There are only two truths.
it's cold out. (click-replace: "it's cold out.")[ (color: "#2bc5d6")[it's cold out, ]
and
nothing exists (click-replace: "nothing exists")[(color: "purple")[nothing exists.] ]
Which means it is all you can do to put one foot in front of the other, and [[walk.]]
]
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really, (click: "really,")[
what is there but (link: "snow?")[(color: "#28c8e0")[snow?]
[[nothing.]] ]
]
there is nothing.
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you walk.
[[down]] [[left]]
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(color: "black")[ there is a road below the hill.]
[[hitchhike]]
[[go back]]
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and the road is [[long.]]
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(link: "and the road is blinding.")[(color: "black")[so you wonder,
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(elseif: $var is 10)[
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]you stumble to church. the time is stopped on it's clock.
<div id="center">you stumble in front of god.</div>
the air smells like smoke.
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a long time ago, mom wouldn't have liked this plan.
(link: "too bad,")[there is nobody now. only snow.(click-replace: "snow.")[(color: "#28c8e0")[snow.]] and nothing.(click-replace: "nothing.")[(color: "purple")[nothing.]]
you raise a happy thumb. the driver sees [[you.]] ]
(link: "the steps you followed back led nowhere")[
(link: "the steps you followed back weren't yours.")[
you are [[lost.]]
<div id="right"> or, at least, more lost than before. </div>
]]
you walk in (link-repeat:"|this>[a]")[(replace:?this)[(print: $place's 1st)](set:$place to(rotated:1, ...$place))] direction.
(set:$place to (a:
"any",
"a random",
"some",
"a hopeless"))
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your (link-repeat:"|this>[body is tired.]")[(replace:?this)[(print: $place's 1st)](set:$place to(rotated:1, ...$place))]
(set:$place to (a:
"legs waver.",
"lungs ache.",
"body trembles.",
"entire being is frost bitten"))
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(if: $va is 5)[
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(elseif: $va is 6)[(stop:) [[breathe.]]
]]
you feel sickness bubbling inside; teetering the endless woods back and forth and back and forth and ba
there is vibration underneath your feet.
[[investigate->trains?]]
can you really help (link-repeat:"|this>[it]")[(replace:?this)[(print: $thing's 1st)](set:$thing to(rotated:1, ...$thing))]?
maybe you like the thrill,
<div id="right">you like being [[scared?]]</div>
(set:$thing to (a:
"yourself",
"it",
))Double-click this passage to edit it.
besides,
what else would you turn to?
the voice is small but gruff. [["get in the car."]]
you oblige.
the backseat is hard. the driver says its from age and wear.
but this feeling only comes from heaviness.
[[the car grumbles along.]]
"...do you remember who you are?"
[[i have a name]]
[[i have a body]] (set: $name to (prompt: "the name that makes you respond;","Ezgi"))
"...of course. $name."
(link: "I don't want to talk to you,")[ "I don't want to talk to you," you say.
the driver man smiles. "but you will. it is how the story goes."
[[...->oh]]
]
"There is no body that exists independently of thought."
the man never wavers from his driving. you think about correcting him.
there's no value in telling him you know the truths. your teeth clink shut.
"...you must have a [[name.->i have a name]]"
<div id="right"> the man is right. </div>
he is the feeling of being sick. the forceful jolt of ejecting your organs.
"(link: "$name,")[$name, I know you recognize me, too."
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"...do you still like colors? I can (link-repeat:"|this>[change]")[(replace:?this)[(print: $ch's 1st)](set:$ch to(rotated:1, ...$ch))] for you."
his words were always this sticky sweet. a liquid sugar mess that would drown even the most stubborn of flies. you can imagine the person you used to be.
he still sees you the way you forgot. so **sad** he hasn't figured out the truths. all colours look the same next to him.
[[red]]
[[blue]]
[[green]]
[[purple]]
[[orange]]
(set:$ch to (a:
"hcange",
"ehangc",
"hcange",
"gchean",
"nheacg",
))(set: $col to it + 1)
"(color: "red")[**Red?** You mean the colour of blood and human sore?]"
(link: "...")[(link: "you don't know what to say.")[(link: "**...**")[(link: "he'll never change for you.")[
" (color: "red")[Try again,]" he says, "(color: "red")[Get it //right//.] "
[[...]]
]]]] (set: $col to it + 1)
"(color: "#0b74bf")[**Blue?** You mean the colour of dead lips and drowned women?]"
(link: "...")[(link: "you don't know what to say.")[(link: "**...**")[(link: "he'll never change for you.")[
" (color: "#0b74bf")[Try again,]" he says, "(color: "#0b74bf")[Get it //right//.] "
[[...]]
]]]] (set: $col to it + 1)
"(color: "green")[**Green?** You mean the colour of infection and inevitable death?]"
(link: "...")[(link: "you don't know what to say.")[(link: "**...**")[(link: "he'll never change for you.")[
" (color: "green")[Try again,]" he says, "(color: "green")[Get it //right//.] "
[[...]]
]]]] (set: $col to it + 1)
"(color: "purple")[**Purple?** You mean the colour of broken blood and screaming?]"
(link: "...")[(link: "you don't know what to say.")[(link: "**...**")[(link: "he'll never change for you.")[
" (color: "purple")[Try again,]" he says, "(color: "purple")[Get it //right//.] "
[[...]]
]]]] (set: $col to it + 1)
"(color: "orange")[**Orange?** You mean the colour of misfortune and dying cough?]"
(link: "...")[(link: "you don't know what to say.")[(link: "**...**")[(link: "he'll never change for you.")[
" (color: "orange")[Try again,]" he says, "(color: "orange")[Get it //right//.] "
[[...]]
]]]]
get it right, $name.
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[[red]]
[[blue]]
[[green]]
[[purple]]
[[orange]]
(if: $col > 2)[
[[yellow]] ] (color: "yellow")["Of course,"] he says. (color: "yellow")["Of course I know how to change."]
but there is only (link: "snow.")[him.
(text-style: "superscript")[nothing.]
(click-replace: "nothing.")[and nothing.]
the car grumbles steady. the man is what you remember him to be. your reaction to it is different.
if he notices, he doesn't say.
(color: "yellow")["We're almost there."]
[[yellow is a happy colour.]] ]Double-click this passage to edit it.