by Miriam Bell » Thu Feb 22, 2024 7:59 pm
Miriam can't tell if the idea was sound but lacking in details or execution, but she can feel the pressure building in the radio tower without any way out of it. At first she thought it maybe clogged, metaphorically speaking, but as things get worse she realizes it's like trying to shove something through a wall. There's no turning Will into airwaves. Maybe something doesn't translate or it's just plain impossible. She can't tell, perhaps having overestimated what she is capable of. It's easy to think she can do whatever she wants when she's working in the medium of thought and Will but that is very clearly not the case.
"Fuck!" Her mental avatar clutches her head as if it might explode with clay. It certainly feels like it might. Why did she undo something that had worked rather than try to repair it. Now there's no calming either of the down enough to replicate the calm mirror lake. She recognizes she's spiraling but can do precious little to stop it. The radio-tower bulges and twists, pulling up and taking the building with it as corridors and hallways and facades climb up around it like vines on a trellis. "There's no room! I don't know how the mirror compressed it all!" she gasps, mind skipping across metaphors. Warehouse full of flat-packed Wills. A tree, branches heavy with fruit that are a more vibrant shade of green than what you'd expect to find in nature. Bits and pieces of Will's factory and town wedging themselves between buildings and gaps on campus. A thick cloud, every drop of rain grey clay and letting out a faint 'Weeee!' as they fall. A garden of yellow-gold flowers with large glowing bulbs. A factory chunking and clunking as it puts together different kinds of Wills, mixing and matching body-parts from countless hoppers going from 'Hero' to 'Dad' to 'Maid' to 'Cowboy' and so forth into more and more specialized and detailed ones.
She seems unable to latch on to any one of them, the increasing urgency and her own failures leaving her unable to tell what, if anything is doable for her.