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[1-03] SUPER SPECIAL SECRET
Arakados and Orie try to find out Phoenix's dark secret.
Content Warnings:
Blood
Implied/assumed self harm
October 4th, XX19. 10:00 PM.
Orie and her partner, Arakados (a black dragon with two sets of grey horns, a finned mane with more fins on her cheeks, and a yellow stripe across her red eyes), are sitting next to each other in Phoenix's room with headphones on listening to music through her DJ Equipment. Phoenix is nowhere to be seen.
ORIE:
"She has such a great music selection! Why doesn't she ever allow us in here to listen to it?"
ARAKADOS:
"Maybe she has a secret song she doesn't want us to hear?"
ORIE:
"Dear Idna Drek, that makes me want to listen to this more!"
ARAKADOS:
"Ooh, wait, lets look through everything to find it!"
ORIE:
"Ah, yeah! Maybe we can find something."
Arakados opens up the screen of Phoenix's DJ Equipment. After a moment of thinking, she clicks a folder named "Song List."
ARAKADOS:
"Ee Zee."
Orie crowding behind her, Arakados looks through the song list on Phoenix's DJ equipment.
While searching, a feeling of dread washes over Orie.
ORIE:
"Actually, you know, we shouldn't be digging through her stuff."
ARAKADOS:
"I don't see why not, I wanna find out all of Phoenix's dark secrets!"
Orie's mind races with visions of a couple minutes with Phoenix in the room. She's definitely going to be here VERY soon. Orie shivers.
ORIE:
"We need to get out of here."
ARAKADOS:
"Well, you can leave the room if you want, but I'm staying right here until I find out Phoenix's secret."
ORIE:
"I'm serious, we both need to leave! She'll be here any moment!"
ARAKADOS:
"You really think she'd mind me taking a quick peak into her files that much?"
ORIE:
"Well, I mean...
Probably so!"
Phoenix suddenly marches into the room, eyes half closed, and holding a knife with some red dried liquid on it. She looks at Arakados filtering through her DJ equipment files and waves the knife in their general direction, mumbling incoherently.
Orie sits completely silent, still, and frightened, believing if she remains still, she'd be invisible to Phoenix. Arakados barely even glances away from the screen, searching through the song list.
Phoenix also takes a look at Orie but only does a tiny scowl from her exhausted face.
She takes a couple steps toward her bed and then collapses to the floor uncomfortably
ORIE:
"Uh."
Arakados turns to look at Phoenix and shrugs. She then goes back to searching on the computer.
ORIE:
"... Phoenix...?"
Phoenix doesn't respond. She's out.
ORIE:
"... Phoenix, are you okay?"
No response for even a couple of moments.
ORIE:
"Well, in that case"
;I cast this spell to lift Phoenix up gently and put her carefully and safely onto her bed so she doesn't wake up, and tuck her in so she's comfortable.;
Phoenix gently and carefully lifts up into the air slowly, until her body is rested onto her bed. Her blanket floats over her and tucks her in tightly.
Phoenix cradles the red-covered knife like a teddy bear, next to her snoot.
ORIE:
"Huh. What was she doing with that knife...?"
Arakados's head moves over to look at the knife Phoenix is holding.
ARAKADOS:
"Probably cutting... really juicy pumpkins? That are... red? Like, really red pumpkins?"
Orie tiptoes on all fours toward Phoenix's bed to sniff the knife. While Orie's close to the knife, Phoenix shuffles in her sleep and almost accidentally stabs Orie with it. She jumps away, frightened.
ORIE:
"Nnnnno, that's definitely not pumpkins...
Hrm I hope she's okay... and didn't go on like... a murderous rampage or something"
Orie notices a bandage tied around her wrist with blood splattered on it.
ORIE:
"Or... did something to herself..."
Arakados looks over again.
ARAKADOS:
"Did she get into a fight, maybe?"
ORIE:
"Could be, but I have no clue where a fight could have happened up here on a mountain like this."
ARAKADOS:
"Where did the derg go?"
ORIE:
"I have... no idea."
ARAKADOS:
"Anyway...
Come here, we have to find the super special secret!"
Orie looks at Phoenix's knife and then to the bandage.
ORIE:
"...Nnnno... no thanks... I kind of feel sick to my stomach now.
I'm... going to go lay down for a bit."
ARAKADOS:
"Okie dokie, dergie"
Orie walks out of the room and directly down the stairs, extremely worried for Phoenix's wellbeing.
She knows Phoenix struggles with mental health, but not exactly what from or if there even is a reason
Orie's anxieties consume her from the causes of Phoenix's injury.
She didn't... do what she thought she did... did she?
Surely it's just a fight wound... or something.
Surely it's not what she's thinking it is...
But what if it is...?