I Moderate (i_moderate) wrote in we_coexist, @ 2015-01-01 01:11:00 |
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Entry tags: | the city, zz:status complete |
Salvation (Narrative/Closed)
By chance, it arrived at the Stealing Planet while most of its people were deep in sleep. It remembered the time when its people had walked on the skin of this broken world, and it recalled the stories they brought back. It remembered stealing citizens of the Stealing Planet as part of an offensive, before it realized that the Stealing Planet was not alive like it was. It still could name each gift it sent back with the inhabitants it returned back to that place.
And now, it wanted to check on those inhabitants. The world had not been well when it left orbit. But, as it looked down now, it could see how the planet was split by so many fissures in time, space, and dimension that it was impossible for the specks of life left here to continue. It decided to save these people - both the ones that held on to life even now, and the ones who had already been destroyed.
Reaching backward in time, it found a place before the worst of the reality fissures. Right at that place, interestingly enough, it saw that a large portion of the people had been pulled into a separate reality. It looked into this secondary reality, and decided to save those people as well. This would take some power.
First, the City put its own people into stasis, allowing them to power this maneuver, as it had done with a handful of other powerful citizens within its walls for the corrections it'd needed to complete in its systems. Then, it retrieved the people on the Stealing Planet, running the sub-routine that would assign them homes, place them correctly, sift the monsters and creatures out of the population and into their right place in the City, and finally set the criminals in Blackgate or Arkham if appropriate. And finally, it reached through the large crack in reality where the others had gone - a series of islands, it seemed.
The set of islands had some form of barrier around it that made removal more difficult. The barrier, however, was only effective in the reality where the island currently resided. The City solved that issue by sweeping the entire set of islands and dragged it whole into its own reality. Because the islands needed a place to be, it attached them to its own land mass and extended the wall around it.
That done, it considered waking up its people again. And this time, it would wake everyone up. But there was the matter of time. Some of them had been powering its corrections for a good amount of time, and the City didn't want them to feel like they'd lost anything by helping the City. And so, it also reversed the time in the City to the night when it first borrowed a few of its powerful citizens to help it. Because it didn't want anyone else feeling they'd lost anything, either, it ensured that the memories of the rest of the citizens remained intact past the moment in time that now kicked into play in the City.
Satisfied with itself, the City rested.