[Game 20] Epilogue

[arsgoetia]

Maon leads the way back towards civilization—somehow making his way easily back out through the woods, and you know, there's some things you just don't ask about.

It's a little longer walk back than it was getting there—you'd ended up popping out in a slightly different location. The sun isn't quite up enough to be causing any adverse side effects, and somehow as you walk, you find any fatigue or pain or chill drifting away, leaving you feeling rejuvinated rather than exhausted. The really happy archangel might be partially to blame for that.

The cottage soon comes into sight. Siùsaidh is sitting on the porch waiting, and Tristan's car is once again parked outside.

"Tis about time ye got back," she says firmly. "Tis been three days, and I can only mind an incubus in my home fer so long. Step inside for breakfast, now, won't ye?"

[we will continue to pick at threads in the Endgame but feel free to hit up anybody anywhere in the Epilogue! thanks for the game, see you again in three years soon ♥]

Comments

[innerdemon]

It's not like I'm 'after' anything in particular. Just that I ran face first into an experience and now I'm having a reaction to removing my face from it.

[delivoreance]

bad wording, sorry... um... more like, that's why the experience resonated with you? um, stuck to your face?

[innerdemon]

Yeah. Something you don't recognize as missing until you get hit by deja vu. That didn't make sense either, did it?

[delivoreance]

it makes sense.

[innerdemon]

Do you know what I realized?

[delivoreance]

What?

[innerdemon]

I think maybe all that stuff from 7 years ago messed me up a little?

[delivoreance]

objectively, we're all very messed up, elli... i think that you probably had more to lose to get there than most of us? or maybe that's the wrong way to think about it. you lost a lot, period...

are you okay?

[innerdemon]

I'm okay. I'm happy for everyone even if it doesn't sound like it!

[delivoreance]

that's not what I mean at all! i know you're happy for them... but... I don't want to see you lose anything else... I think that being a little messed up about having to leave a home again is possibly the only reasonable reaction to this situation?!

what did Sariel say? have you talked to him?

[innerdemon]

He wouldn't say anything until I said anything first but he seemed pretty against it so I just bowed out.

[delivoreance]

you didn't want to say--?

[innerdemon]

It's not right. I'm not supposed to, and probably it's a bad idea to leave Luka with Madison anyway! It's barely been a couple of months anyway, it was never supposed to be a thing.

[delivoreance]

i can ask him if you want; i'm an expert at being rejected by sariel.

[innerdemon]

No, I don't want to pressure him. Like I said, I don't know it's a good idea.

[delivoreance]

Is it such a bad idea that it's not worth asking, Elli?

[innerdemon]

I did ask, just, it didn't go anywhere and... ugh, Kano was like this too. But I can't force my presence on an angel.

[delivoreance]

Sorry, just-- if Kano wants you there too, and you want to be there, and Sariel is only frowning and acting difficult to talk to about it... that's what he's like all the time? He's usually very clear about it when he knows he doesn't like something. I'll stop if you don't want me to insist though.

I would take your presence over most angels...

[innerdemon]

...I'll try to talk to him again, I guess. I still don't know if it's even a good idea, though.

I'd take yours over most too :P

[delivoreance]

i'm glad that if i said "what's the worst that could happen?" we are all in on the joke... i don't think that you hanging out with some bad company will lead to the end of the world, though ;) even if it's angels.

i don't regret that we all gave luka an idea what was going on, though it was careless of us of the time and i'm not sure he'd thank us for it. i don't think this has been bad.

[innerdemon]

The worst is so very worst!

Sera, do you think my boss is cool?

[delivoreance]

it's the worst! but we don't know what will create or stop those conditions anyway. so i want people to be happy.

cool in what sense, luka?

[innerdemon]

Ugh, happiness.

Cool. Cool.

[delivoreance]

to look at it another way, most evil in the world comes from having some fundamental lacks in your life, as far as i can tell... faith, or hope, or happiness. fulfilling your needs isn't intrinsically selfish. the trick is not to center yourself in what you don't have...

i didn't meet him for very long, luka, he locked me in a closet. :(

[pause]

i think there were a lot of ways he could have handled this worse, so i'm glad about that--? i dont know if i'm a judge of cool, what is cool? i'm very badly equipped to answer this question

[innerdemon]

Don't get self-conscious but I think that's really wise.

I don't know. I guess I'll ask others.