terminus

[cancrymods]

the final layer

Down, down into the darkness you go. It's not the first time you've made such a blind descent... though some instinct beyond any kind of conscious thought tells you that it will be the last. There's no movement down here. No motion. The air is so still that as you descent, it feels like stepping into a wall of ice as you leave behind the heat of the Wrath Layer and continue into the bitter cold of... Oh. This is the end, isn't it? The machine that sits at the bottom of Purgatory is incomprehensible. The sheer scale of its size make it impossible to imagine that it could ever have been built by anyone – and yet, the sheer complexity of its design simultaneously has you reeling from the idea that it could have come into being without some intent. Wherever you look, frozen gears interlock in a labyrinthine network that soars high into the space above your heads and down into the inky depths below. All at once you remember what you had been told so long ago. Not even a god could withstand this. It's still here. So still that it feels obscene to move or to make any noise. The air is at once thin and heavy - like stealing a breath from the hanging jaw of a skull. You've reached the Cogs of Renewal. Investigate . . . ?

Comments

[mementomoritz]

[The mechanisms of death stopping in refusal to take a life... what a strangely beautiful possibility.]

[She's only met Birdie briefly, but that sort of power is a little hard to forget.]

I think we have further to go. Someone might be waiting for us, but it's hard to say for sure.

[emberserker]

[Wolfsbane is taken aback, turning pink for some reason. She shakes it out of her head and looks down through the path.]

Very well. Let's get to it.

[And she hurls herself down in the direction Medic indicates.]

[cancrymods]

[ AND... THERE GOES WOLFSBANE...

This is definitely a silly question to ask but is everybody following? ]

[mementomoritz]

[You would need to use severe physical force to stop her.]

[daughterofthemark]

[Veil has outsourced her impulse control to Rei for the forseeable future and will go if and only if she goes.

So yes, probably.]