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[Action] Complaint #5, Revenge of the Normin

Who: Edna and you!
Broadcast: No
Action: The Huntress, The Red Fish, the Iskaulit, and the Yadrolla System
When: The Month of May

The Huntress

[To those that live on the Huntress, you either see the seraph or you don't. Hearing them, however, is something that everyone does. And Edna, well, sometimes you feel her presence too. Since she can make herself known, obnoxiously, when she wants.

However, if one looks in her bedroom, it looks untouched. As does her classroom that she's spent a while putting together once the Atroma decided to gift it to her. Looking closer, there are tiny, bare feet under the desk and the sound of some smothered sniffling. If you're quiet, you might even hear a small, scared voice call out.]

Eizen? Where are you?

[Yes, folks, Edna's been tinified. Aren't you lucky?]

The Red Fish

[After some finagling, Edna has found her way onto the Red Fish from the Huntress and she's a little distressed. While the other ship was certainly not her home, it had plenty of plant life and seraph that made it feel sort of home-like.

The Red Fish, however, has the oppressive feeling of malevolence that she's not at all okay with. But she was told her brother is here somewhere. Even if the humans here don't have any resonance to see her, maybe they'll be able to hear her and know who Eizen is.

She goes over to the nearest person and yanks on their clothes to get their attention.]

Hey, have you seen Eizen?

Iskaulit

[Mab's Sceptre is were she spends a great deal of her time. It feels like her and Eizen. There are some other seraph's artes signatures as well, but that just adds to the relaxed feeling it gives her. They aren't alone, which is great. Being alone is awful.

Besides there are funny lizards of many colors (one of them is missing a tail) and fuzzy slugs that make her feel good when she touches them. There's a stream and plants and it's nice. All that's missing is the feel of a real sun. If she ignores the windows that look out into the vast nothingness.

After some time at the mountain, she decides to explore some more. It's a lot bigger than Rayfalke, or maybe it just feels that way. There's so much to look at.

She follows her nose to what looks like a human place that has sweets and food. The sign says 'The Melting Pot' but she doesn't see a pot anywhere in sight. But things sure do smell good.]

What's that?

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[If you want to do things with the tiny seraph on the new system, let me know and I can write up a prompt for you.]

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[The Iskaulit is weird. There's lots of things there that are obviously built by and for humans, but there are places where they've brought nature indoors without any use of seraphic artes. ANd it's all so darn big. How's she supposed to be able to really do anything if she can't see over walls and bars!

Rude. So rude.

But it's not all bad. There's a mountain that feels like her, Eizen, that water malak and another that she doesn't know. it Feels more like home than anything she's seen so far, even when she's with her brother.

As she walks down the halls, her parasol drags behind her clomping steps. There's a really, really powerful domain coming from somewhere and she's determined to find out what sort of malak can pack that sort of power.

She stops in the door way of some strange room and sees a boy.]

What sort of malak are you?

[There she is.

Sorey can feel as she makes her slow but determined way over to him. She wanders for a bit, stopping by the mountain, by Mikleo's pool. She dawdles near the restaurants and the forests, but she does eventually come and when she does, Sorey makes sure to turn so that he's kneeling on the cushion facing the doorway, instead of the altar.]

...I'm not a malak. I'm a human. [She doesn't look too afraid...is that because she thinks he's a malak, or because that's just how Edna's always been? ...okay, maybe he's more nervous than he thought.]

[She keeps staring at him from the doorway before she comes over and pokes him in the knee with her umbrella. There's none of the usual force behind it because she has no desire to hurt him. Just to make sure he's real.]

You don't feel like a human. Why do you have a domain?

[Sorey hesitates a moment; can he call himself a Shepherd? Will it frighten her- does she even know what a Shepherd is this young? Do they even exist?]

I...was approached by a very powerful malak, [he settles on instead, since that's true enough,] and she and I made a pact so that we could purify h- daemons. This domain's just a result of that pact.

[She watches him as he has some sort of inner turmoil.]

So, you're a human with a malak partner? Where is she?

She's not on the ships. I can still feel our pact, but she's...y'know. Not here. [Sorey doesn't even know how to describe it to people who aren't babies.]

Where is she?

[She's not a baby. She's just really young.]

Everything here sounds so weird.

["Where is she" is a harder question to answer, so Sorey just skips to the next one.] Do you mean because there's no earth to stand on?

[She's noted that he hasn't answered about his pact, but she'll push later if it's important.]

No, that makes it weirder, but it's cold. Not wind on top of the mountain with snow cold. Just... cold.

Hmm. [That's kind of understandable. That's what it felt like when Dezel- well. When the pact was broken. It wasn't cold like freezing mountain streams, it was just...

...cold.] You've already been to the mountain on this ship though, right?

[Look, cold is okay. Impersonal is a different. She just can't think of the word.]

I saw it. I can feel other malaks' artes there, but I don't know why. It's the only thing that's not as cold, but you're domain is really big. It's distracting.

Ah ha...sorry, yeah. I don't really know how to turn that off. [his bad]

[Edna cocks her head to the side as she looks him over before smiling.]

You don't, do you?

[She steps inside the room and moves away from the door, but not that much closer to him.]

Your malak partner must be very powerful.

[She came inside!!!!!! Victory! And she smiled too wtf]

Oh yeah, she's really strong. She's made pacts with other malakhim too; we all work together as a team.

[Look, that kind of cynicism takes time. She's not there yet.]

How many do you have pacts with? The water malak is one of yours, right?

[She can sort of sense him with the human, after all.]

And the shirtless weirdo too?

Yeah they're both my friends! Mikleo and Zaveid. I've known Mikleo my whole life, even. [No need to complicate things by telling her Mikleo grew up from a baby, too.] They both made pacts with Lailah- she's the malak I have my pact with.

[She knows that humans can become malakhim. That's not new, Sorey.]

Why do you need so many malakhim with you? We normally don't hang around humans that much.

Uhhm... [Scratches the back of his head.] Well, I was raised by sera- malakhim! So that's probably one reason why. I actually hadn't ever seen another human until I was seventeen.

Huh.

[That's new.]

So, you were given resonance by having so many of us around then. I've never heard of that before. I guess that makes you weird.

I get that a lot. [A LOT.] But really it's not so weird, is it? If humans are around malakhim, they can develop resonance. The only thing to do now is to come up with a way to protect malakhim from malevolence, and we can live in peace together.

Which is why it's weird. Humans make malevolence without trying. Staying around them without a pure vessel is bad.

[She stares at him carefully.]

I don't want to be a dragon.

[The way she says it, plainly and with no pretense, strips the good cheer out of Sorey as surely as if he'd reached right in and ripped it out himself.]

...I know. [Looks down, toying with the beads on the Shepherd's glove.] That's a big problem that needs solving, before anything else. I know.

[She files away his reaction. It's interesting.]

And you think you can solve the problem? There are a lot of humans here, but I don't see a lot of malevolence. Not like the towns and cities that don't have a malak's blessing back home.

Malevolence behaves strangely here. [That's at least a question he can answer.] Sometimes it ebbs away to almost nothing, and sometimes it surges like crazy, and it has nothing to do with how many humans are around.

[...and you know what, since she doesn't seem afraid of him,] If you feel like it's too much- please, come find me. You'll be safe in my domain at least.

Is it because of how many malak are running around and your domain? You seem to be giving off a pretty big one.

[And she's not surprised to see that if his domain is so big that there's not as much. Just just trying to quiz him about his knowledge.]

I can take care of myself. I'm not worried.

[She also lies a bit.]

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