There's always a lighthouse

[wheremst]

And just like that, you wake up in the basement of a lighthouse in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. There's a circle of 25 pods in the middle of the room, and two more in a room off to the side, and you can imagine who is in which.

An elevator to the side of the room leads up to the ground floor (or to the first sub-basement, if you want to check out the machine that brought you here), where you can for the first time in weeks look out a window and see the sky. Its a beautiful sunny day, with a strong breeze on the grassy ground of the island where the lighthouse stands. Have you ever been this happy to hear seagulls?

You're free. Whatever comes next, you're free and you won. Take some time to relish your victory, won't you? Reunite with friends you thought you had lost, go forth and just... well, enjoy this.

Comments

[reallyhatesharks]

[There's something weirdly familiar about being held in stasis. Maybe that's something that shifted in a timeline or something that should've happened but didn't. That's the complicated thing about time travel, when things come down to it, but Nova shrugs that all off as she's stretching the awkwardness out of her body.

Mostly, she's a little bit annoyed that her shotgun machete is probably not here. She misses her damn gun.

Seeing the ocean when she steps outside is - the ocean was never the problem. The problem was always the sharks. There's something like wistfulness in the way she looks out at the sea.]

How bad of an idea do you think it would be to go for a swim?

[She gets the sense that there's stuff to be done or a conversation to be had about what to do after this, but for ten minutes Nova would like to forget that there's something to do back home and just swim.]

[nothingcanstop]

Well, I think I'd ask if you've lost it, but we all kinda have, a bit.

[ Hiya, Nova. It's... Hi. ]

[feudalladyshandmaid]

Probably not a good idea in the middle of the Pacific ocean.

[oh good lord here we go]

You're, uh, the woman I fought on that boat, with the chainsaw.