R1 DEADLAND

[lockdownmods]

[it’s strange, for the people who were already dead, the shift in scenery is sudden and complete. For those who have just arrived? It’s like you’re back where you left?

How strange.

But if you ever need her, you can always reach out to the guardian of this place.]

LOCATIONS
Note: locations lag a week behind the living counterparts

Comments

[throwabookatit]

[ And so she holds him tighter, so he can't ignore it, gently shushing him and rubbing small circles into his back. His words strike something in her too, especially as she remembers now, her last conversation with Ashton. His increasing worry and desperation as she simply thanked him, accepting her fate.

I promise I won't leave you. Maybe it was a childish promise, but it was one she held so close to her heart. One more important than her crush, one that in the end she still broke. One that...she could see the effects of, in the end.

So it's with intensity and understanding that she murmurs back to him: ] I know.

I know, just...let it all out right now. It's not your fault, Waver.

[devotingly]

[ it's not your fault

those are the words that finish breaking the multiple walls that waver had set up for his own protection. perhaps he'll resent rebecca for it later, since the last thing he wants to be is weak. but it doesn't matter right now. he continues to sob his frustrations, every once in a while mixing in an apology that's not directed so much at rebecca but at the two people that impacted his life so much.

it goes on for a couple minutes, until the sobs calm down until they're just shaky breaths. hesitantly, waver pulls away from rebecca, wiping his eyes with the back of his sleeve. ]

I'm...sorry about that. I shouldn't have...

[throwabookatit]

[ She keeps a hand on his shoulder, another at his head. The look on her face... It's so far from pitying. It's understanding, gentle. ]

Have what? Done what every one of us has, at some point? [ She shakes her head. ] You're fine. If I got to wail and blubber when I woke up here, you're certainly allowed to let yourself cry.

[devotingly]

[ waver doesn't pull away from rebecca, but he can't find the will to look at her in the eye. he sighs. ]

I don't...know what to do now. Will we be able to get out of this?

[throwabookatit]

I... I don't know, Waver. But I do know nothing's impossible, at this point. There...is a way to bring people back from the dead, with little consequence.

[ She smiles, just a little bitterly, though he can't see. ]

I was proof enough of that. Quite a few of us were. So... I want to believe...someone on our side can pull through, for us.

[ None of that android bullshit. ]