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May. 25th, 2011 12:51 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
demiurgos_girlElaine doesn't know what to wish for. It bothers her in a way she can't put into words. There had to be something right? But everything she wanted was out of her reach, even in her own imagination. Any Lucifer she imagined would never live up to the real thing. Any Mona, or Michael. For the entire of the event so far, her room remained bare.
So she sits cross-legged in her room, lost in thought, returning to previous themes. And though there are a lot of things she can't imagine, there is something she's imagined well enough before.
A wind ruffles her hair. She looks up, surprised, eyes refocusing as though she had been looking a long way away. From somewhere comes the rustling sound of leaves in a wind, of water trickling down a stream. And then flowers start to fall around her, slowly, each one an intricate and beautiful thing, the star of its own show.
"Autumn." She catches one bud, looks at it, delicately holds it to her nose. She smiles, eyes closed.
"Autumn in Mhairi."
So she sits cross-legged in her room, lost in thought, returning to previous themes. And though there are a lot of things she can't imagine, there is something she's imagined well enough before.
A wind ruffles her hair. She looks up, surprised, eyes refocusing as though she had been looking a long way away. From somewhere comes the rustling sound of leaves in a wind, of water trickling down a stream. And then flowers start to fall around her, slowly, each one an intricate and beautiful thing, the star of its own show.
"Autumn." She catches one bud, looks at it, delicately holds it to her nose. She smiles, eyes closed.
"Autumn in Mhairi."
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on 2011-05-25 02:40 am (UTC)Minato was still sporting his butterfly wings, and they rested flat out against his back. All of his friends had really vivid imaginations.]
It's beautiful.
... I wanted to thank you for the other day, Elaine.
[He flew before, or rather he had floated up before while at home, but he never experienced anything quite like flying with wings.]
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on 2011-05-25 03:21 am (UTC)You're welcome, Minato. I had fun, too.
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on 2011-05-25 05:41 am (UTC)[He really had been grateful to her. There was no way he could pass up on the chance to fly, to do something that seemed impossible to do on a normal basis.]
Flying is something you normally can do, correct?
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on 2011-05-25 06:17 am (UTC)Yeah. [She smiles.] It's one of my favorite things in the whole world.
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on 2011-05-25 07:41 am (UTC)[He smiled too.] I can see why. You feel free when you do?
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on 2011-05-30 03:03 pm (UTC)As free as I could possibly be.
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on 2011-05-31 02:57 am (UTC)I think that counts for a lot.
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on 2011-05-31 03:00 am (UTC)...What did you feel?
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on 2011-05-31 05:35 am (UTC)[He smiled at that a tiny bit more.]
The same way. Free. Or feeling like I can do anything.
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on 2011-05-31 07:21 am (UTC)[One flower remains intact, however, and she holds it delicately.] Freedom is the... [She sighs, looks up at the ceiling.]
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on 2011-06-01 02:46 am (UTC)And is what...?
[She trailed off, and Minato had been curious as to how she was going to finish her statement. But if she didn't finish it, he also didn't mind. Talking about it couldn't have been easy either.]
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on 2011-06-01 04:30 am (UTC)[The thought is too difficult to put into words, though she stumbles through it haltingly, the idea deep enough that she doesn't want to let it go.] It's the... price of things. Freedom of movement is fine. Easy. But even then you give up security for it. Other freedoms cost more.
You can look at things you do and you are, and ask yourself, how much freedom is this worth giving up for?
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on 2011-06-01 03:43 pm (UTC)[Minato considered her words for a moment.]
Everything comes at a price. Freedom is one of them. But everything should also be in moderation too.
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on 2011-06-02 12:56 am (UTC)I know. But... sometime's it's... I didn't have to die, you know. [And suddenly this is all coming out in a rush.] I could have let Mhairi die. If I did, I would have gotten my powers back, and I could have fought my mirror off, probably. But Mhairi was... mine. I couldn't let it die.
And I died for it instead.
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on 2011-06-02 03:50 am (UTC)... There isn't anything wrong in dying for what you wanted to protect.
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on 2011-06-02 04:02 am (UTC)[video]
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on 2011-06-03 01:14 am (UTC)[video]
on 2011-06-03 01:40 am (UTC)[It didn't matter. It didn't matter that the Mansion threatened to steal away their memories. It could force them to physically change, mentally alter them temporarily, but he was going to try with everything he had to remember everything from home. He hoped that none of her memories were taken away, and he could only hope that no one else would lose any other important memories either.]
You don't regret the decisions you've made, do you? [He might not have known what they were or if there were any. He only asked just to know, but also didn't want to pry.]
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on 2011-06-03 01:54 am (UTC)[video]
on 2011-06-03 03:06 am (UTC)If you have no regrets, then it was probably the best decision.
[video] so late im sorry
on 2011-06-06 04:44 pm (UTC)I know it is. I can think it to myself. It just doesn't feel like it yet.
[video] that's okay! i'm sorry for my HTML fail DX
on 2011-06-06 06:48 pm (UTC)[There was the pain of losing something so close. They knew that everything did come with a price, but it didn't mean that it hadn't hurt or wasn't painful when they paid it.]