(RESHARE IGNORE PLEASE) DTAE (2/4 (I think)

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Original share date: Aug 4 2023 YALL I ACCIDENTALLY UNSHARED THIS AND IT'S A LILAC DTAE INSTALLMENT I CAN'T JUST KEEP IT UNSHARED SO TAKE IT AND IGNORE IT PLSPLSPLS Song credits belong to K.Flay Probably gonna do the AMV to the song Past Lives by BORNS cause it sorta fits Lilac + Lily Mkay, backstory pt 2, lets go! (I lost motivation, so it's kind of short) The song has basically no symbolism, I'm just reallyreallyreally obsessed with it right now ... Everything around me was black. That was the first thing I discerned when I woke up. I didn't know exactly how, One minute I was out cold, the next I was staggering to my feet to look around. The entire place was midnight black, but as my eyes adjusted, I could make out... some sort of floor. And someone sitting right in front of me. "GAH!!!!!" I jumped about two feet in the air and scurried back. "You might not want to do that." I stopped and turned around. "Why?" The stranger tilted their head and smiled. (Or at least, I think they did. Their entire body and face was hazy and indiscernible, but there was something about the way the haze shifted that gave the impression of a smile.) They were obviously a cat, with very long tufted ears and a tail, but that was all I could make out. "Because if you do, the void will consume you, and you will essentially be deleted from the universe, and that would be very inconvenient for both of us." I slowly turned my back to the void and paced forward. I would have spoken, asked something, but my throat was stuck. The only thing I could choke out was, "Am I dying?" The stranger flicked their tail. "Essentially. The flyer you picked up? It allowed me to call you here. You are dead, in a way." "That's confusing." I swung my head back and forth a few times. Nothing happened, nothing appeared. "Are you, like... some sort of god? How did you get me here? Why am I here?" The cat grinned, exposing a flash of white. "They always ask that! Well, I can give that answer, at least." She (he? they? couldn't tell) stood up. "I'm rebooting you, and your plane of existence too." A cold feeling entered the tips of my paws and started spreading upwards. "How? Why?" The stranger, who had been smiling before, suddenly stopped. A somber look entered their face. "Because it went wrong again." They tilted their face upward, as if contemplating something. "It keeps going wrong." For a moment, the haze that was their face shifted, expressing a single emotion. Sadness? But it was gone as soon as it came, and the stranger snapped their head back to look at me. "I'm trying to fix it, you see. But I couldn't this time. So, I'm trying again. Sending you back." My eyebrow furrowed. That answer had only brought more questions. "Sending me back? Like to my life as a homeless person?" The cat was smiling again. "Nope. That plane of reality has been terminated. I'm putting you in a new one." I staggered back, fully hit with the force of that realization. "Terminated?" "Yep. It's gone. And so will this memory, as well as every other one you've ever had." I could feel myself slipping away, beginning to fall to the ground. "...Wait..." The stranger became even hazier as my vision blurred. "Very sorry about this. But hey, at least your life wasn't exactly worth living." And for the umpteenth time in this story, I blacked out.