a simple question; (cw: death/dying discussion)

[icanhearscreams]

[An unsigned note appears on the bulletin board, written in extremely neat handwriting. There's a few smudges on it from erased lines, as if the author wrote it over and over again.]

Is anyone else here dead?

[Just five words. No signature. He'll see how this turns out.]

Comments

[birdchasingecho]

was in the process of choking out.

[icanhearscreams]

Rough way to go. ... No way out of that one?

[birdchasingecho]

I was a little busy at the time to really see if there was anyone to save me. In hindsight, I'm not even sure if the perpetrator wanted to kill me. But whether I will have survived or not is not in my power to see.

[unsheathedfromreality]

Yes.

[Also no signature.]

[icanhearscreams]

At least I'm not the only one. It's weird when people insist I'm not.

[ohaiyo_isekai]

Possibly. Even probably. Answering that question is one of my top priories.

[icanhearscreams]

... How do you not know?

[aetherialshackles]

It's complicated? My death was imminent but I don't remember actually dying.

[icanhearscreams]

So there was a chance.

I remember fading away.

[knockingatthedoor]

Nooot my first run as kidnapped in another world.

People who died in their original place who were brought back to life... Weren't that rare.

I am pretty alive tho. Like. Super alive.

[icanhearscreams]

Good for you.

[Bitter? Nah, he's not bitter.]

Where I'm from, the dead don't get to come back.

[steelfeathered]

Are you a spirit, or do you have a seeming of life? Breathing etc?

[Also no signature but her usual style, the ink brush with the calligraphic aspect, is undisguised.]

[icanhearscreams]

I can't go through things or anything. I'm breathing, but I know I was stopping breathing when I came here.

[awreck]

I dunno. I think it depends on whether I hit the ground or not. I ended up here before I could find out.

[icanhearscreams]

... Are you okay with that? If you did, I mean.

[dovedive]

[ Since this seems rather anonymous. Have an equally nice handwriting in return. ]

I wasn't completely sure when I arrived until I found someone from home in this library. He gave me the news that I in fact was gone.

[icanhearscreams]

I see. Maybe someone from my world will show up... but I don't really need anyone else to let me know I'm gone. I knew the price I was paying.

[hellandbackpack]

Going on 35 years now, yeah.

[icanhearscreams]

... You've been here that long?

[silkwaltz]

No? As far as I am aware, I am quite alive?

[icanhearscreams]

I see. There's a lot of people here who aren't, apparently.

It's just strange, having that mix. If it was all one or the other it would make sense, but...

[holiestlove]

No, I was quite alive.

[icanhearscreams]

Well there's at least another person who's alive. At least I'm pretty sure this isn't the afterlife, now.

Pretty sure.

[telecosmetic]

Well, I'm alive now, but I've died before? And gotten revived after that.

[icanhearscreams]

Mind explaining how that's possible?