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thenearshore2017-05-24 06:50 am
darkestbefore) wrote in thenearshore2017-05-24 06:50 am
[ Open-ish ]
Who: Yona and castmates/adjacent CR
When: The days after the Age-Swap Event
Where: Yona's Temple
What: Catch-all to deal with fallout from the new arrivals and things discovered during the age swap event. Also probably a picnic.
[ The day after time is restored to normal, Yona sticks close to her temple, mind still reeling from what she had learned and the hectic events of the past few days. Between the arrival of her two newest shinki and some of the conversations she'd had with companions over the past few days, taking some time to process it seems the wisest of ideas.
But even though she doesn't venture far from her own temple, it doesn't mean she doesn't welcome anyone who stops by for a visit, clearly happy to greet anyone who stops by. Especially if they are people she needed to talk with anyway.
As for those staying in her temple, she does her best to make sure they get settled and comfortable, answering any questions she can to try and make this new arrangement as smooth as possible. And if there's a sudden resurgence of bad dreams in the aftermath of one particular shinki coming back to live in this place with her... well. She does her best to hide the evidence of it. ]
When: The days after the Age-Swap Event
Where: Yona's Temple
What: Catch-all to deal with fallout from the new arrivals and things discovered during the age swap event. Also probably a picnic.
[ The day after time is restored to normal, Yona sticks close to her temple, mind still reeling from what she had learned and the hectic events of the past few days. Between the arrival of her two newest shinki and some of the conversations she'd had with companions over the past few days, taking some time to process it seems the wisest of ideas.
But even though she doesn't venture far from her own temple, it doesn't mean she doesn't welcome anyone who stops by for a visit, clearly happy to greet anyone who stops by. Especially if they are people she needed to talk with anyway.
As for those staying in her temple, she does her best to make sure they get settled and comfortable, answering any questions she can to try and make this new arrangement as smooth as possible. And if there's a sudden resurgence of bad dreams in the aftermath of one particular shinki coming back to live in this place with her... well. She does her best to hide the evidence of it. ]
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[He should not have spoken.
[Her voice breaks. There is something in her gaze he cannot begin to define, and Kija wishes he could take back that last incautious word, take back all of it, if only it would make her feel better. He had intended - he is not quite sure what he had intended by calling her aside and speaking of the unspeakable. He had hoped, all the same, that it might help - that she would know this was not forever, this was not certain, that there was more going on than could be understood, never mind seen...
[And now this. He should have touched her shoulder, and said all the right things; there is a knot in his stomach, hard and painful, and his breath catches at him. He should have known how to comfort her.]
I am sorry. I should not have--
[And then she speaks again, and he falls silent. He gazes at her back. He wishes more than anything to find the men behind this, to throw them at the Princess's feet and demand they answer her. How could they do this to her, to all of them? Unforgivable.]
I cannot say. When they toy with our lives, they must feel themselves justified. Such men always do. It is despicable.
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She takes a deep breath. And another. And after a moment, she can turn to face him again. And while she's not completely composed, she at least looks more in control of her emotions. For the moment. Although there's a fierce light in her eyes as she moves back to his side once more. ]
You have nothing to apologize for, Kija. None of this is your doing. Any more than it is Hak, or Jae-Ha, or Zeno's. We are all being toyed with here, it seems.
These men you spoke to, who told you that you were a shinki here before... had they heard of such things happening before? Do they know of anything that might have happened to explain this sudden change? [ Was it something that could be duplicated, perhaps? ]
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[What he needs are names.
[Unfortunately, he cannot seem to recall any. If only the people who were brought to this world had slightly more sensible names! If they could only be less peculiar, he is certain he would remember them better.]
It happens after an absence, most commonly. People who return to their own worlds as shinki will sometimes be brought back as Gods, though others will vanish and return unchanged, forgetting even their time here. I have yet to find an explanation as to why, still less what I might or might not have done to cause such a change. I have asked, princess. Such things bewilder us all, perhaps even the Gods of this world.
[There was that whole mess with Youji, with his master before: but such behavior deserved punishment, not promotion. It is all so desperately confusing.]
It must be possible, too, for a God to become a shinki. Though I have heard nobody talk of that.
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I have heard that some are returned to their world with just as little warning as when we arrived. But shinki... if they've truly met the fate the visions we receive hint at, then there is nothing for them to go back to. And yet, they still do. If they still come back as gods, with their memories intact and potentially not dead, then...
[ Wait, now something else has occurred to her and her eyes flicker up to Kija's face in sudden concern. ] You're alright, aren't you? In the time you came from? I know you said you are far past what I know and remember, but if you were here as a shinki before..?
[ What has she gotten them all into? ]