*we should take a page from brackets book for a moment and change our perspective
*italics ? what do you think happened to that mad swap!brackets
*the one that ran off into the woods a few years ago
[i...] [dont know]
[invis gently brushed against the mostly inactive portal to exclamania] [making it transparent enough to be seen through and refocused on that lost fool]
*the version of brackets who's lost access to their name hunched over over a patch of ground
*repeatedly pressing mana into it
*desperate to revive it
*desperate to go home, to their john
*their mana ripping right back into them every time
*starting to cry as they poured another mana potion over the ground, not seeing the portal home infront of them
[just as foolish as john would be under this strain]
*the portal appeared to their vision but they're face down on the ground sobbing and pretending they're not upset at the same time
*but someone tried to reach through the other side, the portal spluttering from lack of mana
[they slammed the near empty glass bottle on the ground] [shattering it and feeding a splash of their blood and mana potion to the portal]
*suddenly feeding the portal enough for someone they care for, maybe their timelines sel or john, to snap forward and scruff them too fast to really see
*pulling their sad sloppingly wet self into the portal before it closed again