With Storm I sit on the walls the base behind me is filled with laughter. I stare out at the white bone that stretches off into the distance. Someone sits next to me, I glance over at minion. He looks almost uncomfortable.
"Hm?"
He stays silent for a while, when he speaks his voice is quite soft
"It feels weird to be around all that with everything I know..."
I hear a laugh as dread sits on my other side
"Yeah, its just like that isn't it?"
I put my head in my hands
"Life's a bitch then you die"
"Life's a bitch then you live then you have to keep dealing with it"
The two don't say anything for a while. Thinking no doubt there's a lot going on and to think about
"The world is so cruel... its hard to hope. I don't know if it can change"
I look at minion hes staring off into the distance at the white bone
"Then make it kind. The evil aren't the only ones with the ability to change the world. If its your will, who is to stop you? Just remember the evil are the ones who want that power the most, good people only rise in response to it"
With Heart I sit there as I'm healed by someone quite familiar. Healer, the one who i originally hired back on the forgotten shores.... I'm from right after I got sent there so she wasn't even there at the time. She's a ascended now, how... impressive. It feels weird to see someone that by now I would know.
"This is all so annoying"
She scoffs flicking me on the head
"Yeah well your annoying."
I put my hand over my head scowling at her. Crazy this woman is crazy.
"What was that for?"
She lifts her hand pointing at me
"Annoying? That's what your calling this?"
I nod
"Yes. Its annoying to know its the normal people sacrificing themselves for the dream of someone they'll never meet."
She rolls her eyes but i do see she gets it
"I'd call that more then just annoying"
"why are you even here? Aren't you hired by the Fire Keepers?"
She waves her hand at the medical tent around us.
"Yeah but we don't have enough healers so I'm healing nobody's like you"
I slam my hand down making the table shake.
"I'm not a nobody!"
She laughs the sound a little mocking but mostly amused.
"Yeah sure"
With Sun I sit at the round table. Now I don't think i should be the one to throw stones here, in my glass house, but good gods are they all so fucking weird. Ascended knox is sitting on the back of his chair. Literally. On the back rest, like a weirdo as he argues with ascended p. For her part ascended P is yelling something which i do not care to figure out. Ascended king of the white dunes simply does not care what so ever, hes just leaning back like this is all normal. Our leader ascended Abraham is as weirdly calm as ever. Not even trying to stop this. Gods damn it. I sigh glancing at the guy who sits even weirder then I do
"Look at you pale as a ghost, blood all over your face"
His expression twists into annoyance like hes heard it all before
"Gods you should be in a circus not a army. Stop arguing with her, you know it won't help you at all. Now sit on the chair even slightly normally you damn idiot"
He stares at me not moving but seemingly very much shocked. I look at ascended p who has a almost cat like grin
"Now would you shut up. This meeting isn't for boasting, not that most of it is even true."
She stares at me very much offended.
"Try to leap over this table and I will beat you to a pulp. Now can we please get on with this meeting"
I hear a laugh from the old man who seems quite amused at this gagle of idiots
"Nothing is funny."
He shakes his head with the chuckle of a old man
"I have to disagree"
With beast. I drag myself inside my arms are cut open, there's a cut along my back and another on my side. I sit down heavily on a chair by the doorway. Fuck shit bitch this hurts. Quite a bit in fact. I don't know what the puppeteer gave them to deal with me but damn it those memories are incredibly strong. I couldn't break the rope on my own and they had some insane elemental resistance memories as well. I did beat them off, pretty easily too. They're in far worse shape then me, having been forced to flee to the waking world and all but still. I turn to ice and I start slowly closing the cuts. Slow and it takes up a lot of essence but it hurts less then using commanders authority. I look up at the sound of soft humming. The leader of the midnight actors guild slowly walks down the stairs
"Well?"
She tilts her head
"That was quite impressive. With only hours of preparation you managed to fight off 6 saints, one of them being the ever so famous han li Caster."
I lean back
"And?"
Her head straightens
"You are a interesting character aren't you"
With Storm i grab the head of the, now dead, great monster. The group of frankly terrified valor awakened stare at me. I examine it, a truly frightening expression frozen across it, then I toss it to them.
"Your master won't protect you. He dragged you out here for a war that nobody wants or needs and he won't even protect you."
It rolls landing at their feet.
"Neither he nor the puppeteer truly care about the people they command."
I turn away.
"Fight and live in spite"
I then disappear into ice like from where I came my mission here complete. To sow the seeds of mistrust and resentment in the population.
With Heart, I quickly go to summon my gladuis but a hand pushes me down as healer gets up.
"No. Your being healed, stay down. I am not going to have that essence wasted."
She summons a massive war axe. She turns her head calmly walking forward. Towards a fallen tyrant. Crazy, that's what her little plan is. To solo a fallen tyrant as a master is j- her arm is hit almost instantly but it heals so fast that when she swings the axe down on its head it still has all of that force.
"Oh. She's as scary as they claim"
With Sun i drink tea with ascended Abraham yet again.
"They need to be rained in"
He tilts his head
"And why is that?"
I sigh
"Have you not seen them? None of them work together in any way shape or form."
He shakes his head
"You misunderstand something ascended atum"
I raise an eyebrow
"That is?"
He smiles taking a long sip
"You are also apart of this team."
I sigh it is a fair point.
"Yes i may be but to rely on me is foolish"
He looks down at the cup
"Yes i suppose it would be. But do think about it like this. You may be the glue, but they already fit together, even if it is not in obvious ways."
I don't see it but maybe I will.
With Beast I eat whatever that crazy person running the kitchen made this time. Quite frankly their more then a little insane to have made this. Its.... fine I. Taste and texture but... why make it look like this? Real odd. A very familiar person sits next to me. He looks at my bowl then laughs
"Wow your actually eating the stuff that crazy person makes? I never thought it possible anyone could"
He flips a coin.
"Feeling lucky?"
I shake my head
"No. I never rely on luck. I've always been quote unlucky"
He elbows me, ow, and grins
"Really? You? Unlucky? I don't believe you"
I shrug
"Yeah. First nightmare i was a servant dealing with a awakened tyrant. Or maybe that time as a kid, the one time my parents forgot to pick me up, boom acid rain. Or playing games with soul reaper, those I always lost"
He glances at me a odd look passing over his face before he grins
"Doesn't that mean you should just make the best of what lady luck gave you?"
I glance at the bowl of whatever I'm eating
"I'm more of the thing lady luck throws at others."