[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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THE CLOCKTOWER

[soulping]

[You're standing on top of of the large clocktower in the center of the city. Its the very same one you saw when you first entered the heart. It's night out now, and the sky above is clear, which affords you a beautiful view of the stars twinkling in the sky. The moon hangs on the horizon, bright and full, casting a dim light on every building below. You can see everything from here, every building in the city along with a snowy-looking island waaaay out in the ocean]

[You can feel the vibrations of the clock ticking underneath your feet-- tick tock tick tock tick tock-- but the rhythm makes it feel more like the pulsating of a heart than anything else. Thump-thump. Thump-thump. Thump-thump. Thump-thump.]

[Kaito stands on the edge of the rooftop, his toes hanging over the side. He's now wearing a cozy looking Tiamat scarf as he stares off into the distance, a small smile playing upon his features]

[. . . from here, everything in the city, every problem, every issue, every frustration, seems oh-so small.]

Re: THE CLOCKTOWER

[fuhrinkaed]

[He flips one clocktower hand in his hand, catching it after a half-flip and then a second.]

Delivery. I just put these on the front, right?

[carptricks]

[it's the very same Kaito who helped you back on the island and spoke to you in the morgue, btw]

[he spins on his heel to face Ed, holding one hand out]

Give 'em to me. I'll put 'em where they belong.

[fuhrinkaed]

How do I know you're not going to turn into a giant crow and laugh at our foolishness the second I do..?

[He's staring 'in suspicion,' before holding them out with a chuckle.]

I kid, of course.

[carptricks]

Do I need to show you the scar, too?

[but he takes the clocktower hands, snaps his fingers, and causes them to disappear in a puff of sparkles and smoke. they reappear on the face of the clock, just like magic]

[fuhrinkaed]

...okay, that one was actual magic, or I'm a monkey.

[carptricks]

[Kaito just pulls up a shit-eating grin and shrugs, clearly very pleased with himself]

[fuhrinkaed]

Told you magic was awesome.

...So. I hope I didn't ruin anything.

[carptricks]

I never said it wasn't.

[he lets out a breath, but shakes his head]

No, you didn't. You balanced out what bad you did by getting stabbed pretty well.

[fuhrinkaed]

Keheh...

Well, I guess so long as I balanced it out it's fine.

[carptricks]

It'll be fine.

[bumps shoulders with him again]

You're still an idiot, though.

[fuhrinkaed]

...Well... y'know how it is.

I don't move things in a heart without being given permission to. I never would.

[carptricks]

That part's appreciated, believe me.

Still think you should've taken a sword with you onto the island. Or, y'know. A coat and a hat.

Re: THE CLOCKTOWER

[thevoidsdarkhorse]

[=O]

[City sight so pretty!]

...someone find the hands then?

[carptricks]

[turns towards her, smile never fading]

Abooooout that. . .

[thevoidsdarkhorse]

...you were totally fuckin' with me, weren't you?

[carptricks]

What? No! Not at all. I just thought it'd be a fun little side quest.

[yes. yes he was]

[thevoidsdarkhorse]

Which means 'I was totes fuckin' with you,' I come from video game logic world, I know what side quests are.

We did that shit for cool clothes.

[carptricks]

I don't have any cool clothes for you to wear as a reward for completing it, but it would've been tons of fun.

Trust me!

[if one enjoys being trolled, that is]

[thevoidsdarkhorse]

Totes unfair, my heart had cool clothes. [For some of you, anyway.]

So, where the hands important?

[carptricks]

The hands?

[he lifts a foot and taps his toes against the clocktower rooftop]

They're a part of this.

[so vague]

[thevoidsdarkhorse]

And what does the clocktower mean?

[Walking over to the edge and leaning over to look at the clock face.]

[carptricks]

[the clock face is completed! someone did, indeed, locate and return the hands]

. . . it's me.

The very center of who I am.

[thevoidsdarkhorse]

The very center....

And what is the center? 'sides Kaito?

[carptricks]

Just "Kaito."

[tilts his head to the side a bit]

Isn't that enough?