02 | they should worry

[alephbet]

Characters: Aleph and you!
Setting: Floors 25, 14, 3, and 1
Format: Action brackets, can change to prose if asked.
Summary: Aleph relaxes, offends people's eardrums, and learns to cook.
Warnings: Nothing so far!

[Floor 25]
[Aleph was quickly finding out that the one thing the tower was short of, apart from 'exits', 'safety', or 'peace of mind', was 'things to do'.

This may have been one reason why he was sitting in the meadow making a daisy chain.

The other reason... well, he'd just never been in a place this green before. Arcadia didn't count.]

[Floor 14]
[Having set up a karaoke machine in the media room, Aleph naturally decided to practice on it a little. It was fun, it was relaxing, it was enjoyable. No problem, right?

There is one thing about Aleph that a fair number of demons could tell you after an unfortunate attempt at winning them over...

Aleph could not sing.

His voice defied the previous definition of 'off-key'. It made 'off-key' sound like the opera instead. This was just plain bad any way you looked at it.

Oblivious, Aleph would continue to sing until someone stopped him or threw something at his head.]

[Floor 3]
[The books Aleph gathered up in one large pile were all about cooking. Basic cooking, nothing too advanced. After carrying them over to a table, he would just flip through them, stopping on recipes at random. Bother him?]

[Floor 1]
[And after that, of course Aleph went to try to cook something. It wasn't going well, though, and the first... whatever it was supposed to be that he pulled out of the oven was a total mess.]

...I guess I should go back over the recipe.

Comments

[foreseeing_one]

*Futomimi smiles.* I might dare say it's much better. I had never seen plantlife before.

[alephbet]

What kind of place did you live in?

[foreseeing_one]

The Vortex World. It's rather barren. *He sits up to look at Aleph, crossing his legs.*

[alephbet]

It doesn't sound like a pleasant place.

[He thinks of Makai, for some reason.]

[foreseeing_one]

*It's pretty close to Makai.* It's not. It's full of demons enslaving the likes of me, and there are no plants and very little water.

[alephbet]

How did you survive?

[foreseeing_one]

We are not humans. We consume water and clay, when not left to starve to produce magatsuhi.

[alephbet]

That's interesting... At least you were able to make do in a place like that.

[foreseeing_one]

It's probably thanks to arising from it. Still, we are not free, so I do enjoy the free time as well as the flowers and grass.

[alephbet]

I guess there are some good things about being stuck here.

[foreseeing_one]

Few and far between as they may be, I intend to take full advantage of them. I do not know by what miracle this place has grown, but just being here soothes one's soul. Don't you agree?

[alephbet]

[He nods.] We could all use a place to relax.