soldieronwards | heart and soul

Entry tags:

aather,
ic

heart and soul

The ground falls out beneath you. You're in midair, you're surrounded by swirling clouds, and there's nowhere stable to put your feet. The space between your body and the turbulence around you feels poorly defined as well; where do you end and your surroundings begin? Is there a stable you in the first place?

But eventually--

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...Are you sure there's anything on?

[hops up and vaults over the next bank of seats, and then jumps up to balance briefly on the back of the next bank before he launches himself into the air, flipping to land in front of the screen]

Yeah, there's no projector running right now, all right.

What a weird movie theater.

[peers up towards the control booth]

...There's no projector running at all. Let's go see what's going on up there! Or behind the screen. Or both.

You can't even see a control booth, for that matter.

Just the screen. The shadows really are coming from behind it. There's a room there or something?

Yeah, this movie sucks.

[gets up to go investigate the screen]

[Looking for an edge of the screen to pull up]

I take it this is not how these movies usually proceed.

Not really.

[has found that loose corner and is now going through it...]

[following closely after]

[and making up the last of the explorers three]

There's a small room here, cluttered with bright cardboard red and pink hearts and two-person sofas. In the center of the room is a table with a scattering of photographs upon it, appearing to depict scenes of Bucky and his friends in Aather--or, more occasionally, before it. At a chair at that table sits Bucky himself, frowning down at the photographs.