[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

[conatus]

Yeah. Most people who start out as humans do.

[innerdemon]

So why did you lose them?

[conatus]

I got tired of only having bad ones.

[innerdemon]

Is that what happens when you try not to have any?

[conatus]

No, that just happens to people sometimes.

[innerdemon]

Oh. But they came back?

[conatus]

Eventually. It took a while.

[innerdemon]

Elli had only bad feelings for a while but she lost that in under a year. She's human, though.

[conatus]

Do you mean that she got her other feelings back ... ?

[innerdemon]

Yes. Love and stuff?

[conatus]

I'm glad to hear it.

[innerdemon]

It was a lot more interesting to me. You can get negative emotions anywhere.

[conatus]

Most people are capable of both.

[innerdemon]

I am...! Very...

[conatus]

That's pretty normal.

[innerdemon]

Luka's interested in that kind of thing. It's like his... hobby?

[conatus]

Emotions are his hobby?

[innerdemon]

Watching them, I guess. Trying to feel them. He likes games.

[conatus]

The emotion game, huh. I've never been too fond of that one.

[innerdemon]

How do you play it?

[conatus]

My example isn't, uh, a good one.

[innerdemon]

Oh. Were you naughty?

[conatus]

Yes, I was very naughty.

[innerdemon]

I don't like to influence much, so I think that makes it less of a dangerous game. But then. If I was just saying that?

[conatus]

I guess we've just got to trust that you're going to behave.