#radioevent

[Against your better judgement you decide not to sleep and backtrack. There are an army of cars driving into the ocean but there is nothing to hear. You don't know where they're going, probably to the city? You contemplate following them but you don't want to be seen. Something about this is eerie. You retrieve the fishfinger Rose gave you. It has nothing to say. You drop it, then.]

[Ultimately you decide not to follow the cars and just walk along the beach. The stars are pretty.] [Rose is here, suddenly.]

The stars are whats pulling the cars into the water.

[You nod like this makes perfect sense. Of course they are, the cars are thirsty, the water is hungry. Good thing you didn't follow - you'd get eaten.]

[She doesn't respond because she doesn't have a mouth anymore. You lament this fact. You try to draw a mouth on with lipstick; but it's green. So her voice sounds like yours.]

It appears that missing parts is becoming a tr--

[You try to wipe it off. She turns into sand. Only her clothes are left behind. This makes you realize she had been dressed as a firefighter the entire time. You didn't notice. She must be offended.] 

[You pick up the sand and try to take it with you to keep you company. It has nothing to say. Maybe you should give her to the ocean so she can evaporate into a cloud and play the rain but you don't do that because you want to keep her. You carry the sand somehow, deciding to try bring her back, but even though you walk and the landscape changes you can't find anything to help you.] 

[It's so quiet. When you see you're in a forest you feel like there should be more bugs. Animals. Birds. Anything? The stars don't have plans for you. If they do, they indicate nothing. It's so quiet that you drop the sand onto a leaf just to hear it. You were carrying more sand than anticipated and it makes a dune.]

hello?

[But it doesn't reply. You cover it with flowers and converse with it. It still has nothing to say to you. You didn't expect it to. You want it to, though, but you don't know what you can do.]

[You try to draw a mouth on the sand but your lipstick just gets lost. You notice that the flowers are wilting. You decide to get more. The trees are wilting. You don't want this to happen. You climb up the nearest tree but it takes awhile to reach the top, and it's becoming unstable, at any moment it'll collapse. You try to get the stars attention to this problem but the distance is still to large for them to hear. Or maybe they're ignoring you.] 

[With your point, ridiculously high up, you can see that the cars drank up the ocean and are now in a wreck. The tree is brittle and swaying but if you pretend the problem isn't there it should go away. You don't know what to do from there. The tree decides for you. The fall is not unexpected but STILL KIND OF SCARY no it's fine you fell on your ass but it didn't hurt. Everything seems dead, here. The sand dune is gone.]

[You’re cold. You start a campfire. You’ve stopped expecting John or Rose to return and just opt to listen to the fire sounds. Unexpectedly, the fire flares up to be twice your size. You touch it. A shadow casts over you and you see Kanaya.]

hello

[She is holding an egg of some kind.] 

Can I Plant This Here

the forest is barren now

[She? Doesn’t leave? She sits beside the fire with you, clutching her egg. She tells you it is a seed to grow trollmanity.]

do you want me to help find somewhere to plant it?

[For some reason she smiles. She points behind you and you notice the tree that broke before is in full health. She drops the egg onto it, and the yolk breaks over the roots, and a tree explodes from it.]

[You look at Kanaya, who is staring at the tree.]

[She’s wearing a hotdog costume. This doesn’t strike you as weird.]

[You take her arm because if you don’t she’s going to blow away like a hat. You’re wearing a tophat now. Dreamlogic.]

[You approach the tree with her and find that there are just. Trolls. Limp over the branches. They look like corpses but you know they’re just sleeping.]

[One fell down. Like an apple.]

[You don’t feel this is weird. You approach and it is Feferi? Cool. You’ve seen her in person and she’s so--]

[She reminds you of a shark. She grabs your shoulders and her hands are cold. In your surprise you let go of Kanaya. Not that it matters, because now you’re submerged in water and staring uncomfortably into her eyes. Both of your hair billows up in the water, and she blows a giant airbubble, which feels like a scene from Sinbad.]

)(i! Will you keep me company?

yes

[There are fish swimming in the water. They’re glowing.]

GR--EAT! But first I need somet)(ing important...

what is it? ill get it for you

The fishfinger.

[You don’t have it. The fish turn off and so does Feferi. Water is spilling out of her eyes. You are not perturbed. She leaves. Suddenly, you’re alone in a dark water-air-pocket.]

[You sit in the damp sand, dripping wet and cold. You’re wishing you kept the finger. You dig into your pockets and belatedly realize you’re in a tutu. You shake it out. Seeds spill over the ground and grow flowers. You climb them out of the top.]

[You see Nannasprite floating over the water.]

Hello dear! The constellations are dancing above the clouds as they ought. The pesky sun was quite the hindrance to the task. 

is it good that its gone?

Yes! How was it moved? I’m sure it took some crafty gambit.

hmm

Where has John gone, by the by? I want to give him a medallion. Now we needn't endure those long spells without a good visit!

[You shrug, and point behind you. She goes.]

[You realize you’re standing on a flower surrounded with water. You decide to swim.]

[You notice after a few? Time passage? Of this, that the campfire is floating beside you.]

hello

[...It is yelling the word “GREY” at you. This fire has NO CHILL AT ALL... But it’s talking - you don’t want it to leave or splash water on you. You. Just. Give it a friendly and baffled hug.]

[It is fire though and it burns like a motherfuck. When you let go you are on fire. It? Kind of hurts but it’s a dream. So it doesn’t hurt, even though you say it does. You try splashing water at it but you turn into ashes.]

[Buuurn.]

[Your ashes end up getting wet. You become a blob of water and ash and things are dark.]

[This transitions to being in a dark area. You’re in the sky you think? Space?] 

[Stars start turning on. You’re close enough to touch them.]

hello?

[They don’t reply. You’re about to get annoyed when you see someone with no eyes. On closer inspection, they’re a weird monster. You’re a little intimidated.]

the ring will uncoil itself. is there a story you would like to hear? i have one to tell.

i dont understand what you mean. hello

come toward me. we've been waiting and there is not much time.

[You step toward the hooded monster, but something stirs in your mind, prompting the setting to disappear.]

[You find yourself somewhere monotone and boring. Like some kind of jail, or rock, and you immediately feel like leaving. You wander along, quick to discover that it’s some kind of building, and there are so many halls and corridors. You notice a staircase and decide to go down.]

[AND FALL.]

[RIGHT DOWN THEM.]

youve been warned about the stairs bro. youve been told dog.

[Um.]

[The staircase is talking to you.]

hello. have you seen a fishfinger around?

no. put a carpet on me.

have you seen one? 

no

im sorry. where are you

this is a rock

can i come in?

maybe. 

is that dave why does he have a waffle for a head. someone is eating his head. hes dead.