144.98750 Public Channel [Day 63]

[amusicaladventure]

Hey, guys? Anyone -- I hope you still have your radios...

[Ash sounds worried to the point of frantic, barely keeping her alarm and panic covered under a veneer of anxiety.]

Listen, something's really wrong here. Have you guys actually talked with anyone else? It's scary as hell, guys, they're hollow, it's like their brains have just shut down -- they're running for kicks and thrills like they're the only thing that matters. I mean I know all the drugs and stuff here can have that effect, but it's not just the junkies. And some of you all are scaring the hell out of me too just from what I've seen...

This place isn't safe. We're not safe here. It's too much pleasure and it might even be more than that. Pull out, guys. Please, now.

Comments

[amusicaladventure]

Oh, fireboy! [Two teenaged boys in this place, in this crowd, and what they've been doing is 'hanging out'? Ash immediately conceives a suspicion or two about what's going on there, which she absolutely does not voice.] I know you've at least been enjoying SOME of what's going on though.

[destiny_key]

Well, I mean, yeah. You saw me at the pool. And I went to a couple of the teenager parties.

[amusicaladventure]

[She really isn't certain she knows what the 'teenager parties' are but she has a couple of guesses, some of them possibly a bit uncharitable given her own high school years.] So tell me it isn't getting harder for you to stop having fun, then.

[destiny_key]

W-well, I mean... I guess it is...

[Honestly, it's not something he's thought a lot about. It's natural to want to have fun, right?]

[amusicaladventure]

Done anything you wouldn't normally do, yet?

[That's what pushed her over the edge, after all. Realizing what she'd been doing -- harmless things, really, or at least so they appeared on the surface.]

[destiny_key]

Um...

[It takes him a second to reply.]

I... I don't remember...

[amusicaladventure]

Doesn't the fact that you have to think about that, and you don't even know, worry you? [Because it should, thinks Ash. It really should.]

[destiny_key]

I...

[Honestly, he doesn't even know how to respond to that. What do they even do about that?]

[amusicaladventure]

Pull back. Get out of there. Take some time to breathe and get your head back on straight. If you need help, I can give it. [Her magic is good for adding focus and concentration -- and sanity, to put it bluntly.]

[destiny_key]

Okay.

[He nods, before remembering she can't see it.]

[amusicaladventure]

I'm here. On the other side of this radio if nothing else. Just... tell me if you need help.

[destiny_key]

Okay...

...Thanks, Ash.