1. from where you are …

You get the sense that you've done this before. From where you are, you have the sense that if you try, you can make it where you need to-

Just hurry and take their hand and shove, shove, shove-

Aiba's alive, right?

You think a pain, or feel it. This world isn't real and from where you are it seems like that doesn't matter because it hurts so much.

Find us.

Find us.

Find who, find what, why-

failure to log out.

Failure to log out.

Connection established.

There's someone else you don't remember at the edge of your brain, the failure brain that's so good at ticking but not good at tocking.

You've done fucked up, haven't you?


A/N: And there's the one f-bomb I will probably get away with. So, before anyone is like: Oh, I was planning to do this too, I made a joke about it to a friend while he was helping someone out with their story the other day and I was like: this wouldn't go well, Arata is not a healthy or a happy person and the MC is somewhat, how would this even go? So I started it. Here's what came out of it.

Challenges: Titles Set Boot Camp 12. Destiny Blues, AU Set Boot Camp 13. age-swap/destiny-swap/partner-swap/relatives-swap/role-swap! AU, what if challenge with 'What if Arata was the one taken by the Eater?', and Diversity Writing Challenge G42. write a fic that explores the quest for happiness