Aurora - Rean Heart

[awakenerd]

You float in a void--darkness around you, above, below, in every direction, nothing. You stand on nothing, you even breathe nothing. But you do not feel in danger, you are not suffocating. You are simply existing in… Nothing.

Crow | Towa | Dusk | 80H | Rufus

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[awakenerd]

"Do you know what I am?"

[voreaciously]

A history teacher.

"A Divine Knight."

[awakenerd]

"No. Me. This aspect you are talking to."

[voreaciously]

"...You're the rage."

[awakenerd]

"Bingo."

[voreaciously]

"Denying a part of yourself like this is only going to make it worse."

[awakenerd]

"So do you want to break all the control I have as the solution?"

[voreaciously]

"No, certainly not that," she sighs. "I do apologise, I should have acted more critically." but she saw him here and her first thought was to help, but she's not going to admit that. it's not very like how she should be.

"But it's very black and white, and I have seen what happens when people predisposed to great and deep rage lose control and themselves in it." It's not great!

"I seek something more moderate. Integration."

[awakenerd]

Mrhg.

"I know you only want to help. That's why I haven't killed you."

He slumps back onto the throne, the bones creak.

"I'd rather not integrate if it's all the same to you. There's a lot more to me than anger."

[voreaciously]

"What else is there?" her tone is very patient. She needs to understand and partial simply won't do.

[awakenerd]

"I am the Curse as well."

[voreaciously]

"What is this curse? Can it be excised?"

[awakenerd]

"It is... Let's just say I and it are intertwined. We're the same."

[voreaciously]

"So trying to untwist it would be harmful to you."

[awakenerd]

He goes a little gentler.

"Think of me as... Part of a filtration system. I'm charcoal and the curse is poison. It's impossible to extract that poison now, I've absorbed it. You'd have to break me into so many pieces you'd never fit me back together to even separate us.

Yes. It would destroy me.

But someday I will destroy it, and I will still be me. Until then, it's better if I am here."

[voreaciously]

She ponders this. "You had better."

NOT THAT SHE CARES!!!!

but she looks out to the corpses.

"This, though...what would happen if I buried the bodies? I am not trying to erase your actions, but..."

[awakenerd]

"...I don't know."

[voreaciously]

"If you'll excuse me for a little while."

She tries to will the scenery into giving her a very good shovel!

[awakenerd]

If all she wants is a shovel she gets it. Anger just watches her, looking more depressed than pissed, slumped on his throne.

"Isn't that going to be a lot of work?"

[voreaciously]

"It should be, do you not agree?"

She could easily will the setting different, but that feels...not right. Flippant. Like these lives weren't worth as much.

[awakenerd]

"....Yes... It should.

But it shouldn't have to be your work."

[voreaciously]

She shrugs, an elegant roll of her shoulders.

"I'm being selfish, I admit. I simply just do not care for this scenery."

Again, something she could change easily, and even though she says that, she clearly does nothing to shift it.

"You have enough work to do as it is. Since I take umbrage with it, I should take some responsibility and change it, myself."

[awakenerd]

"....You aren't fooling me."

[voreaciously]

"Pardon me?"

[awakenerd]

"Talk of being selfish or whatever. You can't propose to take on something like this and pretend it isn't being kind."