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The Slums
YOLF:
Lubei
He had only left her for five minutes to lay down after she had somehow managed to blow herself up, but Uria had managed to give him the slip. He felt his blood pressure skyrocket like a cold geyser at that blunder. But in the time he was looking for her, he didn't expect her to manage this. To go and enact her designs without a single regard for the conversation they had just had.
Lubei smacked the back of her head in complaint. "Did we not speak about letting me follow before doing this? Did you somehow forget?"
Instead, the child had wilfully torn these slums asunder with a quake of apotheosis, and at this point there was little to do but gape angrily, and consider the awful mess these reborn creatures would be to manage. The spectacle illuminated and clouded the night like a symphony of holiness and desecration. Beings that were not demons, god, humans or beasts cried like newborns amid the missing elegies for those who had gone away in silence.
He could feel the raptor's glare like claws at his nape, and this time he had no motivation to glare back.
"You have no sense of pacing," he hollered, scowling erratically. "What are you going to do with this crowd, completely unused to each other or themselves? If they start fighting, what's the point? Should I read them a novel to calm things down?"
Despite the outrage, feeling in his chest grew numb. A single question echoed in his head that he truthfully wanted the answers to. How badly had he already screwed up?
Umbra of Chaos:
Uria
"Hey! I know what I'm doing!" It wasn't as if hitting them was bad. Uria had even blown off their own head once or twice by mistake! All the lecturing was getting annoying though. "I did everything just right. I don't need you to watch every time I make something new" In fact, they were going to prove it!
Uria looked over the teeming masses they had changed. Things wouldn't all fall into chaos since they were part of them! They weren't all part of each other, but the boundary between the godling and her progeny had been eroded by the transformation. "Everyone, be quiet!" And then there was silence.
They gestured towards the still and quiet group, uniform in their obedience. "See? They listen good. Now you can read them the story too!"
YOLF:
Lubei
He scanned the mass of Uria's progeny and hesitated. Then crossed his arms with a deep sigh. "I don't have one on me."
Even if he did, the trash he read for relaxation wasn't appropriate for a crowd. And why was she taking him seriously on this, but couldn't be bothered to listen to more vital things? Whether the god-child did everything out of a whim or cared childishly for everything, it was making nothing but distress for him. And yet, caution, sympathy, and an unknown sense of investment were slowly stacking into a wall that stopped his mind from boiling.
Lubei carried bigger concerns with him. But there was no idle moment to consider them since he arrived at this realm.
"We should perform passing rites for those who didn't... emerge." He said, casting a long and patient look at Uria. "Will you ask them to help?"
Umbra of Chaos:
Uria
"Hmm..." They moved side to side, shifting more weight from one foot to the next as they thought real hard about it. "But that sounds really boring. It's not like they won't be back. Well, maybe they will. But if they are then they weren't really important anyways?"
The thought seemed to catch them on the backfoot, brow furrowing as they considered the implications of the statement.
YOLF:
Lubei
"If they won't be back, that's all the more reason to send them off. If they will be, that's enough reason for it to matter, too." He said, furrowing his brow at her. Albeit they were humans, they had suffered. Albeit he was not their king, he had allowed their deaths to come, and that was enough to make him responsible for what came after.
"If you shared your power because you cared, then this should mean something to you as well. If not that, then just give your aid because I'm asking."
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