heart game - MK, rinku

[wroughtandtempered]

I’m sorry. I tried— I tried, but I can’t keep going—

I don’t think I can do this alone, so— Please. Please—

I need help.

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[wroughtandtempered]

You remember—

A jumble. Several memories, just barely separate enough to detangle— Kantera singing something soft and steady while you claw your way out of a morass of guilty self-loathing and a memory of agony that isn’t your own. Kantera singing I’m here, despite everything, and so are you— a lifeline to pull you out of terror and mostly back to yourself, despite the thick drugged fuzziness in your mind.

Kantera singing I’m here, hurting, help me at the top of his lungs, because he needed it, and your own voice raised in harmony to warn off anyone who would try to take advantage of him for his pain. The relief in his raw voice after, and your gladness that this time you could help heal him.

[roundandaround]

Whether it's her own affinity for music or her transformation in this space compelling her, Rinku starts to sing along without thinking. In Kantera's voice, in words she doesn't know, she sings to the room, to MK, to Eve wherever she is, to the thing that must be watching them now.

While she sings, she goes to help MK
repair the drawers. It looks like it'll be a lot of work, after all. It's better if there's more people.

[wroughtandtempered]

Some of that singing was definitely wolf-song. Have fun making husky noises, Rinku.

There's something like 64 drawers; even with a good chunk of them already repaired, trying to do too many more will take a while.

[roundandaround]

You say this like she wouldn't think that was fun.

Repairing all these shelves, however, is another thing. Rinku finishes one and flips over it, rubbing her face that's rosy from the cold.

"This is really hard... Maybe you're right," she sighs as MK says they're probably not supposed to fix them all. She puts the drawer back and looks for any sign of a change.

[wroughtandtempered]

There's no visible change, but abruptly Rinku knows all the medicinal uses for licorice root. Congratulations...?

[roundandaround]

"Huh... okay!"

She'll have a use for this eventually. Probably.

"So if this is Eve-chan's heart and mind and stuff... then these drawers are a bunch of things she knows about medicine? Does that mean something made her forget all of them? Like another one of those games?"

[noodleboi]

"That might be it. And fixing these will help her remember. Huh. If we have time near the end, we can come back and try to fix a few more."