[There's are a few moments of tense silence before she slowly sinks to sit on the bed again. She doesn't look at him.]
...If I don't tell you, it'll just eat at me more. [One hand rests on Flora, petting her as she tried to figure out what to say, hear heart pounding in her chest.]
In the woods near my village, there's a legend about another village that disappeared on the day of a ritual. They say that anyone who wanders into the woods becomes spirited away.
[Mio can still see it clearly, the stone markers that announced the border of the village, the dilapidated buildings and shrines-]
...Mayu and I went to see the forest one more time, because they were building a dam and the whole place would be under water soon. We used to play there all the time, so we thought it'd be okay... Even though we weren't supposed to be there.
[There's a sort of hollowness to her voice, as if she's recounting a story she heard from somewhere else, like it just didn't happen to her. She's yet to look up from the patterns on Flora's fur[
I always promised Mayu I'd never leave her, and that we'd be together forever. [A relationship and closeness that hovered just on the edge of being very inappropriate . Though Mayu had always been manipulative and possessive of Mio--facts Mio had repressed and pretend didn't exist.] But she got away from me and wandered in the forest. I followed her and before I knew it...everything was dark.
It was noon, but then when I passed the stone markers, it was suddenly like it was midnight. I thought I saw lights in the distance, like a bonfire, but when I got to them there was no one but my sister there, and an abandoned village.
...But we couldn't leave. The path we'd used to get into the village...it was gone. And I couldn't get close to the edge. It was like something was keeping us from getting out.
But we weren't alone. [The hollowness in her voice gets worse] During that ritual...a girl's spirit went mad and slaughtered everyone in the village. Men, women, children... Those spirits, and the spirits of everyone who'd wandered into the village and were killed; they were everywhere.
[A shvier goes down her spine and her grip on Flora tightens somewhat] ...Her laughter still echoed in the village. I can hear it even now.
[She pauses a moment] ...Do you believe me so far? [Spirits and rituals and ghost-plagued villages all sounded crazy, after all]
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...If I don't tell you, it'll just eat at me more. [One hand rests on Flora, petting her as she tried to figure out what to say, hear heart pounding in her chest.]
In the woods near my village, there's a legend about another village that disappeared on the day of a ritual. They say that anyone who wanders into the woods becomes spirited away.
[Mio can still see it clearly, the stone markers that announced the border of the village, the dilapidated buildings and shrines-]
...Mayu and I went to see the forest one more time, because they were building a dam and the whole place would be under water soon. We used to play there all the time, so we thought it'd be okay... Even though we weren't supposed to be there.
[There's a sort of hollowness to her voice, as if she's recounting a story she heard from somewhere else, like it just didn't happen to her. She's yet to look up from the patterns on Flora's fur[
I always promised Mayu I'd never leave her, and that we'd be together forever. [A relationship and closeness that hovered just on the edge of being very inappropriate . Though Mayu had always been manipulative and possessive of Mio--facts Mio had repressed and pretend didn't exist.] But she got away from me and wandered in the forest. I followed her and before I knew it...everything was dark.
It was noon, but then when I passed the stone markers, it was suddenly like it was midnight. I thought I saw lights in the distance, like a bonfire, but when I got to them there was no one but my sister there, and an abandoned village.
...But we couldn't leave. The path we'd used to get into the village...it was gone. And I couldn't get close to the edge. It was like something was keeping us from getting out.
But we weren't alone. [The hollowness in her voice gets worse] During that ritual...a girl's spirit went mad and slaughtered everyone in the village. Men, women, children... Those spirits, and the spirits of everyone who'd wandered into the village and were killed; they were everywhere.
[A shvier goes down her spine and her grip on Flora tightens somewhat] ...Her laughter still echoed in the village. I can hear it even now.
[She pauses a moment] ...Do you believe me so far? [Spirits and rituals and ghost-plagued villages all sounded crazy, after all]