sound.effect.thud.url: "files/thud.mp3"
--
{sound effect: 'thud'}
[align center]
{embed image: 'files/dark.png', alt: 'dark'}
[continue]
A small thud in the darkness. You are laying there, still as a monolith.
> [[I want my heart to keep beating.]]
{sound effect: 'thud'}
[align center]
{embed image: 'files/dark.png', alt: 'dark'}
[continue]
It produces yet another small thud without haste, slow as ever. It's getting hard to breathe. Is your chest on fire?
> [[I touch the wires connected to my chest.]][align center]
{embed image: 'files/wires.png', alt: 'wires'}
[continue]
Someone placed them there to ensure your safety. But you feel so bound.
Your hands are almost completely immobile -- the body has grown so cold that it burns. Will this ever end?
> [[I try to hold onto the invisible void of a floor.]]sound.effect.another_thud.url: "files/another_thud.mp3"
--
{sound effect: 'another_thud', volume: 0.3}
[align center]
{embed image: 'files/wirescall.png', alt: 'wirescall'}
[continue]
Another thud comes from somewhere afar. It startles you, makes you thrash around and press yourself into the void. Your lips hurt to move.
> [["Please."]]sound.effect.m.url: "files/m.mp3"
sound.effect.d.url: "files/d.mp3"
--
{sound effect: 'm', volume: 0.5}
{sound effect: 'd'}
[align center]
{embed image: 'files/call.png', alt: 'call'}
[continue]
You can hear the thumping accelerate. Both the one coming from you and the one an undetermined distance away.
*"Please? Please."*
> [["Pleased?"]]sound.ambient.together.url: "files/together.mp3"
--
{ambient sound: 'together', volume: 0.25}
[align center]
{embed image: 'files/close.png', alt: 'closel'}
[continue]
*"Pleased."*
The thumping grows louder. Your body begins to tingle. Something is returning to it to replace the numbness. But along with it, pain returns too.
> [[I reach for the sound.]]sound.effect.fry.url: "files/fry.mp3"
--
{sound effect: 'fry'}
[align center]
{embed image: 'files/fire.png', alt: 'fire'}
[continue]
It feels as if your hand met with the sun. You yelp loudly and recoil. The other heart does as well.
*"What is this? It hurt."*
> [["It's me."]][align center]
{embed image: 'files/lay.png', alt: 'lay'}
[continue]
*"Ooh... You."*
You can hear them slowly approach once again and lay down next to you.
*"Does that hurt?"*
> [["No..."]][align center]
{embed image: 'files/warmup.png', alt: 'warmup'}
[continue]
There is warmth coming from the right. The tingling spreads to your face, and your mouth is now able to shape the sentences that appear in your mind.
> [["Your heart is radiant. Like feeling the sun."]]sound.effect.breeze.url: "files/breeze.mp3"
--
{sound effect: 'breeze'}
*"Yours is cold and really smooth. Like silk that's moving because of a breeze."*
[after 1 second]
{reveal link: '"Oh. That would make me itchy."', passage: "Oh. That would make me itchy."}
[continue]
{ambient sound: 'together', volume: 0.15}
[align center]
{embed image: 'files/calm.png', alt: 'calm'}
[continue]
The thumping quiets down after a warm, soft object is placed into your hand. You are careful not to move, as if that would cause this moment to end.
*"There are wounds on your hands."*
> [["I'm sorry."]][align center]
{embed image: 'files/calm.png', alt: 'calm'}
[continue]
*"Ah... I'm sorry, too."*
It feels so good, you have to gather all your control not to cling to the warmth with your whole being.
> [[I give in to the desire. |Cling]]
> [[I hesitate.]]config.style.dark.backdrop.color: "raspberry-5"
config.style.backdrop.color: "raspberry-5"
config.style.dark.page.font: "Alegreya/serif 21"
config.footer.left: "~~{story.name}~~"
--
[align center]
# [[~~Kind-red Hearts~~|Beginning]]
[continue]You can sense the ridges and curves of the kindred heart before you through the shield of wires still stuck to your chest.
All-encompassing warmth consumes you. You feel as if you are floating in its fabric towards a deeply familiar place. Everything is mixing and folding on itself inside and outside of you. Peace, balance, tender touch... Care.
> [[Melt.]]*"Hey... You should come here."*
The kindred heart scoots you closer as gently as they can.
All-encompassing warmth consumes you. You feel as if you are floating in its fabric towards a deeply familiar place. Everything is mixing and folding on itself inside and outside of you. Peace, balance, tender touch... Care.
> [[Melt.]] "Oh. That would make me itchy."
*"It makes me close my eyes in pleasure. I lose so much strength with the sweat that drips down my back."*
[after 1 second]
[continue]
[["Would it hurt to touch again?"]][align center]
{embed image: 'files/gif.gif', alt: 'gif'}
[continue]
The two of you melt into one.
> [[~~THE END.~~]][align center]
{embed image: 'files/ily.png', alt: 'ily'}
[continue]
[align center]
*To D.,
Your M.*
[continue]