text 💎 un: Tohsaka Rin

[defenceless]

[shortly after the storm clears on may 11th and the network connection between both sides of the group is reestablished, the following post appears:]

We're fine, as far as I know. I don't think anyone's dead, at least.

The storm that separated us was brought about by a Dakal named Pomarr. Some of you may remember her as our feline friend who sold her soul to Ryba—or whatever it is she did—to continue to live on after death.

She swept us to an island that looked like it was raised from the seafloor. It wasn't a vacation, but there were definitely remnants of what those big cats must have called home.

Her plan is to revive her entire race, in the same way Ryba "revived" her. As if life-or-death deals with shady goddesses aren't concerning enough, she wants to grant Ryba the power to carry out this mass revival by having her suck Nalanni dry. Pomarr understandably doesn't care much for Nalanni after she drowned everyone she loved; in fact, she showed us this in morbid detail. She's taken Nalanni. Hence, all the Nalawi losing their Gifts and all of this inconvenience we have to deal with.

Pomarr knows where Nalanni is, but she's asking us not to interfere, and she wouldn't give us the opportunity to speak with Nalanni when I requested it. For some reason, she didn't expect that we would be suffering like the Nalawi are. She's promised to try to fix that.

What do we do now, ALASTAIR? I can share anything else you want to know about our meeting with Pomarr, or Yukimura Sanada-san or Mr. Keats can, but this is most of it. We have a situation where the balance of this whole world might be upended if we sit and twiddle our thumbs.

I don't think I need to remind anyone of the potential consequences of messing with either goddess. Or a litter of zombie cats roaming free.

(( ooc: infodump for rin, yukimura, and keats' conversation with a dakal npc, for one of the plot slots! feel free to handwave your character (in either the marooned group or the left behind group) learned this info by reading the post or talking with rin/yukimura/keats/another recruit. yukimura and keats may also be replying to tags! ))

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[adlantisag]

[ She's left staring at the wordsWhy is this a logical debate? There's no reason, no logic to even be had here, as far as Kida's concerned. She's getting increasingly agitated. ]

I do not care what the gods think. I do not care how the gods think. The gods do operate outside mortal ken—that is precisely the problem, little one, do you not see?

[grunehexe]

... What do you wish me to say, Kidagakash?

That because gods are not like us mortals it is fine to judge them as if they were, or it is fine to just eliminate them? I cannot say that. That it was horrible the Dakal all died? Yes, it was horrible.

But that does not mean we should rush in to this- I do not mean that this cry to kill the gods will not prove the best choice of a slew of choices. But I cannot condone this rush to do so when we do not even know what affect that might have. Possible "Justice" does little if the loss of Nalanni would mean the end of the Nalawi, or the end of the world!

[adlantisag]

[ I wish you to be incensed. I wish you to care. I wish you not to turn a blind eye to the suffering of innocents in the name of a 'truth' that may or may not come. I wish you to understand that if I do not act now I will never forgive myself, and neither should you.

But it's useless to say, and cruel besides. Sieglinde is small and more sheltered even than Kida herself in many ways; or perhaps she truly is her mother's daughter. In any case, Kida has no desire to spark more conflict when she's already feeling aggrieved, least of all against a little girl. She can't make Sieglinde feel anything but what she feels, and Kida has no intention of doing so. Sieglinde doesn't deserve it, hardy though Kida knows her to be. Their perspectives are too far away, the gap too vast to bridge.

Mostly, she just doesn't want Sieglinde to know how much pain she's in right now. ]

I suppose we shall see what answers await you, going forward. [ Delivered on a tone of finality, but certainly not convinced. Disappointed. ] Be cautious, yes? Stay safe.

[grunehexe]

[I wish you would calm yourself enough to think this through. I wish you would understand that there is nothing that can be done now that would alleviate the suffering of innocents already long gone in the name of "justice".

Funny, that they can both be disappointed. Sieglinde has learned to accept people for what they present- and she does not fault them for their natures, nor does she think herself so important as to be able to chance something intrinsic in another.

But she wishes they would understand. That she could understand. That Kida wasn't just shutting down the conversation, and that she knew if it was because she didn't judge her competent enough to continue it or for her own pain.]

... as safe as any of us could be, when pitted against the divine.

[She supposed there was no point in pushing it any further.]