A Splash of ink

Chapter 77- More players enter the game! (??? Multiverse)

Star is not having a great time with his 'companion' unintentionally making it worse. At least his family is starting to find each other

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AntiVoid

"See? Isnt this amusing. Things are going so very well"

Star stayed silent as he had been the entire time the thing had talked for the last few hours. His gaze was glued to his siblings, watching them fight against monsters he could never bring himself to. At this point he wasn't even sure it was due to some innate fear or simple apathy, the thought of his multiverse only bringing slightly curiosity that could easily be snuffed out.

"Unstable emotions is what happens when you try and shatter your SOUL, starlight. You are lucky you had enough DETERMINATION to stay together. Your unique origin was truly a genius on my part if i say so myself. Made you so much more durable"

The words meant nothing to him at this point, barely computing anything not in front of him with his focus only on what he truly cared for.

"It's such a shame it went that way. It's not how it was planned at all you know? This was supposed to be your playground, a way for you to gently grow into your powers but something didn't go quite right. The timeline was off and it seems a Deity thought they knew best and interfered"

The babybones fingers dug into the thick fur under his hand, the texture he wasn't quite able to place, having grown comforting after spending so long here. He didn't bother to count time but knew on a SOUL deep level that he had been in this space a rather long time.

He was glad that for his siblings only days had passed but his own conversation with the thing that had taken him had lasted so much longer, even if it only looked seconds from outside perspective.

He had noticed the oddity of the portal his family had initially created right away and yet had still stepped in it, making sure to go first so he could tell if it was dangerous or not.

He was glad he did but he hadn't taken well to what was planned by the thing, hours months they had spent trying to convince him to agree to even let his siblings be dumped back in his birth place. That he was told it would help them, to soothe the edges that were still cracked in his siblings SOULS's that had not fully synchronised in theie body, was what fully sold it to him.

So he had sat and watched as events were planned to make this work, watching as things were nudged into place until the supposed plan worked exactly as the thing wanted.

"It's not too late for me to fix it all you know?"

He stiffened up as the soft voice spoke up again, never able to pinpoint the tone with it seeming to switch at random and never fully matching the words. It had been confusing, irritating and had taken him abusing the Code like crazy to have a better idea of what they were trying to convey. He refused to put his family at risk just because he struggled with picking up the tone of a conversation.

"No.."

"No? Are you sure? It would be so easy to fix. A little tug here and there and i could turn it all back to the start. No broken SOUL, all fragments with you and you'd even have a family. You wouldn't remember a thing. Wouldn't that be nice?~"

The voice crooned like a siren leading a sailor to their death, Star's face nudged to a new window which showed that life, feeling like he was looking at a warped mirror of himself as while he had woken alone this version of him woke up with Ink and Error.