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Pavo Heart Game: Wednesday Session

When you enter the light, you find yourself hovering weightless in a void, as if caught in a moment of falling inertia. In the distance, you hear a voice that seems to shift and twist, familiar and yet unfamiliar.

"You shouldn't be here. But since you already are, let's make a wager. If you can uncover the truth, you'll find me. If you can't, you may be hopelessly lost... What a shame that would be."

You begin falling, and your vision blacks out--

[OOC NOTE: your goals are "reveal the truth" to "find the true heart". All images in toplevels are for general inspo, please make sure you read the flavourtext cause things are not exactly as they are in the images.]

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[That gives her pause.]

[But not for the reasons one might think.

...if I had a way to stop being afraid of being rejected all the time that didn't involve losing all my memories, I'd take it myself, honestly.

You would? I don't know if "I" would. Because... Things are the way they are. You can try to hide from it, but it won't go away.

No, it won't, but that sort of fear has a way of paralyzing you. Keep you from...maybe accepting things are there.

That's the problem when it comes to other people. If you hold them at arm's length, how are they ever gonna get closer? How are you ever going to find someone who makes you feel you belong?

Its like being afraid of fire. If you approach foolishly, its going to hurt you. But if you never let it near you, you won't get warm, won't be able to cook, just be lost in the dark...

It's not... Mm.

[Things are too close to approaching the real meaning of things and Pavo really dislikes that sort of thing, so this tiny version of him is just going quiet.]

If you don't run soon, they'll kill you.

They can certainly try. My job back home is to make sure my pack is taken care of. Healing, fighting, sneaking, scare a dragon into submission.

And you're hurting. As long as you need help, nothing is going to scare me off.

[He doesn't look like he trusts this idea. For various reasons, it's not wise, but... He doesn't have it in him to keep arguing it when he can hear the chaos outside the bubble.]

...Okay.

[Listen, sometimes you develop coping mechanisms that aren't wise because you're a fucked up cookie, but they work so far.]

[So far.]

You'd like to be warmer, don't you?

[...he hesitantly nods]

[She smiles and pats his head.]

Then I'll help.

And...you don't have to wear a mask with me. You're my pack.

And you saved me. There's not a lot I'd reject after that.

So whatever you're really like, we can be weird things together.

[She puts her other hand on the ground. Can she feel any earth farther down under the ice?]

[....does earth have a claim on magma....]

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[She can feel nothing but ice. Endless forever ice!

Tiny Pavo seems mildly reassured, but still quite uncomfortable.]

[She is doing her best. Mildly reassured is winning as far as she's concerned.]

[Okay, endless ice. First idea it is. She released a bunch of dirt, that's gonna make some kind of path in the maze.]

[So time to shift to her hands and knees, an arm still around tiny Pavo, and is going to crawl with Quite A Lot Of Practice, opening up a path through the dirt to move through.]

[You take the baby and crawl! Everything outside is clamoring to destroy you and reclaim that child, but you can get back safely if you keep it up. You'll just be quite tired afterwards.]

[I can short rest after, it's fine! This is just how adventuring works, you push and push and then you recover after you're away from the monsters.]

[And this keeps the child safe.]

[You make it back to the exit, and back to start.]

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