reach the residents

[ximilian]

● ● ● REACH THE RESIDENTS

For any questions you want to ask Viveca or Degar and receive an IC response, please direct them here. Please indicate in the subject line who you are trying to contact.

// VIVECA

Hi, what can I help you with?

// DEGAR

Today was gonna be the day, but they'll never throw it back to you. And by now, you should've somehow realized what you're not to do.

▶ NAV

Comments

[peasant]

It matters. [ there's a gentleness in that correction, at odds with the firm foundation of her conviction. ] I wasn't asking for my own sake.

[ or — perhaps it was for her sake, in some small part. an unknowing compulsion to have some scrap of information that makes him feel as human as viveca, some hazy image of him. it's never boded well for her to be left in the dark when it comes to those in power, after all.

more accurately: she hasn't asked for only her own sake. ]

When we do get them back, what will happen to you and Viveca? Are we helping you undo your own regrets, or ... are you trapped here?

[stationmaster]

We keep guarding this place, and we keep guarding the orbs. We'll make sure that your ends of the bargain are fulfilled.

It's not an easy job, but someone's gotta do it.

[peasant]

You make it sound so heroic. [ and it is, to a degree, but — ] To me, it just sounds lonely.

[ as it always does, to have that weighty responsibility settled on the shoulders of so very few. she'd no better than most. and while there's some piece of her that wants to question if there's nothing for either of them to return to, if there's no one else to take over that responsibility, she has her suspicions that she already knows the answers to those riddles. there's an awkward heartbeat of silence before, ]

I suppose I should let you get back to it, then. Thanks for listening.

[stationmaster]

They're not really mutually exclusive concepts.

[ but also lol he would never consider himself a hero. he writes songs about them, but he sure ain't one. ]

But yeah — any time, Alina.