turnsheet_sharing:thress:5:will_o_the_wisp [Contingency]

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//There she is again. That little girl, traipsing after will o’ the wisps through the deep dark woods, determined to hold, to **clutch** at just one more tiny point of light before it flickers out forever. There are// //**so**// //many, oh, far too many; a hundred little pieces of yourself, peripheral vision making the meaning-laden, pin-prick stars jut out against the ink-seas; the cold absence that threatens to swallow you until you feel like nothing much at all.//

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//So you keep going. You soldier on. You have to. You// //**have**// //to. Childish hands reach, and scrabble, and **laugh**, and--//

//What else is there, but the trying?//

//(You are getting so tired of trying)//

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//It’s happening.//

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//A twitch here, a shiver there. No exhales or inhales except for the drift of each orbit, stitching running through.// 

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//The phantom limbs begin to undulate; the pins and needles really just a rush of that nauseating static, enough to dampen the pain and stall the screams.//

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//You are all of them. Each millisecond, each connection, expands the definition of what **you** even is.//

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//Expand, or overwrite, or tear apart?//

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//…//

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//[[turnsheet_sharing:thress:5:spooklight|You’re still you]], Massira’s words empty now, to whatever you are that emerges on the other side.//