voice testing (canon is apocalypse now)

[setyoufree]

They say life goes on, but who's to say it ever started? I've seen death, I've seen the light pass out of men's eyes and the cold that came after, but I can't say what that cold replaced. I can't say it made much of a difference.

Everyone says life is valuable. Maybe that's just some trick we have to convince ourselves this is all worthwhile. What this world's full of is eyes, echoes, hollow spaces where there oughtta be something solid. The shit I've seen— I fell into something that pulled back the curtain from the world. Showed me its darkness.

I haven't been able to shake it since.

It followed me here, wherever here is. Whoever you are, and don't get me wrong, I'm not asking for answers. Even in the middle of fucking nowhere, there's always gonna be someone in command. And if there's one thing I know how to do, it's following orders through to the end. So tell me what to do. Where to go. It's all the same to me.

There's no point in lying about it: there's only one place I'll ever really be, and as far as the rest of the world is concerned, that place never existed. Seems like everything I've seen and done just didn't happen, and I've gotten to feeling like the world's moved on without me. Like I was never a part of it, and maybe it never existed the way I thought.

Thinking like that, things get a little hairy.

What I know is the world out there's got nothing I want, not even silence. So I'll stick around, sure. Got nothing better to do.

Comments

[gerionsdaughter]

[She nods happy.]
We are one of the richest houses of the Seven Kingdoms and our houses are very faithful to us. Except the Reynes and the Tarbecks, but uncle Tywin ended them. There's even a song about that. It's called "The Rains of Castamere".
[She would sing the song. But it's too scary. So she'll try to answer to the question.]
I believe she's not completely sure in that matter. She only says that it allows people like you and me, who come from very different places, to meet.
If you want, I could tell you more of the Seven Kingdoms.

[setyoufree]

[Willard doesn't have any especial desire to hear more about kingdoms and castles, but there isn't much else around, and it's something that'll keep his mind at least partially occupied. Besides, he's starting to get the sense that he's better off knowing what this girl might have to tell. Who knows where he might end up? All things considered, it isn't impossible that the girl's world exist, and that he might end up in it.

Okay, so that's completely fucked. But everything is, here. Maybe everything. There isn't any telling, and Willard figures he'd better not let himself think to far into it.

Instead, he shrugs, gives the girl something that might be a nod.] Sure, go ahead.

[Pulling out a pack of cigarettes, Willard pauses.] Mind if I smoke?

[He feels only moderately foolish posing the question to a child; somehow, it'd seem stranger still to simply start smoking in front of her. Might be another one of those things he just shouldn't think about.]