [ PAVEMENT ]

[socialcapital]

The experience is a little bit surreal - there remains a path the whole time, but it's many different memories of many different places that he walks through. None are as strongly anchored as the places he's visited so far, though, so they blend and fade into one another.

Still, in the Estoria memories especially he never ends up anywhere especially dangerous (it's a lot of sidewalks, mostly) and eventually it meanders its way back to the garden, in an all-roads-lead-to-Rome type situation.

Re: [ PAVEMENT ]

[demonicdomestic]

[He gives a sigh of relief as the pavement turns into a more familiar pavement, and the twilight shifts back to the perpetual eclipse.]

Better to have such an adventure here than on the streets of Creation. I can only imagine what would be on the edges of those memories.

[And, making his way back to the gate... he adds the pine cone and the notebook page to the third hollow, fitting the page into the scales of the pine cone so it stands up like a photo on display.]

Re: [ PAVEMENT ]

[socialcapital]

They both start glowing a gentle silver-gold.

Re: [ PAVEMENT ]

[demonicdomestic]

[He rests a hand on the door.]

The more of these paths I travel, the more I miss the "you" who waits at the end of them.

One more. And after... I hope I'll see you then.

Re: [ PAVEMENT ]

[socialcapital]

Nobody answers on the other side, at least not out loud - all the gold glowing has made the material warm, like it's been sitting in the sun, though.

Re: [ PAVEMENT ]

[demonicdomestic]

Be back soon.

[And he heads to the concrete path.]