GRADUATION: A PRELUDE

[idolpro]

[ After you've gotten your order from the counter at the cafe, you turn to find the place empty of everyone save two people: you, and Asmodeus, reclining in a chair in the pink tea cafe in one of his expensive suits. He looks vaguely as if you dropped a shark into a goldfish bowl. That doesn't belong here! How does he even fit?

He gestures you over, to sit across from him, where a chair has already been pulled out. ]

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[rosestained]

[ a woman's voice, from behind him ]

Lift your head, child. You have done well.

[columbidaring]

[ JUMPS ]

[ RECOVERS ]

—I always do!

[rosestained]

[ draped in white and gold, the woman circles around him with quiet, barefoot footsteps to daintily plop down in the chair across from him ]

To those who are not led astray into temptation, the Lord shall send his salvation.

[columbidaring]

[ ... makes a gesture to the tea azzy didn’t want. Help yourself ]

Forgive my suspicion, but this isn’t a two-man con or anything, right?

[rosestained]

[ curls her fingers around the cup with a smile ]

Wherever you choose to go now, Vengeance will not reach you.

The Lord’s message for you is thus: go now, and say your goodbyes, for soon your trial ends, and you may walk freely from this place.

[columbidaring]

What, really? I get to go home? For realsie-reals?

[rosestained]

Congratulations on your upcoming graduation, Is This A Pigeon?~