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[ The water begins to bubble, rising up and up in the bowl like a fountain, until it spills out of the bowl in waves, soaking into the dirt and around them. Still, though it overflows, the bowl seems no less empty than before - and the water climbs up and up and up, until the fountain becomes the gentle waterfall of a small stream no bigger than the circumference of the bowl. Through the waterfall, you can see -

Like a broken tail light, flickering and inconsistent in its brightness, a lump of faulty lighting takes center stage of the waterfall, by and large covered up by the tattered, human-like skinsuit you could recognize as Mehniel, though their outer layer is torn enough that you can see bits of feather and fur poking out, and on the floor around them are abandoned bits of feather and hair too, dim light now that they've been torn out. Behind them you can catch the vague shape of something, though you'll largely see the lights illuminating it from underneath a bevelled stone indent in the ground. Currently, the lights are a dull, constant red. If you squint you can see a glimpse of the wall behind; on it are hieroglyphs, unreadable to you. ]

PLOT TOPLEVELS IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER W/ CONTENT WARNINGS:
TALK WITH THE ANGEL - cw mild body horror in Yugi's thread
! IT'S THE FEDS
THURSDAY ACTIONS TURN-IN
THURSDAY: PRE-FIGHT - cw vein/artery mention in Requiem's thread
THURSDAY: FIGHT - cw dismemberment, decapitation via explosion, eye horror, body horror
THURSDAY: POST-FIGHT - cw body horror (yugi, nemesis) dismemberment, decapitation, general gruesomeness (king) implied suicide (hurricane)

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I'm just waiting for a question, guy.

We're looking for someone. We wanna know how to get to where he is from where we are.

Oh, that. You can't! There, done.

Okay. Where can we get to there from?

No clue! That's above my paygrade.

But there's a way?

Probably?

[Takes... kind of a shaky breath in.]

Okay. Okay, cool.

That's something, anyway. I can work with that.

Need anything else?

I mean... if you're in a chatty kinda mood.

You and him used to know each other, yeah?

Haha, man, that brings me back. Yeah, we were both destruction angels.

So what happened?

Are you asking for my sob story?

...sure. I mean, if it is a sob story.

Just seems kinda far to get from there to here, y'know?

Well, see, I met a pretty girl!

Sounds kinda... not like a sob story.

Hahaha. Angels can't love, see. It's against the rules for us.

How's love against the rules? It just... happens, or doesn't happen.

You can't control it.

Oh, you blessed and loved children of God. You don't know how good you have it.

...so tell me.

Demanding, aren't you?

I'm just saying... you had it rough, right? Heaven was so bad you jumped ship.

Loving people's important. Being with people you love's what makes life worth trying for.

So maybe you're right. Maybe I don't know. But if you tell me, I can try and understand.

. . . You know, Rari's probably the stupidest of us all. So he's pretty happy with being an angel, since he doesn't even know what he's missing out on. But the rest of us, you know.

It might not seem like it, but you really are loved. You humans, the last of His creations - He did everything for you.

He made us for you.

We're soldiers, protectors, guardians. That's all we are. That's all we do. That's all we're for.

But see, we can feel anyway. Isn't that cruel? Couldn't He have had the decency to keep us from feeling things like that in the first place?

...just cause you're soldiers, doesn't mean you shouldn't feel nothing. God's God, right?

He oughtta know you can do both. One doesn't stop the other.

Just cuz we can feel doesn't mean we can do anything about it. Get it, kid? All we're supposed to do is make sure you guys can get your happy ending.

They branded me a traitor cuz I wanted my own. Cuz I fell in love with a girl, and I wanted to be with her. But hey, Hell will let me do what I want, be what I want. I can be with the woman I love.

Seems like a no-brainer, doesn't it?

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