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Kadaj (mothersbestson) wrote in mirage_rpg,
@ 2008-09-15 16:51:00

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ayla, complete, day 15, kadaj

Day 15
Who: Kadaj and Ayla
When: Day 15 evening
What: Seeing A Familiar Face
Where: A bench looking toward the vineyard
Rating: G
Status: In progress

He sat on the bench, his chin resting on his right gloved hand while the left loosely held the sword hilt that stuck out of the scabbard. Shifting his elbow off the belt buckle around his thigh without raising his head, Kadaj stared at the orderly lines of the vineyard fields. He didn't have any real answers regarding the planet but all he wondered about was the footprints to be seen here and there in the dirt.

Perhaps he needed to go eat something in the restaurant or maybe just sleeping would be good. Sighing, he put his face into both his hands. His white hair hung down over the black fingers. He thought about the fact that there were dreams during sleep now. His mind jumped from subject to subject in a random fashion because he didn't want to dream just then. What good was it when he had to wake up after seeming to be alive again on Gaia, or after being back in the Lifestream? Like all the stolen people he'd met to date, he didn't want to be here.

Someone approached, his senses warned. Had he been where he belonged, he would have looked up... No, he wouldn't have even been sitting amongst green, growing things so it didn't matter.

Kadaj just continued sitting there holding his head in his hands.

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_ayla_
2008-09-23 11:42 am UTC (link)

"No one told me. I wanted to know what they were, and when I went into the big room with all the books, I started looking through them. After a long time, I found out that encyclopedias have a lot of information in them. I read about electricity and light bulbs in the encyclopedias." She had to learn a lot of things on her own, but it was nothing different from the way she'd lived in the Valley.

"That's what Creb said they were, hearth fires for the people who had gone from this life. But I met a star, and she is not a hearth fire." Ayla was sometimes more confused than educated on certain things. Those encyclopedias had also said that stars were balls of gas. But Yvaine didn't look like a ball of gas to her.

"What do you mean we "leave" our bodies when we die? Isa looked the same, her body just stopped working. We buried her in the ground and piled rocks on top of her. But when I died, my body did not stop working. But no one could see me, they thought I was an evil spirit. They wanted me to go away."

It always made her stomach thrum with hurt when she thought about being cast out by the Clan. Having to leave her child behind, and everyone that she knew and loved. She pushed the memories away, though. She was trying to figure things out, and talking with Kadaj was helping.

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mothersbestson
2008-09-23 08:09 pm UTC (link)

He had never had to use a library nor a database, at least not in the consciousness who called himself Kadaj. But like with a lot else, he had memories of doing so, mostly from Sephiroth's time of schooling as a youth in this instance. Considering how wherever Ayla came from existed without electricity, she had done absolutely brilliantly for herself so far.

"You have to be very smart to learn all that," Kadaj complimented. Interesting that she had spent time educating herself rather than hiding or desperately seeking to leave.

"You met a star who's a person? Really? I think I'd like to meet an actual star." Kadaj believed her but he had other comments to make: "At least I think we leave our bodies. The spark of life, the soul, the Lifestream is inside our bodies. Ah..." He stopped and turned to look at her, looking into her eyes. "It's something like a light bulb. You can see the light of life in someone's eyes and then it goes out when they die. But the bulb is still there when the light is off." He didn't go into how on his world the bodies usually vanished too since it would just confuse his point right then.

"And was it your people declaring you had died but you knew you were still alive?" he wondered.

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