[seasonality] catchall for sieghart

[wtfox]

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[ercnerd]

[He nods. She and he both.]

But we're definitely not staying here. Sooner or later, we'll leave this place—even if we have to force our way out.

[wtfox]

I told Crow maybe our next craft should be a battering ram as a joke, but the more I think about it, maybe I shouldn't have been joking.

[ercnerd]

Where are you going to get the materials for a battering ram?

[wtfox]

Chairs and tables. Or maybe we could take apart some of the playground equipment and repurpose it.

[ercnerd]

Sounds like a pain.

. . . I have the feeling our condition is more than just physical, but it wouldn't hurt to give your plan a try.

[wtfox]

More than just physical...? But the dorm heads have been able to visit us. Aren't we just - somewhere else on campus?

[ercnerd]

If it were that simple, we'd be able to leave with the Dorm Heads.

[wtfox]

...yeah. That's true.

Then, what - are we actually ghosts?

[ercnerd]

We could be. In my experience, the dead don't look any different from the living.

One thing's for sure, though: at the very least, our souls are ours.

[wtfox]

...of course our souls are ours. Who else would they belong to...?

[ercnerd]

Exactly. They don't belong to anyone else. That's why we're going to get out of here with our souls intact.

[wtfox]

Definitely! And if anything tries to stop that from happening, well...

[


she cracks her knuckles.]

[ercnerd]

Haha . . . You're so violent. But that's right—anything that tries to stop us will be in for a thrashing.

[wtfox]

Well, that's what this place gets for kidnapping us and throwing us into some kind of horror movie!

[a little violence is warranted!!]

[ercnerd]

I still wonder how it managed to grab so many of us from different dimensions at once.

[wtfox]

Magic of some kind, I guess, but I'd like to know how it works too.

[ercnerd]

It must be powerful magic.

[He sighs as he cranes his neck to look up at the ceiling.]

Why is every place that's conjured with magic so troublesome?

[wtfox]

...have you been to a lot of places that are conjured with magic?

[ercnerd]

[He lowers his head to watch Lila.]

Oh, sure. I've been trapped in a wizard's labyrinth before. It wasn't quite the same, but I also visited an artificial afterlife recently.

[wtfox]

What were they like...?

[ercnerd]

The labyrinth was full of monsters. As for the Realm of Death . . . it was an unsightly place with the stolen souls of the dead.

[wtfox]

That sounds ... unpleasant.

[ercnerd]

Sounds like this place, doesn't it? But the air here is much better. Because of the unharvested energy of death, even breathing was hard back there.

[wtfox]

Something like that can make it hard to breathe?

[ercnerd]

The living aren't meant to interact with such energy. It presses around and down on you like a weight.