near the end of the festival week

[shakenit]

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.

Comments

[curzed]

Thank you for providing these little messages. Coordination is a breath of fresh air from the fracas of the last two.

[highsteaks]

It really helps that both me and Sumire have figured out how to send things to everyone's journals without going to the bulletin board. If we can't otherwise contact each other, then we can't really coordinate stuff. We should probably make sure there's more people who can so SOMEONE can do a check in at the beginning of other stories too, even if we're both stuck inside story characters.

Also we should probably see if we can get people to check their notebooks once a day in the stories so that they can FIND these messages. Because maybe there's even more people who're themselves but didn't check in because they didn't think to check the journals if they're not in the library.

[curzed]

If I didn't have mine to keep track of other things with I would have left it behind as well. When we return it may be a good suggestion to tell everyone who has a say in it brings theirs along.

Actors excluded of course.

[highsteaks]

I mean the actor guys kind of just disappear into characters and lose their stuff until they're back to themselves, right? So everyone should just bring the notebooks just in case.

[shakenit]

I was hardly in any state of mind to do it last time, other than by accident. [She's not in a great state of mind for it this time, either! Just... somehow having a less immediate crisis. Go figure.]

But you're welcome. There's no point in not passing this information along, when it could help us later on.