The Healer Awakes..

[godheals]

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.

Comments

I suppose..but I don't feel any less like a ninny when it happens..but I don't think it will again.

[godheals]

To be honest, Raphael has handled the information..a little bit better than most, but he's still a little bit shaken up.

Not that his face shows that. At Enoch's question, he nods.

"Please do. Any information is better than none..especially considering the circumstances."

^^ I won't have Enoch dump all the info at once since that seems a bit much.

[warriorscribe]

"They oversee us in monthly cycles. Dax, as I said, is an agreeable man. He's the only one of our hosts that acts like one. He feeds us well and tries to avoid causing us trouble. Any trouble during a month of his seems out of his hands. It will be his turn next month."

Ah, thanks. ^^; That might be helpful for Raphael.

[godheals]

"I see..it seems I shall have some safe time to get used to the Tower and everything else then. I shall have to thank him as well..when I contact him, of course."

[warriorscribe]

"You can thank him through the suggestion box - it's read at the beginning of the month by the overseer in charge, so he will be reading this month's notes."

[godheals]

Raphael..actually managed to smile at that. He seems to be looking a lot better.

"Then I shall have to write him a note later on then. What of the other Administrators?"

[warriorscribe]

Good news before the bad.

"Jason always follows Dax. ...He is...without him we wouldn't survive this tower, but...he is ruthless." The hand resting on the ground grasps a fistful of grass. "He will subject anyone to his tortuous 'experiments', even children."

[godheals]

And there goes that smile. Raphael looks a little less calm at that, but he still manages to keep everything under control.

"I see..I shall have to help anyone that's subjected to these 'experiments' in any way I can then."

[warriorscribe]

"If you can. Jason is...thorough."

Enoch sighs. "And yet...as vile a man as he is...he is the only one who can learn anything new about the phantoms here..."

[godheals]

"Enoch..I still have my name, even in this place. I shall try to live up to it, even with Jason and the odd floors of this Tower. However..it is good that he can learn more about the phantoms..but if he does not share that information, it is of little use until we are able to find out a way of learning what he knows."

[warriorscribe]

He hadn't even told Raphael about the phantoms, and he was already trying to help him. Leave it to Raphael...

"I know. I've told him we would be interested in learning about them, since we have to live with them up here, as well. He seemed eager to share what he already knew when I brought them up."

'Leave it to Raphael' sounds like a bad comedy show.

[godheals]

Raphael was an angel of healing. He did like to help, and if he could help with information, he would. He had done it before, after all.

"I see..it is good that he is willing to share what he knows when he is questioned. What did he say he knew?"

XD

[warriorscribe]

"This interests him personally...of course he's willing to share. He said they...come from our worlds, but aren't native."

X3

[godheals]

"I see..how can they come from our worlds and yet, not be native to them?"

[warriorscribe]

"I don't know... All we do know is that at some point Zo attempted to bring a large number of people to the tower all at once, and the phantoms were the result."

[godheals]

Raphael thought as he spoke, trying to think of an explanation.

"..It is possible that Zo does not have full control over his powers. The large number of people he attempted to bring might have fused together, body and soul, creating one monster.."

[warriorscribe]

Enoch shook his head, the answer, emotional and immediate, formed in his mind too long before he could articulate it.

"...That doesn't explain them not being native. And...their bodies are dead on their own worlds. They couldn't have been brought here."

[godheals]

The idea of all those souls tied up in one body did not make Raphael happy either. However..he had already faced the worst of what he could today. This couldn't break him any further than he already was.

"I admit, it does not explain how they are not native. I am not quite sure yet how to fit that piece into everything..but Enoch..not everyone who is brought here has a dead body. And..if Zo can rescue living things with bodies, it would make sense that he could pull living souls without them."

[warriorscribe]

It felt like something clicked, with what he said. That there was something he was missing and Raphael had found it.

Something about that horrible stretch of days in Meridian...

Enoch curled up a little as he tried to force himself to remember what had struck him as strange in that mess of loneliness and pain.

[godheals]

Raphael saw how Enoch was starting to curl up, and while he wasn't quite sure why, he thought it might have been the subject matter at hand..or something else.

"Enoch, are you alright?"

[warriorscribe]

His mind had begun to let it sink into a blur as he resumed his usual "routine" in Animus. As soon as the very first day it was over, the details were indistinct, his mind refusing to take to it.

But he needed to.

"...Something you said...is right."

[godheals]

"What part of what I said was correct?"

[warriorscribe]

Enoch shakes his head again. He doesn't know what has more of a hand in his current state, trying to remember clearly or the loss of memory itself.

"...I was...returned to the ruins of Meridian, a short time ago..."

[godheals]

Well, that made Raphael stand up. He didn't know exactly what Enoch had seen..but seeing a destroyed world where a friend of yours was..it couldn't have been pleasant.

Raphael put an arm on Enoch's shoulder, to calm him down..but even though he wanted to calm him down, he knew that the information Enoch had was important.

"..Go on.."

[warriorscribe]

He had to start at the beginning. It was the only way to get the memory in place. Trying to think of it all at once, it was indistinct, and so painful...

"Armaros and I..."

...And such was holding true even now. Enoch slumped forward, not wanting to relive that feeling, that knowledge that he had been absolutely alone...

He shook his head.

[godheals]

Raphael tightened his grip as Enoch slumped forward-not so much that it was painful, but it did become a little bit firmer.

"Do not strain yourself. Take it a little bit at a time, and for as long as you need. I shall still be here when you have it all figured out."