vatheon | Let there be, let there always be

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Let there be, let there always be

Who: Signless and various campers
When: five days after drowning, early afternoon
Where: the Plaza
Style: action jackson
Status: semi-open to close CR; the video part is open to everyone!

Signless is dreaming. He's dreaming, and it's beautiful. He's surrounded by the neverending light, surrounded and engulfed by it, but there is no fear. How can he be afraid when surrounded by such vast, indescribable beauty?

Nor is he alone; he can feel them with him, all the friends he's known and lost along the way. Sometimes they stay beside him for a time, dancing next to him and sharing a beam of light; others slip past shyly, brushing against him and then disappearing. Disciple is there, and Lulu as well, and if Psii were there with them, they would be complete.

But the light begins to fade, and though he is sorry to lose it, he understands. It's not his time, not yet his turn, and he sinks willingly into the darkness, watching the neverending light as it retreats and glimmers into nothingness.

He opens his eyes.

It doesn't take him long to recognize the dome above Vatheon, and he sits up, looking around him. He's not surprised to see that some of his friends have gathered there with him.

"Hey. What's going on?"

~*~A few hours later, open to everyone!~*~

[The video feed clicks on, and there's Signless, brought back by Vatheon's miracles. He's sitting somewhere with his back to the bubble, tropical fish swimming and darting behind him, and someone has taken the time to weave him a crown of flowers, which almost completely hides his nubby horns. His expression is serious, as is his voice.]

Vatheon, I am back. I'm aware that there has been some fighting and violence regarding my death. Let me say, here and now, that what happened was an accident. Dualscar did nothing wrong, and should not have been held responsible. Anyone who would further trouble him about these happenings should first come and see me, because if anyone persists in bothering him will find they have a problem with me as well.

Leave him alone.

But yes, I am back. I missed you, Vatheon, and I'm very grateful to have another chance to be with you all.

[He looks into the video feed, like he wants to say more, then shuts it off.]

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D --> So many were reacting because they didn't pay attention
D --> They let their emotions get the better of them
D --> And missed obvious signs

D --> He's going to understand you killed him when he made a mistake
D --> An accident
D --> He's going to understand pain and fear and misery and anger
D --> Strange
D --> I do not recall hearing Signless ever preach for such things

D --> You are already a metaphorical fish in a metaphorical barrel
D --> Let us be honest

1 KNEW 1T WAS ACC1DENTAL.
1 F1GURED 1T FROM THE BEG1NN1NG, fROM WHEN 1 F1RST SAW THE SFC SCREEN.
1F MY EMOT1ONS GOT THE BETTER OF ME 1 WOULD HAVE DRANK, nOT SOUGHT TO TEACH.

tHOSE ARE NOT WHAT 1 AM HOP1NG FOR.
gU1LT.
tRUE GU1LT.
cOMPLETE GU1LT AND SHAME FOR WHAT HE D1D, aCCEPT1NG 1T ALL AS H1S OWN.
a YOUNGER ME WOULD SAY THAT'S 1MPOSS1BLE FOR A H1GHBLOOD, bACK WHEN 1 WAS FOOL1SH AND D1DN'T KNOW BETTER. bUT HERE 1'VE LEARNED A LOT, eVEN THAT dUALSCAR DESERVE THAT CHANCE.
bUT HE NEEDED THE R1GHT PUSH.
aS FOR s1GNLESSES TEACH1NGS, wHAT HE PREACHED WAS A WORLD CHANGED TO THE EXTREME, wH1LE 1 NEED TO CONS1DER STEPS.
a FULL CHANGE 1SN'T POSS1BLE, nOT W1THOUT THE R1GHT PUSHES.

1 DON'T TH1NK SO.
1 AM NOT VERY F1SH L1KE AT ALL, l1TERALLY OR METAPHOR1CALLY.

D --> I would have preferred if you had picked up a bottle to be frank
D --> Instead of what you really did

D --> You're a fool
D --> I thought you better than that
D --> Thought you could understand a person better than that
D --> I suppose not
D --> But then
D --> I suppose I should have expected it
D --> You certainly seem to favor speaking of guilt and shame
D --> But you know nothing of it
D --> Not for something like this

D --> Your pushing does not seem to be that which moves a troll forward
D --> But that which pushes a troll to the ground
D --> You did not give him a chance
D --> Not truly
D --> And to say you did is an insult

1 WOULDN'T OF.

dARKLEER.
yOU DON'T KNOW THAT.
1 DON'T E1THER.
dON'T SPEAK W1TH FACTS YOU DON'T HAVE.

wHAT DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND HERE?
wHY DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT 1 AM DO1NG?
sPEAK TO ME, qUEST1ON ME, aT LEAST TRY TO UNDERSTAND.

[There's a long silence before an answer comes.]

D --> I should have stopped you
D --> Or at least tried

tHAT'S NOT WHAT 1 ASKED YOU TO SAY.
yOU SHOULDN'T HAVE STOPPED ME.
yOU WOULDN'T HAVE.
aND 1F YOU PHYS1CALLY D1D, 1 WOULD HAVE REGRETTED 1T FOR THE REST OF MY L1FE HERE.
wHAT 1 D1D WAS R1GHT,
wHETHER 1T WAS R1GHT FOR dUALSCAR REMA1NS TO BE SEEN.

D --> What do you want me to say?
D --> You've already explained yourself
D --> I'm not going to believe it
D --> If I am not going to believe it, going to understand it, then I highly doubt Dualscar will

D --> The vast majority of the troll population in Vatheon
D --> Which is a right much smaller than we are used to
D --> wanted that seadwellers blood
D --> I knew how much you cared about Signless
D --> I should have tried to find you first
D --> Instead of running off
D --> You are living far too much in the moment if you think sparing an innocent life would have haunted you forever
D --> But that taking that life is the right thing to do

oUR K1ND,
h1GHBLOODS ESPEC1ALLY,
'pUN1SH' SO MANY 1NNOCENTS ON aLTERN1A. pUN1SH1NG THEM W1TH DEATH USUALLY, bAN1SHMENT 1S SOMET1MES RESERVED FOR H1GHBLOOD PUN1SHMENTS.
dUALSCAR MOST L1KELY HAS SEEN SO MANY OF THESE.
hE'S USED TO THESE BE1NG TRUE PUN1SHEMNT, tHESE BE1NG TRUE LESSONS.
tHAT 1 REAL TO H1M.
1T'S FA1R TO SHOW H1M THAT 1N RETURN.
dUALSCAR 1S DENSE AND AS BULLHEADED AS 1 AM, hE W1LL LEARN WHEN YOU TAKE WHAT HE KNOWS AND THROW 1T BACK AT H1M.
tRY1NG TO FL1P EVERYTH1NG AROUND W1LL MOST L1KELY MAKE H1M FEEL L1KE HE 1S BE1NG P1T1ED OR CONTESTED.
eXECUT1ON 1N THE MANNER 1 PLAYED OUT, eVEN THOUGH WE LACK THE R1GHT JUD1C1AL SYSTEM,
uH,
gRANTED,
tHEY ARE TERR1BLE ON aLTERN1A,
1S SOMETH1NG dUALSCAR CAN UNDERSTAND AS SOMETH1NG REAL,
rEAL PUN1SHMENT FOR SOMETH1NG HE SHOULD FEEL BAD FOR, eVEN 1F 1T 1S AN ACC1DENT.
aCC1DENTS L1KE THAT WERE ST1LL PUN1SHED BACK ON aLTERN1A.
1T'S WRONG, hE NEEDS TO FEEL 1T, kNOW 1T, hE NEEDS TO UNDERSTAND HOW WRONG 1T 1S AND ALSO FEEL GU1LT 1NSTEAD OF SELF P1TY.
aND NOT ONLY THAT,
hE NEEDS TO UNDERSTAND AN HONORABLE DEATH.
a DEATH WHERE HE 1S NOT JUST THROWN AROUND BY SOME CRAZY ASS HOLE W1THOUT UNDERSTAND1NG THE PURPOSE OF H1S DEM1SE.

bUT 1F ALL THAT 1S NOT SOMETH1NG YOU CAN UNDERSTAND, tHEN 1 GUESS THAT 1S OKAY.
1 SUPPOSE 1 DO NOT UNDERSTAND EVERYTH1NG YOU DO E1THER.

D --> You never did answer my question

wHAT 1 WANT YOU TO SAY?
1 WANT YOU TO SAY YOU UNDERSTAND ME.
tHAT YOU UNDERSTAND HONOR THE WAY 1 UNDERSTAND 1T.
1 WANT YOU TO SAY YOU UNDERSTAND WHY 1 FEEL dUALSCAR W1LL LEARN FROM TH1S.
1 WANT TO FEEL LIKE ONE PERSON BEL1EVES 1N ME BECAUSE 1 HA

[- ]

D -->

D --> We can't talk like this
D --> Where are you?

nO,
oBV1OUSLY NOTH1NG W1LL COME OF TALK1NG TO YOU ABOUT TH1S.
tHAT'S F1NE.

D --> I am supposed to be the one to call it quits so easily
D --> Not you
D --> Tell me where you are Lysunder

[Disconnect.]

[Call back.]

D --> I am going to find you
D --> Again
D --> Because apparently we are both idiotic hatchlings even with an actual quadrant fulfilled
D --> I am going to find you if it runs me ragged

[The line stays, but it's dead.]

[Yeah, you probably will find him, Darkleer. But he'll have masked it all up properly again by that time.]

[Darkleer doesn't find him first.]

[But a large airborn pile of feathers may or may not be making a direct impact towards his face if possible.]

[...Mother Grub.]

[Summoner quickly sneers, wiping his bandaged hand of his eyes and face fast as he locks in a commune with Dural, bracing his hands on the branch as he sits hidden in the canopy of the forest.]

[Fucking damnit.]

[Why the hell is this happening. Why is he being bothered so much, he had hoped people would understand and there wouldn't be this much hubbub, but damnit. Damnit.]

[And now DURAL.]

Dural, not now.

YES now!

[Summoner, you really should know how this goes by now. Puffed up, she flaps away to perch on his horns, right near the very end and nearly hanging off the curve. Somewhere else in the forest, a bird call sounds off, and she twists her head to sing out in reply before looking back to Summoner.]

Chickling. Chickling, do you remember what I keep saying? Do you remember the flocks?

Dural please, please leave me be, please. This is my business, I want to be alone, grace with that.

[He sits with a hand covering his face knowing it's futile unless she leaves him be for she'll just follow him anyway. Instead he talks to her, at least trying to get her to leave, while pulling himself together. His face is hot still, he can feel how moist his eyes are, but he's gotta stop. He really doesn't need this. He just wants to be alone.]

And I, chickling, want a forest as big and deep as a sea, filled with little things to eat so that I or my clutch would never hunger.

[She dares to hop a little closer, leans over to nuzzle his hair.]

But you can't always get what you want, chickling. Not always. But sometimes, if you try, you might find what you need.

[A soft, low cooing.] He is worried for you.

Please don't remind me of our cage, I really don't need that right now, in this moment.

[He twitches, shaking his head and horns.]

I know what I need, and right now it's to be alone. I know he is worried, that's not what I want to feel right now. I don't want pity right now, I don't want to be cradled and hushed, I want something else entirely. And I know he can't give me it. Apparently not a single troll currently in this damn bubble will give me that.

[Maybe... that's his problem.]

[Yeah...]

[A soft huff, and Dural presses up even closer, all feathers against his head.]

If you wanted the moons, he would hunt them down for you, chickling, just to see you smile.

[There's sounds down below, far down, of someone starting to make their way up the three.]

Trust him, chickling. If you cannot trust your flock, at least trust your mates.

[He flails a hand, trying to get her away.]

The moons are closer compared to what I actually want right now. Apparently.

[A sneer, glancing down. Summoner's wings open wide and he looks up, slowly moving to bend his knees and press the bottoms on his feet on the branch just beneath him. With barely a whine from the branch he pushes up into the sky, his wings taking him up.]

It's not trust. I have no qualms with trust.

[And you, good sir, earn a squawk and a peck to the fingers for your transgression. Another squawk when Summoner takes off, and she just digs her talons in further.]

You have qualms with something, to flee from him as if you were a mouse being hunted!

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