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[flash_back]

Who: Anyone
When: Day 119, late morning
Where: Shrine
What: Some new meat

[Some new kid is in the shrine room, tugging at some weird metal collar around his neck]

I feel pretty alive for a dead guy.

Comments

[empathyforthedevil]

That's quite common here. Are you alright?

[flash_back]

Totally crash.

What's going on?

[empathyforthedevil]

'Crash'? You're in Thusia, it's a kind of afterlife. Sort of. In the sense that you've been brought back to life in this world.

[flash_back]

Is there a way I could uh be alive but in some other world? Say a world that I died in...? Maybe?

[soundsinsilence]

It's . . . a little surprising, isn't it?

[flash_back]

Whoa. Are you the afterlife angel?

[soundsinsilence]

I'm not . . . I'm not any kind of angel, or anything like that! I'm really just ordinary.

I don't think we even have any angels . . . there's a few demons here, though?

[flash_back]

Oh. Ohhhh.

I guess that not saving the world thing caught up with me then. Feeling the mode.

[luxuresombre]

That's how it goes, yes.

[flash_back]

But why?

[luxuresombre]

[Tiny shrug.] Ask the gods. I'm fuzzy on the subject.

[flash_back]

I thought there was just the one.

[comesquickly]

[...EYEING YOUR COSTUME]

[flash_back]

[getting his collar removed by Kururu, not noticing right away

but then he does notice]

[comesquickly]

.....Uh. Hi.

[flash_back]

Hey uh.

......hey.

[morebatthanbird]

Spandex. Mm.

[flash_back]

Good job identifying fabric on sight.

[morebatthanbird]

There are few people who would go out in public like that.

[dickaster]

That's the way it goes.

[eyeing your costume...]

[flash_back]

...hi.

[dickaster]

[waves]

Hey. Welcome. Uh... nice costume?

[anklets]

Take care to hang onto that feeling.

[flash_back]

Huh?

[anklets]

[Presses her fingers together at her chest; do you see how serious she is, she is very serious.]

Even here, you can die again. This place isn't nearly so generous as to spare us that. For all intents and purposes, you are alive, and that is something that can still change, again.