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VoidTrecker Express Mods ([personal profile] voidtreckermods) wrote in [community profile] middleofsomewhere2021-03-26 04:46 am

The Will to Fight: Conclusion

The battles rage loud and ferocious at the gates of the city and off in the ruined wastelands of Erda, and on the walls a struggle of a different kind occurs. The team who stayed behind at the towers are small but determined as they move stoically across the walls to right the stones that have become misaligned, even as their friends battle not too far away.

The city begins to hum. It's a quiet hum, not loud enough to be heard out where the others are fighting but it vibrates even through stone. The recovering monks assure them that it is done, the wards are back up and no demon will be able to enter the city.

Eventually the battle is won, all three battles. The demons fought back and killed, a major blow to their gate system that will keep them back for hopefully a long time. Those waiting in the caverns return to the city and by the time they get there the illusions are gone. Everyone can see the world for what it really is.

But despite the ruins of their world the people are relieved, the adrenaline of the fight coursing through their veins and the mood is one of hope. They will build again, their people will survive.

All Voidtreckers please return to the Voidtrecker Express. Departure will be in a few hours

It has landed not too far from the city, cloaked to make it unnoticeable to the citizens, for all the good that does. No one has been particularly subtle this last week. People can begin regrouping, packing up the camp and getting any wounded not already healed to the train.

However roughly half an hour later another message appears on their SCA.

Passenger Persephone has requested we remain on system System #86525656412355 for an additional day to further assist the people of Erda. The Voidtrecker Express will depart on the morning of Day Fifteen of the month of Kazoo.

The train remains where it is, so the voidtreckers can use its facilities. There is definitely a lot that can be done to assist those of this world and the citizens will welcome any helping hands.

After an extra day they finally depart, returning to the void once more.

(OOC Note: Once the wards are up any characters who are demonic in nature will not be able to enter the city either!)
irrationally: (reverberating through my dreams)

[personal profile] irrationally 2021-04-18 02:22 pm (UTC)(link)
[ There's nothing she can say.

Because Emporio can't understand. He might never understand now, just because his life has been so different from most. And whereas Alice felt like he may be young enough to still turn it around, it seems like it's already too late. She didn't want to see this happen to any kids after how it happened to her, after how she saw it happen to so many kids back in the orphanage..

.. but maybe sometimes there just isn't a choice. There's no way she's going to change his mind like this. She can tell. ]


Alright.

[ He's not her responsibility, anyway, she tries to tell herself.

It still hurts. ]


Take care, then.
seacub: (oh no why this Again)

[personal profile] seacub 2021-04-18 02:30 pm (UTC)(link)
[Emporio freezes in place. It feels like...something just cracked, somewhere. Alice is walking away instead, it...]

...

...I...

...will we get to have tea together, another time at least..? [he can't help but ask, his voice creaking just a little as he says it.]
irrationally: (but now i know it's going to take)

[personal profile] irrationally 2021-04-18 04:10 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Oh, Emporio, don't make that kind of face or use that tone. You'll break her heart.

It makes Alice quickly react, realising that she's giving him the wrong idea here, however unintentionally. ]


Of course. I.. We can have tea right now, if you want.

[ She's not going to deny him that, especially not when Alice is much weaker to kids than she pretends to be..

She bites her lower lip for a moment before deciding to just be honest for once, instead of burying every single feeling deep down within her. ]


It just feels like I am failing you.
seacub: (: ' D)

[personal profile] seacub 2021-04-21 01:18 pm (UTC)(link)
You'd offered, and... [He smiles, however weakly.] ...I really like having tea with you.

...You haven't failed me at all, I promise that..! You... ...you know, I never had tea with anyone, before I go to the train. That's something you showed me- things like that...you haven't failed, because you've only been able to do better than before.

...I guess, it probably seems really small but... ...it really matters, even just doing that.
irrationally: (i don't know what is real)

[personal profile] irrationally 2021-04-22 07:13 pm (UTC)(link)
[ It does seem small. Way too small. Is that all she can do for Emporio - just have tea with him? Because his circumstances must have been so utterly miserable that he hadn't even had the chance to sit down and have tea with someone else back home?

It still sits uneasy, like a knot in Alice's stomach. But she doesn't want to make him sad. Sure, she will be hard on herself until she figures out how she can do more for him, even under their current train circumstances, but if she can make him even a bit happy, even just for a moment.. ]


...

Alright.

Let's.. go have tea together right now then.
seacub: (: ' D)

I'd say that's a wrap...

[personal profile] seacub 2021-04-25 02:16 pm (UTC)(link)
[It's about the small things. The small things make things worthwhile- make things better.

He hopes she can understand that too, at some point. It doesn't matter how terrible it was back home, how awful things used to be.

It's the fact that he can do things like this now, enjoy tea with a friend, that makes his day that much better.

Emporio nods, and smiles, and moves to join Alice for tea with that in mind.
]