holyspirits | Audience

[ w is going to find zuriel hanging out at the train station, leaning against the fence on the platform and watching the train approach and depart. when she arrives though, they look up and give a wave. ]

Look at that. More space for you.

Looks like it! You sure you don't want to stay away from train tracks around all of us, though?

[sup. she's still in her canon outfit, here to poke around some more-- especially with the train actually arriving and leaving.]

Well now I'm no one's most favorite person here, am I? I don't think I have to worry too much, especially when there's still plenty of strangers. [ haha. ] Have you been aboard yet?

You could still get lucky!

[it's fine. probably.]

Where's this thing going, anyway?

[that'd be a no. she just got around to coming here today.]

Oh, do you promise? [ this is clearly sarcastic but it's fine. ]

Different island. The train comes through multiple times a day but it always comes back here. If you felt like traveling, that is.

So Heaven's just different islands?

[weird... but okay, sure.]

I'm not just going to sit in the same place for eight weeks, if that's what you're asking.

[time to wait for a train.]

Heaven's very large. This is just the part of it all of you have been sent to while the judgement period's going on. But you'll have new places to go it looks like, so it feels less... you know, stagnant. Besides, I'm sure there are a few of you who really would stay here if given the option.

Probably! Some of us just don't give enough of a damn, but that's their problem.

Probably. So what sort of things do you give a damn about then? [ her specifically. and look, here comes the train... ]

Getting a good price for my services. Taking out the so-called leader of the Sarkaz forces. Making sure anyone who gets in the way of what I want ends up in pieces. The same things anyone would want!

[steps casually onto the train. c'mon, let's go.]

Is that what everyone else wants. Is it really. [ onto the train! ]

What's wrong with the leader?

He betrayed us. Helped stamp out the best option we had, so that there'd be no choice but to follow him or be on your own. So whatever ends up happening-- however much firepower I can pack into it, that still won't be enough to give him what he really deserves.

[she leans against the wall of the train.]

At least he was stupid enough to leave our home to go fight his war. He's not in charge where it matters now.

A bid for power? What was he actually hoping to gain from that? He can't seriously think that would work the way he wanted to. People have free will and won't always fall into coercion like that.

Does there have to be someone in charge?

Thing is, you don't get how we work. Nobody but us would. All of us Sarkaz, we've never been able to get away from our past... and he's totally fine with that. He's been giving them what they think they want.

We always have a King. It's just not him.

Is that because it's complicated, or because you won't let people understand? [ they think this is a valid question. ] He sounds like someone who doesn't want to believe in tradition. What's the King doing to stop him?

No, he does believe in it.

[as for the sarkaz... her tail swishes, debating what to say.]

It's not complicated, but I mean it-- you just wouldn't. It'd be like... trying to explain what color my horns are if you only ever saw in black and white.

[ they tilt their head. ]

Ah. I get it. The words are all there, and they would make sense to you and in the right order, but without living the experience it wouldn't make sense to someone else. Something like that?

I can say we live with death all the time, but you've never even heard of the myriad souls, much less felt anything from them. Can't give you any frame of reference for that!

[ this is extremely funny to them for a multitude of reasons but they won't say why. ]

People here probably treat it as something very weird, don't they.

Haven't bothered mentioning it. Besides, the topic always gets this guy going.

[thunking a fist lightly on her floaty cannon thing.]

[ a glance to cannon-kun. ]

Yeah, I have to ask, what's the deal with this thing?

Let me just give you the fast version. Dusty-ass ancient ancestor, vengeful ghost, you know the drill... he was in an airship, but now he's stuck with me and I'm stuck listening to him complain.

Real pissy about this Heaven thing, by the way.

A weird bit of codependency then. [ no. ] Would he have preferred to go somewhere else, too? Or is he mad he's still trapped?

A little of that, a little disappointment with our current generation... annnd all the other revenants in the Furnace are angry with him, so putting him in there was a no-go.

What'd he do to make them so mad?

week 0, monday

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