Living in hope

[replicatedcourage]

Who: Sola and anyone
Where: Plaza, in front of the coral
When: After his network post
Status: Open to all


[Sola isn't stupid. He's naive and gullible, yes, but he isn't plain stupid. Somewhere, deep down, he knows that sitting here in front of the coral and wishing or hoping or even praying won't bring Link back. It hadn't brought Ion back, or any of his other friends who'd been tossed back to their own worlds.

But what if, this time...?

He'd sat with Darkleer for a time before, watching the coral, and not too long after Signless had returned. He'd sat in front of the coral for days after waking up and finding Johnny had died and his matesprit had come back to him. There's just as much of a chance that Link could return.

Right?

He has to hope. Because without hope, what else is there? Maybe he's stubborn, maybe he even knows it's futile, but he has to hope.

So here he is, sitting on the ground in front of the massive edifice of undersea polyps. Waiting. Watching.

Hoping.]

Comments

[420]

Huh.

[He ponders that question for a moment. He has never had pumpkin faygo, but that meant nothing. And this was shangri-la.]

You know, I bet if a bro got an appetite at that stuff, it'd be there. It's fuckin' paradise, you know? Anything what your pump be desiring be there.

[replicatedcourage]

Then I'd want pumpkin faygo. And lots of muffins. The blueberry kind that Johnny makes, they're really good.

[A sudden thought strikes him.]

Can you see people who aren't dead yet in Shangri-la? I don't... um..

[He swallows, not wanting to think about it, but the truth is that the vampire will likely outlive him. He's lived for 700 years already, after all, and Sola always feels that death is creeping around corners because he doesn't really belong...

But he doesn't want to be without Johnny.]

[420]

[Gamzee wouldn't understand that fear, set with a long life expectancy himself. He'll eventually end up experiencing it from the other side, no doubt, watching friends pass away, but that reality is still so far off to him, that it is pretty much unreal and not something he thinks about.]

Shangri-la comes when the Messiahs fuckin' come to blow this motherfuckin' faygo stand, you get? They're gonna bring all us motherfuckers.

[replicatedcourage]

But... they're not going to kill people who are still alive, are they?

[That would be bad too! Johnny shouldn't have to die unless he wants to and only if he can come to paradise. From the way he talks, he seems to think he'll go somewhere else and all the somewhere elses Sola can think of are not very nice.]