towerofanimus | Behold the summer and the winter, how the whole earth is filled with water

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Behold the summer and the winter, how the whole earth is filled with water

Characters: Enoch and anyone; people are free and encouraged to make multiple threads for multiple prompts of course!
Setting: Various places, just about anywhere in the tower otherwise
Format: I'm starting in prose but it doesn't matter.
Summary: Like A Lion catch-all event post
Warnings: Er...one prompt involves nudity? That's the only warning I can think of for now.

Spring

Enoch wakes to the sensation of water droplets on his skin. No sooner has he gotten to his feet and grabbed his Arch than it's a downpour, soaking his hair and jeans. His summoned armor protects his sandals from the water's wear, but he's confused about these developments, to say the least. Rain isn't necessarily a bad thing, to him, after all. ...But that's when he notices the water flowing over his trunk is also flowing into it.

"No!" He runs to it and flings it open, hurriedly gathering three books out of them - one of them is soggy by now and a distressed little whine sticks in his throat as it slips from his hand. He clutches the two remaining books to his stomach with one arm and slams the lid shut with the other, rushing out of the room.

He can be found running along the dormitory floors, still hunched protectively over his books. Or, after they've been put away somewere safe, somehow, he can be found elsewhere, seeming unperturbed by the rain itself, standing on a stretch of staircase and letting the water flow past his feet.

Summer

In the dry heat, Enoch seems to thrive. He lays out his cloak and the leggings he'd made in October flat on top of the trunk or the floor below to dry, and grabs one of the juice boxes, thankfully plastic instead of cardboard, left over from December's food basket, and sets off. He can be found in the sewing room, cutting a portion off a large stretch of violet fabric. When he's separated it, he does some work on it to make ties and wraps, and eventually has a short headscarf that he quickly puts on and leaves the floor, finally poking the straw into and sipping that juice box he'd taken with him. He's a little shaky from hunger, but...he's not starving, at least, not as bad as it was when he'd first come here.

After this, he can be found moving around somewhat sparingly with his new scarf, working beautifully at keeping sweat out of his eyes, though it isn't long before he removes it and uses the Arch to cut a large portion of it off, rendering it a headband instead. He seems to be doing just fine, overall, or to at least not be panicking or upset.

Until the humid heat starts coming in, at which point he is nowhere in the tower's levels to be found. Those who want to seek him out during this time will find him in his own room, lying naked on his bed, the fitted sheet beneath him having accumulated a fairly large sweatstain beneath him. He has the sheet nearby to cover himself if someone is offended by his current state of undress, but he's not going to touch it if he doesn't have to. If he notices he's stopped sweating, he'll take a few sips of the juice box, probably a different one than the one he had before at this point. He grimaces a bit after, but hydration is hydration.

And then the thunderstorm starts. Enoch sits upright at the rain, holding his hands out to catch it. He manages a few sips before his position, elevated and near the room's metal wall, works against him, and an arc from a lightning strike that hits it arcs straight to his arm. There's a sharp cry from inside room 3-18 and anyone who investigates will see Enoch has tumbled off his bed, for the moment paralyzed and in pain. But eventually the paralysis ends and he staggers to his feet, grabbing his jeans from the floor and hurriedly putting them on. He has never been happier for his superhuman endurance.

He can then be found out and about again, keeping away from the walls and letting the rain cool him as well as it will.

Autumn

Enoch has a few leaves in his hair as he wanders the tower to keep his mind off his hunger. He'd run out of the beef jerky from the December food basket three days in, and it was now the fourth. He's a little unsteady on his feet sometimes, but the weather seems to be doing him good. He'll be strained, but pleasant in conversation, and will attempt to try to help with hunting now that the weather seems calmer.

Until it isn't so calm anymore. Enoch can be found leaping off staircases to avoid tornadoes, or diving behind or under things that are bolted down. If anyone needs any help with the tornadoes, though, he's there to help!

Winter

Enoch is shivering when he wakes up. He summons his armor for whatever insulation it can provide and pulls his Arch from the snow, kneeling at his trunk to open it and take out the cloak he'd dried in the first day of summer. It isn't so dry now, but it will warm at his body heat at least. He's still shivering as he leaves the room, seeking out the company of others. Surely, there is a gathering of people somewhere...

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"Nobody can meet God. Even when I went to live in Heaven, I only spoke and worked with the angels. Your father couldn't simply buy a cow?"

Enoch, naturally...is thinking in terms of his own time. What do you mean there's usually no space to raise livestock in private homes? It doesn't help that he'd wound up in a place in Meridian with fairly spacious backyards, so he never really inferred that from the modern city's design.

He'd...address the rest later. He didn't quite know how to word it yet.

Yotsuba shook her head, still looking puzzled.

"Daddy said that I couldn't, since we didn't have the space..but how did you get to Heaven?"

If there was a way up there, Yotsuba would like to know it. Even though..she..wouldn't be able to use it.

Oh...that made sense, he supposed. "I was invited."

But...time to address that other thing. She was still waiting on an answer to what a demon was, after all. "And, ah...Heaven is too important. It can't simply be extinguished."

Though...no. Best to stay away from that thought...

"The Darkness is like smoke in another way - it is dark and suffocating. Demons are its denizens, who are opposed to angels. They try to steal human souls away for themselves."

Ah, now that made a bit more sense to Yotsuba, thankfully.

"God must have liked you then! And..demons sound like bad people..but why do they want human souls? And what is a soul?"

"A soul is...it's the part of you that's immortal. In a way it is you - in fact, that's what has been brought here, our souls; these bodies are man-made. Normally, when a human dies, their soul goes to Heaven for judgment, and some reincarnate and start new lives.

But if a demon manages to take a soul, they stay in The Darkness forever, growing corrupt and giving the princes of The Darkness power."

Yotsuba..didn't really understand the fact that her body was man-made..but she understood what a soul was. A little.

"I understand..but why are our souls judged? And..is there a way to free a soul from the Darkness?"

"So the bad people don't live with the good people while they're there.

"...As for The Darkness... I don't know. I certainly hope so."

It was one of the reasons why Heaven had to be vigilant and strike down whatever attempts on human souls they found...

"Oh! That makes sense! So Heaven is di..divided."

Would Daddy be separated from her when they got to Heaven? He wasn't a bad person..so no.

"Maybe you can ask the angels when you get back home!"

"Ah...Sheol, in truth, but it is controlled by Heaven. It could be considered part of it, I suppose."

He didn't say anything to the rest, fixing his eyes ahead. If they could restore the angels. If the restoration could be so complete.

Yotsuba, sadly, did not understand that the universes were destroyed yet..she just thought that her Daddy might have made it up into space in a spaceship. Earth was destroyed..but there was always the Moon. And Mars.

"..What's Sh..Sheol?"

"It's where the souls of the dead live until they're allowed to reincarnate. It's divided into parts where they're sorted according to their judgment."

They're making good time, already down to the eighty second floor, the rain pattering against the floor of the ballroom.

If she wasn't holding onto Enoch's hand with a destination in mind, she would have been running around in this rain, but Yotsuba had finally stumbled across something she did know.

"Oh! Yotsuba knows about reincarnation! Daddy told me!"

It had been a watered-down version for Yotsuba, but she understood it.

The first thing that was visible as they descended to the lounge was a little pink thing with a bulbous nose scurrying past the staircase. And then movement caught the corner of Enoch's eye - there were two sinewy white beings with unnatural, broken bodies, floating in midair, seeming to watch them.

And then one charged ahead, incredibly quick. Enoch let go of Yotsuba's hand and threw himself at their attacker to keep it on him and away from her. Claws raked his side repeatedly as he wrestled with the thing to no avail, and it finally threw him off it with a shattering of part of his armor. Enoch rolled and drew his Arch, opening it and stepping back, the long weapon's blades a barrier between them and the girl.

"Yotsuba, find cover!"

Enoch didn't have to ask twice. The moment he let go of her hand, she was already stepping back a little bit, scared out of her wits..but not sure if she should run too far. If she did, Enoch might have a hard time finding her again..but when he rolled in front of her and called out, she nodded quickly and ran away, calling out to her friend.

"Okay! Bu..be careful! Don't die!"

A corner, a corner..it was hard to find a hiding place on the stairs, but she eventually just ran into the first room she saw, straining her ears in an attempt to pick up Enoch's fight.

Once he was able to get his Arch into them, it was fairly quickly that they were destroyed. It was fairly powerful, and supernatural, thus able to harm them. Its reach kept him out of harm's way, and he was lucky enough to dodge or block the attacks that got inside it.

Eventually, the lounge was silent, and Enoch put the Arch back on the back of his jeans, sighing in relief as the Mr. Saturn poked its head out from under the couch it had hidden beneath and scurried on up the stairs now that the coast was clear.

"Yotsuba?" Enoch turned to try to find where she'd hidden.

Yotsuba had heard bits and pieces of the battle, and when everything went silent, she thought that Enoch had won and carefully started walking down the stairs. If she was wrong, she didn't want to get too close to the monsters..but when she heard Enoch call out, she rand down the rest of the way and got into the lounge, smiling at Enoch.

"I'm here! Are you okay?! What were those things? And..what weapon did you use? ..It wasn't a sword..or a gun."

Another one of God's gifts?

"I'm fine, Yotsuba. I can't say for certain what sort of monsters those were, but...ah, this is an Arch." He removes the Arch again and opens it slowly so Yotsuba can see the energy beam forming into blades. "It's one of God's weapons."

Yotsuba would be absolutely right with that thought. Sort of.

Yotsuba nodded as Enoch brought out the Arch, watching it's energy beams in amazement. While this was something that could only be found in Heaven, it didn't stop the fact that she would have liked one.

"Good! I'm glad to hear it! And..does God fight with this?"

Her hand went out to touch the beam, thinking that it was like an ordinary knife and that it wouldn't cut unless you pressed deeply. Enoch might want to stop her.

"I don't think so- don't touch it!" Enoch pulled the Arch back and quickly closed it. "It's not like an ordinary blade. Someone from my future compared it to something he called a 'lightsaber', if that's something you recognize at all...?"

The last thing he wanted to do was accidentally hurt Yotsuba with this thing...

When Enoch yelled, Yotsuba jumped back a little, both startled a little and surprised. Sadly, she didn't know about Star Wars at all yet.

"I'm sorry! Yotsuba's sorry..I didn't know! Yotsuba won't touch it! But..Yotsuba doesn't know what a lightsaver is.."

He hadn't meant to snap at her, but he'd panicked. He didn't want her to hurt herself.

"I didn't want you to cut yourself..." Enoch sighed and stowed the Arch. "It's all right. Come, the mailroom isn't very far."

It wasn't really a snap..she was just startled and had apologized. She didn't want to be a bad girl. However, at that, she smiled a little and nodded.

"Oh! Alright! Thank you!"

And with that, she would run up the stairs a little bit. But not too far away from Enoch.

"C'mon, Enoch! I'll leave you behind!"

Running up? This girl didn't have the best memory, did she? Enoch couldn't help but chuckle.

"Yotsuba, it's the other way." He stepped onto the stairs and again offered his hand, waiting for her to come back down and take it.

Oh. Sometimes, Yotsuba got a bit too over-excited with things and made mistakes. Sadly, this was one of those times. She quickly came back down and took Enoch's hand. However, she didn't really comment on the fact that she had messed up.

"Oh! Let's..let's hop off then!"

"Hop off?" Enoch looked down at the floor below. "That's a long drop for a 'hop'."

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