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[The video opens to Dahi sitting on their bed, pensive. It’s a late afternoon with golden sunshine spilling onto their bed. Dahi looks over to their bookshelf, and sighs. It is largely empty. They stand up and walk out the door. CAMRA follows silently. Dahi walks quickly through the hallway outside of the dorm area. They go up spiral stairs to the second floor.
They turn to their left as they walk past classrooms. The rooms themselves are empty, but the loud cheer of children in the courtyard brings Dahi a smile. They continue weaving through the building with practiced ease, with proper posture and a smile.
Finally, they approach the doors to the Library. Above the doors is a sign labeled “Wolf’s Bane”. They open the doors and are welcomed to the warm interior.
Inside the Library are tall bookshelves, many tables, and the sweet sent of lavender and aged paper. Dahi begins browsing, with noticeably more loose body language. They walk through, going isle by isle searching. They suddenly stop.
The scent of Iron and sounds of pain are strong. Dahi walks towards the noise, suddenly much more tense. The once ease they felt is replaced by dread. They navigate, but the shelves are blending into each other, the light is getting dimmer, and they—
Madeline is kneeling on the ground, coughing as she consumes thumbtacks. Dahi stands still for a second. Then moves.
They grab madeline by the shoulder, panic clear on their face.
“Madi, MADI! MADELINE LISTEN TO ME!” They struggle as they try to get madeline to stop her from swallowing more. They gripped the thumbtacks from Madeline, and threw them aside. Madeline suddenly threw herself atop Dahi, causing a struggle.
Madeline restrains Dahi's arms as she aggressively throws herself on top of her, her eyes looking as cold as those of a corpse. She can't grasp even the slightest of sense into her brain as she feels spikes stab through her mind and throat.
Something comes up her throat, violently coughing out another thumbtack, Dahi turns their head away as blood splatters on their face.
Dahi changes tactics, becoming more gentle with Madeline.
With a sigh, they gently speak, “Madi, i need you to keep coughing. I’m- not sure.. I don’t know how to deal with this fuck. I need. Shit. What do I do?”
Madelines eyes widen more then they already were. She heard this voice before, where?...
Everything in her worldview is starting to tangle and jumble with eachother, until she can see a familiar silhouette beneath her. She freezes, unsure of what she had done. The smell of heavy iron stabs into her nostrils.
“Madeline. Take the thumbtacks that you can out.”
Small pathetic noises come out her throat, as she grabs her throat, scratching, gagging.
"Where—" Before she can speak, she gags out a few thumbtacks, falling out from her mouth onto the floor. She collapses onto the floor next to Dahi, rolling over as she chokes in her own blood.
Hesitantly, Dahi opens Madeline’s mouth and reaches into the wet, bloody mess that is her throat. They manage to grab only a few thumbtacks before easily reaching back.
Madeline feels as if she's been paralyzed, barely twitching as Dahi reaches towards the buried thumbtacks downed in blood. After a few minutes of struggling and gagging, the last couple of thumbtacks are finally retrieved from her throat. Both Dahi and Madeline are covered in blood. The dimmed lights in the library flood into her red eyes, coughing as she lays on the floor staring at Dahi's face painted in fear.
“Madeline? Madeline can you hear me?”
"...D-Dahi?" Madeline stares at Dahi with dazed eyes, the blood dripping down her face as she lays face-up. She doesn't move, she's unsure if she can.
“We need- we need to get you to the infirmary. Or to a dorm where I can tend to your wounds. Or something. Can you get up?”
Madeline turns her eyes to the ceiling, trying to move her arms and legs. She can barely move, but at least its something.
“Ok. Ok. That’s.. that’s alright. I can try to pick you up, ok?”
"...Okay." She shakily reaches her hand towards Dahi.
Dahi grabs Madeline’s hands and moves their right to support her neck and their left to support her legs. They quickly take Madeline through the hallways, winding through as they did previously. They kicked the door to the infirmary, with luckily no one else in the room.
Dahi grabs Madeline’s hands and moves their right to support her neck and their left to support her legs. They quickly take Madeline through the hallways, winding through as they did previously. They kicked the door to the infirmary, with luckily no one else in the room.
Madeline throws herself on the infirmary's bed, scratching her neck as Dahi searches the infirmary for something, anything.
Her eyes are closing, before Dahi can look back she......
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