The 86th Song

[tangledintower]

[Rapunzel is just staring at her hands, watching with a strange mixture of horror and fascination as they--she--flickers in and out of existence, like a dying lightbulb.]

I...I thought that I was just having a clumsy day, and that was why I kept dropping things, but...


[Her voice is very quiet, and she looks scared as her hands flicker again. She tries to pick something up, anything, just to prove she's okay...and watches as the pencil she goes for falls straight through her palm. Rather literally.]

...I think something's wrong with me...

Comments

[mortemscintilla]

There's nothing scarier than disappearing as if you never existed. Half the crazy things people do are so that they'll leave a mark on the world. [ Beat. ] Of course, some people just do crazy things because. Well. They're crazy.

[ Pausing, he fiddles with his Network Device. ] Sit tight. I'll call someone at the hospital for you.

[tangledintower]

[She nods, flickering again.]

It'd be nice if there was a way to leave a mark on the world without acting crazy, but...well, history remembers the people who were the loudest, I guess.

I appreciate that...I keep dropping my device...it keeps falling through my hand, rather...

1/2

[mortemscintilla]

Especially if they're the heartless bloodthirsty types.

[ Not that he's ever met those types. Or been one. Noooope. ]

Try to keep yourself distracted. Preferably with something that won't involve using your hands.

[mortemscintilla]

[ bloop bloop ]

That's... kind of a small list, now that I think about it.

[tangledintower]

Yeah...but it's okay. I'll think of something, I'm sure...