This world is inhabited by creatures that we call pokemon. People and pokemon live together by supporting each other, but now the scourge threatens the safety of the entire region. Kohaku has become a dangerous place, where children stay at home and only brave souls go adventuring.
Welcome to KOHAKU. Come for the nightmares. Stay for the tea and crumpets.
The season is SUMMER. It is easy for survivors to forage for food from the land, as there are entire abandoned farms ready for harvest. On the downside, you can smell the corpses.
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Thalia wasn't sure why she'd come to the space station instead of the city in her dream. She couldn't particularly say she cared. The steel and chrome of the abandoned ship gleamed faintly, though there was no light to illuminate them.
She drifted across the bridge to press herself against a wall that was entirely glass and looked out at the dead light of the stars.
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alex shuffled around the space station. he was extremely uncomfortable, and wished that he was in the land of nightmares, where it was safe. where it was comfortable for someone like him.
along the hall, he saw a strange girl with pink hair. he would think it bizarre if his own head of hair wasn't vibrantly blue. "beautiful, isn't it?" he commented, gazing at the stars. it wasn't a hobby of his, but he could admit that they were beautiful. alex leaned against the wall beside her, a soft smile on his face. it was peaceful here, he had to admit.
"The farthest ones might be all dead," Thalia said softly. "I didn't go to school for very long, but someone told me that once. In the time it takes for us to see the light of a star, thousands of years have passed. Some of them have died. Some of them simply changed.
But perhaps that only makes them more beautiful."
She looked over at him. "I always wanted to go back to school, or I thought I did. Now I don't know. Maybe I won't ever get the chance. If we all die it doesn't matter, I suppose. And anyone looking at our star won't know what happened for a very long time."
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alex loved the dream world. everyone was free to think how they will. they take risks they normally wouldn't, unrestricted by death and injury. they spoke truer words than they would in real life. in the dream world, everything is real in the realm of fake.
"an education has always been considered important." he looked back to her briefly, before focusing on the stars again. "even the nearest ones may be dead. the things see in the sky now are from hundreds, perhaps thousands of years ago. light travels faster than anything we know, but we are oh so small. insignificant."
he didn't always want to think about it, but the virus was small. the hades virus spanned only earth, only the dreams of those on earth. there could be an infinite number of dream worlds, but the hades virus only existed here. it was created here. it was restricted.
"perhaps they may never know what happened to us. perhaps no one on earth will know what happens to you or i. our corpses may be lost in time."
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"I have. I always wondered if it was some sort of trial run for real death. The blackness, the feeling of falling--and then nothing. And then waking up safe and sound where I had drifted off to sleep."
She smiled crookedly.
"With the way the waking world is, I might find out whether my theory is true or not sooner than I'd like."
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"We cannot choose the times we are born into," she said, as if quoting something. "Only what we do with them."
And then she burst into a quiet fit of laughter, covering her mouth with one hand.
"That sounds so incredibly important. But I suppose anyone with EOS knows what they're getting into. And even civilians live in fear. We're all just waiting for it to finally happen, tired of the drudgery we eek out before the scourge swallow us once and for all.
Or so it would seem. I don't know what anyone else wants, or how anyone else dies. I just know how I will. Isn't that enough?"
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she was eos. for some reason, it didn't click in alex's mind at that moment to think it mattered. "no, we can't choose. there are few things we truly choose. some are chosen for us." he wanted to scream, fist balling up. he loved the virus, but there was always part of him who wished none of this had happened. he wondered if ismael would have ever loved him in another world.
one thing made him curious. "you know how will you will die?"
a pause. "are you dying right now? it's a long way from the usual dream world."
"I've always known what I am," she said. "I've always known exactly how I'll die. What surprised me was learning that other people didn't have that same conviction. I don't know what it would be like to live life without it. It must be a frightening world."
She smiled and raised the edge of her skirt, barely past mid-thigh so he could see the Lucario claw scar on her right thigh that had healed wrong and jagged. Just like her.
"I'm EOS," she said. "I'm dying slowly day by day. But I'm not dead yet."
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"I've met more of them than I wish I had. But the only thing they ever seemed ruled by was their own narcissism and inflated sense of self-importance."
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Thalia wasn't sure why she'd come to the space station instead of the city in her dream. She couldn't particularly say she cared. The steel and chrome of the abandoned ship gleamed faintly, though there was no light to illuminate them.
alex shuffled around the space station. he was extremely uncomfortable, and wished that he was in the land of nightmares, where it was safe. where it was comfortable for someone like him.
