uncomfortable questions + action

[takeabow]

Who: Nova + U
Broadcast: Video
Action: On SS First Breath or planetside
When: now

[ a video pops up. Nova is looking mmmmore rested than she has in previous videos, but thoughtful and slightly distant ]

I have a weird question... have you ever met someone in one of these places who's supposed to be dead? Or... I guess, are you? How do you know?

[ she's also available to be found just outside of town on the dusty moon, or back on her ship later ]

Comments

[experiencepoints]

Yeah, that's fair. Sorry.

... In the castle, we didn't get asked. What happened was... well, the short version is, our worlds ended. So, we all got killed with them, and our souls got shattered. So we ended up at the castle, with only a tiny shard of our souls, and no memories.

[takeabow]

That's... terrible. Or, it seems terrible. Did any of it get... fixed?

[experiencepoints]

... That was the goal. Fixing our memories and souls would fix our worlds. But... I never got that far. I was only half-done.

[takeabow]

Maybe the work other people have done will help.

[experiencepoints]

Maybe, but... No one else from my world ever showed up there.

[takeabow]

Still. It must've done something.

[experiencepoints]

If it did, I don't know about it.

What brought this on?

[takeabow]

Someone I met here knew someone I knew from home, who'd died.

[experiencepoints]

... Oh. That's awkward.

[takeabow]

Yeah.

...and I'm a little jealous, I guess.

[experiencepoints]

Jealous? What about?

[takeabow]

That she got to spend more time with her than I did.

[experiencepoints]

Oh. Someone important to you, then?

[takeabow]

Yeah, she was.

[ her whole body language is just... upset, really ]

[experiencepoints]

[oh god, person is upset, what is she supposed to do with this. can she fix this. no this is well beyond her power.

nightingale is just going to be internally doing the simple dog whine right now.]

I'm sorry to hear that.

[takeabow]

Thanks...

I should just appreciate that she got to be happy somewhere else.

[experiencepoints]

... I've heard it's possible for people to go to other worlds, instead of going home, from these sorts of places. So... Is it possible she left to go somewhere else? So she didn't go back, and survived?

[takeabow]

[ shrugs ]

It's possible. Maybe Ino will know.

[experiencepoints]

Oh, was she the one who knew her?

[takeabow]

Yeah.

[experiencepoints]

Yeah, she seems like she'd know.

[takeabow]

I guess I just... I don't know. Haven't really wanted to go there.

[experiencepoints]

... It would be kind of scary to hear about, huh.

[takeabow]

I'm not scared. But like I said, I'm jealous.

[experiencepoints]

Right.

[whoops, attempt at empathy failed.]

It's better to know than to not be sure, though, right?