thusia | Group Intro Again

There was a lot of death in my world when I was young... I always wanted to make things better for the kids as they grew up, but even in that world...

Aah, none of you deserved this, but there's probably no turning back from a place like this, is there?

No, once you're here, you're here. I...even died again here, but I'm still here.

It's another place like that, then...

*sighs*

Maybe there's a way forward, at least, and you'll be able to rest. Even if you shouldn't be here in the first place.

It's not like this is a bad place. It's better than where I came from.

I suppose I can't help missing my home and the family I left behind there. This life's likely not going to be as calm as the one I left behind, either.

Yeah, it's kind of dangerous here, too. Don't go anywhere you can see plants, unless you're ready for a fight.

I was more of a fighter when I was your age, Becca. I appreciate the warning, I'm not in the same condition I was back then.

Yeah, I didn't think so. You'll have to clean out an apartment to stay in, though, I don't think there's any room in any of the clean ones.

I'll find a way to work something out, in that case. Even if it's an exchange for some help in doing it.

Just what are we cleaning out of the apartments, anyway?

[fidget fidget]

Plants, dirt, animals, monsters...

*sighs quietly*

I thought I was finished with places like this. I was ready to be finished with them.

Yeah...you're an old man, you should rest.

I was hoping for an afterlife where I could do just that... and a few more years with my family before I ended up there.

I bet you know old man stuff that us kids don't, though. You could probably trade advice for everything you need.

Plus this isn't like Sabra. We help people out here. Like me, I do the cooking for everybody, and if the hunters don't need the sacrifice parts from their kills, I'll give 'em away to the people that need 'em.

Speaking of, I should explain about this place. Lessee, I need to make a list or something...

Gods, the directory, sacrifices, food and purification... I already told you about the animals... Animals are where the plants are.

I was a teacher back where I lived before. A fighter before that, but those days are past me... if you ever need help with cooking, that was something I was responsible for at home.

Back in Sabra, at least some of us wanted to help each other, anyway. King's rules were meant to stop us, but as much as we could, we'd do it anyway. I remember I made my fair share of worthless trades to help people out.

Are there other resources here, besides just the plants and animals?

[She tenses at the word 'teacher', but she forces herself to relax. This isn't home, and there's no little brother to be torn away from here.]

I've already got people who want to help out with the cooking, and it'll be too many hands in the kitchen if you help out, too. There's getting to be more of us, though, so we might have to split into teams to do the cooking...I'll let you know if that happens.

Don't eat or cook anything that hasn't been purified, though. I take care of that, but you'll need to know how. Catch me in the morning and I'll give you a demonstration--you take it to Dellen's shrine and ask her to purify it for you. Otherwise everything's poisonous. Everything.

Resources...well, that's the Gods for you. If it isn't plant or animal from out there, you'll have to ask the Gods for it. There's a directory over there of what god gives what and what they want in trade for it.

*he's certainly not the type to do something like that, not that Becca would know that about him yet*

Please do. I'd hate to not be able to be useful just because of my age.

I'll be sure to meet you to see how that's done. And I'll take a look at that directory, too, to see what else can be done around here.

I know one of the gods takes going silent for a day in trade for stuff, and some people can't handle that. You could do that for people and be a big help.

...I'll...let you sleep in my bed till you get your own. I bet your back would kill you if you slept on the floor. But you'll need to hurry up and get one of your own as soon as you can, okay?

I never was the best at keeping my mouth shut, but just for a day I think I could still handle it.

Thank you, Becca. I'll do my best to get things arranged as quickly as possible so you can have your bed back.

It's okay. I've been sleeping with my boyfriend lately anyway.

[The innuendo of that will hit in a few moments...]

*just smiles at that*

That sounds like a much better place to be sleeping. It's one of those things I'll miss about being alive.

Yeah. Uh... We wear pyjamas. It's not like...it's not like...

I'm only sixteen!

That doesn't mean you're too young, Becca. I wasn't much older than you when my partner and I first met, after all.

Really? And you were with her till you died?

Him, and we'd still be together if I wasn't here.

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