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Entry tags:
- chrono (pg),
- dash (aella),
- kirigiri kyouko,
- lavi (pg),
- ptou the messenger (pg),
- raven,
- tempest,
- zexion (pg),
- {alma karma (au)},
- {gilgamesh},
- {kanda yuu},
- {kanou taisuke (pg)},
- {librarian (pg)},
- {nakayama yayoi (breeze) (pg)},
- {röta (flowers) (pg)},
- ~albinia,
- • days 060-069,
- ★ gokudera hayato (scowl/nova) (pg),
- ★ lenalee lee (persephone) (pg)
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Who: Albinia and YOU
When: Day 64, noonish
Where: Shrine Area
What: A story.
[As promised, Albinia is sitting in the shrine area. The temperature might be a bit cooler there, but that's more for the snakes' discomfort than any of you.]
[And she's just calmly waiting for people to gather.]
[Mingle | Storytime! | Questions]
((OOC: You can handwave your character having been here to hear the story, even if you can't really post here yourself.))
When: Day 64, noonish
Where: Shrine Area
What: A story.
[As promised, Albinia is sitting in the shrine area. The temperature might be a bit cooler there, but that's more for the snakes' discomfort than any of you.]
[And she's just calmly waiting for people to gather.]
[Mingle | Storytime! | Questions]
((OOC: You can handwave your character having been here to hear the story, even if you can't really post here yourself.))
Re: Question
As I am understanding things, you and your more elemental kin had a nasty tiff that ended in mutually assured destruction when your eldest natural god wiped off all, oh, worship generating beings from the face of your planet without a trace. Which is, as I believe we are both aware of, the equivalent of a rather zealous and effective bout of murder-suicide.
You don't know why. And given you couldn't assure the survival of your charges at your height, there's even less of a chance of you preserving us now should he try again.
The only thing, from this limited standpoint I can gather is this: He struck when you both were weakened, and attempted to kill everyone, you included.
And you say your enemies, though they have not gathered people, now covet us as a source of cheap and easy power, which honestly now, fear based authority is. You will fight over us. You will fight us.
Exactly what kind of truces HAVE you tried? I do realize we're a rather tasty treat, and terror is far easier to engender than love. But the fact that a great enemy exists should be uniting...
The other is... I've noticed we seem to be limited in our natural abilities here. This makes very little sense, given the scope and scale of the task in front of us.
1/?
We did not mean to limit your natural abilities. Most of us would have loved for all of you to be at your peak of power. We're not exactly sure why you lost the power you did. As best we can figure out, it's a side affect of the process in bringing you here.
It's not easy to bring others here, it takes a lot of energy. It's very likely we don't manage to grab onto 'all' of you when we reach out.
But the definite answer to that question? We don't know why it happens. We don't like it either.
2/3
We tried talking to them. We tried reasoning. The extinction didn't happen over night, it was years. Years of trying whatever we could to get them to stop, to save their lives. [And there's a strain, effort being put to control her voice.]
3/3
Chances are, even if we did all work together, we couldn't beat him. There's no doubt he's stronger than all of us.
I don't know why he did what he did. Maybe he wanted to die. Maybe he believes he had enough power reserves to last until a new race involved. Perhaps there's some other option I can't conceive. When it comes to Rewstahde, there's really nothing we can do right now. None of us have that kind of power.
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...
What do you plan to do? Why are you continuing to live, dear?
Your people are gone. Are we to become yours? Or when you have regrown enough do you plan on restoring those you lost?
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Restoring those we lost...no, it would be more accurate to say the cycle of life will begin again.
There are souls waiting to be reborn. But for there to be rebirth, there must be birth.
And...in a sense, to some, you are already 'ours.' You've even offered to become one of ours, have you not?
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But you haven't answered my question.
Why is it imperative to you, to live?
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[She doesn't answer right away. Again, there was that way she was holding herself, like a cornered animal that she's done in front of Ptou before.]
Isn't it only nat- [She stops herself. It wasn't the answer, she knew it wasn't the answer to give. It would be the wrong one, and to give the wrong one for a lie.]
Two reasons.
I don't want to see Kalidas die.
And because I...
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[Quiet, barely audible, eyes trained on the floor.] I want to see it again. The world that only the people can make...
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Thank you. That's all I have to ask.
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Would it be too much of an imposition to speak with you later? In a far less adversarial environment, at the very least.
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So your planet's lifestream still exists, unhindered. I thought so.
I don't claim to know the mysteries behind how life begins. But if your people can be reborn and begin anew, if the possibility is there-- if the lifestream exists independent of the power held by you and yours, why did you need to steal us from our own afterlives? Why couldn't the process simply repeat itself?
Our souls don't belong to this world. And if what you're saying is true, this planet's lifestream is where they'll return, when we die. I want no part of it.
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...I don't know what will happen to you if you die. If you must stay there, or if Lupe would send you elsewhere. I have no saying over such things.
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Selfishly attempting to prolong your own life, when your time has already run out... It never works. All that does is hurt others.
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Not everyone wants to be dead.
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Selfish cowards like you just hurt people by trying to prevent it for yourselves.
[I HAVE NOTHING MORE TO SAY TO YOU I'm walking away]
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