bookofnope: (weight of a bygone world)
Beckett of the Mnemosyne ([personal profile] bookofnope) wrote in [community profile] snowblindrpg2016-10-06 08:28 pm

[network] @Mnemosyne; video; the light we cannot see [open] Night 165

I can't sleep.

[The tablet is on the floor, lighting its own patch of paleness on the ceiling above. Beckett is lying next to it, prone on his back - that's what the angle of his arm, raised half-heartedly into the frame, suggests. He pulls more clearly into view for a moment, rising to a sitting position, to squint at the camera. His glasses are off, and his eyes glow a faint red in an ashen face.]

For all I know, I imagined it - the girl, the eyes. I'm certain the red pen was real, though, and the choice that came with it.

[He falls back again. Too tired to sit up. The tablet records to show nothing but light and shadow as he speaks.]

It may have been just me. Doubtful, but possible... but it was not just me who saw things. Perhaps we all did. I'd like to know what. Piece of some whole, or just another attack on what's left of our collective sanity... either way. For the sake of the record, if not any kind of answer.

[His relationship with answers isn't getting any less complicated. His voice drops low, dreamlike as he speaks on.] I saw a girl wearing a cloak. She was drawing the eyes, all around me... around me... until I was surrounded. She climbed on my back and drew her eyes on mine, and I knew there was no leaving. There has never been, not for me. Perhaps we are all...

[Too much. He stops abruptly, and rises again, grabbing for the tablet.]

It's all in my notes.

[The recording ends. In its place he sends his notes file out again.]
armoured: (gen] invisible glasses push)

[personal profile] armoured 2016-10-11 10:06 pm (UTC)(link)
[That's uncomfortable. Why had it only been him? Or was it because of the Truth's connection with eyes?]

Mm.

[He'd rather not talk about it.]

How many other people do you think saw things like this? All of us?
armoured: (gen] shrug)

[personal profile] armoured 2016-10-13 08:06 pm (UTC)(link)
No, I don't have a faith.

[That's easily solved.]

I mean-- I have faith in people and in science and in alchemy, but I don't believe in any kind of God.
armoured: (gen] confused)

[personal profile] armoured 2016-10-13 09:56 pm (UTC)(link)
[Beckett, stop asking hard questions!]

I think I know why what I saw would have come for me, but it wasn't real, so the reasons are probably false too. The eyes on me are gone now, that has to be a good thing.
armoured: (gen] alchemical)

[personal profile] armoured 2016-10-18 02:41 pm (UTC)(link)
No, I wasn't told why me and not someone else, but I thought a lot of people saw something telling them to do this.

[Wasn't it more unusual to be one of the people who didn't see it?]

I can tell you that the person I saw was significant to me, and-- and to eyes.