<span class="mu-s">"Okay."</span> Her voice still has a trace of that loud, erratic energy to it but most of it has been replaced with something else. When you feel a drop of something warm hit your shoulder, you know it isn't blood this time. It's a <span class="mu-b">tear.</span> <span class="mu-s">"I'll accept your damn hug."</span>
"Thank you."
Your body gives up underneath you. UNSTABLE comes down with you, softening your fall. The two of you are now sprawled on the slime coated floor. Something else bursts out of you. You don't have much time, you think. Yet you're not letting go. You're not.
<span class="mu-s">"...I guess it's better this way. You can't get rid of me. I guess you should know that, at least."</span>
"So what?" You mutter. You can't feel anything anymore. Just the warmth of her hugging you back and the coldness of the air around you. "I said what I said."
<span class="mu-s">"I guess."</span> You feel her shift on the floor, pulling you closer. As if trying to protect you. <span class="mu-s">"We don't have much time. I guess you can ask me something. If you're deadset on this."</span>
"Was I born like this?" You mumble. "This psionic freak? Messed up girl with four voices?"
<span class="mu-s">"Sadly. It was manageable when you were younger. More innocent. But I had to be hidden. Maintained. Chained up. Medicated. I don't think..."</span> UNSTABLE clicks her tongue. <span class="mu-s">"I've ever been hugged before, even. This is new. Weird."</span> UNSTABLE chuckles to herself. <span class="mu-s">"Regardless."</span>
<span class="mu-s">"I'm the thoughts that everyone has in their darkest moments. You just had the poor luck of not being born to a rich Nest. So you couldn't let me free or to find a healthy way to manage my existence. I'm just, well, this. And I doubt I can ever be anything else."</span>
"Will you remember this? If this world vanishes?"
<span class="mu-s">"Maybe. Maybe not."</span>
"I guess it doesn't matter." You rest your head on her chest. Your body's turning cold. "You're me. I'm you. Nothing is going to change that." Your consciousness begins to blur. "I'm fine with you not changing. Again, we've been together forever, haven't we? Even if I'm all alone, I still have you and the other three, right."
<span class="mu-s">"No matter what you do, I'll be here. Even when you're alone in the dark. You can look to me for guidance."</span>
"Good." Another growth bursts out of you. It's hard to move your mouth anymore. Yet you can still talk just fine. "I'm glad I could talk to you."
<span class="mu-s">"...ME TOO. SEE YOU ON THE OTHER SIDE."</span> She squeezes you with her arms. You hug her as tightly as you can.
[POI] So be it.
"Yeah. See y-" Everything goes dark.
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https://youtu.be/n5xQlrouNBU - AWAKE
The first thing you notice upon waking up is two things. One, seven silhouettes are standing around you. Two, <span class="mu-r">FUCK YOUR HEAD HURTS FATHER ABOVE, HOLY SPIRIT, HOLY MOTHER. WHAT THE FUCK.</span> Reaching up to touch your head, you feel something hard? Please don't be bone, please don't-
"Yeah." A tinny, feminine voice speaks up. "You should look at this." A mirror is held up to you.