thusia | (no subject)

It's crowded enough already.

There will be more room eventually.

For you, or for us?

For all of us.

That will be an improvement, at least.

It will. Humans often do better when they can stretch their legs.

Humans often do better under a lot of circumstances that aren't the ones in which we find ourselves.

This is true.

But humans do better in these sort of circumstances than when they're dead.

Even the ones who've circumvented death before?

Not everyone here has.

I'm not everyone here.

No, you're not. It does seem that we are drawing in many of you from a very strange place.

Still, you were dead when you were brought here. There is no doubt about that.

None at all. Whether I'd have circumvented that death is another matter entirely.

That is not something we have any means to determine. You could be brought here and revived. That was the only thing we could say on your fate.

And now it's conveniently too late to send me back.

Nothing in this situation is convenient for anyone involved.

So I've noticed.

Yes, you've made that quite obvious.

[Gosh, her tone just gets colder the more she talks.]

[His was never especially warm to begin with. :)b]

That was the point, you realize.

[Neither was her's, but ice goddess can just get downright frigid.]

Yes, I did. I am able to perceive the obvious.

A step up from some of you, then.

[Shifts to lean against the wall; he is worn out enough that standing up by himself for too long is a bit of a problem right now. :|b]

Which one are you, anyway?

If you are unwell, you should rest. [Not...as cold as the rest of her sentences with that.]

I am science, responsibility, and ice. [But back to the frigid.]

I'll rest when I need it.

[Giving you a looking-over at that. :|a]

What do you offer, and what do you take?

To push yourself when you don't need to does no one any good. [Gosh, the lack of icyness might even mean CONCERN there or something.]

[And pulls out a list, with her shrine ritual and what she takes and what she gives.]

[Reading the list over. :|b]

What do you care? It's something of yours, isn't it? An act of self-control.

[Finishes up reading, and thinks for a minute.]

Would the lessons include what can be done with the plants here?