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[over_the_fop]

Who: Ptou, Apartment C, Sparkles, ANY
When: Day 51, late morning-noonish
Where: Apt C
What:

[There's a light knocking on the door.]

Anyone in?

Comments

[thevineintervention]

This world, you know, it doesn't want people at all.

[devotedtothecore]

...

[thevineintervention]

Chysos, there are gods here, with no people. Have you not been told the reason for that?

[devotedtothecore]

...no. Or perhaps I did not listen.

[thevineintervention]

The rest of the world, birds, beast, trees, vines, they and all their gods rose against humanity and prevailed.


Well, that's what the gods say about it.

[devotedtothecore]

......

One side of the story.

...do you know another?

[thevineintervention]

I don't.

[devotedtothecore]

...

Would you?

[thevineintervention]

There is no such thing as a war where both sides do not believe themselves in the right.

[devotedtothecore]

... I know.

But wars have ended in other ways beyond the destruction of one side.

[thevineintervention]

They have.

[devotedtothecore]

...

[ a metal fingertip tracing the edges of a flower. ]

I wonder what people they were.

[thevineintervention]

If I had to guess, mm, well, I'd say probably they had hopes and dreams and fears. They loved each other, and probably they hated some of each other. They made a lot of beautiful things, and also a lot of mistakes.


But that's just a guess.

[devotedtothecore]

So... like all people, then.

[thevineintervention]

People do tend to be people, in my experience.

[devotedtothecore]

....

I was thinking... if it was a mistake of the world's people, that caused nature to rise against them...

[thevineintervention]

Mm?

[devotedtothecore]

...we might avoid it, or repair what it has done.

[thevineintervention]

You think we could make peace with the world.

[devotedtothecore]

...

Is it so impossible?

[thevineintervention]

The forests here, I can barely hear them. But maybe I have not tried hard enough to listen.

[devotedtothecore]

[ hrf... ]

....if there is anything to hear, I think it would be you who would find a way before anyone else.

[thevineintervention]

[ fidgets with the hem of her robes a bit ]


. . . we oppose the gods in this, you know.

[devotedtothecore]

... do we?

[thevineintervention]

Mother D- the watery mother, she only spoke of it to say that the world turned even on the people of the forests.