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

[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?"

[warriorscribe]

"It's what I was told...there are those who heal our bodies, but I'd guess our souls simply...never depart from them."

[godheals]

"Or perhaps we have no bodies here. Maybe we just have our souls and are perceiving everyone as if they had bodies, since we think people should."

[warriorscribe]

"I had a moment of concern for that, myself. No, we have bodies; Ruana said we have both spirits and bodies, and others have referred to healing us as 'repairing' us."

Enoch tilted his head, and raised a hand to his collar. "...Would that mean you have a body too, now? Perhaps an effect of the collar anchoring us."

[godheals]

Raphael nodded at that.

"I see..I shall remember that for the future then. And if I did not have a body, I would not have been able to touch or hug you earlier. However..I imagine I can because a spirit on any of the floors, except the ones that negate my powers."

[warriorscribe]

"You might..."

There was a pause though, and he leaned back a little to look up at Raphael. "...But I'm glad you have one."

[godheals]

At that, Raphael smiled. "So am I. I would not be able to provide you with some comfort or interact with anyone else here properly if I only had a spiritual body."

Not that he wouldn't mind only having a spiritual body, mind you. A physical one just made things easier sometimes..and it should prove useful in helping others.

[warriorscribe]

"You could...'acknowledge' them, I suppose. ...Unless that only works in Heaven. I don't...recall my time in Heaven."

[godheals]

Raphael nodded and thought on that.

"That is true..but I am not sure how well that would work here. This place is rather..odd.."

[warriorscribe]

"It is... I suppose I have something of an advantage, from my experience in Meridian..."

Enoch tenses a little bit as he says the city's name. It's all really gone...he hadn't called it an illusion in a long time, but there was a difference between suspecting something and having it confirmed in the most direct way possible.

[godheals]

Raphael didn't catch the tensing, but he did watch Enoch closely as he spoke of Meridian, watching to see if Enoch needed more comfort. It would not trouble him if he had to provide it. That was his job. His role.

"I see..it is good that you have that advantage then. I shall be calling on you then if there are any other things I am not sure about. Perhaps you have more than one advantage that I do not know about."

[warriorscribe]

Enoch looked up at him, looking his age for a moment.

"That's...an interesting way to see it. What other advantages, other than living here for more than half a year?"

[godheals]

"The knowledge gained from living her for that period of time..and the knowledge you gained in Meridian might have some use and application here."

[warriorscribe]

"It has, at least..." Enoch settled back to look at the sky. It seemed so convincing...only the hole in it for the staircase gave away it didn't conceal Heaven's grandness beyond its clouds.

"Did you see anything you wanted to learn more about?" Because this was seeming like a 'laze around on one of the pretty floors' day for him, in all honesty.

[godheals]

"Well, that is good then." Raphael watched as Enoch settled back, but didn't say anything about it until he spoke up again.

"You said you were going to show me how to use this 'network'..but I imagine that it can wait. I do not think it'll be running away."

[warriorscribe]

"No, no, I can show you." Enoch moved to stand up. He did too much of this languishing on the few pleasant floors, and he knew it. Helping Raphael was much more productive.

[godheals]

Raphael nodded and stood up.

"Alright then. Where is the 'network' located?"

[warriorscribe]

"There are terminals to access it on each of the living levels and on levels three and nineteen. Come, there's something odd about the staircase I should show you."

Enoch took a few steps towards the staircase and paused. "...Ah...this will take us through one of the levels that nullifies our powers, but only for a moment. Will you be all right with that?"

[godheals]

Raphael started to follow Enoch, wondering what was so odd with the staircase when he spoke about where their route would take them.

"Don't worry..it should be fine, as long as you do not get injured and we do not run into trouble on that floor."

....The dice just rolled for the most uneventful trip ever. XD;

[warriorscribe]

"All right then, follow me."

Enoch led Raphael up, past a morgue, a laboratory (not that Raphael might recognize these things), a music room, and the center of a sprawling hedge maze, before he stopped below a darkened room.

"Be careful, Raphael. This level in particular...you may want to fly over the steps. I can handle myself if they fall from under me, but..."