[MINGLE] PLOT: Siren's Call

[sixthiteration]

WHERE: Anywhere
WHEN: August 25-26
OPEN TO: ALL - MINGLE
WARNINGS: Mental manipulation, drowning, death
NOTES: Details here. This post is for EVERYONE, not just the affected. Please make sure and note if your thread is locked for plot purposes.

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It began slowly.

A wisp of song or familiar sound on the breeze swept in from the lake. No source to be found, only the uneasy feeling it had been heard before as it coiled itself steadily inside the minds of the chosen. The sound was a mantra, pulsing soft at first and then louder, growing over days until it seemed to fill the skull, relentless. Come here, the lake whispered, cajoled, shouted. It is cool and quiet beneath the waves.

Come here, it presses now in time with the melody until there is nothing but to blindly follow. The water is calling.

Comments

[underachievement]

She feigns a small smile for Kamala's sake, waving goodbye to the pair of them as she turns away. The outside air is a brisk welcome as she sees herself out, shutting the door behind her. It suits the space she has between her thoughts now it's not being cluttered with unwarranted expectations. Normally she'd throw herself head first into the clonespiracy work, but what's normal anymore? It'll get upended the second she settled on a definition so why bother. Jess tucks her hands into her pockets and heads back the way she came. There she can drain some booze into her water bottle and resume her walk to wherever she ends up walking. For some reason, she's thinking lake.