[Heart Game - Ed, Maya, Roxy]

[carptricks]

[It's dark. You're trying to move forward, but it feels like your limbs are weighed down by chains and shackles. Still, you push. You push and you pull and those chains are pulled taut and strained until suddenly--]

[Something snaps]

[You tumble forward, wind blowing past your face, until you lose awareness of anything around you. . .]

((another run ran concurrent to this one here))

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[carptricks]

. . .

H'lo, Eveningstar.

[he's so grump. so very grump]

[feytality]

Fancy seeing you here, Kaito. Lemme guess... we're gonna have a heart to heart?

[carptricks]

[WOW]

. . .

That was terrible.

[feytality]

Gee, someone doesn't appreciate a good joke...

Anyway, I'm here to get Nyssa's gross mitts off of you. You know that, right?

[carptricks]

[stiffening]

Nyssa? What gross mitts? I don't sense anything wrong this time around.

[feytality]

She kidnapped you and put you to sleep! She's probably going to infect you with creepy giggles and evil tea-sipping! C'mon, Kaito, I wouldn't make this up!

[carptricks]

Tea-sipping? Spare me the mental images!

[GROSS]

I'm not saying you're making it up, I just don't like the idea of people trampling around my soul. Y'know?

[feytality]

Just picture yourself laughing lightly..... dipping a biscuit in.... I'm here to protect you from that, obviously!

I'm not gonna mess anything up! You trust me, don't you? [sitcom laugh track]

[carptricks]

[he shudders]

'Course I do! I mean, I know you wouldn't do anything to try'n hurt me.

It's just. . . [he trails off, gaze flickering away, and sighs as he rubs the back of his neck]

[feytality]

...What?

[carptricks]

[I have issues with keeping secreeeeets]

. . . nothing.

[turns back to her and pulls up a sheepish smile]

I think there's something you can do to help me out while you're here. Are you up for it?

[feytality]

[stares into your soul]

Sure! What is it?

[carptricks]

[Kaito lifts a hand a hand and snaps his fingers, the noise echoing across the empty theater. A creaking noise responds from above, and should you look up, you’ll find something descending from the ceiling]

[It seems to be. . . a pair of clocktower hands, secured by rope, and they’re being lowered to the stage by some unseen force. thankfully, the hands don’t seem to be any bigger than two. . . two-and-a-half feet long. Kaito’s impressively grouchy expression softens]

I'm still building in some areas of the heart, y'know? People are always changing, after all.

Can you return these to the clocktower outside for me?

[feytality]

[Those are really big hands.]

Sure!

...Where's that, though?

1/2

[carptricks]

[SURE ARE. but hey, they belong on a clocktower]

Just outside. You'll see it as soon as you--

[soulping]

[Before you can lift the clock hands from the ropes, the lights in the theater are suddenly extinguished. there’s a yell, the sound of something crashing against the ground, triumphant laughter, and then--]

[the lights flicker back on. at the back of the theater, a dark figure with ABSOLUTELY NO discernible features stands right next to a brightly lit open door that definitely wasn’t there before. and. . . oh dear]

[the figure has the clocktower hands]

[that's about all you have time to process before it escapes through the doorway and Kaito yells]

H-- hey! Get back here!

[feytality]

---What the heck?!

HEY!

[CHASES]

[carptricks]

[calling after her]

Find the thief and get those back for me! I need them!

[you give chase]