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Seiji Okura
Musician

Age: 32 | Height: 5'7" | Race: Accepted | Nationality: Outlander | Citizenship: Hollowed Grounds
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He remembers something.

Like a bird, it flits from one edge of memory to another. Pale-winged, crusted with salt. It has no voice; it arrives silently, as if time has eroded the sound, reduced it to nothing more than a grainy film. It consists of a single scene — a faded slideshow. Foam white on the waves. The horizon a strange, colorless blur far beyond. And between that and here — no — that and him — dark spires bobbing skyward.

He cannot say why it comes to him now, on the weathered steps of the dead bridge. Perhaps because this wreck calls to mind a different one, the carcass of a dark and rotten thing bobbing slowly to shore. Perhaps because Caido is full of rot, and so this memory surfaces first, a lone point of clarity burning in a sea of jumbled sensory recording. Regardless, here is it: Seiji, peering down into the darkness, remembering a time when darkness delivered a gift on his doorstep.

He does not remember anything beyond that moment: his younger self standing barefoot and half-awake on the beach, leaping over the first splintered wreckage toward the massive shape beyond. He knows only something must have been inside. It burns with such dark clarity in his mind. As if it were the most important moment of his life. And yet it comes without context, without order. Did it happen months ago? Years? Did it happen at all?

He ruminates on this, and finds himself still over the abyss. Seiji does not expect it to gift him anything. Not this abyss. Not this moment. But he lingers nonetheless, somehow soothed by the darkness, the imminent promise of eternity hanging in the air. He has wandered away from home, away from the dusty corridors and the lonely sound of Auni's hooves on the floor. Something eats at him inside, something as low and dark as the air below him.

He is too withdrawn to notice anything going on around him.


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Fathoms - by Seiji - 05-22-2019, 03:01 AM
RE: Fathoms - by Amalia - 05-30-2019, 08:03 PM
RE: Fathoms - by Seiji - 05-31-2019, 10:04 PM
RE: Fathoms - by Amalia - 06-03-2019, 01:25 PM
RE: Fathoms - by Seiji - 06-18-2019, 03:42 AM
RE: Fathoms - by Amalia - 06-21-2019, 10:17 PM

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