Taking the long road home

[bloodyashes]

Characters: Anyone. Everyone.
Setting: The few days after the event, throughout the Tower as you will.
Format: Mingle! Assign your own dates/locations/etc, tag yourself, do as you do.
Summary: Jason's dead. So are a lot of other people. Fallout and picking up the pieces.
Warnings: Discussion of death and cannibalism inevitable.

[Catch-all for events following the Event. Discuss Jason's death and its consequences, come back from the dead, party?, quiver in fear?, take a long, hot bath. Whatever it is you do, do it here.]

Comments

[oathshackledbird]

Diarmuid nods, but doesn't say anything. As long as Enoch understands, that is the important thing. He can take the time he needs to work through his emotions and that knowledge will be there to guide the way once he is ready to move forward again.

"Do...you think there is still a chance of talking to Riki and Zo after that? Or do you think they will just worry Ruana will send us after them next?"

[warriorscribe]

Enoch takes a moment to think, picking idly at his food but not eating any of it. Eventually he sets the plate on the pillow in front of him.

"Zo, probably. We have Aria to contact him through, after all. Riki...Riki...I hope so."

[oathshackledbird]

"I...detest having to involve such a young child in all this, even with his powers," Diarmuid sighs. It makes him think too much of Yotsuba who had to deal with all of this so young. It's not right. "But there is no other way, is there? I wish we did not have to make him chose between Ruana and us because that is what is it going to come down to..."

...and Diarmuid remembers just how much Zo seems to care about Ruana. Even though the boy does wish to help them, turning against her must be painful and frightening for him.

[warriorscribe]

"I know... If only we could do better than this. If only Ruana were not so mad as to be unable to see what she does..."

The poor child...more than twice his age. He couldn't imagine...

[oathshackledbird]

"Things would be very different if she could see, but I don't even think that Zo can make her see at this point. Sometimes, having too much power is a curse. This is very certainly the case for Ruana...."

With less power, she would certainly be dead like all of the others, but at least she would not be doing...this, and considering how little they know about the origins of what is destroying their worlds...

[warriorscribe]

Enoch already suspects it's because she has more power than she can handle the worlds are being destroyed (oh, if only he knew he was only half right at best...).

"Too much power, too many years on this dead world. Far more than I fear I could manage on a living one..."

[oathshackledbird]

"That's really it in the end, isn't it? The time... The power..."

And her past. All of those things. Did she ever have a chance? Did they?

But, they have come too far to give up now. No matter what.

"We'll find a way to figure it out. We have to..."

[warriorscribe]

"We will. Somehow, we will."

They have time, however little it is they have. They can get this done.