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Ellie Linton ([personal profile] inhell) wrote2013-10-17 11:53 am

text . open spam . 2nd attack

Free stuff outside level 7 cabin 2. I don't want it.

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[She's still feeling the lingering aches from being ill, but she doesn't pay any attention to it. She has a few good meals in her and too much energy to just sit there. She wants to know what happened. Did any of them make it? Are they all dead? How did Colonel Finley feel about it?

And the sight of her own bedroom appalls her.

So she drags out big plastic bins from her closet and starts tossing stuff inside.

Snow globes and fancy headbands. Old clothes. Who needs that many tops? A lamp that doesn't work. A collection of smooth stones; a glass bottle fused shut.

Beaded bracelets. (Except for one that reads BEST, because she knows who had the other one, who had the half that read FRIENDS and for a few minutes she stares at it, unable to move.) Cheap stuffed animals. A whole series of trophies from hockey. A plastic unicorn filled with layers of colored sand. Old ugly sweaters and figurines and half-used collections of colored pencils. Hand-dipped candles, irregular and bulging and leaning noticeably to the side.

She keeps all her books.

She throws away baskets of souvenir paperweights and keychains and cheap jewelry.

And she drags it all out into the hallway, leaving it there in piles.]
notdreaming: stare, neutral, sad (am I dreaming?)

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[personal profile] notdreaming 2013-10-17 10:36 pm (UTC)(link)
I mean, are the things you're giving away bad memories? It's hard not to have bad memories when you lose everything.
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[personal profile] notdreaming 2013-10-18 12:53 am (UTC)(link)
If you say so. If it's so useless though, you might not be able to get rid of it.
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[personal profile] notdreaming 2013-10-18 01:06 am (UTC)(link)
It was nice of you to share it with others.
notdreaming: smile, stare, neutral, affectionate (friendly smile)

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[personal profile] notdreaming 2013-10-18 01:29 am (UTC)(link)
Sure it was. You could have just thrown it away to start with, but you thought someone else might want some of it.
notdreaming: stare, neutral, sad (I was eating that)

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[personal profile] notdreaming 2013-10-18 01:39 am (UTC)(link)
[ ...Huh. What a thing to argue. ]

You did a nice thing. That's just as good, for right now, isn't it?
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[personal profile] notdreaming 2013-10-18 02:05 am (UTC)(link)
So glad you agree. :)