towerofanimus | Finally, another party

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Finally, another party

Characters: ProtoLancer

puppy_lancer, Zero Lancer

oathshackledbird and anyone interested in attending a birthday party. Details here.
Setting: Meadow
Format: Anything goes
Summary: Lancer throws his brother a party. Everyone can come except for the Archer (meaning they can come crash the party anyways)! Feel free to tag into any of the threads set up or invent your own scenario.
Warnings: None yet!

[It had taken some preparing, but the party was finally set up in a satisfactory way. There was a table for food and drink dragged in from the cafeteria, a wooden bucket filled with water with fruit floating in it, a strange paper mache Jason head pinata stacked on a scarecrow body, and a board with a pig with a Ganon head scribbled on it along with several spiraling paper "tails" attached to thumbtacks. There are no party decorations, but Lancer figures the flowers and sunshine should be decoration enough.]

[Now it's just a matter of waiting for people to show up.]

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[Diarmuid is on his way to pick up another drink when he spots Enoch at the table. Seeing the man looking so content makes Diarmuid smile because he knows Enoch of all people really deserves a chance to relax. He is still getting to know the man, but already he highly respects what he has done for those in the tower.]

It is good to see you here, Enoch. How have you been?

Better than I expected. It's incredible what good food alone can do. *And knowing they were in hands that wouldn't tear them apart and reassemble them...though he knows Riki has no compassion for them if he thinks they might get in his way.*

That is good to hear! It is amazing how much having such a simple comfort as good food can help a person feel better. I expect that is part of the reason everyone is having such a good time. I never would have guessed this place would have so many good cooks within its walls. It is something I am quite thankful for right now. We all can use this time to just relax for a bit and refocus.

*He was referring to the month in general, and Riki's menu. But it was all right; there were good cooks in this tower, and they did well with what their host provided them with.*

We can. If we're lucky, this entire month will be a good one for us.

*Of course, they're never lucky. But with Riki being unusually generous...he could hope.*

Luck, hu? I didn't think anyone believed in that anymore in this place.

[Diarmuid doesn't, but then again luck has never really been on his side. That doesn't mean it can't be on the side of others, though.]

It is hard for me to believe I have been here for four months now. The first month I was here Riki was in charge and that was a bad month for me. I can only hope that this month will not be a repeat of that one.

[It's funny. Luck, he puts little faith in, but no matter how bad things get, Diarmuid still finds himself keeping some hope alive somewhere in his heart even if that somewhere is buried so deep he has a hard time finding it.]

And why not? In a place like this...fortune can sometimes be the only thing we can rely on.

*And he's been... how long has he been here...

...whatever conclusion he comes to takes the happiness from his expression.*

...I must have been here for close to a year now. It was summer when I arrived.

[Diarmuid shakes his head looking sadly amused.]

I suppose because it is so fickle. Despite what happened to me in my first life, many might say I was lucky, but whatever luck I might have had then most certainly abandoned me when I was called as a servant. How can anyone depend on something so unpredictable?

[Any amusement on his face slips away when he hears how long Enoch has been here.]

A year...and it probably seems like it has been so much longer than that even...

It does. A year hasn't felt so long to me in a very long time... It's strange...time seems to stretch on in both times of great joy and pain and uncertainty.

*It's why he'd rather rely on luck, in fact, that uncertainty. Despair was the certain alternative.*

Perhaps it is because time is really what we make of it whether it is times we wish would not end because they are so joyous or times that seem like they never will because they hurt so much.

[Diarmuid falls silent for a moment, seeming to be pondering something before he finally speaks again.]

Would it be rude of me to ask you what it is you have been away from for a year now? What will be waiting for you should we be able to right all the wrongs and go home?

I'm...I'm not certain anymore. The world I was on last wasn't my own, but a city called Meridian. Sola, the one with control over the plants, she was its guardian.

...I learned here she would be killed, and to protect us from her murderer, she would send everyone in the city away. She's too inexperienced with the rifts to control where. I may have some time left with my lover, but then...there's no telling what would become of us.

It was not your own world?

[Diarmuid seems confused, before remembering the man he met a while back who had come, not from his home world, but a place something like the tower itself. The thought makes him uneasy because it reminds him that the tower is not the only place like this out there.]

Was that city another place like the tower that steals people from their homes or do you actually often travel from world to world?

[He pauses t the mention of the lover Enoch had left behind.]

I am so sorry. It seems like you have a great deal to get back to, don't you? You and Sola. Even if the outcome is uncertain...

It was similar to this one in that regard, yes, and death being impermanent...though I suspect that's a constant. But it was...peaceful, mostly.

Mostly? Is that mostly something to do with the reason Sola will eventually send you all away?

[He seems confused, but is also obviously worried about possibly upsetting Enoch by asking too many prying questions.]

No, no...it was another matter. A close friend of Sola's had...she went mad for a time and tried to kill the residents, but Sola found her and calmed her.

[Diarmuid nods, looking relieved.]

It is good she was able to do that, though, it sounds like that probably happened after she sent you all away? Can she call back those she sends away or is it a permanent thing?

No, she didn't send us away for that. She's too inexperienced to control where we were sent, so I doubt she could find us if she did. We were told to remain inside and hide as well as we could.

Oh! My apologies. I confused events. Please forgive me.

[Diarmuid places a hand to his chest and bows his head.]

Sola is a very powerful woman. I have to admit her powers startled me when I first saw them, but they were amazing to see. I have never seen anything like her control over plants before. I don't know if we would have been able to get down to you fast enough had it not been for the extra oxygen she provided you with them.

Oh, is that what they did? *Enoch tilts his head a little, trying to think back to that. It was true, he had started to feel more alert while he was in there...*

[Diarmuid nods, his eyes wide as he thinks back to that day.]

Yes! That is what she told us anyway. In addition to helping break up the dirt, the plants also cycled the air so you would have more of it while we dug down. I think that is a big part of the reason you were in such good shape when we finally got you out.

I knew I was feeling better, but I didn't realize what it was the plants did.

*Enoch smiles wistfully.*

She sustained us when we lived in Meridian, created food for us and made the city livable. I owed her my life already...

She is truly an amazing woman.

[There is both respect and admiration in Diarmuid's voice.]

Perhaps I will get the chance to talk with her again soon when we are not quite so distracted by other things.

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