Chapter Text
Rin Satsuki, the nurse that never existed. The void swirled around her, even when she squeezed her eyes shut. As if damned to limbo; as if damned to silence.
Yet she dare not scream.
For, she might shatter like the small glass window into the reality she once knew. The fate of the ones she used to call friends. She didn't hate them- No, no! Certainly never. However, the pit in her stomach as she watched them go solve incidents churned, ever so slowly.
Her resentment was always growing, day by day. Yet, she dare not break this glass. She was powerful, yes, powerful enough to break it. However, what lie underneath might be just darkness. A magic mirror, so the say.
The one window lost forever.
She always wondered, why the rest got to have lives. To have their code used again and again. All around her was devoid of sense. She fiddled with her instrument in her hands, strumming chords as she always did, lost in thought once again.
How she longed to go on that adventure, long ago. To even have a chance of seeing the cherry blossoms swirl around her. To be anything, anything more than lost code.
"Oh," She heard a man's voice say, "Are you lost, girl in red?"
Rin turned around, a pit dropping in her stomach, but her heart rising. Her eyes widened, not at the appearance of the man, but the fact he was even there at all.
"Sir, you're a delusion, are you not?"
The man's mask twitched, black and white, curiosity spreading across his face as he approached closer.
"My, my, how long have you been here, to think my presence a delusion?~"
Rin shook her head, suddenly shaking. She didn't know anymore. The silence of the void became louder than anything else when he paused to await her response.
"Hm... Do you not know how to get out?"
"No."
"Then, what would you do to be freed of this place?"
Rin took a sharp breath, turning all the way around. She shook, and the cold of the void stung her eyes and her face, suddenly freezing.
"I would do anything. Anything, any favor you ask of me."
The man smiled, lifting his hand to extend it out to her. It was gloved, a dark purple.
"Good. I may ask you some favors, then. For, we both have unfinished buisness in the land of Gensokyo. Now, what is your name?"
She put her pale, small hand in his, and shut her honey yellow eyes as she squeezed it, tangible, it seemed.
If it wasn't, she would be safe in a delusion.
"Rin Satsuki. And, at the very least, what is yours?"
"The master of dimensions, the pleaser of crowds..."
He paused, for merely a moment, before she heard a snap, and light reached her eyes for the first time in years.
"Dimentio!~"