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

[godheals]

Raphael let go of Enoch shoulder when he spoke.

"Perhaps that would help calm you down..what are the others like?"

[warriorscribe]

Enoch gave a little bitter huff of a laugh when Raphael suggested it might calm him.

"Riki...We know little of him. He oversees Animus this month, and all we know is that he rarely shows himself, and he is responsible for building this tower."

[godheals]

Thinking about the Administrators had to be better than thinking about a dead friend, in Raphael's mind.

"I see..he may be able to tell us of any weaknesses Animus has then. What of Ruana?"

[warriorscribe]

"Ruana...was once a victim, centuries ago, perhaps millennia. She was a young girl, when she killed the men experimenting on her, and took over the tower for herself. It once was meant for research, as are all towers of this kind, but...now it is a place for her to have her fun, and we are her playthings."

[godheals]

..Well, that surprised Raphael a little.

"I see..so, due to what she went through, she snapped herself. I wonder what they were researching..and if there is a way to show Ruana that this is not how you treat your guests."

[warriorscribe]

"We tried, when her past was revealed. I don't know how well we did."

[godheals]

"I see..perhaps I shall have to have Dax send a message to her as well and see if she responds."

[warriorscribe]

Enoch made a noncommittal noise. He had plans of his own, but he didn't want to voice them yet, not even to Raphael.

"...A few months ago, when she was last in power, she dressed a number of us in costumes and had us search for ever-rarer candy under threat of death. Those who died returned...twisted somehow. Many physically, but I..."

His voice lowers.

"...as others were gruesomely twisted around me, I lost my free will. I would have wanted to kill Armaros if I saw him, through no desire of my own. Ruana's own mind is so warped she thinks nothing of playing with the very essence of our beings..."

[godheals]

And Raphael was just stunned by that. Utterly stunned. What sort of person was Ruana that she could just tear away a humans free will, their one gift? How could she just distort a person like that?

The idea was horrible, even more so than the fact that people had been forced to kill each other for mere 'candies'. A small silence passed before Raphael spoke up again.

"That is..horrible. What sort of person is Ruana that she can tear away Humanity's gift?"

[warriorscribe]

"Humans in this world can possess the power of 'psionics', as I told you earlier. Those with strong 'psionics' can live for a very long time. Ruana has been alive for more than a thousand years. She is older than our own world..."

[godheals]

"I did not know that 'psionics' was that strong..and if she has been alive longer than our own world, than many other worlds have also been destroyed for as long as ours has existed.."

[warriorscribe]

Enoch's brow furrowed as he thought about what Raphael just said.

"...How did you come to that?"

[godheals]

"..If other people have been pulled to this Tower, then it means that their worlds were also destroyed. If Ruana has been here far longer than our own world has existed, then it is possible that many other worlds have been destroyed in that period of time as well."

This seemed pretty clear to Raphael, even if the thought was rather..unsettling. What was Enoch not getting? Or what was he himself not understanding?

[warriorscribe]

"I only think the rescues have been happening for a little more than a year or so...but...you're right, she did say the destruction of the worlds has been occurring for a thousand years..."

[godheals]

Well, that was even worse than what he had been thinking of.

"If that is true, then worlds have been getting destroyed for thousands of years without anyone being rescued until a little while ago."

[warriorscribe]

Enoch nodded solemnly.

"I think...they didn't have the means. Zo is a young boy. He...is probably the first who can use his powers this way."

[godheals]

"I see..I wonder why he is the first who can do this, and yet, is still the youngest of them?"

[warriorscribe]

"I think...as with the humans of our world, everyone has different capabilities. This...may simply be the first time he's been able to use these powers with any results."

[godheals]

"I see..that does make sense."

Raphael then thought for a moment before speaking again.

"..It is possible that the rest of our hosts have 'psionic' powers as well with different capabilities."

[warriorscribe]

"It is. They seem to...rely on strange devices more often than not, though. The first time I died, it was by something Dax wore on his wrist."

That...would be the third time Enoch has mentioned death as if it meant little - granted, though he didn't know it, he would face exactly the same thing in his own world if he was particularly unlucky, but wasn't the second mention of others dying?

[godheals]

"I suppose their technology is quite advanced then. Perhaps using their powers weakens them, so they turn to technology instead.."

..And that was one mention of death too many. Since Raphael had fully calmed down now, he was going to address it. After all, with no other Angels here and with no connection to God, it would have been impossible for Enoch to revive.

"..Enoch, what do you mean by 'the first time you died'?"

[warriorscribe]

Oh...he hadn't gotten around to mentioning that, had he? This conversation had gone all over the place...

"Ah, right... it seems being in a world not your own causes you to become unable to permanently die. Meridian behaved the same way."

[godheals]

Well..that was interesting. The information didn't bother Raphael that much, considering that he had saved Enoch quite a few times before when he was about to die..but the fact that other worlds operated like that was interesting.

"I see..it is interesting to know that there are people in many other worlds who are capable of reviving others."

[warriorscribe]

Enoch shook his head. "No, it's...a matter of being in an alien world. We don't die because we are not on our worlds. I've been told the same things by the hostess of Meridian and two of our hosts here."

[godheals]

Well..that was a little..odd.

"So..there are no systems in place to revive our souls? Just the mere fact of being here or in other worlds means that we cannot die?"