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[imaginemeandyuu]

Who: Anyone
When: Day 49, Late afternoon/early evening
Where: Anywhere
What: Mingling

[This is a mingle! GO WILD.]

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Re: [Even later evening!!!]

[overclocking]

[In a familiar, almost lilting accent]

"Even the sky."

Re: [Even later evening!!!]

[devotedtothecore]

[ ...the hand lowers to his side, and his eyes move to look at him for the first time. ]



Do you truly believe that?

Re: [Even later evening!!!]

[overclocking]

[Without hesitating]

I do.

Re: [Even later evening!!!]

[devotedtothecore]

.....

[ a faint, faint... but honest smile. ]

I see.

Re: [Even later evening!!!]

[overclocking]

[... a start, at least. Relaxing a bit]

So? What will you do from here? Start building?

Re: [Even later evening!!!]

[devotedtothecore]

[ he looks down at the box, the smile fading. ]

...sooner or later.

Regardless of how all things here go through the gods, one way or another.

Re: [Even later evening!!!]

[overclocking]

[Shaking his head, though his eyes do follow Chrys' gaze]

Not all things.

Re: [Even later evening!!!]

[devotedtothecore]

Sustenance. Materials. Tools. Power. ...of the latter three, at least those that cannot yet be derived from the nature around us.

And it's undeniable that it would be far easier and faster to buy from them a hammer, or electricity, or an appliance, than to create the same.

Re: [Even later evening!!!]

[overclocking]

Material things, and practical. But not things that I consider to be truly important.

Re: [Even later evening!!!]

[devotedtothecore]

[ ...heh. ]

In that, you consider a different side of rebuilding, then.

Re: [Even later evening!!!]

[overclocking]

The gods have had no influence at all in the family I've made for myself here.

Re: [Even later evening!!!]

[devotedtothecore]

...

Could they not take them away, if they wished?

Re: [Even later evening!!!]

[overclocking]

... To that end, it's hardly the gods I'm worried about.

Re: [Even later evening!!!]

[devotedtothecore]

[ ...looks at him again. ]

Re: [Even later evening!!!]

[overclocking]

[Sorry were you expecting me to elaborate. Shrugs]

Believe me. There are no inevitabilities that I haven't already considered.

I've chosen to continue on in spite of that.

Re: [Even later evening!!!]

[devotedtothecore]

[ not expecting but pondering the possibility :|a ]

...in spite thereof.

[ holds up the box, studying it again. ]

Because of those things you hold most important of all.

Re: [Even later evening!!!]

[overclocking]

[His eyes land on it again, though he still doesn't quite ask...]

When people care for you... You have to keep going for their happiness as much as your own, right?

Re: [Even later evening!!!]

[devotedtothecore]

...


[ his thumb smooths over the lid, to catch a faint groove on its surface and slide the wood open. Metal fingers reach in, carefully removing the object inside, and he slowly sets the box on the floor before standing it on the palm of his good hand.

A little clockwork bird, finely wrought in pristine, honey-gold metal, with eyes of blue glass. ]

Re: [Even later evening!!!]

[overclocking]

[... There's no denying the mark of Pavo, even if he didn't already have a suspicion]

It's a beautiful piece...

Re: [Even later evening!!!]

[devotedtothecore]

[ if one's ears are sharp enough, they might catch the faint, faint ticking of moving parts within.

...puts his free hand against the floor, the light tapping of the pointer against the floor in matching time.

One second. Two seconds. Three seconds. ]

...wait a moment more.

Re: [Even later evening!!!]

[overclocking]

[... Of course it's not just for show. Blinks, watching]

Re: [Even later evening!!!]

[devotedtothecore]

[ ...thirty, thirty-one, thirty-two--

the bird seems to come to life. It flaps its small wings, chirping a short trill of song, and folds them again at rest, as though waiting for an answering call. ]


Ten minutes, since you came.

Re: [Even later evening!!!]

[overclocking]

[That aches, somehow]

...

It looks like such a simple thing on the surface, but... I wouldn't expect any less.

Re: [Even later evening!!!]

[devotedtothecore]

It still keeps time as it used to, when wound.

[ he sets the bird on the floor, the ticking still barely audible even in the quiet. Probably inaudible at all to most human ears. ]

A gesture every ten minutes. A call to mark the half hour.

Re: [Even later evening!!!]

[overclocking]

[A demon's senses are an amazing thing. It really just adds to the beauty of it.]

It's been amazingly well-protected, to make it this far in that condition.