It's Not the Waking It's the Rising

[praypal]

WHO: Kurt Wagner, You!
WHERE: Fountain (Open to 1), Inn, Various Outdoor Locations
WHEN: Nov. 27 - Dec 4
OPEN TO: OTA, Arrival Locked to 1
WARNINGS: None yet.

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( It's not the song, it is the singing. It is the heaven of the human spirit ringing. )

when the day is long and the night is yours alone

[ex_enlisted288]

WHO: Steve Rogers
WHERE: House #18, Village Environs
WHEN: Late November/Early December
OPEN TO: Steve + Bucky, Steve + You
WARNINGS: PTSD and associated triggers

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( don't let yourself go 'cause everybody cries and everybody hurts sometimes )

[LOCKED] It feels so close, but always disappears;

[living_proof]

WHO: Liv Moore
WHERE: House 42
WHEN: 28 Nov 2018
OPEN TO: Bucky Barnes
WARNINGS: n/a

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After Ravi disappeared, after I spent the better part of several days looking for him, waiting to see if he'd pop back out of the fountain, something occurred to me that he and I both missed back the first time Major went: There's a list of everyone in the village on our smart watches. If someone's not there, it's a good bet they're not just lost.

And yeah, I said 'the first time' up there. As in there's been a second. As in, I woke up today and all of Major's stuff he arrived with was gone, and guess what? He's as absent from that list now as Ravi.

It's been a couple of hours since then, and the truth is, I'm not really sure how I'm supposed to feel. Objectively, if this was happening to somebody else, I'd probably tell them that they're allowed to feel however they feel, that's nothing's right or wrong. But Major and I have been complicated for a long time now, and mostly what I feel is scared.

There is no one else here anymore who is a zombie or half-zombie or has actual experience with zombies. There's just me and my freezer full of squirrel brains.

Because it's Major, and because it's complicated, I wait longer to text Bucky than I probably should. Even then, it's brief and a little ominous: Major's gone. We need to talk. I just don't have the energy to clarify my muddled emotions via wristwatch right now. He'll figure it out quickly enough when he gets here.