towerofanimus | you're caught in a one-way street

Characters: Asako and you, hopefully.
Setting: Various floors on the tower.
Format: I'll start with action, but will match you.
Summary: Postal work and attempting to seriously contemplate things.
Warnings: Some thought processes that could be construed as suicidal, so warning for that right now. Also, Asako logic does not equal earth logic, so warning for that too. Other warnings will be added as needed.

[Dorm Floor 2]

[Asako got the note yesterday: she's working as a postal worker, now. She'd signed up out of boredom, let the roulette choose for her, and it seemed to have been relatively merciful. Small mercies, she supposes. It's close enough.

She doesn't stick around to say hi to her roommates - she has none now - but she does wander around the floor for a bit. It's not that she's lonely. There are other rooms that have only one or two inhabitants, after all. They seem to be okay, so she can handle it too. She has to. Right? Right.]

[Floor 99]

[Because sometimes you need to just curl up in a corner of the Tower and brood over life where nobody can see you. The cathedral floor is out, but this place is just as quiet, just as solitary. It's easy enough not to be found, and also not to get lost. So, in a cavern, she curls up, looks at one of the pools, and lets her mind wander.

-- She should be over all of it by now. She should be over everything by now, but let's face it: the Tower was a shitty place to get over an issue and stay over it. It was kind of obvious when she wanted to laugh without really being amused while destroying things. It was even more obvious since she no longer knew why she'd allowed people to talk her down from erasing herself. Avenger had hit the nail on the head; she was probably a bit mad by now. But the idea of turning to anyone - Well, she'd kind of already blown all of her chances, hadn't she? She'd taken everything for granted and inconvenienced a lot of people who had better things to do than worry about a whelp like her. It was humiliating. She was supposed to be better than this -- Well, she was just Asako, after all, just a stupid human who couldn't even begin to live up to what she had to live up to.

All she could do was try to pretend that she didn't have these moments. That she'd stayed repaired, that she no longer doubted whether or not she had the right to keep living, when someone else deserved it more. ... She'd have to get going to her job soon, but for now, maybe for a few minutes more...yeah, it'd be okay to rest here until she was ready to face the day.]

[Floor 78]

[So you're a demon overlord and you're on postal worker duty. Clearly the proper reaction is to...go along with it, since it's a relatively painless and simple job. Following orders, in this case, is okay because there's really no objection to this system. It'd be like trying to go "actually no I will not eat with my mouth because a nose works fine too!"

In other words, even Asako logic can't condone something that odd. Besides, it was a relatively peaceful job, something normal and mundane - she hadn't thought she'd miss that, but she did. It was nice to just do something like this. To do something.

It was kind of nice, really.]

[Floor 75]

[And so Asako finds herself on this floor because...

...

Actually, there is no real reason. She just thought it'd be cool to hang out here. It's like someone went "sup dawg, I heard you like towers, so I put a tower in your Tower so you could be in a tower while being in a tower." To her, that is basically an awesome thing.

So of course hanging out outside the tower inside the tower is a good idea.

... Look, I never said her logic was earth logic, okay?