unknownseas | There's always a lighthouse

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There's always a lighthouse

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.

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[ ...Seeing Angel alive and out in the grass invites some feelings that're pretty overwhelming! Ones that Della didn't think would be there. She watches for a few moments, but, in the end... ]

May I?

[ Sitting next to her, instead of across. ]

[ Aaaaa, Della! Angel smiles and nods. ]

No paper for word games on me this time, sorry.

Wanna know the truth? I haaaate word games.

[ Della flops to the ground, laying on her back. ]

...I had faith in you, but...you have no idea how glad I am to see you alive.

[ She laughs a little. ]

Right back atcha. But you can see why I didn't, you know... say what my plan was to you guys the day before.

Yeah, I'm gonna need some context for all that right there. Singing, Angel?

It's... so back in the first experiment, sometimes it would happen? It was... Evan and Jeremy and sometimes Will, too, or people around them. When someone got really emotional, the music would just kind of start? No one could ever really explain it, even when it happened to everyone during one of the trials.

[ RIP Jeremy, the reason why she knows who can sing and who can't in E1... ]

And once I was down there in The Wings and remembering things about Cass, I remembered how to do it. And during a song, if you do it right, you get... different. More honest. If anything was going to jog her memory, it was that.

[ HE DOESN'T HAVE TO RIP FOR LONG, OKAY- ]

...They run on animated movie logic?? [ IF ONLY BY GOD I COULD CALL THEM DISNEY MOVIES ] Well... I mean, if it works it works. You two, you weren't fighting for...too long, right?