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[twicebonded]

WHAT In person or texting, I don't know, I'm not your boss
WHERE Wherever you'd be at night
WHEN Day 1, night
NOTES aj said i was allowed to make a new post

[So, you've survived your first—or fiftieth, or five-hundredth—day in Quiet Mounds. Tonight, it's raining—or, it's not. Maybe you're trying to get used to your new, quiet apartment. The electricity is buzzing in that way that's hard to ignore, a silence so loud it's deafening, in that poetic sort of way.]

[Or maybe you're one of the sad sacks still working at the 24/7 joints. Or their why-am-I-even-up-this-late customers. You're the reason why capitalism does this to people, you know.]

[☽ ☽ ☽]

Comments

[chasethedragon]

Are you very homesick?

[cinnaponroll]

Maybe a just little.

[chasethedragon]

[ hums, lightly. ]

I understand.

[cinnaponroll]

What's home like for you?

[chasethedragon]

... Paradise.

[cinnaponroll]

Oh . . . I'm sorry.

[chasethedragon]

It is what it is.

[ though clearly irritated at the thought of this place. ]

And you?

[cinnaponroll]

My home is in Meifu. It's not perfect, but it's where my friends are.

[chasethedragon]

And what is that?

[cinnaponroll]

Ah... where souls go before they are judged. It looks like the human world for the most part and we shinigami live there.

[chasethedragon]

[ ?????? ] We do not have such a thing. Souls are collected by the proper spirits and delivered to the King of Heaven, where they are reincarnated or put to rest.

[cinnaponroll]

[surprised]

We have Lord Enma.

We're probably from different worlds...

[chasethedragon]

That seems likely. Did you assume we weren't? There are rarely human spirits that aid in any sort of soul collecting, in my world.

[cinnaponroll]

You looked like a shikigami so I was hoping... [:c] Oh well.

What are those spirits like?

[chasethedragon]

Birds of our realm carry the souls of the dead to Heaven.

And what is a "shikigami"?

[cinnaponroll]

[birds...]

Shikigami are gods and beings that live in the Imaginary World that can be summoned to help. Do the names Byakko, Suzaku, or Souryuu ring a bell?

[chasethedragon]

They are Gate guardians, in my realm, with Genbu.

We cannot be summoned like simple familiars.

[cinnaponroll]

They're my friends, Genbu too.

[chasethedragon]

Perhaps in your world... though I wonder how someone like you came to have such high profile friends.

[cinnaponroll]

Ah-ha-ha, we just get along...

[chasethedragon]

You "just get along", but they serve you.

[cinnaponroll]

Only because they want to. They're just like anyone else once you get to know them.

[chasethedragon]

I wouldn't call gods "like anyone else" by any measure.

[cinnaponroll]

Sure, but... [shrugs!]

What are they like in your world?

[chasethedragon]

Serious, standoffish, and devoted to their cause.

I have not met with them often.