[The silence is indeed one without pressure or strain. Calm before the storm, as the saying goes. The soothing lull is almost too much, for how peaceful everything in this shrine is. A side effect of being situated so closely to the Valley of Innocence, perhaps? Unfortunately, that detail has no bearing over the passage of time.
Thus once Carmine is eventually done eating, so ticks away the last second of this terribly brief but also invaluable peace. Ciel has already been feeling the cool, smooth, and indifferent surface of the vial between her fingers beneath the flap of her bag for some time now, and at the other woman's question, finally takes it out into open view. Pinched between her index and thumb, the presented cylinder vial itself is nothing remarkable, but the abyssal liquid inside must be of a color and texture difficult to compare to any known substance on Earth. Like bottled darkness, from that dream of worlds falling apart.]
Please drink this.
[She offers with the same small and patient smile she gave the other woman earlier, over proper food and water. Is it kinder or crueler, to not elaborate further? Not that the verdict would change anything, when everything had already been decided. The Returning Stones will be activated once the vial is drained, and they'll see to the rest somehow one way or another, back at the Achamoth lodestone once the dust settles.
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Thus once Carmine is eventually done eating, so ticks away the last second of this terribly brief but also invaluable peace. Ciel has already been feeling the cool, smooth, and indifferent surface of the vial between her fingers beneath the flap of her bag for some time now, and at the other woman's question, finally takes it out into open view. Pinched between her index and thumb, the presented cylinder vial itself is nothing remarkable, but the abyssal liquid inside must be of a color and texture difficult to compare to any known substance on Earth. Like bottled darkness, from that dream of worlds falling apart.]
Please drink this.
[She offers with the same small and patient smile she gave the other woman earlier, over proper food and water. Is it kinder or crueler, to not elaborate further? Not that the verdict would change anything, when everything had already been decided. The Returning Stones will be activated once the vial is drained, and they'll see to the rest somehow one way or another, back at the Achamoth lodestone once the dust settles.
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