Audience - Euphausia

[holyspirits]

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[configurer]

So... someone--something--gave you the power to fix it? Via magic. But it wasn't your god.

[ ... ]

Do you have an idea what it was?

[trifocal]

I don't. Perhaps it was a deity of a different sort?

[configurer]

... That could be it. Someone trying to help you out along the way without being too in your face about it. It sounds like the kind of deity I know.

[trifocal]

What sort of deities do you know of?

[ looking very interested in that. ]

[configurer]

Well, this God, for one. And then I've met another, and I know of one a lot of people would think of as one. The one I've met I didn't get to talk to for a long time. But they gave me a nudge towards a path I might not have taken if they hadn't said anything.

[trifocal]

That does sound similar! What were they like?

[configurer]

I didn't talk to them long. But... big? Ancient? The power they talked about was intense, but the path they pushed me on was one that was... good, I think.

[trifocal]

What path was that?

[configurer]

Well. By the time I talked to them face to face, I'd already gone on it. They'd given me a hint through someone else, first. [ complicated... ]

[trifocal]

A hint...?

[configurer]

More like a time, really. I didn't know what it meant, but it was a start.

[trifocal]

What did you have to do, on this path?

[configurer]

... Find a way to recreate the circumstances where I'd first heard that date on the date itself, to make it simple.

[trifocal]

... Huh?

[configurer]

Sorry, I don't think explaining it more would be clearer. It was just--recreating the day I first heard them on the date they gave me.

[trifocal]

[ ????? ]

And... what did that achieve?

[configurer]

Ultimately it gave me the power to change the outcome of that day.

[ dont worry about it. ]

[trifocal]

To redo events that had already occurred, you mean?

[configurer]

Sort of. More closer to undo, but. Close enough.

[trifocal]

... Then, there was something you needed to undo? Did something bad happen?

[configurer]

... Someone close to me died.

[trifocal]

Oh...

[ a sympathetic look. ]

... Then, could this power be used to save that person?

[configurer]

That's what I was hoping for. I didn't know for sure it'd work. But it did.

[trifocal]

[ !! ]

That... that's wonderful! It must be a miracle.

[configurer]

I think miracles are usually less work.

[ but it's teasing ]