asgardeventide | 001; video

[the sound of muffled curses as Alec is trying to organize himself and his thoughts and he's clearly trying to work out exactly what he's going to say to everyone that can hear him. He's been stewing over this for a couple of days already. In fact the words that can probably be made out right from the get go are things like 'clave' and 'family' and 'cowards', before he seems to realize that people are probably already hearing him. So this mumbling is followed by a long, slightly awkward pause before he finally begins speaking again]

I've been listening to everything that's been going on, and I listened to the lecture when I got here and I'm great at learning and I'm sure it's supposed to be some kind of honour to be chosen to come here or whatever, but I can't be here. I even waited a few days, just to respect all of this, but I can't stay. I'm different than the people who should be here. I'm nephilim, and it is my job- my duty- to get out of this place as soon as possible. There's a war going on outside of this place, and most of you probably don't understand any of it, I don't know how long you've been here, and I'm sure you're mostly mundanes, but it's happening. The Clave has rules, laws, and I have to get home before they think that I've broken them.

Before they take my punishment out on my family or-- or other people.

[a pause and he's sighing just a little bit because this seems stupid, talking to a bunch of people (downworlders, crazy people, vampires... he has no idea who they are or what they are, and he could be breaking the Law just by talking to them or maybe he's going crazy, who really knew) through a bracelet.]

I have to go. I have to find a way out, because this place is all wrong. I just need a warlock or someone else who can make a portal for me. I can pay you... probably when I get back home, but there are people there who I know want me back, and who will help me pay whatever the price is.

[another pause, because his mother did teach him his manners after all]

Thanks.

Threaded | Top-Level Comments Only

Trust me, we know how it is. You can't be here, it's the end of the world if you're not back home. There's trouble, right?

Thing is, you're stuck here, just like the rest of us. It's one of those bad summer camp instances where you're stuck with a bunch of fat whiny kids who keep asking for their DS, when they don't have it. No one's found a way out, and the gods aren't going to talk anytime soon.

Maybe other people are saying that they need to get home, but I really do. There really is an end of the world kind of problem, and I don't want my friends wasting their time looking for me instead of winning.

So you're telling me that nobody has ever left this place? Gotten their DS back or escaped from summer camp or whatever you want to call it?

There are a lot of people who come here saying the same thing, that they can't stay because they have more important matters at home.

I'm sorry, but the gods who brought you here? It doesn't matter much to them what you were doing before hand. It seems like going home isn't possible unless they want you to leave.

Look, kid- I have the same thing back home. If I'm not there, the entire world gets covered in complete darkness, and no one is safe anymore. I get what you're saying.

But there's no way out of here. The fat kids keep on whining and you have to basically deal with them and the problems they cause.

On the plus side, the gods themselves have said that time is frozen when you get taken from home. So it's not like you've gone missing if time gets stopped.

[he looks a little more agitated now, running his fingers through his hair]

There were things back home that were really important. Stuff I should be doing with my time that's more important than just sitting here. I don't know what else I'm supposed to do to make this process faster, and nobody will tell me.

Do they cause a lot of problems, then? Is that why people like me are stuck here?

If time is frozen back home, and I'm here, does that mean that I'll be older when I go back?

We've been brought here for two things- to color the city, and to prepare for war. So it really depends on who you define as 'they.'

Now that I've got no clue. You'll have to ask around.

Well, um-- Most of what you said didn't made much sense to me, I'm afraid, but rest assured you aren't alone. In being stuck here, I mean.

Edited 2012-07-13 04:48 (UTC)

I guess I was talking about the... fat kids, and the problems that you were implying they cause.

I guessed that there were a lot more people here. I heard them, I mean.

[a pause]

Are you a mundane, then? Are all of the people here mundanes?

More or less the fat kids are the people here. They can also be the gods too, given the right circumstance. From what I've seen and experienced, we've had dragons, ice fairies, floods, fog, camping trips gone bad, hugging days, baking contests, and a bunch of other things.

Your choice on which you decide is good or bad.

All of those things are bad. Who wouldn't think those things are bad?

Me? Mundane? Hardly.

That's a fairly accurate description for the natives here, though.

Please do tell, who should be here?

No warlocks, no portals. Sorry about that! But it really is the same for everyone. We're all prisoners here, and nothing here works like it does in the worlds we're from.

But you're not going to be in trouble for being here because you won't be missed, so you can stop worrying about that part at least!

[War? That sounds...familiar. For sure. Even if she doesn't recognize half of the terms he used, she can relate to wanting to get back. To help.]

What were you fighting?

[Priorities. Jo has them.]

[Another nephilim? Interesting.]

When you return, it seems no one will notice you were gone. So you needn't worry about the consequences of being away from your post.

[His voice is gentler than normal; he understands this fear all too well.]

The people who want to be, probably. Or the people who came here on their own?

Not people like me.

There isn't a single warlock in this whole place? And what do you mean exactly that things don't work the same here?

[pause

Someone said something like that to me before, too. That time stops back home. Nobody could tell me if I'll be older when I go back, though.

A demon. She was trying to impregnate women to have as many of her children as possible.

That's what people keep telling me. It seems like there's more questions here than answers, though.

SO most people here are mundanes, then... so there isn't any kind of risk? Danger, I mean?

Well, danger is everywhere, isn't it?

Just because all of us weren't fighting a war doesn't mean we don't have things to be getting back to. Important things, fyi.

I can't think of anything more important than saving the world.

Page 1 of 4

001; video

text;

text;

video;

text;

video;

text;

text;

voice;

text;

voice;

text;

text;

no subject

( video. )

[video]

[video]

[Video]

video;

video;

video;

video;

no subject

no subject

[ text ]

text;