The Problems of Another World

Last Few Days

Trigger Warning: In this chapter there is talk of suicide, and the importance of communicating to those around. I just want to say to everyone thinking suicidal thoughts is to find someone to talk to. There is a number to call if you don't feel comfortable talking to family or friends. That number in America is simple, 988. Please find someone to listen, you are important and loved.

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Otto and his sisters were sitting on the forest floor cross-legged in a circle. Each holding a brown and white mushroom that tasted like brown sugar and marshmallow. They had been nibbling at them for the past fifteen minutes. Hannah giggled "I think it's starting." Then she took the rest of the mushroom and put it in her mouth.

"Did ZYG tell you what to expect?" Otto asked hoping for a clear and succinct answer. But what he got back was Izzi giggling and shaking her head. "Screw it I'm along for the ride." He quickly put the rest of his mushroom in his mouth. Izzi still giggling followed suit. After only second, they were all giggling.

"You sound like dad" Hannah said

"How do you know..." Otto started. But then he felt it. It was like everything made you happy. Even if you were being stabbed in the eye you would scream on delight. There however, was another feature of the drug. It made you want to say things. But not just anything. But the words that are most often unspoken.

It hit Izzi first. "I'm so scared that one day I'm going to winch one of you but get a dead body." They all broke out in an uproarious laughter.

"Hope that never happens." Otto said still laughing.

Hannah was next. "I'm so sad that I'm going to outlive you guys that I've been contemplating suicide." They were now incapacitated by their laughing.

After a few moments they had regained themselves. Otto said "I've been thinking about killing myself too. Watching mom kill dad was really hard." There was a few stifled laughter. Then more laughing.

They were coughing now, They took a second before Hannah giggled "I think I know what the drug does."

"it's like everything's so funny. Nothing we've said should be laughed at even remotely, But I can't help it." Izzi said taking a bite of some of Otto's nuts. Then she laid on the ground, and let out a sigh.

Otto looked around. "I need to pee excuse me." As Otto got up, he felt light headed, like when you laugh too hard. He stumbled near some bushes but got a hand from a nearby tree.

"Is ZYG okay with that?" Izzi absentmindedly wondered.

Hannah crawled over and laid next to her and held her hand, whispered into her ear. "I don't want to watch you die."

"It's okay, I don't want you to either." Izzi said amongst their laughter.

"Where do you think I'm going to be in 1000 years?" Hannah said behind a laugh. Izzi broke out in a fit of laughter.

"Do you want to go anywhere besides earth." Izzi asked

Otto who came back stumbling, laid next to the girls. "I think you're a goddess, like Athena, covered in armor, Or Freya, A badass warrior woman. You've always been there for us."

Izzi stood up. Let's play hide and go seek, the forest is the boundary. And stay as far away from the stump as you can.... No powers." She helped the other two then took off saying "not it" Hannah was faster, before he knew it, otto was alone. He began counting. He got to 25 then began to search for his sisters.