I love the way you call it art

[verymuchalive]

Characters: OU Aradia and OPEN
Setting: Art Gallery floor
Format: Starts in action, but will follow either
Summary: Aradia's taking in a little of the tower's version of culture
Warnings: Grim art? But otherwise not much yet.

[Up until now, Aradia hasn't really spent much time perusing the art gallery that appeared when the tower grew a few floors. Today she's decided to rectify that.

And so she wanders aimlessly about the floor, looking at the various artworks on display and lingering in front of those that catch her eye. Probably one of the more morbid ones, but she seems far more fascinated than she does horrified.

Pester her?]

Comments

[verymuchalive]

It's okay. I'm the same.

[She gives a wry smile at the question]

I suppose if I have one, it would be Time.

[thebigsister]

...I'm afraid I don't understand, how can Time be an area of expertise?

[verymuchalive]

Well, it's one of the aspects of the game we were playing. The one I was assigned.

[thebigsister]

A game?

[Eleanor tilts her head to the side.]

I'm afraid I don't... quite understand.

[verymuchalive]

It's an unusual situation. Basically our world was destroyed and we had to make a new one. It's more complicated than that really but it's confusing even for those of us who are involved.

[thebigsister]

Sounds like it.

[Eleanor bobs her head, nodding.]

I'm sorry about the loss of your world, though.

[verymuchalive]

[She shrugs]

It's okay. We're all in the same position here, aren't we?

[thebigsister]

In a manner of speaking, yes.

[She tilts her head to the side.]

But I expect you to be far more attached to your world than I was. I have lost nothing dear to me by arriving here.

[verymuchalive]

Not really. I mean, to Alternia, maybe. But to where I was before I came here? That was only a means to an end anyway.

[thebigsister]

Even though that is where you gained your powers?

[Humans craved power beyond reason, were trolls truly any different?]

[verymuchalive]

Only the time powers came from the game, and were it not for the game then I wouldn't need them.

[thebigsister]

Do you think you would be better off without them?

[verymuchalive]

It doesn't matter. I have them now and they're not likely to go away.

[thebigsister]

I suppose you're right, daydreams about might-have-beens are not conductive to anything productive.

[verymuchalive]

Not that I've experienced. But that doesn't mean it's like that everywhere.

[thebigsister]

It's probably for the best that I don't entertain such thoughts for long, anyway. I don't have that great an imagination as it is.