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[godsoffortune]

Who: Everyone!
What: Ageswapping
When: July 15-17
Where: Everywhere
Summary: A breach in the space-time continuum is messing things up.

Continuing from HERE!

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Lenneth

[declamando]

[[From here.]]

[It doesn't seem like she's going to be distracted from the matter of her friend, and Maria nods rather solemnly. While she doubts the person in question will be here too, she can't really turn down someone this desperate.]

What does he look like? I could tell you if I've seen him here so far.

[nibelungvalesti]

He is about my age. Thin, but not weak. Blonde hair... [How strange to describe someone she'd grown up with. Their lives would have passed all their years in that little town, and no one new would have ever come to need such a description. What had gone wrong...]

[declamando]

[Even as she takes in the description and nods a little to indicate she understands, Maria runs through the people she's met today in her head, and none of them match up.]

I don't think I've seen him yet, but I can certainly keep an eye out for him. Should I tell him you sent me if I do find him?

[nibelungvalesti]

[Yes, she almost says, but -- what if Lucian no longer wants to see her? She did just die on him in the flower field, after all. He'd run away and ruined everything for nothing.]

[He probably doesn't want to ever see her again.]

...If he asks about me.

[declamando]

[There's a solemn nod from Maria at that. It's not her place to question why Lenneth only wants it brought up if he asks.

Before any attempt to go looking for this boy, though, Maria looks her over again.]

Is there anything else you wanted to ask me? I wouldn't want to leave you here still confused. Or more confused than the rest of us.

[nibelungvalesti]

[Platina gasps a laugh, then slaps her hand over her mouth to hold back more by physical force. She's dangerously close to hysteria.]

I'm not sure that's even possible. I don't know ANYthing.

[declamando]

[If the near-hysteria wasn't so concerning, Maria would almost laugh at her remark. As it is, she remains where she is, because it doesn't seem right to leave her in that state.]

Actually, there's quite a lot the people brought here don't really know, but I should be able to answer at least some of your questions if you want to know anything specific.

[nibelungvalesti]

Am I dead?

[Perhaps understandably, she really wants to know this. It would explain a whole lot.]

[declamando]

[That's a much harder question to answer, and Maria frowns thoughtfully.]

It's hard to say. Shinki are all dead and forget everything from before they came here, but if you remember then I can't answer that question any better than your memories, unfortunately. It varies among gods.

[nibelungvalesti]

I am pretty sure I remember dying. I think? [How hopelessly confusing. What else could it have been? And yet here she is, feeling alive and well at least...]

[declamando]

[There's a grim, if understanding nod from Maria at that.] It might be best to think on it more later, and see if the memories of it get any clearer. You did only just get here, after all.

[nibelungvalesti]

Oh... maybe the poison did affect my head. I hadn't thought of that.

[She FEELS perfectly clear-headed, though...]

[declamando]

You were poisoned? [Maria definitely sounds concerned about that. If there's a possibility it's still in her system, she can always offer a healing, though.]

If that's the case, it could have, yes.

[nibelungvalesti]

Yes. There were.... flowers. So many flowers, all blowing a sweet scent that I never realized was killing me until it was too late...

[Because inside, she had already been lingering under a prolonged spiritual death...]

[declamando]

[It might have been a peaceful way to die, if she hadn't noticed. Now, it just sounds horrible, and Maria bows her head.]

I'm sorry to hear that. It sounds like a rough experience to have on your mind just before coming to this place.

[nibelungvalesti]

...It was almost a relief.

[To be quite honest. Quietly, painfully honest.]

[declamando]

[Maria looks surprised by that, though the immediate reaction sinks into something more sad before long.]

There's too much life to be lived to give it up like that. Consider this a second chance.

[nibelungvalesti]

But... what would I do? Where would I go? I don't...

[With so much around, confusing and baffling, she doesn't have a scrap of familiar ground to build off of.]

[declamando]

There should be a place ready for you to live. It's that way for all gods. [It's a little unfortunate that Maria's practice with Lenneth had been at the mass training meet, so she can't actually point her the right way, but she can still try.] At least, it can give you the space you need to figure things out.

[nibelungvalesti]

I'm sorry. I don't understand any of this. Not one bit. Why would there be a place...? [She's pathetic, she knows it.]

[declamando]

We're here to fill the roles of gods that existed before us. So their temple is now your temple. [It's the best way she can explain the whys of there being a place already here for them.]