09 | the virtuous among us

[alephbet]

Characters: Aleph and you!
Setting: Floor 3, Floor 13, Floor 19, Floor 25 (afterwards)
Format: Starting with actionspam, but will match you.
Summary: Aleph is in search of something in particular: a Bible. He has no success and eventually retires to the meadow.
Warnings: Will edit if anything comes up.

[Floor 3]
[The first place to look would of course be the library.

But, it seems that religion and history are intertwined, and the histories of the worlds aren't covered in this library. No matter how hard he searches, Aleph can't find a single religious tract or book of divine scripture.

He's basically going to check every section of the whole library before he gives up, though. It'll take him awhile and make him obviously noticeable.]

[Floor 13]
[Churches generally have religious books in them, don't they? To read from and all.

This one doesn't seem to. It's not a clearly Mesian or Christian church, and he doesn't know well enough to determine if it's anything else, but he thinks its pastors must be hard on their luck if they have to recite everything from memory.

Aleph will turn this floor inside out trying to search, including looking under pews.]

[Floor 19]
[Now, he's pretty sure that this research library doesn't have anything either, but just in case...

He'll go over this entire library section looking, though with less enthusiasm than the other floor's library.]

[Floor 25: afternoon]
[Well that was a waste. Still, it was something to do. And...

Aleph knew vaguely that other worlds had kinder Gods than his had. Different Gods. But he failed completely to understand why they got so upset about the prospect of a different god than theirs being killed. He only sort of knew why Lucifer got such a bad reputation, in the barest possible sense.

He'd been reading books for a year to improve his ability to read, and to not be bereft of all knowledge but how to fight. It seemed time to get around to some of these, if he could find any of them.

Failing that, picking daisies and making them into a flower chain was never a bad use of time.]

Comments

Floor 3

[crouching_sin]

[Naoya doesn't look terribly happy at the moment, but he's picking through the bookshelves, apparently not pleased with what he's finding.]

[He spots Aleph easily, though.]

Heh. What's going on?

[alephbet]

Looking for a bible and not finding one. You?

[crouching_sin]

... Why are you doing that?

[He raises an eyebrow, leaning against the shelves a bit.]

[alephbet]

People tend to get upset with me when I talk about having killed God. I don't understand why it means that much to them even if they have a God that's less than evil.

[crouching_sin]

[Oh you.]

Because they're not used to seeing God as evil, or think of Him as someone that even can be killed, let alone should.

[alephbet]

[what]

So I thought I'd try to see it from their point of view, but I really only know the Mesian's teachings a little bit, and they're assholes

[crouching_sin]

... I have a Bible in my trunk. You need to be very careful with it, though, since it's very old. I'll let you read it as long as you don't take it out of my room.

[alephbet]

Thank you, Naoya. I promise to be very very careful.

[crouching_sin]

... You're welcome. I can take you to it now, if you'd like.

[alephbet]

That would be kind of you.