14. Quartus decimus | Video

[5thchild]

[ Kaworu opts for video instead of audio. The particular reason is because he wishes to offer the network a gentle smile. It's needed after what happened, right? ]

I hope everyone is alright. And I hope those who left the city for a while enjoyed their time. [ "Hippie camp", that's what Samantha called it. Which brings the obvious question: ] What are hippies?

[ but either way, the point of this post is something else ]

I am also curious and would like to know if any of you knows anything about beings by the name of "Angels". The version you know from your world, at least. What you know about them, if they exist or if they are just stories. Anything you'd remember.


[ and now that is out of the way, finally there is another question. It has been a while since he has been philosophical, right? ]

And- if you don't mind answering, tell me: how many people know you? People that really know you, beyond your favorite color, favorite book or favorite song. Who knows what lurks in the depths of your mind, what captivates your soul and why? Who knows your passions, your fears, your desires? Who knows all these things about you and still accepts you, anyway? Still accepts you regardless.

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[5thchild]

[ kaworu pauses a little.

Nothing matters in him. it's fine if they don't know. it's fine if they don't like him and think he is cold-hearted. That's not what matters.

So he drops the subject and focus on the other one at hand instead. ]

people can think for themselves. There is no need for a god to tell them that. [ he is the angel of freedom and choice. Of course he would think that.

But either way, he is satisfied with the information he has on drugs. Time to move to the next topic and since they mentioned God, might as well. ]

Thank you for explaining it to me, Samantha.

[samantha_grey]

So... you wanted to ask about angels in my world, right? [She frowned and sighed.] I'm not sure what's worse. Talking about how few people really know me or talking about the war.

[5thchild]

[ he smiles a little at that ]

I'm sorry.

I just wish to know what they are. If it's painful to you, we don't need to talk about it.

[samantha_grey]

No, if that's what you want to know, that's fine. They're spirits. They usually lack a physical body, though they can create one or possess one. They're effectively immortal spirits that serve one of the gods in my world, a god who likes to think he's in charge of everything... or at least whose followers like to think that.

There are different sorts. Thrones, Powers, Dominions, Orders, Cherubim, Seraphim, Principalities, Virtues and the Archangels. I couldn't actually tell you who's over what, other than the Archangels on the top. I only ever dealt with demons and one of the angels... and him only more by reputation.

[5thchild]

They serve this god in what exactly? To do what?

Do you dislike angels?

[samantha_grey]

Messengers and soldiers, watchers and spies, guardians mostly. Demons are angels who've turned away from his side and fight against him.

And yes. I pretty much hate most of them, on both sides. I get born a half-breed, and they both drag me into their wars, their plots and assume I'm on one of their sides. One wants to use me. The other wants to destroy me forever. Just for being born.

[5thchild]

This fight, what is it about?

[ he nods softly ] I remember you told me that, once.

[samantha_grey]

I'll quote their bible, one of the verses I know. "I the Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing to the third and fourth generation, those who hate me and do not keep my commandments." He doesn't like sharing the world.

[5thchild]

and doesn't like to be denied.

[samantha_grey]

If I'm being completely honest, we never were sure if it was his doing, or just his followers and angels in his name. But that was the gist.

[5thchild]

So, perhaps it's not the god who is at fault.

[samantha_grey]

It might not be. I'm not entirely sure, and it only matters if I'm out to join their war.

I've been conscripted enough in my life. At least this one I've bought into. Theirs, they can have.

[5thchild]

Why do they want you?

[samantha_grey]

Want? No, they assume I'm in the fight, either as an enemy or a tool. I'm not valuable enough to anyone but my father to do more than just assume and shoot first.

[5thchild]

Why does your father want you?

[samantha_grey]

From what one of the demons I dealt with said... it seems like he's using me as a karmic battery of sorts. At some point, he plans to harvest me in a bid for power.

[5thchild]

And you, what do you want? [ besides being left alone, but if both sides are after her, it's hard to be left alone. ]

[samantha_grey]

I want my mom's spirit released to Tir na Nog where it belongs, and I want him to release me and leave me the hell alone. If I have to kill him to get that, then that may be what happens.

Beyond him? I'd like to try to have a normal life. Maybe.

[5thchild]

Tir na Nog?

[samantha_grey]

The resting place of the dead for our people. Just because the angels' god wants to run everything does not mean he actually does. She doesn't belong in his hell.

[5thchild]

Why did the god decide she should be in hell?

[samantha_grey]

My father stole her soul and dragged her there. For all his pretense of all powerful control, that god isn't always in complete control.

[5thchild]

Why did your father do that?

Have you ever seen that god?

[samantha_grey]

He's a bastard, or he's using her for some purpose, possibly to keep me under control. I don't know. No good reason I can think of.

And no. Nobody sees him anymore, or so I've heard.

[5thchild]

How do you know this god exists if no one has seen them?