towerofanimus | The Healer Awakes..

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The Healer Awakes..

Characters: Raphael and you!
Setting: Around the Tower.
Format: I'll start in prose, but I'll match you!
Summary: Raphael wakes up in the Tower and explores, all while wondering why he can't connect to God.

Technically, Raphael couldn't sleep or feel tired. He was the angel of healing-it would be weird if he had to rest or felt exhausted. So, the fact that he woke up in a bed in an unknown place was troubling, especially with the fact that he couldn't feel a connection to God here. For some reason, somehow, it was cut off. Not one to panic, Raphael looked at the notes that were lying in front of him. The first contained some useful information about this place..but the other..it couldn't have been. He didn't remember God ordering Michael or Lucifel to start the end of the world..but this severed connection to God..could it be that the world had ended? But if so..then why was he here? Puzzled, Raphael got out of bed, not bothered by the fact that he was wearing a white jumpsuit. As long as he was wearing something, that was fine by him. The collar puzzled him though. He wandered out of his dorm floor and onto the hall, looking for other people and some answers. Maybe the other angels had been brought here, even if he couldn't sense them.

While the fact that he couldn't sense any souls from the people wearing red collars, the infirmary was a familiar environment. While there may not have been any sick people here, they may have been a few who knew what was going on, so Raphael will be here, healing whoever he can and trying to find some answers.

The books Enoch had written in Heaven were useful, as they provided quite a bit of information, so if you wander in here, you'll be able to find Raphael, looking over the shelves, trying to find something to explain his arrival here..and his severed connection to God.

Raphael wandered in here and, curious about the viewfinders, looked through one..only to feel a terrible, horrid pain and..sadness overwhelm him. Was the world over? If God had ordered the end of the world, that was fine..but he couldn't feel the connection to God or his other angels..he could only feel the loss of those connections, and..the pain of that loss. It was a new emotion, and not one that Raphael wanted to explore in-depth. He quickly looked away, trying to get control again, trying to calm down a little.

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The Psiioniic has spent...most of his time since arriving at the Tower in the library. He's never, ever seen so many books before in his entire life, and while he was told he could take books (and while he has stashed a few away in his room), he feels strange just...taking them. So he's there, paging over books on culture and being, well...kind of concerned. It all seemed so fantastic to him, and he'll probably never comprehend the alien species here.

They're weird.

But when he sees Raphael, he's not all too taken aback. He's slowly getting used to the oddly colured, hornless aliens that are in abundance, even if their cultures are beyond his comprehension. He smiles at the man-alien-he-doesn't-know-what-species, nodding in greeting (that was acceptable, right?) before placing a book on some place called Europe back on the shelf. He's not sure if he should speak or not, but he'll at least look happy and pleasant.

However, when Raphael saw and sensed the person, he wasn't quite sure what to make of him. His appearance was similar to a demon's..but he didn't have the same sense, even if he wasn't a humane either. Baffled and wanting to make sure that a demon wasn't fooling him, Raphael spoke up, even if he did wear a smile on his face.

"..What are you?"

He should have expected that question. Trolls were in the minority here, so it wasn't a huge stretch to believe that most people in the Tower hadn't encountered any before being thrust into the same tower as them.

Still, being asked what he is isn't a question he expected to hear ever again.

"A troll, from the planet Alternia."

..That just made Raphael even more confused.

"A troll? And what is Alternia?"

Those things don't exist for Raphael, and he's unfamiliar with the concept of alternate universes for the moment.

Well he's never met anyone who didn't know what he was talking about.

"Alternia is a planet? If you know what thothe are..."

He's not trying to be an asshole, but he legitimately doesn't know how anyone couldn't know about trolls or Alternia. The empire was just so huge it was improbable that other species wouldn't know.

But. Alternate universes and realities. It was probable.

Not that Raphael thought he was being an asshole..or could even react to it if he thought he was being one.

"I do know what planets are..I have just not heard of the one called Alternia..or the trolls that live there."

He nods, shrugging one shoulder. "A lot of people here are from different realitieth, tho I imagine in yourth my planet doeth not eckthitht at all."

Raphael thought on that before he spoke. Different realities..that didn't sound implausible to him..after all, God could do whatever he wanted, and if he wanted to make several alternate realities, he could.

"That does make some sense..thank you for letting me know. What is your name?"

The Psiioniic can't speak much for God, but he's almost certain this stranger wouldn't be all that fond of what happens on Alternia.

"You're welcome," he murmurs, turning back to the bookshelf. "Motht call me the Pthiioniic."

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This floor was nothing but decoration for Enoch, a floor to pass through on the way to better ones. The very fact that one of their own had intervened and painted over the viewers meant it couldn't be a good sight, perhaps even dangerous. That and the numerous dangers of the tower left him suspicious of thorough exploration.

So when he sees someone looking into one, someone with the newbie outfit, he steps off the staircase, curious and concerned.

When that person looks away though... Enoch knows that face. He can only remember seeing it in profile in stained glass. But it's enough for him.

"R...Raphael?" Enoch's approach slows to uncertainty. He looks...much less than calm. Something strikes him as very not right about that, enough to make him hesitate.

Raphael was still trying to be calm when he heard and sensed Enoch approaching. It helped, knowing that Enoch had somehow been put into this place as well. It was one connection that he knew wasn't severed..even if that wasn't as important as the connection to God he had. However, even though he still felt the pain of the viewfinder and the fear-was this fear? It felt like something akin to it, as it had been described in Enoch's books, and Enoch himself had shown it-of being cut off from God, he tried to look calm, as to not put Enoch into a similar state.

"Enoch..it is good to see you. Tell me..what is this place? What has happened?"

Yes, the angel was questioning Enoch. But who else could he question when there was no connection to God, when Earth was probably destroyed?

It was a bit too late for that. Especially with a question like that. Enoch didn't know what to feel. Was he happy to see someone from home? Was he saddened by his inevitable torture here? There was a weight settling in his gut at the realization this meant Earth was certainly gone. Raphael hadn't been with him in Meridian, after all.

"This tower is called Animus. We're here because...something has destroyed our worlds."

Raphael nodded, taking in the name, and trying to make sense of the whole thing. If Enoch didn't know of what destroyed Earth..then who here did? He couldn't sense any of the other angels here..and his connection to God was just severed. He wasn't sure exactly what to do, but..he had to find out what had happened, since he couldn't remember. Enoch was a good start.

"That is what the note said..and I cannot sense God in this place. I cannot connect to him. Did He put us here? And if so..where are the other angels? I do not sense them either."

"He did not. We're here through the magic-...'psionics' of a boy named Zo. This place couldn't be farther from Him."

Enoch's fists clench and unclench, trembling. "I had hoped...that He had been able to save Earth."

Even though he was an Archangel, there were still terms that even Raphael didn't know. Psionics was one of those terms. Even though Lucifel traveled through time quite a bit, he had never told Raphael about such a term, assuming it existed there..or had. Raphael noticed Enoch clenching his fists, but didn't do anything just yet. He was still recovering from the viewfinder..and he didn't ever think he'd get used to the fact that his connection was severed.

"'Psionics'? And...if He did not put us here, then who managed to pull us here?"

It couldn't have been Belial or another creature of the Vileness..Raphael didn't sense that to be part of this place.

"Enoch..if God did not destroy Earth, than who did? And..how long have you been hoping for?"

Yes, Raphael is thinking about you a little bit, Enoch. After everything that happened in the Tower, he had realized that he hadn't lived up to his name or his task and knew that he had to get better, even if the workings of the human mind were almost foreign to him.

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To complicate matters, Enoch himself didn't know what it meant. It was just the word they used.

"It's the word the natives use for their powers here. As I said, it...was a boy named Zo. He also protects this tower. The one who leads the administrators here, Ruana, said it's a "power" of some kind."

It was "power", wasn't it? Yes, that's right. Right? He remembers using "pressure" before, but where had he heard that if not in Ruana's description of what destroys worlds? Without being able to go back and check those conversations like he can the other conversations they'd had with the administrators, he doesn't remember. He must make sure to transcribe conversations he sees next time.

"...Raphael, do you think God would destroy Earth if He allowed me to go on this mission to save it?" Enoch just shakes his head in response to the last part, his mind hitting the memory of Meridian, freezing in panic, and then skipping right on over it like a scratch on a DVD.

"If He couldn't save it...then..."

Was God all right? What did that "power" do to him? Raphael should have the answer to that question, if that feeling from the viewfinders is to be believed.

When Enoch described Zo, Raphael tried to find a boy like that with his senses..and found that he couldn't. He couldn't sense where Zo was, and if Enoch hadn't told him of the boy, he wouldn't have even known he existed.

"A power of some kind?"

That wasn't too descriptive, and even though Enoch probably didn't know much more than that, it was probably better to ask. However..Raphael paused for a moment at that question, puzzled.

"Enoch, there is an ending point for everything that exists..but you have completed your mission. Why do you still speak as though you haven't?"

Raphael knew you didn't have any powers over time, so you couldn't have gotten so confused as to muddle up points in history.

"If He couldn't save it, then it was part of His will. I know that concept must be hard to understand..and even painful. But as long as it is part of His will then it is fine."

Raphael was more worried about God at the moment, to be honest. The viewfinder was still working on him, and he had felt the pain of God, of Heaven and the other angels being..dead. Destroyed. Even though Raphael might have looked calm-or was trying to, at the very least-he was..frightened, worried..and shocked. Angels dying was odd..but he could handle the concept. God and Heaven dying and vanishing? That was impossible for him. That couldn't happen..so how? How could it have happened here?

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