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Who: Lightning, Natsuru, and you
Where: Near Shore
When: May 11th
What: Prayer #15, so Natsuru in a cute outfit and Light just being Light
Warnings: None yet

[Sweetshop!]
[Lightning has finally decided that it was high time to do a prayer with her shinki. Natsuru is picked first since she’s the more skittish of the two, and it’ll be their gods first prayer as well. The prayer entailed helping a failing business get back into business. So, Lightning took it. Too bad the place seemed to be exactly what she didn’t want to work. Lightning loves to eat, but how is she supposed to sell sweets?

At least she has the amusement of sticking her shinki in an outfit that would detract from her own uniform.

Come one, come all to this shop and harass these two young women. Or just buy stuff and help them get through this.]

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I hear that a lot. It's better than my god name.

[Because seriously Osiris? Now that she knows his origin so story, she would rather not be him, even if it does suit her.]

Well...Osiris is kinda a mouthful. Lightning comes easier.

[She chuckles, and shrugs. She hasn't met a god that wants to go what they're the avatar of. Not yet at least.]

And it sounds...

[She shakes her head.]

I'm not sure. Strong, but still connected? If that makes any sense.

[Wow you're kind of weird Masaki. Lightning sighs softly.]

Lightning can only destroy.

[She picked it for that reason. It's powerful and intimidating.]

Lightning can be grounded in the earth. It can also be defended against, if you know what to do.

[She's smiling. She knows it sounds weird. But then again, Masaki is, she supposes, a little weird herself.]

But if you think of it as a metaphor, it's more relateable than judging the dead or being...what was it, torn apart?

[Masaki does have an extremely different view of the world. Lighting doesn't know what to do.]

Judging the dead is what I did back home in a similar manner. It's just a job, no matter what my name is.

[Just pat her on the head. It works. She's also going to take a sip of her coffee now.]

You did?

[Talk about getting into a related job...]

Do you mind if I ask about it?

[Lightning sits back in her chair, crossing her arms.]

It's common knowledge back home. I collected the souls of those who were ready to die so they could be reborn into a new world. It was my job to make sure they were at peace before the end of days. Just like with the dead here. Except the dead here are a lot more stubborn about moving on and being reborn. Back home the dead never begged to be brought back to life to finish things that were left undone. They accepted their death.

[Back home...huh. Masaki is thoughtful, listening to Lightning. She doesn't know much about the dead, for all she's one of them. She wouldn't want to pass on, herself.

If she didn't have her duty to Dio, she might have. She did not know.]

I'm not sure why it's harder here then it was for you, back home. Or what it says about either world.

[Masaki takes a bite out of her pastry, and sighs happily. She needed that.]

Oh, wait. You collected those that were ready to die right? Maybe that's why.

[Lightning nods. Everyone wanted to die after being forced to live for 500 years, never aging a single day, stuck in time with monsters and diseases still rampant.]

The ones who are ready are easier to pass judgment on. They don't fight the verdict. The ones who fight it tend to stick with the 'But I'm good! Let me go back and prove it!' excuse. Then there's those who genuinely thought they were evil, and were so set in their ways and convictions they have the purest of hearts and are granted rebirth. All the other ones I just threaten and that usually makes them shut up.

[That would be depressing. Nothing to look forward to in five hundred years...

Still, Masaki had to giggle, smothering it behind her hand.]

You threatened them? With what?

Whatever is closest at the time.

[Sword. Gunblade. Magic. That sort of thing. Though a heavy goblet makes a good throwing weapon, too.]

Seriously?

[She giggled harder. This god...]

Did it work?

Every time.

[Hey. She commands attention. And is very intimidating.]

[She had to put her cup down to laugh. Sorry Lightning, it's hard and not hard to picture. She might be picturing her threatening someone with a coffee cup.]

Wow, wow. You're amazing!

[...... if it would get the job done, then yes, coffee cup would be used.

At least Misaki is getting some amusement from this.]

Just doing my job.

[She did! But Lightning, threatening with a coffee cup...truly, she's lived an interesting life.]

And very effectively too! I don't think I could do what you did. It sounds...like a hard thing to do. Exciting, and rewarding but...hard.

[This life right now is a lot more amusing than she thought it would be.]

It has to be done by someone. I have the right qualifications for it.

To threaten people with anything on hand? Or to guide the dead?

[Her voice is a touch wry, and she takes a moment to take a nibble of her pastry. Otherwise Lightning decide she's hyper enough without sugar.]

Both.

[From her expression she's not kidding. She was a soldier after all.]

Hmm. But is it really that fun?

[She smiles, shaking her head, after taking a bite, chewing and swallowing.]

It's pretty rude of me to ask that though, so...sorry. I'm just blathering.

It's not supposed to be fun.

[She just does the job because apparently the old god didn't want to do it anymore.]

It's fine. There's not a lot of customers right now.

[She sighs.]

I guess. But you might do better with your job if you enjoy it, right?

[She hums quietly, and takes another bite of the pastry. This really is nice...]

[................................................]

Who would enjoy their job working with the dead like that?

Most people wouldn't.

[She shrugs, offering a smile.]

But maybe they'd be happy that they...I don't know, offered them some form of peace?

only if they want peace. I've sent plenty of pissed off people back into the world because even if they were mad at everything, they were good people.

[Ever seen a wolverine?]

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