entranceway | Astral Destruction

[ Clementine and Mae appear on the screen. It’s a little girl and a cat girl. They’re standing in a room on the first floor. Clem has a crowbar in her hand, slung over her shoulder. Mae has her trusty baseball bat and a very cat-that-got-the-canary grin on her face.]

Hey, so… Mae told me about how she breaks shit sometimes and how it’s… cathartic? [ that’s the word she used, right? ] And I tried it with a light bulb. It felt pretty damn awesome so we thought it might be cool to have an official place where people could break stuff whenever they needed to deal with bullshit.

[Mae immediately picks up the thread, grinning wide.]

So we are super effing pleased to introduce…The Destruction Room.

[She pans the camera over to the sign on the door. It’s generic and straight to the point. Then she pans the camera around to take in the room. There’s rows of shelves filled with china plates, vases, glass figurines and other fragile-looking items. Along the walls are dozens of light fixtures and free-standing lamps, as well as just a metric ton of lightbulbs, both fluorescent and incandescent. All of it is very precariously displayed and it looks like it wouldn’t take much to just knock some of these shelves right over.]

Isn’t it amazing? We stocked it with everything that could possibly go smash.

[Clementine gestures then to have Mae pan the camera toward the wall on the side which has a giant weapon rack with every blunt weapon imaginable from bats to maces to hammers and more. ]

Over on this wall, we’ve got every blunt weapon you can think of so you can really make the breakables crack into a hundred awesome pieces. Also, it’s on the first floor, room 4 so if you hit yourself in the foot or get glass stuck in your arm or something, the clinic’s right next door.

Yeah, we pretty much thought of everything. Because we’re awesome.

[Mae holds out her hand to Clementine for a high-five. Clementine leans over, high fiving her back, with a smile. Totally awesome. ]

Anyway, yeah, come on down and get your smash on. Work out some of that pre-event anxiety or whatever.

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You'd think they would be anyway.

( Not everyone is though, but it's not like they can stop them. )

It is. The glass shatters under your weapon, and it feels really good. ( It's not like with Carver when- when. That was satisfying too, and it wasn't an object, was it? She doesn't think about it though. She just thinks of smashing light bulbs. )

I've honestly never tried breaking stuff just to break stuff.

[Though he'd be lying if he said that destroying things didn't make him feel good enough that he sometimes feels a bit guilty about it.]

Now there's a room to do exactly that if you ever want to give it a try.

When I was really- ( Clementine doubts she has a word to wrap up all her fucked up feelings, which resulted her making in that anonymous post not long ago. ) It helped me. Also, it's just really satisfying.

[He smiles a little at that admission, but it's a somewhat more gentle expression than before. Not so much that he thinks he needs to be gentle with her as that he feels like he's found something in common.]

I can understand that, I think. I went through some tough things once and beating up on stuff helped.

Yeah?

( Clementine smiles too if only because she can recognize it, finding something in common with another person. She can be very destructive. She has so much rage and violence in her. It helps to find people who feel the same even if she gets she shouldn't- shouldn't feel the way she does. ) Sorry about the tough things you went through, but I get it.

I mean, I get how sometimes using your fists or whatever helps.

Same here. With the sorry, I mean.

[It's not really the funnest place to be, and it can be hard to get out of. He feels a bit sad that she's that young and in a place like that, but he's not all that old himself.]

It doesn't always help, but it does take the edge off sometimes.

Thanks.

( Clementine swallows and slides a hand behind her neck. She nods then after a moment. )

Sometimes taking the edge off is what you need... so it doesn't get worse, y'know? I tried drinking too. Mostly that just helped me to be more open than usual.

Yeah? I haven't really drunk much. Not enough to get drunk, anyway. I'm having a hard time getting a taste for it.

It burns a lot. It helps putting it in coke sometimes, but yeah. It burns. Not as bad as Moonshine. Someone gave that to me once, and I thought I was gonna choke.

...It's probably for the best you don't like the taste of it.

Why keep drinking it if it's not good? Just for the feeling?

[He gets that.]

Yeah, for the feeling.

It kind of numbs stuff, which is dangerous if things are dangerous. You want to be alert, and it's impossible to when you're drinking.

[He nods slowly.]

Not to sound judgemental, but you're pretty young to drink, right?

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I'm eleven so yeah. Pretty young.

You know the last event with the walkers? That's my world. Drinking's hardly the worst thing I've done.

[He makes a sympathetic sound.]

I can see why you might want to take the edge off.

( Clementine winces apologetically. She presses her fingertips to her neck with a wince. She never wanted- never wanted to reveal so much of herself. )

Yeah. I'm okay. There's just a lot of shit going on. ( She shakes her head. )

Same for me at home. Different stuff, but a lot going on.

What kind of a lot?

You don't have to say if you don't want to, but. I'll listen. I get it.

No it's fine. It's just going to sound kind of crazy.

The world ended and I turned into a demon, and now I'm trying to put the world like it used to be.

...holy shit.

I believe you. I just didn't- ( expect that. )

Do you... like being a demon?

Don't worry about it.

[He thinks, given his appearance, it's easy to believe him. But it's still a pretty shocking thing to say.]

I like it alright. I kind of miss being human, but in some ways it's not that different.

( She's never heard of a demon before, but Wonderland has helped her getting used to so many different types of people. )

Yeah? That's good that it's not that different at least in some ways. Can you like do cool super powered stuff as a demon?

I can! It's mostly pretty destructive, but I can heal, too.

Woah. Both of those things are really awesome. None of that even exists in my world. I mean, like powers either destructive or healing.

What does exist in your world?

[He's found that, in general, everyone's got something out of the ordinary going on.]

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