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unfinishednetwork2026-05-05 09:13 pm
shakenit) wrote in unfinishednetwork2026-05-05 09:13 pm
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near the end of the festival week
Chie and I have been working with Charalampos - I'm more and more certain that's Hikaru-san, for the record. He's
well. He's doing science about the gods, more or less. His theory is that divine presence within their Chosen people functions like a load-bearing wall in a house, and the Thing With Feathers dying ripped that wall away with no warning. He's looking for more information about how Chosen interact with their gods, if there's anything we can pass his way.
He was also invited to - I guess we might as well call it a seance? One of the Veiled Lady's priests managed to speak with the Thing With Feathers. It said it was killed by a weapon but wouldn't specify further, and anyway that doesn't seem to have been its main point.
[Written slowly, like she's copying from notes:] "The birds still fly. The wings remain. So too does hope." "Scars take time to heal. Never gone. But better with care, with love, with hope." "Hope is found in darkness. It never surrenders."
Just because a god dies, then, doesn't mean the thing it represents is gone from the world. If we're right that another god is going to die, then that's likely about to be very, very useful information.
well. He's doing science about the gods, more or less. His theory is that divine presence within their Chosen people functions like a load-bearing wall in a house, and the Thing With Feathers dying ripped that wall away with no warning. He's looking for more information about how Chosen interact with their gods, if there's anything we can pass his way.
He was also invited to - I guess we might as well call it a seance? One of the Veiled Lady's priests managed to speak with the Thing With Feathers. It said it was killed by a weapon but wouldn't specify further, and anyway that doesn't seem to have been its main point.
[Written slowly, like she's copying from notes:] "The birds still fly. The wings remain. So too does hope." "Scars take time to heal. Never gone. But better with care, with love, with hope." "Hope is found in darkness. It never surrenders."
Just because a god dies, then, doesn't mean the thing it represents is gone from the world. If we're right that another god is going to die, then that's likely about to be very, very useful information.
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It said there isn't a comparable word in the local language. Whatever it is, it may not be designed to hurt humans, in which case we're stuck dealing with collateral damage.
The more important part seems to be keeping people from giving up on each other.
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The collateral damage will still be extensive. I've spoken with the Thing's Chosen, and the moment the Thing fell must have been nothing short of nightmarish. I don't like this.
I do however like and support the idea of not giving up on each other. That much is a worthy cause.
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I don't like it either. Unfortunately, it's not like we can leave until the Library lets us back in, and that would make it hard to help besides.