TEMPTATION OF ANGELS, which is named KHRYSAOR: A Heart Game (I)

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Re: CHANCEL BAD END=DEAD END

[widenessofthesea]

...huh.

You'd think it was just a normal day.

[ she taps her fingers on the counter, and thinks. ]

Hello?

Re: CHANCEL BAD END=DEAD END

[ninuanni]

No answer—though you feel sure that everyone only stepped out for a little while.

There are wild roses in here too, twining about the cabinets and even knocking over cookware in places, as if they grew so quickly they knocked these things over themselves...?

Re: CHANCEL BAD END=DEAD END

[widenessofthesea]

[ well, it'd be a shame if this burned for carelessness. and honestly, she knows she's not the tidiest, but this is kind of a state, isn't it?

she's just going to check how the rice is doing, and finish mixing up the rest of the ingredients for the curry, while she's in here. ]

Re: CHANCEL BAD END=DEAD END

[ninuanni]

It's simple, relaxing work, especially with the recipe right there for you to follow.

You're checking the rice when you feel something delicate brush against your wrist, and with it split second of something like longing—

...Oh. It's another wild rose, just barely opening on its thorny branch. It's not doing anything beyond, well, being there (and seemingly full of some sort of emotion?), but it certainly did grow ridiculously fast while you were cooking.

Re: CHANCEL BAD END=DEAD END

[widenessofthesea]

[ she looks at the flower— ]

...do you want some?

I mean, you're welcome to try, I can't eat it.

Re: CHANCEL BAD END=DEAD END

[ninuanni]

It's a flower.


—Which is to say: it just bobs in the air a bit.
As you study it, though, you start to feel something:

You are different—something that has never fit in. But has anyone here in this new Familia really fit in? You wouldn't be Familia BAD END if you had.

So why is that now you feel.... longing?

There's still that distance between you and them, after all—and for the first time, you have reason to wonder at what you have been missing…

Re: CHANCEL BAD END=DEAD END

[widenessofthesea]

[ she thinks back to that first conversation they had— ]

It'd be a little... difficult, to be someone who's never been a person at all, wouldn't it.

Re: CHANCEL BAD END=DEAD END

[ninuanni]

As you consider the flowers, you realize you can recognize them more fully: Wild Rose, Key of Something Different.

Caring about "difference" at all, though... that's the sort of thing you can only feel if your difference matters; if it is part of the story of you finding your place in the world.