[001] Intro Post - Open~

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Characters: Mary Magdalene and anyone she meets
Setting: Dorm room, halls, wherever else Mary wanders; mid-morning
Format: Prose to start but I'll switch to bracket spam if anyone prefers that
Summary: Panic, lots of it. Mary wakes up to find that her world is gone (which is pretty much her entire universe because she exists like... everywhere, thanks KOS-MOS/T-elos) and that she failed in her purpose to protect it.
Warnings: None, Mary's a good girl. Might have swearing, depending on who she meets, but it won't be from her.

The letters that she'd found had giving her reason to cry. And cry she did, dropped to her knees and wrapping her arms tightly around her knees for a good long time. Did that mean that Shion was gone? Yeshua? What about all her friends? Was she alone now? Mary didn't want to be alone, she couldn't stand being alone. It was why she had traveled with the Messiah, Yeshua and their followers. It was a group of people, all joined together with one purpose in mind.

And they were all gone. Were their souls gone too? Or did they safely migrate elsewhere? Souls were forever, even if they had fallen to pieces and spread throughout the UMN. Eventually, they could be pieces together and a person reborn. It had happened to her, in a way, when her soul had been attached to KOS-MOS and when her body was used to create T-elos.

Another sob wracked her body but she finally got up from the floors and wiped at her eyes. They were puffy and pink from crying but she didn't honestly care. In her time, appearance wasn't important only the way you behaved around people and treated them. With a deep breath to try to center herself, Mary stepped out into the hall with the letters clutched tightly in hand as if to give herself courage.

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Nagi seemed to nod at that, smiling much wider than one would expect.

"Don't rush yourself. There is an abundance of time here."

She paused, and took to stroking her hair.

"Until you get your bearings...you may want to stick to these floors. Some of the ones below us are...unpleasant."

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"Time, I've always had a lot of that." And sometimes, not enough. She was a complicated one and she knew that. After a moment, Mary let out a breath that was just a bit shaky as she resisted fresh tears. Instead, she let her curiosity take over.

"Unpleasant? How so, if I may ask?"

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Nagi's hand abruptly dropped, and she turned, her swords' sheaths clacking together. She stilled them with her hand, but seemed on edge at that question.

"This tower is unnatural. The structure defies common sense, and the only conjecture I can determine about it is that this place is composed by some sort of magical entity. Potentially more than one." She looked at the ground for a moment, then gave Mary a sidelong glance. "There are things at night which can cause harm, but they don't dare come to the dormitory floors. Even still, it's best to be careful."

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Mary's shoulders tensed slightly at the thought and she made a mental note to avoid traveling without others. Fighting was never her specialty, even after spending time within KOS-MOS. After all, the android had been specially built to combat the Gnosis. Even now, she couldn't see herself fighting unless she had no other alternative.

"I... I will, of course. Thank you for the warning. I'll have to be quite careful, I sometimes attract trouble." A pause before covering her mouth. A second later, she's lowering her hands and apologizes.

"I've forgotten my manners, allow me to introduce myself. I am Mary Magdalene." Yeshua and the Messiah would be disappointed at the slip in her manners, she always was the most polite out of all of them and the disciples.