#❥ ❝ why you were raised in a blackout ❞ (verse 0 / the past)

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《 Sanatorium White 》

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❛ it’s the silence that scares me. ❜ — @dollhidden 's Hong-jo! (For the plot we were talking about with the sanatorium?) || You got it, bestie!!

❥ ❝ The horror of it all. ❞

They hadn't gone too far down when the sudden normalcy of the silence suddenly took a dark turn. Hyles knew the earlier levels of the laboratories like the palm of his hand. Yet, beyond the door they had taken, everything seemed uncharted, yet predetermined.

The door was deliberately opened, the corridor a pristine white with not a sound other than that of their own whispering voices and beating heartbeats. Bothersome. He thought the girl was unsettled by how cleanly and seemingly empty the road seemed to be, but she had cleared out the reasons.

"You mean you can't hear that?" Hyles asks, turning over to the girl, serious as ever, deadpan even. He waits for an exact minute, before grinning wide. "Just kidding..."

Of course, only he can hear the voices of the stars, after all, he surmises.

"It's good... Means they're not here. No one is here. Just you and me. But... If I know Doctor Elphyn well, surely what awaits us next is a massive space with boisterous, loud noise in the dark – the direct opposite of this. Shall we go?"

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❥ ❝ A scene of the past begins with @dollhidden 's Hong-Jo ❞

Moths and butterflies fly away at the smallest disturbance. Hyles is used to staring at them from over the window of his room. Usually, they fly away when rain approaches – something that happens all too often. Yet, today, the clouds have yet to darken any further, they flutter away anyway.

They're not running away from something, but someone. Eyes travel over to the general area, he sees someone approaching. Were they walking towards the entrance of the Sanatorium? Strange, they weren't expecting visitors today, were they? The doctor would've told him, it always slips out.

Curious, he moves away from the window, the spell broken, walking over to the door. He opens it slowly, peeking through, making sure no one was around the hallway. Barefoot, he walks in his tiptoes, hoping not to be noticed by anyone. Eventually, he goes down the stairs to the first floor. Strange, there was no one at the entrance, the girl practically could walk her way in without so much as a scolding.

Well, her invasion would be interrupted by one Hyles who walked towards her, standing right by the side of the reception desk where the employees should've been.

"Are you lost? You look like the type to get lost often."

Drip, drip, drip... The rainfall begins.

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