logsinthenight | EVENT LOG: TURN THE LIGHTS OFF

characters: everyone.
location: around town.
date/time: january 20-29.
content: the lanterns begin to malfunction.
warnings: body horror and psychological horror. please cw tags appropriately.

you'll become one

January 20th arrives the same as all the days before it. There's no great pulse of warning that throbs through the air, no ominous wind that causes the bonfire to shudder. The spirits are neither agitated nor do they hide. You could almost miss the change, if the lanterns weren't always by your side. There's no explanation that comes with the way that it's changed, but it's impossible not to worry when it's happened so suddenly.

Maybe it takes a few days, or maybe it only takes a few hours, but suddenly it isn't just the lanterns that have changed. You, yourself, have become somehow different. It's possible that you won't even have the right state of mind to wonder how long it will last. At the very least, it appears you aren't alone. All across Beacon, lanterns are changing, and changing the people with them.

Out in the distance, the lighthouse's beam has turned green.

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The sideways look the Soldier gives him is somewhere between weary and unimpressed. "I will not turn into a raisin. I heal quickly. As long as I eat and drink regularly, I will be fine." They're enhanced, Sora, not just in cyborg ways. "Can't waste bandages that will just get shredded. And soaked. Can't remove the spines. Not really any options but wait."

And stay very still, but they're no longer really capable of that. (Well. Probably could be. But it would be terrible. Yeah, let's not try and train up your old "stare at one thing for hours" skill. So fucking boring. Useful when you aren't allowed to do anything else. Sure, but now you're allowed. Encouraged, even!)

Logic is very nice and good, but Sora's got too much worry in his heart and nothing in his brain and his heart is telling him to GO FIX YOUR FRIEND IMMEDIATELY. It's not as bad as before, but he is still having difficulty surmounting the idea that there really isn't much else to do.

He scrunches his entire face. "So... you're just gonna sit there? For however long this lasts?" A narrow of the eyes. "Do you... get bored?"

"I'm not going to stay here and wait," the Soldier says with a little eyeroll. "At least not very long. You're just still here." And that's reason enough to sit still for a bit, anyway. They sincerely doubt the kid will stay here for too much longer, he has too much energy, but for now it's as good a reason to stay put and not bleed as any.

They look ahead again. "And yes, I get bored." A pause. "I didn't used to. I guess I've learned a new skill." The last is said bone dry.

Sorry, that is the funniest thing Sora's heard all day, and he fully remembers the events of this entire thread. He's going to double over laughing, kicking the air.

"We - oh no, the plate." Sora's going to grab his plate and hustle over to the sink to rinse it off. "We should go then. No point sticking around here. If you learned how to be bored, we need to teach you how to fill time, pronto." General store. Sora is going to pick up a few things. The soldier is going to learn how to play Uno.

The Soldier actually grins. It's not often they get a reaction that good out of people with their jokes. That's encouraging. Bolstering, even if it's just Sora who would probably laugh even at bad jokes because he's just that cheery (when he's not droopy; it's like the kid has no middle ground, it's all extremes).

They climb up and take their own plate to rinse, as well. That makes a few tears from the spines, but they're learning how to keep it to a minimum by moving just the right amount and in only the right ways, the longer this goes on. And they can handle pain.

More important is something to fill time. They have wanted to learn ways to fill time for months. This is exciting. "Okay. Show me what you got, kid."

EVENT LOG: TURN THE LIGHTS OFF

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