Move along, move along just to make it through

[cloversandcranes]

WHO: Makoto, OTA
WHAT: THE BOY IS BACK! And is feeling super confused and guilty.
WHERE: The Village in the Marsh.
WHEN: Sometime before the sleepover
WARNINGS Guilt, bad memories, attempted abduction



Hope of Morning

[Waving goodbye to the Ferryman before entering the village, Makoto's small and tired smile falls as he looks around at the huts. He tried to not show it to the Ferryman but he feels awful for getting lost and leaving the group. After all, he had chewed out Nagito for doing so and he hadn't been lost for as long as Makoto was! How did he even get lost so thoroughly?! He swears he just went out for a quick look!

Sighing to himself, he shakes his head before moving deeper into the village, looking around for anyone he knows. As he looks, he calls in a small and hesitant voice to anyone who might hear him.]

Komeda-kun? Frieda-san? Anyone here? It's me. I-I'm back.

[Oh he hopes the others have been okay without him. He hopes they didn't worry too much about him. Especially Nagito and Sunny. He had promised them that he'd never leave them. Another promise broken Makoto. He shakes off that whisper that threatens to drown him in memories as he waits for a response.]


100 bad days

[Makoto opens his eyes groggily as he feels the ground sway, grumpily grumbling to himself about what has woken him. He was having a good rest unlike usual! No nightmares or anything! Tempted to forget about it, he closes his eyes again when the ground moved again. What is it this time? Forcing himself up, he looks around the hut and sleepily watches as the shadows on the wall continue swaying. Why was it swaying?

Turning to look out the door, his eyes widens as he sees the outside slowly move past the door. What?! Now wide awake, he scrambles to get to his feet as he feels the sways increase in length and speed. Rushing to the door, he looks outside and gasps when he sees the village slowly getting farther away from him.]

What the?! H-Help!


Aftermath

[After his rather stressful wake up call, Makoto can be found looking at the small huttlets fondly if exasperatedly as he watches them play together. Chuckling when he sees two roughhouse and then squabble amongst themselves, he hums in amusement as he hears someone approach him.]

They're much cuter when they're not trying to abduct me.

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[fantail]

[idk if Sakuya apped in before hiatus but it's funnier if Makoto's never seen him before.

A white dove perched on a roof turns to look critically in his direction, then shakes out its wings and starts to follow. It is, in fact, a frankly enormous creature that could stand about half as tall as a human and has a wingspan in the vicinity of eight feet. And is headed... right at him...]

Make way!

[did I mention he sounds almost exactly like a teenaged (human) boy with a fairly deep voice? If Makoto backs up out of the doorway in time, Sakuya will fold his wings in time to land there, otherwise he'll beat his wings furiously to veer off and have to circle back. The walking hut absolutely senses his approach and swivels.]

hope of morning

[blindluck]

[Nagito doesn't generally sleep in the afterlife, now that he doesn't have to. He's also taken it upon himself to do all of the cleaning in the house they've all decided to stay in, unless someone else gets to it first. This is why, only a few moments after Makoto speaks, Nagito bolts out of one of the houses with his hair tied up in a ponytail, a mop, and a slowly spreading pool of soapy water from a tipped over bucket in his wake.]

Naegi-sama!

[Makoto is here. Makoto is back. He was patient and he waited and Makoto came back.]

aftermath

[hasapoint]

I don't know, they're still a little unsettling.

[Need was passing by carrying a big half-rotted chunk of wood, but pauses, looking Makoto over frankly.]

You got got, huh?

Hope of Morning (CW: implied hallucination)

[solitarynote]

[Sunny spent most of his time around the communal hut that they all decided to share. It’s mostly empty at this time of day, the others having gone searching or outside (or Nagito is most likely cleaning??), so when Sunny hears that voice cut through the book he was reading…

Well, he thought it was a hallucination at first.

After all, the owner of the voice had been missing for so long, and the mist liked to play tricks on people…

But then it rings out again. And again. And again - little hesitant calls for people familiar to them both, which has Sunny closing his book and heading for the doorway.

His head pops out of the entryway door just as Makoto seems to walk by.]

…

[Sunny stares, one eye blinking in almost disbelief (the other is covered by a white cloth - one of the ripped edges of an extra bedsheet, as the orange scrap of Kel’s shirt is drying). Then…]

…! [That’s actually Makoto, right?!]

100 Bad Days

[toilet_bound]

[When Hanako hears Makoto’s frantic scream for help, he pops his head into the doorway… from the other room.]

Ah, don’t worry about it! It’s just going for a stroll~

[The hut. Going for a stroll. Totally normal according to the ghost boy. He’d been searching for supplies and had heard the other teen enter, fall asleep, and… hadn’t said anything. Oh well!]