graveyard part five

[gamehead]

hunter's game the graveyard You wake up in an unfamiliar cabin. At first, it almost seems like you're in an entirely different place and that everything had been just a dream. The interior of the cabin looks nothing like the run-down, old-timey shacks that you had been living in before. Everything in here is sleek and modern, from the enormous flat-screen TV mounted on the wall to the fridge and mini-bars stocked with all your favorite foods. There aren't any individual rooms in here, just a common area large enough to house everyone comfortably, no matter how many more people join you...and there will be plenty more people joining you before the week is over. Because if you look outside the window, it quickly becomes clear that not only are you still in Prayer's Pass, but that you are no longer among the realm of the living. Judging from the tombstones directly outside, you're now in what had been the abandoned broken-down cabin in the graveyard. The cabin's not all that changed; the world outside has gone completely grey and everything you see appears to be faded and blurry. The only things that remain sharp and in color are what's inside the cabin, including your fellow ghosts. Occasionally, people who are still alive may enter, but it's clear that what they're seeing is completely different from what you're seeing. The door's unlocked; however, a mysterious force prevents you from stepping beyond the threshold, no matter how hard you may try. After all, this cabin is a cage for the dead - a gilded one, perhaps, but a cage nonetheless. On the flat-screen TV plays everything that is currently happening in the town. It will shut off once night starts...and something else will appear instead. (The graveyard so far)

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[notyetlost]

[Knowing that this could very well be the last time he gets a hug from Ukraine, Poland doesn't want to ever let go. Ukraine's hugs were his favorite hugs, they were always warm and soft. Most importantly of all, it'd taken him a long time to earn receiving one from her.]

This really sucks.

[Poland's never been the most eloquent speaker, but he'd have to go home alone. He'd have to tell Belarus and Russia that their big sister would never come home. Ukraine was the gentle warmth of Eastern Europe and of her siblings. What would Belarus and Russia do without their sister?

What would he do?]

[motheringnation]

[That's okay because she doesn't want to let go either. Despite their long and troubled and well Eastern European history together Poland has somehow become one of her closest friends. And it's not fair to ask him to break the news to her siblings ...but she has no other choice.]

Yes. It does.

[She's so far gone in sorrow that even her tears are used up. There's just a numb dry feeling that she's never going to be able to hug Poland again, that she's never going to be the person to break bad news to her siblings because everyone else was too afraid. That she's never going to be their big sister ever again.

This horrible feeling, the certainty that was with her...Was this how her brother felt all the time?

She hugs Poland close, wishing she could get one last chance to tell her brother that she understood now. Why he was so afraid everyone was going to leave him. The hollow empty feeling inside that felt like you were breaking apart.]