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

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Re: CHANCEL LELI

[justfuckingtryit]

[First order of business: coughing up all that water]

Re: CHANCEL LELI

[ninuanni]

You cough up all that water.


As you do, you see two people—or their silhouettes—turn to look at you, though their body language remains utterly unconcerned.

On the air, you think you can hear something like a melody.

Re: CHANCEL LELI

[justfuckingtryit]

[He pushes himself back to his feet - glances toward the people]

...who are you?

Re: CHANCEL LELI

[ninuanni]

"Huh. Looks like she brought home another one."

The man's voice is heavy as stone. Like stone, it is hard, but not in a way that is unkind—simply in a way that does not compromise itself for anything as irrelevant as social niceties. You can recognize him, actually: the man with the axe—the executioner. The one who had been called "Harlowe."

His comment had been to his companion, though, not you; both of them instead wait for you to approach before answering any further, a choice that could be considered either an indication of patience and discretion or else faintly bored indifference.

Re: CHANCEL LELI

[justfuckingtryit]

[He tips his chin up - makes his way over, dripping wet, to wedge himself between the two of them, the body language equivalent of don't-fucking-ignore-me]

I said, who are you?

Re: CHANCEL LELI

[ninuanni]

That definitely gets their attention, and the man looks at you with his brows lifted in an expression that might actually be faintly impressed.

"Harlowe. Axes. She's Adalet. Injustice." A beat. "And Sprouts."

Re: CHANCEL LELI

[justfuckingtryit]

Why so many names?

Re: CHANCEL LELI

[ninuanni]

"Not names. Estates. Same way as Kiri's 'Scars.'"

Re: CHANCEL LELI

[justfuckingtryit]

What are those, like your domain?

Re: CHANCEL LELI

[ninuanni]

"Domain is part of it, yes." The woman—Adalet, apparently—has an alto voice, with a tone seemingly set to no-nonsense by default, though compared to Harlowe it's practically gentle.

"But it goes both ways. Our Estates are part of us. We protect these shards of reality. Because someone must, if we want the world to exist at all."

Re: CHANCEL LELI

[justfuckingtryit]

So without you, there's no injustice?

...or sprouts.

Re: CHANCEL LELI

[ninuanni]

"Not without me. But... without Leli. Our Estates are duties she has... passed on to us, you could say."

A pause, and she adds, "Injustice creates change, you know. I don't pretend to like it, but I know why it's here. And since it is mine, I can destroy it where I find it, too."

Re: CHANCEL LELI

[justfuckingtryit]

What, just like that? Just say it and it's gone?

Re: CHANCEL LELI

[widenessofthesea]

[ well, after you have some conversations with some... individuals...

wave wave ]

Warming up?

Re: CHANCEL LELI

[justfuckingtryit]

Yeah.

...you doing okay?

Re: CHANCEL LELI

[widenessofthesea]

Well, I'm damp and feel faintly disgusting but I'll live.

I think this is her home.

Re: CHANCEL LELI

[justfuckingtryit]

It has to have been somewhere before she came to hell, anyway.

Re: CHANCEL LELI

[widenessofthesea]

Although I suppose she said she came from the—

[ there's a moment where she tries to pronounce something it's possible she fundamentally can't pronounce, and settles for— ]

The Not, but I don't think that's what this place is.

Re: CHANCEL LELI

[justfuckingtryit]

Maybe she relocated, at some point.

Re: CHANCEL LELI

[widenessofthesea]

I think it's something like that.

...the way she was originally made was to be—a cruel thing, it seems.

Re: CHANCEL LELI

[justfuckingtryit]

Yeah.

From what I've seen of her memories, everything from before was fucked up.

Re: CHANCEL LELI

[widenessofthesea]

...how do you mean?

Re: CHANCEL LELI

[justfuckingtryit]

Just in general.

I think I've seen these two, before.

Re: CHANCEL LELI

[widenessofthesea]

"Fucked up" is a little vague.

...worth trusting, you think?

Re: CHANCEL LELI

[justfuckingtryit]

They weren't bad, from what I saw.