Day 2: The Backrooms (Lain v Ekta v Kasia)
May 13, 2024 1:28:09 GMT -5
Post by d10f ekta ram // [earthling] on May 13, 2024 1:28:09 GMT -5
EKTA RAM
Of all the terrifying and terrible things that had happened in the last few days, Ekta knew none was worse than watching someone die at the end of her knife. Over and over and over again she saw Fraser’s pained expression, heard the last of his breaths, felt the zip and boom of his life force leaving.
The second he died she stopped shaking.
A numbness enveloped her. It made every organ grow cold, which was not a difficult task considering she was drenched in sewer sludge. Her heart slowed. Her thoughts, if she had any, drifted. Somewhere far, far away, in another lifetime, she screamed and raged and vomited and repented. But in the sewers, she yanked her rusted knife back and took Fraser’s for good measure.
When she walked past the surviving two tributes, she did not meet their gazes nor acknowledge them in any way. She moved as a ghost, a bleeding, traumatized ghost.
Left, left, right, left – deeper into the maze she haunted. The sewers and muck dried out and left her itchy and caked in muck. The backrooms seemed to go on and on. Someone yelled, "GET OUT!" and only then did a little light come back into her thoughts, enough to SCREAM: THIRSTY!
Ekta downed the sparkling water, nearly coughing the bubbles back up. She tucked the empty bottle away and then she slept, maybe. In dreams it was no different than waking: she still saw Fraser, dying.
She blinked awake.
And found her ghost self confronted with yet more tributes.
This time, when she leveled Fraser’s knife at the Lain, her voice did not tremble. “Let me pass.” She felt sure he would as she struck.
But the other, the one who had been eyeing her: she was not so certain. "“From one princess to another, I’m sorry..." And she went on, and on, and on. Ekta had neither the patience nor the mental fortitude to follow. Instead she slashed lightly with Fraser's blade. "I'm not a princess. I'm just Ekta."
[Ekta attacks Lain; rusted knife]
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[Ekta attacks Kasia; Fraser's knife]
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[Ekta attacks Kasia; Fraser's knife]
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