http://leto-reficio.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] leto-reficio.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] shatterverse2009-02-24 04:35 pm

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In Metropolis, there is a motel.

It's haunted by something that you can't see, can't hear, can't smell, can only feel as a chill in the air.

It's been abandoned for a long time. There are signs of later habitation -- clothes, disturbed dust, a little food -- but nothing more recent than the unbroken circle of salt around it that was laid down more than a week ago.

Sylar can't cross it. He's tried, many times, but an invisible wall rises up in front of him, as high as he can go. He can't touch the stuff, can't disturb it, can't do anything but hope that someone living will come and create a break in the circle. He's trapped.

The whole setting is somehow eerie.

He wasn't killed by the battle and the exorcisms, wasn't sent over to some more distant afterlife or oblivion, but he was weakened considerably. And, bereft of any human contact, Sylar is losing his grip on the world of the living.

[identity profile] dear-carbon.livejournal.com 2009-02-24 04:40 pm (UTC)(link)
...Okay, salt?

Weird.

Darla pauses to investigate.

[identity profile] dear-carbon.livejournal.com 2009-02-24 04:57 pm (UTC)(link)
"Fucking-'scuse-me creepy," she mutters, and then (because when has Darla had any sense?) takes a careful step over the line.

[identity profile] dear-carbon.livejournal.com 2009-02-24 05:12 pm (UTC)(link)
"Hello? Anybody in there?"

She holds up a hand to the door, which being at least partly of biological origin graciously swings open for her.

[identity profile] dear-carbon.livejournal.com 2009-02-24 05:33 pm (UTC)(link)
"Apparently not."

Shrugging, she wanders in a little further.

There's nothing living in the building anywhere. That means safety, which means she can explore as she likes.

And-- because this is Darla Wood-- talk to herself while she does it.

"I wonder what's up with the salt. Probably just one of those things."

[identity profile] dear-carbon.livejournal.com 2009-02-24 09:32 pm (UTC)(link)
"...Okay, who's there and how do you not have biology?"

[identity profile] dear-carbon.livejournal.com 2009-02-24 09:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Darla moves towards the sound.

Cautiously. Not being able to see or feel the person she's talking(?) to is freaking her out some.

[identity profile] dear-carbon.livejournal.com 2009-02-24 09:47 pm (UTC)(link)
"...Okay, and we're back to creepy."

[identity profile] dear-carbon.livejournal.com 2009-02-24 09:56 pm (UTC)(link)
"Okay, so we've established that you know my name. How about you tell me yours?"

[identity profile] dear-carbon.livejournal.com 2009-02-24 10:01 pm (UTC)(link)
"...Gabriel."

She frowns.

"So you're a ghost now, huh? Damn. I'm sorry."

[identity profile] dear-carbon.livejournal.com 2009-02-24 10:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Darla sighs.

Then she circles around to the other side of the desk, dusts off the ancient wooden chair, and sits.

"I guess I can't really ask how you ended up all the way down here, huh?"

[identity profile] dear-carbon.livejournal.com 2009-02-24 10:57 pm (UTC)(link)
"By who? Anybody I know?"

[identity profile] dear-carbon.livejournal.com 2009-02-24 11:07 pm (UTC)(link)
"...What, the girl down the hall from Chandra?"

[identity profile] dear-carbon.livejournal.com 2009-02-24 11:15 pm (UTC)(link)
"So she's here. And, obviously, dangerous. Well, that's fucking-'scuse-me unexpected."

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