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let's set d o w n some ([personal profile] groundrules) wrote in [community profile] lostcompass 2022-01-26 08:01 pm (UTC)

Right you are, thanks for confirming —

— Jon physically disappears from the lighthouse once he is dragged into the mirror. He will be absent for what feel like two-five minutes for Five, Daenerys and the group. Jon himself will feel he has spent somewhere closer to a few days within

— the mirror territory is the equivalent of vast, unpopulated cosmic space, with the only tactile sensation being that of (often broken) glass beneath his feet; now and then, the landscape changes, and Jon sees around him a slightly shallower aquatic dark, along with a scattered dappling of light high above

— at first, Jon 'drifts' throughout, feeling watched by something in the deeper dark. The pale man is no longer with him. The only human 'presence' are fragments of various voices that sometimes fill the space. Over time, Jon can hear: 'will not take more than you can give,' 'don't,' 'subjects fourteen, thirty-nine, fifty-two, eighty-eight', 'this isn't what we were supposed to do,' 'if Taravast takes lead,' 'did you hear me? Do you even listen?', 'which floor?', 'one time, once only,' 'you can give everyone the choice she never had', 'what would he do', 'left, he just left,' 'what would you do for it?' 'take it, take it,' run,' 'have to do what he couldn't,' 'death is only a choice,' 'hundreds, and they're ready,' ''don't let them in,' 'our only hope,' 'this isn't who we are,' 'only have to wish it done,' 'I had a dream last night.'

— these voices seem otherly, echoed and strange, as if the mirror-void is replicating sounds it has heard before

— Although Jon possesses and senses his body, he cannot move it — but he is fully aware when whatever waits in the dark begins to claw and tear at his flesh, which quickly replenishes and prevents permanent damage despite the ceaseless torture. There is not much that Jon can do against the amorphous, mute creature, beyond withstand its onslaught. It has no shape, gives no sound, offers no identifiable marks — it simply is, and seems to covet ownership of Jon's body

— sometimes, the dark infiltrates Jon's flesh as a second presence that is quickly expelled out; during these periods, Jon feels the cold, alien and overwhelming sensation of something plastering as much as it can to the inside of his body. Without communicating with the creature, Jon can feel that what it wants is shape

— he reappears on the floor beside the mirror, following Drogon's attack. On his back, there are deep lines of scratching, already starting to heal (up to you if you prefer for them to scar). Beyond the torture, Jon feels a bone-deep terror of being alone for a few days

— for at least three days (extending to however long a period you choose), Jon will intermittently see complete and utter void-dark when he looks into a mirror

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