GODLY AUDIENCES - TAKAOMI SHISHIMARU

[divus]

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[divus]

...I don't know what that means.

[bakaomi]

It's like.... eh?

[ he doesn't know how to explain ]

[divus]

...

[makes the so-so motion with her free hand]

[bakaomi]

You still have no idea what it means, huh?

[ that's cute ]

[divus]

...not really.

[SIGHS.]

[bakaomi]

Like... so-so?

[ he does not know how to explain ]

[divus]

...

I kind of get it, but I also kind of don't.

[and isn't that just what so-so is, in the end]

[bakaomi]

...

I think that might be the best we're going to get with this, honestly.

[divus]

...

I'm going to go look it up in a dictionary in the study.

[time to LEAVE THE DESERT]

[bakaomi]

[ they've only been in the dessert for like what

four weeks?? wow ]

Wow. Studious.

[divus]

[god we really are going to keep threading this until endgame, aren't we.]

I don't want to use it the wrong way later... I have to make sure I know what it means!

[bakaomi]

[ yea ]

I wouldn't laugh too much if you used it wrong.

[divus]

But you'd still laugh some! I don't want to be laughed at unless I'm trying to be funny.

[bakaomi]

Those are some pretty big goals.

[divus]

I'm a god, so I'm going to live forever. [lol] Small goals won't cut it anymore.

[bakaomi]

What if it's a lot of small goals that turn into a big one?

[divus]

...that would probably be okay too.

[bakaomi]

You don't sound so sure.

[divus]

It's hard to decide on goals before I know what the world is going to look like at the end of this.

...I want to be a better god than the god of my world was. But, I'm not sure what I have to do to accomplish that yet.

[bakaomi]

... hm.

What was that god like?

[divus]

...

[well.]

He didn't want my friends and I to accomplish our goal, so he turned their parents into a three-headed dragon and had it attack us, only we didn't know about it until after we defeated it and they turned back...

[bakaomi]

[ uh

well. fortune's stance on not wanting gods to interfere just became like, a lot more understandable. ]

... what happened to their parents?

[divus]

[she looks down at her feet]

We weren't able to save them. Two of our friends... they were healers, they tried, but it wasn't enough. I... I lost my temper a little. I told him that he wasn't a god, that he wasn't a protector... he was just evil.

[...]

...and then it was like... there was a voice coming from somewhere inside of me, asking if I thought I could do it better. I said yes.

[...]

The next thing I knew... I was here. ...I don't know exactly what happened to their parents, in the end, but their injuries were so severe, and our healers were out of Psynergy... I don't know that they could have done anything except for... die.

[bakaomi]

[ ... ]

I do think you're doing better. This competition is... I won't say it's good, but some good things have come from it. And you wouldn't trick us like that.

Sorry about your friends.

[divus]

...I miss them. If I hadn't been so mad, if the call hadn't come at exactly that moment... I wonder if I would have answered it differently.

[there's no way to know now, though...]

I just hope... they're alright.