GRAVEYARD

[retellers]

GRAVEYARD Well, that sucked. But no matter what your death was like—whether it was something peaceful or traumatic, you'll find yourself waking in a completely white room on the floor. Small and empty, there isn't anything else there besides an open door to walk through. But before you do that, you'll probably notice that whatever injuries you may have had, including whatever may have been the death blow, are now gone. That's exciting. Stepping out of the room, it seems that you're in a large... house? with three different floors. Everything from floor, ceiling to furniture is completely white, except for the drawings that are plastered to the walls in each room. These are all colorful, drawn in colored pencils and crayon, and resemble a child's drawing. The other notable thing are the windows. While they're present all around the building, looking out of them only shows TV static. Besides that, everything is furnished with the absolute bare minimum of each room. The first floor is all typical common areas one would find in a house. There's a kitchen, living room area, laundry room, dining room, and a main hallway where the stairs are. There are also helpful drawings in these rooms that show the rooms much more lavishly decorated than they actually are. There's a door that appears to be the way to exit the building, but it leads you to somewhere that's not the front lawn. The second floor consists of nothing but twenty bedrooms. Each room has one queen sized bed, an empty dresser, and an attached bathroom with only a sink, toilet, and shower. Like the first floor, each bedroom has drawn pictures that show it looking much more lavish than it actually does. Thanks for nothing, artist! The third floor only has two rooms. One appears to be a home office with nothing but a desk and two chairs, one behind it and one in front of it. On the desk are some blank pieces of paper along with crayons, as well as a written note next to them that says PLEASE DRAW THE PREFERRED ANIMAL :). It looks like this is how you ask for a meeting with a Leader. The other room is much larger, and it's completely empty save for the many drawings lining its walls— in fact, the walls are covered in them, much more than in any other room. On closer inspection, though, it seems like these aren't actually drawings? The papers seem to be showing scenes from the living area. Everything from inside the hotel to the areas beyond the bridge are visible here. However, when curfew hits on Thursday nights, they revert to being normal drawings! Except for the fact that they're all drawings of stick figures being murdered in various ways. Well. At least there's plenty of things to draw with, if you get bored. As of Week 3, each person has the ability to send messages on their PHS unlocked.

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[siblingless]

[Spite is so valid.

At this point, Sumire is more frustrated than she is traumatized. She clamps her mouth firmly shut upon reviving to avoid a repeat of her previous double death, and immediately starts to propel herself up. Of course, it's easier said than done when one of her arms is occupied with Yona's corpse. This time, they're only a few feet away from the surface when Sumire's lungs seize up and she takes a big gulp of water. Then she's fading, fading — gone.

The whale continues to be useless.]

[dawnblushed]

[Would it kill this whale to give them a boost or something?

Anyway.

They're sinking! At least they're somewhat close to the surface when Yona comes to. Close enough that it's definitely light enough for her to know which way to go! Sweet! Up to the surface they go. Yona coughs violently, trying to clear her lungs.

—only for them to get caught in a rip current.]

[siblingless]

[The whale cannot hear your judgmental meta text. The whale is very lazy and may be a pillow whale. Damn.

Bad news: The rip current tears them apart. Both girls go hurtling in different directions.

Good news: Though they're heading in different directions, the current still pulls them towards the shore. They will wash up several yards away from each other, covered in kelp, algae, and a little bit of mouth slime. As this happens, the whale hums and (in a booming whale voice way) whispers:

YAY...]

[dawnblushed]

[Yona never wants to go swimming again.

Anyway. She panics when the current breaks them apart from each other, and she foolishly tries to swim against the current to catch up to Sumi - only to end up tossed about and then wash up on the shore. Wow. God.

She spits out a little bit of mouth slime, some saltwater, and a piece of kelp, then sits up.]

Yoshizawa...?

[...uh. Hm. That looks bad. She's gonna drag herself over there to see if Sumire is breathing.]

[siblingless]

[Sumire is laying on her back, hair fanned out around her while blood sluggishly dribbles down the side of her head from her eye injury. The water on her face is tinged with red. A lone seagull lands on her chest, stares at her, and bonks her on the forehead with its beak.

She does not move.

Hm.]

[dawnblushed]

[Yona frowns at the seagull and reaches over to wave her hands at it to shoo it away.]

Hey! Stop that!

[SHE NEEDS TO CHECK IF SHE'S BREATHING.]

[siblingless]

[The seagull tries to bonk Yona on the face, too.

This seagull is fearless. It does not care for her shooing hands.

Sumire still does not move.]

[dawnblushed]

[Yona scowls, grabs the seagull, and yeets it away.

And then leans down to put her ear near Sumire's lips to see if it sounds like she's breathing.]

[siblingless]

[The seagull CAW CAWS as it's yeeted away. It sounds a little like a FUCK YOU.

Sumire is not breathing. Terrible.]

[dawnblushed]

[Oh. Bad.

Well.

Yona read a book with a CPR kiss as a plot point when she was alive, so. First time for everything! She eases Sumire's lips open, then puts her hands over her chest and presses down once or twice. (She doesn't know how many compressions she's supposed to do. She's not CPR certified, she just read a romance novel.)

Then she leans down to put her lips over hers to help her breathe!]

[siblingless]

[Well.



Something gives way and goes crunch in the middle of those few compressions, but that's fine. Yona leans down to press her lips over Sumire's as the ocean laps at their feet. The sun shines down upon them. It is a very picturesque moment. It would perhaps not look out of place between the romance novel Yona read, if that romance novel happened to deal with redhaired girls who stumble across drowned fellows.







And then Sumire ruins this moment by coughing up water when Yona starts to breathe air into her.

Awful.]

[dawnblushed]

[Gross.

Yona jerks back, because a mouthful of gross, coughed-up seawater is not what she wanted. But at least the coughing means Sumire isn't dead! Corpses can't cough, after all.

Eugh.]

Are... are you okay?

[siblingless]

[Coughing up some bits of kelp and sand, too. Ew.]

I— [WHEEZE.] I'm okay. W-What happened?

[dawnblushed]

...I think the whale spit us up.

[siblingless]

[Making a bit of a face as she pushes herself up into a sitting position, and suddenly becomes keenly aware of the whale slime. Oh, no.]

... I remember. [Gross.] Did we— Did we drown?

[Several times??]

[dawnblushed]

[she nods]

...we still have to get that thing out of its throat. But...

[she doesn't want to drown again??]

[siblingless]

[...

closes her eyes, briefly.]

Could we ask him to keep his mouth open this time?

[dawnblushed]

Maybe, but I don't speak whale, so I'm not sure how to ask.

[siblingless]

... Are our PHS waterproof?

[did they have their phs with them while drowning... mystery.]

[dawnblushed]

...maybe?

[did someone drop their phs in water before?? yona can't remember]