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[idolpro]

Who: Talon, and somewhere else, K
Where: The streets of Tokyo-F
When: TBD

[ Today is surely an ordinary day for you. ]

TALON START | K START

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[deut32_35]

[ That's enough of that. His hands settle comfortably back on the desk, as he considers Talon from across the desktop ]

Now. If you have any last questions, this is the time to ask. Otherwise, it's yours and the mission with it.

[iamverybadass]

Will you answer if I ask what you're hoping to get out of Heaven? Aside from the simple answer of "holy water".

[deut32_35]

I'd like nothing more than for heaven to be out of everyone's hands, yet here it is right within reach. The Liar Prince's reach, most particularly.

And if removing her claws requires opening up the husk of it so the Adversary has no choice but to take her grasping for it seriously, then that is what I will do.

[iamverybadass]

[ Ah. Well, there goes the calm facade, replaced now with an uncertain, dubious look ]

And what happens after she is dealt with and it's still there, pried open?

[deut32_35]

The rift should take care of itself. Conversely, if a tether is established, then we will have better access at determining what is keeping it existent to begin with. Though I suspect solving the Liar problem may solve that simultaneously.

[iamverybadass]

Do you think they're actually capable of that? Even while locked out of it?

[deut32_35]

Clarify what you mean. That it is here at all is almost certainly the Liars' fault, regardless of if they can enter it yet.

[iamverybadass]

I was asking if demons are capable of maintaining its existence, but they must be if that's your answer. I'd believed your powers were too opposed to support each other at all.

[deut32_35]

That is the common view. There's few worries about her, because her wants are ridiculous-- surely no demon prince could summon heaven, let alone transmogrify themselves into the sort of thing that belongs there or could rule it.

But recent events have proven the first part untrue. I'd like this problem solved before she disproves the second.

[iamverybadass]

Wait—she's succeeded? I thought it was all still a farce.

[deut32_35]

Heaven is here. I have an unfallen angel.

For a farce, these are extreme set dressings.

[iamverybadass]

I don't disagree. I simply hadn't realized the stakes had escalated so high already. It...clarifies things.

[deut32_35]

So you now know the state of things.

[iamverybadass]

I do. Your candidness during this conversation has been quite appreciated.

[ Finally moving to pick up the curio ]

[deut32_35]

I'll have a car sent around.

[ He sinks back against his chair, turning to that same sideways position he was in when Talon entered the office, signaling Talon's dismissed and can see himself out at his leisure ]

[iamverybadass]

[ He nods once, carefully tucks the thing away in his backpack, and heads out the way he came in ]

[idolpro]

[ The elevator attendant punches in the number back for the ground floor lobby, and brings Talon back down to the receptionist's desk. He can exit to the street whenever he's ready, unless he has something he wants to do in the lobby first ]

[iamverybadass]

[ He's not terribly interested in loitering for long here, but he does snap a quick photo of the office directory on his way out. Who knows when it might come in handy. ]

[idolpro]

[ he takes a picture! ]

[Ground Floor - Lobby, Reception
1st Floor - Conference rooms
2nd Floor - accounting
3rd Floor - intake forms
4th Floor - border travel applications and processing
5th Floor - Interprincedom Affairs
6th Floor - offices of reprisals
7th Floor - unavenged wrongs
8th Floor - grudge preservation
9th Floor - Office of the Prince ]

[ When Talon exits the office building, a limousine is waiting in front for him, ready to take him home. There is also, however, the visage of someone familiar—you can catch AlcheME! purple in the distance—hey, doesn't that look like K? ]