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Tweak says, "ARE THEY EXTENSIVE??"

The Judges Of Sabra La Tau (sabra_la_iudex) wrote in sabra_la_tau,
@ 2010-12-20 20:17:00

Entry tags:

!history, allen walker, ashikawa mitsuru, edward elric, excel, gokudera hayato, kurosaki tasuku, {emil castagnier}, {gaara}, {{{geddoe}}}

Who: Everyone
Where: In the Sacred City
When: King’s Year 199, Mid Winter to Late Winter
What:

[The days pass. The sun, gentle and warm, takes its steady course across the sky. Many marvels have sprung into the world. The library to the east starts filling with books from every place who had room on their wagons for them. The forges fill with craftsmen. The temple receives offerings and sacrifices of burned meat and sacred mementos regularly. The Arena is a favored place of Pyxis who wish to forget the limits of the land they're in. Those who've the know-how have begun to till the land and found it fertile. And in the north, some have begun making a shrine to the recovery of the Old Man. Docks have begun to be built upon the great lake, and most have delighted to find that the vegetation here regrows at a miraculous pace.

... Life continues on.

But not without its sorrows or its signs.

Hit hardest were the some of the order of Ophiuchus... the priests of the sea wept openly at something only they could hear as their amulets broke and shattered with the hiss of evaporating water. At the sound, the few priests who remain of the Daughters of the Sky, Gentlest of Lights looked up with dead eyes, saw no sign of their patron in the miraculous sky, drew curved crescent daggers from their sheaths. The forests. The plains. Minor spirits. ... By the madness of many and the deaths of more... what was not here, IS truly gone, and many whom were so blessed are now cursed. Though many people take heart in the fact that most of the Order of Ophiuchus remains still, true and deeply connected with their God, soothed by their presence.

And perhaps the most disturbing feeling rumors have come from the earth shamans of Canis. That they cannot shake the feeling that we are not where we were.

That we are deep.

....

The sun rises, gentle and warm. The grass is soft below your feet and the aroma of wildflowers brushes past your nose.

The wind blows softly, bringing a cool touch to your skin.

It is another day, life continues on.

((OOC: Use this how you like! Day in the life, information pooling, playing out what your people are doing in this time! Just whatever threads!

As a headsup, history posts, both pre cataclysm and after can be made through Thursday only! Backthreading IN them of course will be okay as long as anyone likes but nothing new after then!

As a reminder, we are wrapping up on Thursday!))

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	byallmeans 2010-12-25 05:45 am UTC (link)
	Who hasn't? [Her carving hand slips- unusual for her, but not surprising, with the ferocity that she's putting into this thing.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	forgotmynuts 2010-12-25 05:52 am UTC (link)
	[nods, and when he speaks it's quiet: not hesitant or gentle, but regretful, bitter, like he's admitting to the truth for the first time in a very long time and doing so is unpleasant] ...I don't think we should have come here. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	byallmeans 2010-12-25 06:07 am UTC (link)
	[The noise she makes is meant to be a dismissive snort, but it comes across as frustrated, angry.] We were supposed to be gone by now. [She turns away, just a little, to examine the ward in progress and then flings it away. It's been ruined.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	forgotmynuts 2010-12-25 06:17 am UTC (link)
	[turns away too, rather than look at her and her anger, because then he'll get mad too, and he's so frustrated, it's hard enough to hold back as it is.] There's never been a door. Since this place was finished, the door vanished. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	byallmeans 2010-12-25 06:18 am UTC (link)
	You think I haven't noticed? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	1/2 forgotmynuts 2010-12-25 06:21 am UTC (link)
	[not stuttering, but repeated false starts, god I don't want to say this, I don't want to face this at all] I— I know you did. But— (Reply to this) (Parent)

	forgotmynuts 2010-12-25 06:23 am UTC (link)
	But what am I supposed to say, just announce that I think they're not going to let us out! That we'll never get a chance to finish, that everything we worked for was worthless because they just died on their own, anyway!? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	byallmeans 2010-12-25 06:31 am UTC (link)
	You think I'm happy about it? This- [She gestures to the plants.] -and these- [The wards.] -and all of that. [The settlement.] It is all worthless, if it doesn't let us finish what we started. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	forgotmynuts 2010-12-25 06:38 am UTC (link)
	I- I'm not saying that you are, just... [he just falls to his knees, head downwards, despairing] I shouldn't be here, you don't understand at all; I shouldn't be here. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	byallmeans 2010-12-25 06:40 am UTC (link)
	None of us should be here. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	forgotmynuts 2010-12-25 06:45 am UTC (link)
	Yes, but... this isn't, it isn't just now... I- I should have died with my parents! [...apparently, not being able to do anything constructive either gives Nebula teenage angst, or there's something more to this] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	byallmeans 2010-12-25 06:58 am UTC (link)
	Being dead won't get you any closer to what you want done. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	forgotmynuts 2010-12-25 07:06 am UTC (link)
	It's nothing to do with that! I mean— ...the reason I'm alive, it has nothing to do with being lucky enough to not be in town. My parents died in front of me, and I... the way I was, there was no way I could have survived. I should have died. Would have. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	byallmeans 2010-12-25 07:08 am UTC (link)
	But you didn't. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	forgotmynuts 2010-12-25 07:21 am UTC (link)
	[nods] I guess... it's because I was so sickly, the beasts ignored me. Maybe my scent was bad, or they didn't want to catch anything... so I was just left there, with their bodies. But even then, without them there to take care of me, the most I would have lasted on my own was a few days. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	byallmeans 2010-12-25 07:27 am UTC (link)
	[...picks up a new piece of wood and begins to carve again, roughly.] So you had a bit of luck. So what? Some people survived. Some didn't. That's how it works, in case you haven't been paying attention. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

forgotmynuts
2010-12-25 07:32 am UTC (link)

You don't get it! It wasn't- I-it wasn't just luck! I was sickly all the time.

[he picks up the piece of wood she tossed aside earlier and throws it down and away from where they are, where it buries itself part way into the ground]

This strength I have, how far I can jump and leap, none of this is how I should be! If I have to be the same as those things, then the least I could do was use it to fight against them! If I'm not doing that, what makes me any different!?

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	byallmeans 2010-12-25 07:51 am UTC (link)
	[Paaauses in her carvibg.] What do you mean? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	forgotmynuts 2010-12-25 07:54 am UTC (link)
	That... [he lowers his voice abruptly, harshly, he doesn't want to catch his attention] Surgeon. Corpus. He wanted to see what happened, if you started with a human and... changed it. To be like those things. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	byallmeans 2010-12-25 08:25 am UTC (link)
	[You have probably seen her this mad before. But not often.] He did what? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	forgotmynuts 2010-12-25 08:41 am UTC (link)
	[he's looking up now, watching her steadily. ...it's actually a relief in a way, to see her this mad. She'll get it now, what's wrong with him, what's always been wrong with him] I don't really know the specifics, but that's what he did. That's why I'm like this, why I'm even alive, the red eyes, the rage, the times I couldn't control myself. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	byallmeans 2010-12-26 07:03 am UTC (link)
	He changed you. He tampered with you like you were some sort of toy. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	forgotmynuts 2010-12-26 07:11 am UTC (link)
	[you're getting mad about the wrong thing. Alfaet... he really stayed with her too long, and even if he spent all this time lying to her, she's really going to care about him now, even with what he's saying he is?] But that's not the point! (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	byallmeans 2010-12-26 07:48 am UTC (link)
	He tried to make you into one of them! If he'd done it, you'd be the same way they are! If that's not the point, what is? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

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forgotmynuts
2010-12-26 07:56 am UTC (link)

The point is... I shouldn't be here! [repeating himself isn't a good argument, so he has to put this into words, something, come on, please, understand]

I didn't die then, so I thought... it'd be okay, as long as I could control myself, behave long enough to accomplish something. But, now, if there's nothing I can do, they're all gone—

I.

...it's not safe. There's no reason, and it's hard, to hold back all the time the way I really feel. It's dangerous, it's dangerous for me to be here. I mean, in the past, you've always been there and I knew that if you knew what I like, that you wouldn't want to help me, and that was good enough for that part of myself! But... there's nothing, anymore.