EVENT: ORIGIN'S ORIGINS

[fairwind]

Who: explorers!
When: Day 31, night
Where: The Jungle

[The sun has gone down when the heroes receive an unmarked message:

This Star has secrets you should know. If you want to find them, follow the light.

Should they look outside, they will in fact see a light -- a thin but bright pillar rising from the overgrown town out in the jungle.

It's still raining, still covered in frogs, but there's definitely something going on.

And in the direction of the beach, there's also a faint, bell-like ringing. But that's not what's calling you right now... is it?]

[PREMINGLE ★ NOTES ★ SESSIONS ★ AFTERMINGLE]

Comments

Re: PREMINGLE PART 2

[rottedwood]

[carefully shedding his passengers, once they can stop.

thiiiiis... sucks.]

Re: PREMINGLE PART 2

[desirestruth]

[She's exhausted and barely manages to change back but she's leaning on him while she looks for the others in a panic...]

Re: PREMINGLE PART 2

[rottedwood]

[he's... not counting heads this time. he knows they lost someone, but there wasn't-- anything he could do.

slides an arm around her shoulders to help support her.]

Re: PREMINGLE PART 2

[desirestruth]

...He didn't...make it, did he.

[She knows. She can smell it, on some level, and knows what's missing.

But she doesn't want to believe it, yet.]

Re: PREMINGLE PART 2

[rottedwood]

[...nodding, but reaching for the notepad.]

He won't let them die permanently. After this, they'll be back.

Re: PREMINGLE PART 2

[desirestruth]

Haaa....

[Well, she's scrubbing at her face. She doesn't actually have the bodily fluids for a lot of tears right now, but, you know...better she does it now, right? Crow'd hate it, to see her cry.

She is deeply worried about Lucien, too, but she doesn't have the strength to heal him...]

I'm sorry. You were doing your best to help us, and even then...

Re: PREMINGLE PART 2

[rottedwood]

[oh fuck]

You don't need to apologize to me.

Re: PREMINGLE PART 2

[desirestruth]

Don't I?

[She failed tho????]

Re: PREMINGLE PART 2

[rottedwood]

It's not

[he pauses]

like that. We both did our best, so you don't have to say you're sorry.

Re: PREMINGLE PART 2

[desirestruth]

...

[She is quiet, for a long time, and looks down at the ground.]

It...I failed to protect them.

Re: PREMINGLE PART 2

[rottedwood]

[just makes a face at her like same here, lady]

Re: PREMINGLE PART 2

[desirestruth]

[LET ME HAVE THE MARTYRDOM IT'S MY TURN]

...I never did ask your name, did I?

Re: PREMINGLE PART 2

[rottedwood]

[...]

Hazel.

Re: PREMINGLE PART 2

[desirestruth]

...Naeva.

[She inclines her head a little, tiredly.]

Thank you for helping us, Hazel.

Re: PREMINGLE PART 2

[rottedwood]

You don't need to thank me either. I wasn't very helpful, this time.

[but he nods a greeting, at least.]

Re: PREMINGLE PART 2

[desirestruth]

If I don't get to be down on myself, neither do you.

[She is never too tired for feelings terrorism, Hazel.]

Re: PREMINGLE PART 2

[rottedwood]

I'm being realistic.

Re: PREMINGLE PART 2

[wontforbidtherain]

Thank you. Fewer of us would have made it without you.