[strikeouts legible if you squint and turn your head slightly]

[rope-victim.livejournal.com]

Sleep, priestess, lie in peace
Sleep, priestess, lie in peace
If you cry, the boat you'll ride
The last trip to the other side
Once You get there, sacred marks you'll bear
They shall be peeled off, should you fail to lie still

Sleep, priestess, lie in peace
Sleep, priestess, lie in peace
If the priestess wakes from her dream
Perform the Rite of Stakes, her limbs pinned tight
Lest the doors open wide and suffering unleashed on all.

Has anyone heard this before? I don't want it to just be me.

Before I came here, we were doing research on people, survivors, that vanished within weeks of their various accidents. They said the only thing remaining of the survivors was a fine soot mark where ever they'd been standing last. It was... part of an article my mentor was doing for a magazine. Part of the Mansion of Sleep urban legend? The lullaby/punishment song, if you can call it that, is supposedly the song you hear when you go there.

I used to hear this song when I slept, but I've been

Seeing as we have our own tattooed lady... does anyone else think it could be the same? Maybe I'm grasping at straws but... I don't want to think of any more sacrificial rituals...

Comments

[mizuhomaiden.livejournal.com]

That sounds really creepy.

-Sheena

[rope-victim.livejournal.com]

You have no idea.

[mizuhomaiden.livejournal.com]

You'll have to tell me about it sometime. You know... when it's still light out.

[rope-victim.livejournal.com]

Are you sure? It's kind of scary.

[mizuhomaiden.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm sure. I'm Mizuho. Ninja don't get scared.



Just make sure we're in the Sun Room where it's nice and bright.

[rope-victim.livejournal.com]

Well, never say never. There's always something that scares someone. Believe me, I know.


We'll even sit in a sunbeam.

[mizuhomaiden.livejournal.com]

Oh, I know what scares me, when I'm being not a ninja, but I don't think the creepy house thing is going to come close. We'll just have to see.


Maybe we can get one of those kittens to cuddle and stuff in the nice sunbeam.

[rope-victim.livejournal.com]

I promise to tell it as honestly and convincingly as it was relayed to me by the entire nursing staff.


Oh, I love them. They're very lazy little kittens.

[mizuhomaiden.livejournal.com]

Awesome! Find me sometime. I'm average height with purplish-black hair in a ponytail that kind sticks wherever it wants and... ummm... big breasts.

I'm pretty easy to pick out of a crowd.

[rope-victim.livejournal.com]

I'm... short, in comparison to most people here. Dark hair and I keep my hair in a loose kind of bun. I'll be the one with the tall, brown haired man with the cross-scar on his jaw, usually.

I'll be sure to find you, Sheena!

[mizuhomaiden.livejournal.com]

See you when you do!

[grosse-sklaven.livejournal.com]

...tell me about this 'tattooed lady'?

[rope-victim.livejournal.com]

The woman in that's nude, save a pair of hakama? She says, "I don't want to see anymore" and when she touches you, you get them too. That tattooed lady.

[grosse-sklaven.livejournal.com]

Yes, that tattooed lady.

[rope-victim.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid I don't know much about her - she wasn't in the legends I researched, and considering the survivors were all spirited away through the years...

Did she touch you?

[grosse-sklaven.livejournal.com]

...yes, she did.

[rope-victim.livejournal.com]

...May I...

May I see it?

[grosse-sklaven.livejournal.com]

It isn't visible during the day. We might be able to meet at night.

[rope-victim.livejournal.com]

That's fine with me, mister, just tell me who you are and where you'd like to meet.

[grosse-sklaven.livejournal.com]

Adel. We can meet at M22; I'll be waiting there for awhile anyway.

[rope-victim.livejournal.com]

I'll tell the person who will be coming with me, provided nothing goes wrong.

[unsigned]

[idolism]

Still doing your research, Miku-chan?

[rope-victim.livejournal.com]

Always.

[idolism]

You know where to find your one avid fan.

[rope-victim.livejournal.com]

I know.