[Open] The Mark of the Herald

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Mark of the Herald Part I
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Despite certain disruptive events and ominous visions in the preceding month, August is seemingly still free of any problems.

That’s quick to change, however. Starting from the third of the month, strange, circular marks begin to appear on human students around the school - and, indeed, humans around the world. Those affected begin to feel incurably drowsy, something that no magical or mundane solution can seem to cure or relieve; eventually, they’ll fall asleep entirely, whether they want to or not, and enter a state of magical stasis. Not even nonhumans are immune, though whether they’re marked seems to be much more erratic.

Those who remain awake or are otherwise spared by the mark are free to do as they wish - the Academy won’t ask them to do more than keep themselves safe. But where each marked person falls in slumber, a portal will form; a strange tear in reality, offering glimpses of a surreal, nightmarish plane that differs vastly from individual to individual. One thing is certain; the cause of a victim’s seemingly endless sleep and these portals are linked somehow, and the only way to find out exactly how is to go through...and the only ones capable of doing so are those who are still awake.

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[spelleton]

[ He looks between them with a slight frown. ]

Is there a reason why I can choose only one of you? [ He'll follow the rules of the dream - he doesn't think he has any other choice - but, still, he feels he has to ask. ]

[emergensirations]

[The girls break their synchronicity yet again when the girl outside turns a grieving, agonized look on the one in the mirror. The one in the mirror closes her eyes with a quiet resignation, then both look up once more.]

If you choose my exit, she cannot follow through the mirror.

[So says the one inside.]

If you choose to take mine, she can't leave her place.

[So says the one outside.]

A path ahead and a reflection back, but not both. It's not a choice of morality on your part. Neither of us will die. It's simply a choice.