Live and Die in the Abyss

Lillian Labelle part of WellspringSkies

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A humble thank you| Lillian & Luna

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   Luna had been laying on her bed, idly checking her phone when she heard the sudden knock at her apartment door.A quick look of confusion crossed her small face as she tried to recall if she was expecting any visitors.

   Walking up to the door, she opened it slightly, revealing the face of a young woman. The brunette stranger seemed friendly, so Luna responded by further opening the door to meet her. 

              “ Hello? Uhm, if you’re selling something i’m really not interested —”

Lillian met the confused gaze of the pink-haired girl. “Hello, don’t worry I’m not here to sell you anything.” She began, “I’m actually an employee of the ARG...”

“I wanted to...personally thank you for finding and donating the key you found. It’s very important.” Especially important to Lillian herself.

She held out the bag of cookies to Luna. “I wanted to give you these cookies I baked as a thank you. Please accept them if you’d like.”

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A humble thank you| Lillian & Luna

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She had gotten the girl’s address from the ARG. Honestly, Lillian truly wanted to thank her for finding the key and helping them all get closer to their goal of opening that god-forsaken door in the abyss.

Part of Lillian hoped she didn’t seem too intimidating, she had a bad case of resting bitch face, but the other part of her didn’t really care. Maybe the gift she brought would...help?

The brunette explorer had baked cookies and packed them in a cloth bag to give to Luna. She’d never really met this girl before, but still. She had to be thanked.

Taking a breath, Lillian knocked on the door to Luna’s house.

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The Door - A Response || Closed

The blood in Lillian’s veins ran ice cold as she read over the guild’s announcement for the seventh time in a row. The day she had lost her parents was still clear and fresh in her mind as if it had happened yesterday and not ten years ago.

Finally. Finally after an entire decade of waiting, that accursed door had finally appeared again.

She had to prepare.

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Not a Sound

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“The monsters talk-” Abigail breathed, spooked. Then she realized her stupidity. With a laugh, she leaned over the edge so far she could’ve toppled in. It gave her a better way to yell down to the person she had been pummeling with debris. “Sorry, I was…” Littering? “Sorry! I didn’t realize anyone was down there. I was trying to see how far I could toss things!”

It was definitely a cop-out response, but she didn’t want to sound like a litterer. Even if it was what she had been doing. The purple-haired girl had an apologetic smile on her face as she discarded the rest of the trash right near the edge of the Abyss, as if she could cover up her misdeeds.

Lillian glared at the girl, but was honestly relieved it was just a person.

With a sigh, the brunette put her knife away and looked away for a moment, shaking her head. “You really shouldn’t do that.” She said in a loud, clear voice. Looking back at the purple-haired girl, Lillian frowned. “What if you had pissed off one of the more dangerous flying monsters?! Or if you had hit someone!” Or worse.

“Eugh.” Lillian pinched the bridge of her nose, right between her eyebrows. Fucking Civilians. Lillian thought angrily, assuming that the guilty party was not part of the explorers guild.

“Just don’t do it again. Okay?” She made sure to make eye contact, her gaze narrowing.

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Abigail heard someone speak, then froze. Did someone actually know she was littering in the abyss? She tilted her head. Maybe it was just her imagination. Her blue eyes shifted back and forth as she made sure she was alone. Nope, not a soul was wandering the area.

She had a few more pieces of garbage- an old can, a piece of driftwood. Certainly no one would know there was a serial litterer above the abyss- it was too dark in there, and no one was visibly around on the surface.

With an overly confident air, she swiftly tossed the can into the abyss.

“It would be so cool if a monster got angry and flew up,” Abigail murmured to herself, her imagination running away with her as she readied her driftwood for launch. If she could witness a monster up close on the surface- the stories she could tell! Well, of course, she’d leave out the part of taunting the monster with trash snowballs.

Lillian’s skin crawled and her hair prickled. Her heart pounded harder in her chest when she saw something flying down out of the corner of her eye again.

“SHOW YOURSELF!” She shouted, eyes narrowing. With any luck it was just a pseudo dragon, or perhaps even something small like a wooly that would have been scared off by her loud voice.

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An Off Day || Lillian & Dia

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“Yeah I know. I’m just tired of getting cross division work.” Dia pressed the heels of her palm against her eyes and sighed, trying to forget how much work she had to do over the week, “There are a few new translators, but they’re still fresh.” 

Her hands slid down her face and she glanced over at Lillian, “Find any cute pseudos at least? I’ve been thinking about trying to take one in. There are these cute little raven type ones that hang out with me on my lunch break. I taught them how to say hi.”

Lillian shook her head. “Nah, nothing new yet. The only out of the ordinary pseudos i’ve seen so far are just some oddly colored cat variants.” She thought for a moment before continuing the conversation. “I did see some weird fruit-like creature down in the abyss though. It was mimicking a banana and when i reached for it it scurried away.” 

“I’ll have to see if i can’t find it again.” Lillian shrugged. “A raven type Pseudo would suit you to have as a pet though. Hell,” she smirked, “Maybe you could even teach one to help you translate. They’ll probably be better at it than the newbies are if you’re teaching ‘em.”

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When Abigail got off work, she usually spent a good portion of her evening wandering around the circumference of the abyss. It was a pretty long walk, and she spent most of it with her eyes on the darkness in the center.

Tonight, as she made her way around on her brisk walk she tripped on someone’s abandoned trash. Just a crumpled up piece of paper. An idea popped into her head as she looked around the cobblestone walkway, and found another piece of junk- just some ore someone had tossed aside.

As she collected her junk, she pursed her lips and looked strangely determined. With a quick march she had brought her several trash items to the side of the abyss. Her blue eyes glanced side to side as she made sure no one was watching. It wouldn’t be good if someone saw what she was doing for fun after hours- she didn’t want to be known as a litter bug.

When she was positive no one had their eyes on her, she took a larger piece of junk ore and then tossed it as far as she could into the abyss. She watched it fall, dully glimmering and then disappearing into the black veil.

“…no sound,” She whispered, fascinated. It didn’t occur to her even if it did hit, she probably wouldn’t hear a sound- it was too far away.

And it was getting rid of the trash, right?

Further. Just a little further. Lillian was almost home, her backpack full of the more common treasures of the abyss. She promised Dia she’d be back after three days and like hell she’d break her promises. She chose not to dive down too deep this time.

Taking a deep breath, she found herself about six feet away from the surface. She was able to see the top, but not quite reach it. of course the slope up ahead would help her get up top but if she was really impatient she could always just climb up the side of the cliff.

It was then she noticed something fly past her. Freezing, she quickly pulled out a knife strapped to her leg, brandishing it with a glare and looking around.

Whatever flew by seemed to come from overhead - maybe it was a person..? unless a monster came up above while she was gone??

“Is someone there!?” 

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An Off Day || Lillian & Dia

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“Well you can learn to translate. That’ll probably help.” Dia sighed, sinking into her arm chair as they spent their idle afternoon together doing nothing, “I’ve mostly been uncovering like… receipts. And a few personal letters between ancient Abyssians but other than that it’s been pretty dull.” 

“Well we’re also waiting on an adventurer to bring in a few live subjects of the floor 12 hornets. I gotta figure out how similar they are to their surface counterparts…” Dia sighed, looking over at Lillian, “You find anything new in your recent descents?” 

“Dee you know languages aren’t my strong point.” Lillian sat upright and sighed.

“I’d probably mess up the translations big time and just make more work for you.” She folded her hands in her lap and then looked towards her best friend. “I haven’t found anything spectacular, just the usual pottery shards and odd carcass or two of deceased animal or pseudo dragon.”

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An Off Day || Lillian & Dia

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“Have you found anything new?” Was the first sentence to come out of Lillian’s mouth in a long while. She was lying down on the couch she and Dia shared in their apartment, a book resting on her chest. The book was opened to a random page, but it was unread and was only lying there in case Lillian felt like actually picking it back up.

She sighed, “Sorry if I’m being annoying, asking about it. But like...let me know if I can help or anything.”

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