hot_mess_express ([personal profile] hot_mess_express) wrote in [community profile] auroraexpress2019-10-12 01:22 pm

The Nineteenth Trial

Who: Everyone
When: Day 43, evening
Where: The Mermaid's Beach

Come on, come on heroes...! Come hither!

[ There's a playful giggle and the sound of splashing as the Mermaid's beach appears in the clearing. ]

Let's play a game...!
voreaciously: (83)

[personal profile] voreaciously 2019-10-14 11:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Best of luck to you. What else do you have to do?
bowtiedbones: (54)

[personal profile] bowtiedbones 2019-10-14 11:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh! You mean with the card? I should tell a secret and ask for advice.
voreaciously: (65)

[personal profile] voreaciously 2019-10-14 11:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah, well, if you wish to tell someone else, I will understand.
bowtiedbones: (43)

[personal profile] bowtiedbones 2019-10-14 11:51 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm just really bad at thinking of secrets.
voreaciously: (161)

[personal profile] voreaciously 2019-10-14 11:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah...

[not surprising, honestly.]

Well, while you consider one, how do you get your hair like that?

[Amane can do curls if she wants to, but Eliza's hair is always on fucking point and she wants to know if she could do better.]
bowtiedbones: (27)

[personal profile] bowtiedbones 2019-10-15 12:04 am (UTC)(link)
Oh! Actually, I could call that a secret since really only Dusk and Thyme have seen me use them. I'll sleep in rollers!
voreaciously: (63)

[personal profile] voreaciously 2019-10-15 12:11 am (UTC)(link)
[would that she could have secrets like those.]

I see. Thank you. [she makes a thoughtful noise.]

I need to pet someone for five minutes and...

[her shoulders droop minutely]

discuss my most important person.
bowtiedbones: (51)

[personal profile] bowtiedbones 2019-10-15 12:13 am (UTC)(link)
I can help with that.

[claps her hands and turns into a wolf]
voreaciously: (86)

[personal profile] voreaciously 2019-10-15 12:18 am (UTC)(link)
You still make such a beautiful wolf.

[80H will take a seat and pat her lap in invitation.]
bowtiedbones: (94)

[personal profile] bowtiedbones 2019-10-15 12:21 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks!

[flops down and put her head on 80H's lap, tail thumping]
voreaciously: (57)

[personal profile] voreaciously 2019-10-15 12:24 am (UTC)(link)
[Starts to stroke and scritch and pet. she'll also get behind the ears before settling into a rhythm.

She cannot pick a singular person that is most important. Or rather she did, but there are...a few more that hold that title.

She looks to the sky.]

I knew an angel, once.
voreaciously: (43)

[personal profile] voreaciously 2019-10-15 12:42 am (UTC)(link)
Yes. If I wish to be technical, I have known three.

[but michael was an asshole, we won't talk about him.]

The other two...they were both the arcangel Uriel and both were kinder to me than I deserved, but one of them was especially... [dear to her.] He was every bit an angel when duty called or when he was well and truly angry, but neither of those things came to pass very often, thankfully.

[honestly a part of her was always, always scared of him, but that is so natural for her. some of the people closest to her have always terrified her.]

Where I am from, the messengers of God do not suffer those with magic they do not approve of to live and so I was often afraid of them, but he was very kind. He did not have designs upon my life. [because someone not murdering you is a great kindness and not basic decency.

A beat.] He really enjoyed doing laundry, and gambling. [She makes a noise in her chest.] You would think otherwise, but he was not a morning person even remotely, but he could be made happier about it with hugs and kisses...really, he could do anything for hugs and kisses. He was, oddly, surprisingly, one of the most shameless people I have ever known. But also shy? As he would say. He was talented that way.

[She pauses a moment, her hand doing the same before she resumes stroking.]

I was in something of...precarious situation before arriving here, and I do not know how I might have survived it if not for his kindness, at times. He never had to reach out, in fact, it was not in his best interest to do so in the beginning, and only continued to help forever after, but that first kindness was the start of something.

[something so very beautiful and precious.

Her tone is pained and wistful and thoughtful.]

He smiled...so much. Laughed and loved so much. It defied comprehension.
bowtiedbones: (90)

[personal profile] bowtiedbones 2019-10-15 03:49 am (UTC)(link)
[listens very quietly, wagging her tail. she's not sure she's ever heard this many words at once from 80H, and certainly not with this much openness.]

He sounds very special.
voreaciously: (18)

:D

[personal profile] voreaciously 2019-10-15 03:56 am (UTC)(link)
[she definitely has not.]

He is. Pardon me, that was rather a lot.
bowtiedbones: (60)

Re: :D

[personal profile] bowtiedbones 2019-10-15 03:59 am (UTC)(link)
Not at all. Thank you for telling me, actually. I know it can be hard to talk about people we miss.
voreaciously: (41)

[personal profile] voreaciously 2019-10-15 04:02 am (UTC)(link)
[it's been five minutes but if she notices she hasn't said anything and continues to pet eliza

good girl best wolf]

...No, thank you for listening.
bowtiedbones: (28)

[personal profile] bowtiedbones 2019-10-15 04:14 am (UTC)(link)
Anytime.