⓪⑤ ; video ; What Is Yet To Come (and already here)

[docfoul]

[The doppelganger is gone, but the community has one last virus for Scratch:]

[Video A:]

[And that is exactly what you see. No more, no less.]

[Video B:]
[Tick... tock... The clock ticks on in a strangely - disturbingly, even - lifeless apartment. Tick... tock... No other sound can be heard.

Tick... Tock...



Scratch lies limply on the floor. Just a puppet.

Tick...

Tock.

The video cuts out so suddenly that you might very well miss the green glow forming around the doll's body.]

((I-I CAN STOP BOTHERING YOU ALL FOR A WHILE NOW. One important note: Scratch can only see video B. You are obviously free to comment on both, but he won't know what the fuck. And that is pretty funny to me.))

Comments

[emberandash.livejournal.com]

... Do you survive?

[docfoul]

No.

[emberandash.livejournal.com]

[... this pleases her]

Then I suppose I don't really have anything more to say.

[docfoul]

No pointless scepticism this time?

[emberandash.livejournal.com]

I'll see soon enough whether or not you're lying.

[docfoul]

You know by now that my world's time does not correspond to the community's. From my perspective, my death is mere hours away. From yours, it could be months.

[emberandash.livejournal.com]

[... she hadn't thought about that]

Or maybe it'll end up coming sooner than you think.

[docfoul]

I find that doubtful.

[emberandash.livejournal.com]

We'll see.

[docfoul]

The phrase is much more striking when you are actually all-knowing, or at least nearly so.

[emberandash.livejournal.com]

"Nearly" still isn't "completely".

[docfoul]

Either way, there is nothing that could lead you to believe my death could come sooner than expected, other than your own arrogance.

[emberandash.livejournal.com]

You can believe that if it makes it easier for you to cope. Meanwhile, people on that world will be figuring things out.

[docfoul]

They are free to try. However, my death is simply one more event that is accounted for in paradox space.

[emberandash.livejournal.com]

I don't believe that.

[docfoul]

I see your selective scepticism is back.

[emberandash.livejournal.com]

I just believe in them more than I believe in you.

[docfoul]

Because what they say pleases you more.

[emberandash.livejournal.com]

Because they're strong.

[docfoul]

And I'm a scoundrel?

[emberandash.livejournal.com]

You're someone who I think they can defeat.

[docfoul]

And that somehow makes them right, no matter what.

[emberandash.livejournal.com]

I didn't say that.

[docfoul]

I know.

[emberandash.livejournal.com]

Then don't put words in my mouth.