voice; un: stranger

[eightfoldfiend]

(cw: sickness and the frustrated war devil will probably be saying gross, violent things in comments.)


[A guttural wheeze.]

If one more person tells me--

[Sneeze.]

--that I need to calm down and learn to be human I'll burn this whole city to the ground.

[This has been a PSA.]

Comments

[eightfoldfiend]

Give me a break. I don't have any tea.

...And your suggestion will hurt if I end up fading away, won't it?

[worldsokayestdad]

I could always bring you some, if you were interested in trying it.

While I don't necessarily trust those that brought us here, I do believe that they would have figured out a way to prevent that from happening. We're no good to them dead or nonexistent, after all.

[eightfoldfiend]

No, of course we aren't.

They need us to come and cast their native spells, to feed magic into the wizards maintaining the stasis. Such cruel tyrants they are...

They keep our heads bowed to their will, use us as batteries for their power, all because the multiverse will shatter if their spell fails.

[worldsokayestdad]

Which would not be ideal. I disagree with their methods, but until someone else manages to find another solution, we'll simply have to endure it for now. It's because of all that, though, that I believe you have nothing to worry about with regards to the possibility of you fading away.

[eightfoldfiend]

You believe their system has some sort of plan in place to preserve creatures like me?

Tsk.

You have more faith in them than I do.

[worldsokayestdad]

I don't have faith in much, really. Looking at it from a logical standpoint, however, it makes the most sense to me that they would go out of their way to ensure our continued existence for their own benefit.

[eightfoldfiend]

[A long silence, then...]

No.

I won't risk it.

[Because he's scared.]

[worldsokayestdad]

[sigh. Ah well, it was worth a shot. Maybe a way can still be found to deal with this that won't result in too much bloodshed?]

I can't say that I blame you for not trusting in the people that brought us here against our will.