GODLY AUDIENCES: YU NARUKAMI

[divus]

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[covenantal]

Yeah. Zoe and Ray on the same week, and Lightning getting killed as well... [ Shakes his head. ] And Ray's had to stay away for his own reasons. We're--

[ ... we, he says, like ...

Yu sighs. ]

Her followers will keep doing their best. My mistakes cost us, too. But I hope I can help everyone, this way. [ A glance at Merriment. ] Maybe the gods themselves, too.

[divus]

Focus on helping yourself right now, kiddo. The rest of us are a mess of our own. [...] But we're improving. I can see it. Don't...try to take on all of us at once. That's the best advice I can give you. Get to know us, talk to us, and pick one or two you think you can help. If everybody did that, we could make some progress on fixing a lot of problems.

[covenantal]

[ ... soft, with the ring of pained honestly ]

It's tough to narrow down, you know.

[ ... he shakes his head. ]

But I'm glad to hear you're improving. I hope, in the end, you're all able to work together smoothly, and trust one another.

[divus]

Oh trust me, I know. It was hard to separate you guys when you first got here, hard for us to know how to talk to you, hard for you to approach us...it's been a hard game all around.

I'm hoping that's maybe the case, but I don't think we're there yet either.

[covenantal]

[ ... ]

What would it take to get the rest of the way there, do you think?

[divus]

Trust. A lot more trust among the gods. We all have people we prefer over others but that doesn't exactly help when we're trying to rule. None of us know what's being said when one of us talks to one of you. That could cause some damage.

[covenantal]

... how could we help fix that, Merriment?

[ it's a sincere question. ]

[divus]

The only way I could see fixing it is figure out what hang-ups everyone has with everyone else and start figuring out how to fix it from there. But I'm also not sure there's enough time.