Day Nine Anthem

The first click is so hushed that no one hears it except for the creature huddled beside it that echoes, louder, to the others. The sound is something like a secret, passing from one strangely hollow mouth to another. It rattles. From the shadows between patched water pipes, to the threshold of each airlock, to the withering branches in the garden, to the mountains of rubble encircled by forgotten homes, to the frozen cables of someplace more forgotten still, to tiny glass closets named for the dead where empty helmets hand and empty suits wait for children who will not come, to —

Nell Cyprus, District 8
Jacob Fel, District 11

Two gone.
Two remain.
One more must die.

The kodama — with their dark mouths and eyes; with their tiny bodies like ghosts — come out from their hiding places in the air vents and cupboards to fill the halls. Some follow the two girls who remain with curiosity, keeping them company and watching their faces as airlocks whirl shut behind them… as if they didn’t already know there’s no turning back. A bone-biting mist coils around their ankles, pulling them back to where everything began. Step by step, rattles turn to whispers as a television turns itself on, crackling with static. Darkness, it says.

Yes, you know, darkness there shall be.


Congratulations on surviving Day 8!

Mandated Fights

AETERNUM: The Cornucopia
Kass^b vs Red^b
(Posting Order: Red [49], Kass [24])
*A Gamemaker will start this thread

Additional notations:
b = tribute opted for double healing, and will not flee today’s fight