hotel: emet

[shaft]

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week 1, monday, prism / crystalline apartment

[shaft]

[ Is Emet feeling nostalgic? Claude is just snooping around, looking curious. ]

This isn't a bad place to stay.

[ktiseos]

...one of the more acceptable apartments here, I always thought.

[he's poking around here too, lingering in one of the bedrooms! the emet-sized bed probably makes it obvious why; it also looks like two people have been sleeping in it.]

[shaft]

[ hm

interesting

looks from the bed to emet ]

So this was your temporary home?

[ktiseos]

So it was. All assigned to our color lived here; it is the same for each separate floor.

[shaft]

[ he hums ]

Did they have any meaning? The colours.

[ktiseos]

They were, supposedly, the primary color reflected by one's soul, defined by particular positive and negative traits. For example, Heliotrope would be the color of both creativity and lies, and Sunrise of both optimism and denial.

[shaft]

Interesting... We were grouped in the place I was in too, and we could switch between dorms freely.

Was it the same here?

[ktiseos]

It was not. I was always assigned to Crystalline-- there was no opportunity to change this.

[shaft]

[ he hums ]

So, are you feeling nostalgic?

[ktiseos]

...somewhat, I suppose. Before coming here, I had only been away from it for a day or two.

[shaft]

Not much of a break for you then.

[ glances at bed, glances at emet

clears throat. ]

[ktiseos]

Not exactly, no.

[...but when he clears his throat, emet just. glances right back.]

-what?

[shaft]

If you'd like to lay down, don't feel shy on my behalf.

[ktiseos]

...I am fine, thank you.

[he doesn't need a nap, it's okay.]

[shaft]

[ look if you want to lay down longingly in bed he will not judge you

But he just nods. ]

How did you all manage to escape this place?

[ktiseos]

By repairing it, essentially. Giving it more color and balancing it, to offset the negative effects of something called refraction.

[shaft]

[ huh! he looks interested ]

So it's still in tact? Could you return? This imitation aside.

[ktiseos]

We are able to, yes. 'Tis possible to visit each other in this way.

[he hasn't had time to, yet, but. he will.]

[shaft]

... You don't hate the sight of it?

[ktiseos]

I do not. I disliked being trapped here, but... I did not find it to be wholly terrible, and there are areas of it which hold fonder memories.

...there are others I care less for, but on the whole, I am not put off from visiting it.

[shaft]

[ YEAH LIKE THIS BED

but they just met so he doesn't say anything ]

I'm much the same. I had fond memories of the school as well, though we destroyed our world when we left.

[ktiseos]

... purposely, or simply as a consequence of leaving it?

[shaft]

On purpose. It had a life of its own and we needed to make sure that it didn't suck anyone else back for round two.

[ktiseos]

...I see. I suppose anyone ought to have done the same, in that case, although I suppose other places insisting upon round two was not quite avoidable.

[shaft]

... Yeah. I mean, we assumed it was a one off.

I never would've imagined there were so many similar scenarios happening.