Need a Define:Animus Function

[nomassacreshere]

Characters: Euphie, Open
Setting: Floor 19
Format: Pick your poison and I'll match.
Summary: Euphie isn't capable of doing much compared to all the people with superpowers and military training, but she can at least do some research.
Warnings: NA?

[Well, the library on the nineteenth floor was an organized mess this evening, though all for a good cause.]

[There were papers scattered over a table, and if one looked, they would be able to see the words that Ruana shared with everyone the other day, some of the bits that seemed like it was very important information highlighted or circled, all written in very elegant handwriting. Next to the small mountain (which at this point was looking less like a mountain and more like a lake), was a thickly bound dictionary forced open to the entry on the definition of the word "animus" -- a "hostility or ill feeling" or the "motivation to do something". Judging from the fact that the book was obviously shoved aside, however, it doesn't seem like that was the definition the person doing the research was looking for.]

[If one looks deeper into the library, they'll find the person responsible for the mess, browsing through the thick tomes, or at least trying to. Euphemia wasn't exactly the strongest person in existence, and some of the books probably weighed as much as she did. At the moment she's up on a ladder, trying to get something from the top shelf, ignoring the fact that her ladder is wobbling...]

[...she might be in need of some assistance.]

Comments

[warriorscribe]

Someone else said before that, that it could mean "malicious intent" or "soul". Those two are the only meanings that make sense. *At least, the only ones he could make sense of.* But our presence here itself doesn't seem to be in ill will.

Perhaps it was meant to research the soul, once.

[nomassacreshere]

That is what I believed at first, but... it seems far too simple to be the case.

[She paused at the mention of researching the soul. That... almost never meant anything good.]

Researching the soul... so perhaps these methods of tormenting us are tests of our soul?

[warriorscribe]

Didn't Ruana speak of the tower's research as if it was part of the past?

*His soul doesn't need any-...tests. He thinks. Maybe. It probably does, considering... But this train of thought is uncomfortable and they're discussing theories here so he tries to push it aside.*

I wonder if that's why there's nothing here on some subjects. Did Ruana hide them somehow so Riki couldn't put them here?

[nomassacreshere]

Who is to say it really has? We have too many questions at the moment...

[She looked down at her notes, a saddened look on her face.]

...there is far too much we do not know.

[warriorscribe]

With her aversion to anything she would call "research" or "experiments", it's a wonder she allows Jason's at all. I wouldn't be surprised if she forbade it for the others.

[nomassacreshere]

I did not know that, though considering the leaked audio files, I am not entirely surprised.

[warriorscribe]

I tried to keep up with her communications as they happened.

*It was an exhausting endeavor, but when the post suddenly vanished on him, he realized this habit was worth it. He only wished he could go back and look at what he'd missed.*

I...feel bad, making her uncomfortable with all our questioning. But we simply know too little...