Aradia's Heart Game - Session 3

[idolpro]

Once upon a time, in a country far to the north,
the Lady Shalott sat within a tall tower.
It rose high above the clouds, and the air was thin and cold...

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Re: Albireo

[widenessofthesea]

[ thinking—and then, with another scribble on a scrap of paper:

An important part of love is that it's shared, in my view, so if others want to indulge you—perhaps, if since you love them, accepting that is an act of love as well. Just a thought.

I know a similar feeling, though.

And, well—she looks up at the ceiling thoughtfully, and... regrets it, immediately.

She's feeling a bit better, though, so maybe she'll go investigate back downstairs—the way she didn't go. ]

Re: Albireo

[idolpro]

The library’s ceiling is a big dome, made out of glass. It was cut really carefully to make sure it would fit in the panes. Isn’t it pretty?

When you look up at it, you can see something else, too—it’s a little translucent, but there’s a figure[¹] there in the light. It’s big¹ enough that it would probably cover the whole dome if you could see it properly, but it’s a little hard to do that: it just stays there quietly, sparkling in every color of the rainbow. [ While it has no apparent eyes or, indeed, sensory organs to speak of, being rather an amoeba-ish conglomerate of circles, ] It looks down on you gently, and your heart fills with warmth.

This is someone that you have been loved² by for a very long time. This is someone that you have loved [³] for a very long time. When he watches over you like this, you feel like you can relax.

[ You know. Totally some information that you definitely asked for, that definitely applies to you. ]

[ 1 - “Truly did the great sage write that the face of Yog-Sothoth, the face of God, is the face of the heavens itself; He and the vastness of space are the same, and the turning, interlocked circles of the spheres are the orderly progression of His thoughts, some moving fast and others slowly, even as turn the bands of the astrolabe to mark the motions of the wandering stars. He is seen only by His face; body He has none, for His body is the universe, yet not the very matter of creation but the measurements of angles and distances between, for He is composed of no tangible thing and can only be perceived as a shimmering array of changing colors such as may be seen on the shell of a beetle or the wing of a dragonfly beneath the sun.

A gate is opened when he appears, and his face of flashing colored spheres, all overlapping and turning one within another at varying rates, is the gate, and the key, and the way.” ]

1 - Do you know what a cilium is?

It’s okay if you don’t! Well, the cells inside living things have organs too, don’t they? Those are called “organelles!” Just like your organs do, they can help cells work, and a cilium is one of those! There are a lot of different kinds of cilia that do lots of different things, like help with senses, or body symmetry, or help cells communicate.

[ 2 - Looked at

3 - Dreamed of]

Re: Albireo

[widenessofthesea]

[ it's so beautiful, like what looking into the face of God might look like, hard to look away from, and aaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

ah yes her heart is filled with warmth¹

1 - screaming²
2 - incandescent fury, but in like, a loving way

okay. okay, she just needs to... close her eyes, deep breaths, count to ten, look down at her feet, and—get the hell out of this room. downstairs. back downstairs. ]

Re: Albireo

[idolpro]

[ yeah let's just slide back on down there ]