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Setting: Floor 38
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Summary: Birthday party for Chihiro

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Warnings: Going to hope nothing

[Thanks to combined efforts, Mondo's managed to set up the lounge to make for a pretty nice birthday party, all things considered. There's decorations and food, if mostly desserts, but he figures Chihiro likes that kind of thing so it's all good.

He knows Chihiro has plenty of friends, so there's not much worry about people showing up, but...he doesn't want it to be lame.

Wanting it to be a surprise, around noon he goes to get Chihiro and carry him in on his shoulders.]

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It's...strange, knowing I had a life before, knowing I would never have imagined doing what I've done and living as long as I have...

*Enoch stops himself there and smiles at Chihiro.* But none of this is about me. Your friend is kind, to organize this party for you.

Eh? You mean... you weren't meant to live so long...?

Mn! He's by very special friend...

No. I was born an ordinary human just like you. *Enoch looks at the spread on the table, then, anything but looking at Chihiro, anything other than inviting questions. He'd answer them if asked, but...*

...Having someone you can trust so much is very important.

[he can see that Enoch is sort of avoiding him but... he also wants to know a bit more] Did... something bad happen...?

Mn. It is. And I'm very grateful that I have someone like him here.

...No. And yes. *He didn't want to bring up his own problems at a party meant for the person he was talking to... Chihiro hadn't chosen to keep the subject change totally intact. But the story wasn't so painful he wouldn't share it if asked - at least in places like these he'd be believed. That was all he asked after centuries of lies, really: to be able to tell the truth.*

I was blessed with immortality in order to capture a group of Fallen Angels who had deserted Heaven for life on Earth. This meant three centuries of searching Earth to find where they'd hidden...

Blessed...? Fallen Angels...? Eh? Does that... make you a sort of Angel then? [And he looks rather impressed!] But why did you have to capture them? Were they causing harm to the people on Earth?

No, I'm not an angel. *Not as far as he knows at least. He's certainly not a normal human anymore, but...he's sure he's still human.*

But...they had stolen something from Heaven, something that would give humanity things they were meant to earn. But the worst of it, or so those of Heaven believed, was that angels and humans could not have normal children - any child born of such a union was instead a Nephilim. They were harmless by themselves, but they were in constant pain, and to escape it, they ate one another. When one ate enough of the others, it would transform into a flaming monstrosity that would rampage and destroy everything in its path.

*He hadn't wanted, initially, to talk about this. But it felt good to tell it. To not have to hide. It was true of Meridian, and it was no less true here. He would answer as long as Chihiro asked...though he did feel it was a little awkward the conversation was exclusively on him. He had conditioned himself to try to avoid such a situation precisely because revealing the truth could have had serious repercussions on Earth.*

[Chihiro listened with eyes that got wider and wider with each revelation! He's then silent for a moment as he tries to process all that.]

I... I see. Is anyone else helping you then? Surely this is too great a burden for just one person!

I do have allies - the four Archangels take the form of swans and guide me from the sky, and my companion Lucifel, another Archangel, protects me should I find myself about to die. He wasn't meant to, but he guards my sanity as well...I would have gone mad if he wasn't there...and I trust he'll offer the same protection here.

*Save only when he was about to die by a fall. He was lucky and never realized Lucifel would only save him from a battle after he had died, making the situations regarding death in Meridian and Animus, ironically enough, no different from home. Just mentioning Lucifel seems to have lifted his mood, though, a calm where there once was sorrow.*

That's good to know! I'm glad you're not alone. Oh, so Lucifel is here too?

He is... I didn't think to invite him, though.

*He smiles anyway. It's probably for the better, after all, Enoch would have been inviting him for his company rather than because he would like the party.*

Ah...I didn't intend to speak so long about my own life at a party for someone else. So would you like to share a story of your world in return?

I see. Well, I would like to meet him later if possible.

[he shakes his head] It's alright. I'm glad that you were willing to tell me about yourself. Eh? My world... well... [his smile fades, but it's only fair that he tells Enoch about himself in return] ... before coming here, my friends and I were trapped in a school where we had to kill each other...

You...what? *Enoch's own smile slips away quickly.* That's...how could anyone have...

I'm not sure how it happened... We all fell unconscious soon after we arrived at the school then when we awoke we were completely locked inside!

You don't need to answer if it's too distressing, but how on Earth could they have enforced such a thing?

*Already, he knew that the instigators had to have taken hostages...*

I'm not sure... None of us do. Before I came here, we were trying to escape but to no avail...

I see...hopefully, all of you would escape, before you ever learn.

Mn. I hope so too... Though apparently I'll never escape. If I go back, I'll die.

Oh...

*Oh dear. Someone would do that of their own will, to someone like Chihiro...*

I... I'm sorry.

[Well, it was kind of an accident...

He shakes his head and tries to smile.]

It's alright. It... It was the survival of the fittest after all and I... I just am not the fittest.

But it's not...these people were your friends...

But... in order to survive... it just couldn't be helped...

Why? Couldn't all of you band together to find a way out instead...?

*Unless there was some sort of enforcement...

...But then, he doesn't think Chihiro would lie.*

We did try to do that at first but it didn't work... and then Monobear did things that made some people lose it.

Monobear? Was he the one who had trapped everyone?