Seasons: IC Contact/Continuations

[abnormalizes]

This is Evangeline! Sorry, I'm a little busy right now, but leave a message and I'll get back to you as soon as I can!

Comments

[abnormalizes]

One: it would make it feel better.

Two: if you don't apologize, I'm going to take it home with me where it won't be scared all the time.

[demondelic]

...

You plan to bar me from the very sun I lived beneath for over three million years?
Surely, you're joking.

[abnormalizes]

The sun is alive and scared of you, so yes, I do plan to.

[She cuddles the rabbit sun-to her chest while maintaining eye contact with Purple.]

i cannot BELIEVE its a rabbit that's actually causing them to argue

[demondelic]

... Perhaps I ought to have asked someone else.

[The eye contact is mutually returned. Meanwhile, the rabbit holding the last little bit of unnibbled lettuce in its mouth, blinking at the Mage across from her.]

I have already reassured it many times that I have no plans to harm it. If it did not care for that, then I have no reason to believe it will care for my apologies.
And so, I'm going to have to ask you to return it to me. Along with my robes, please.

>|!!!

[abnormalizes]

Yeah, maybe you should have asked someone that wouldn't care about the sun's happiness and well-being.

[This is important!]

You haven't even tried apologizing. Of course it can't trust your promises when you won't even do that much.

[...but they are entitled to their robes, so she will unwrap it the rest of the way and hold out the robes to them.]

... i didnt realize the hard part of this would be choosing icons tho,

[demondelic]

Because I have no need to. I am not the one who killed it. Why should I apologize for a death that was not at my hands?

[Those robes of theirs are, of course, magically taken from her rather than physically.
They're quick to drape them back over their shoulders, too.]

Even if it hates me, that does not mean it will have no happiness, here. The others in Everhood enjoyed their lives, even when Gold Pig sent me out to be a part of them.
I will provide and care for it to the best of my abilities, no matter what it holds in its heart toward me.

f.

[abnormalizes]

If I told someone to kill you, would you not be even a little upset at me about it?

[Genuinely, why is this so hard for them...]

[demondelic]

I did not tell Red to kill the sun. It was the decision of the Court of Lost Spirits.
I merely helped in giving Red the power to do so.

[Because they're a Mage... frankly, she's lucky they haven't just yanked the rabbit out of her arms with magic.
Probably because they promised not to hurt it.]

Again, I ask. Please return the rabbit to me.
If it doesn't yet understand that its happiness here is guaranteed, it will grow to understand this eventually. No matter what words I say.

[abnormalizes]

You helped. You were part of it. You need to apologize.

[She holds the bunnysun closer to her chest.]

I don't understand why this is so unreasonable for you.

[demondelic]

[Again, they're visibly taken aback by her words. She's just surprising them all over today!!
Not in any good ways. But still.]

I do not want to apologize for a necessary death that was not at my hands!
There is enough in the world I regret, already - I do not need the feelings of a rabbit to be another tally upon that list!

[abnormalizes]

If you don't want to consider their feelings, then you don't need to keep them as a pet, either. That's a necessary part of caring for an animal.

[Maybe Purple just shouldn't have pets. Especially this one.]

[demondelic]

... A pet?

[For some reason, they're once again stopped in surprise.]

Is that what it would be considered?

[abnormalizes]

-Yes? You brought an animal here meaning to take care of it and keep it in your house, right? That's a pet.

[Did. Did they not know that.]

[demondelic]

I thought such a word was reserved more for the likes of dogs...
Something stupid enough that it would consume a well known poison so long as it enjoyed the taste. [Like Rob, perhaps.]

... Would that mean I ought not give the sun its own room?

[They were thinking more along the lines of roommates.]

[abnormalizes]

Rabbits are common pets, too. [Giving it a scritch under the ear.]

I recommend sharing a room, if you really intend to keep it.

[demondelic]

Would it have enough space for itself, sharing my room?
I cannot say that I mind, as I share it often enough as it is [- don't think about that too hard -] but I do not wish to deprive it of space and privacy if it isn't necessary.

[... Meanwhile, the sun starts to munch a bit more on that lettuce it's been holding onto.
Just a little.]

[abnormalizes]

[Evangeline tears off a bigger piece of lettuce and gives it to the sunbun.]

I don't know about suns, but rabbits are usually happy enough having their own space much smaller than a room. I'll send you pictures of what a pet rabbit's enclosure would usually look like and we can try to figure out what works for the sun and what doesn't.

[demondelic]

"Enclosure"... that sounds as if I am trapping it.
Will this enclosure have a door? May I leave it open so the sun may come and go as it pleases?

I don't worry about it wandering my apartment... I simply worry about losing it outdoors, where there is so much danger for such a little star.

[... And yet, somehow, they can't get themself to apologize???
Mages, man.]

[abnormalizes]

It should have a door, and you could probably leave it open with this one.

...I don't think it'll feel safe with you until you apologize for your part in its death. Even if you don't think your role was that significant, it's clearly scared of you now.

[demondelic]

Again, you insist. You are as incessant with your pestering as the likes of Green Mage.

[Clearly, this is not a compliment.

...

But the way they pause, looking at the rabbit in her arms, is almost loaded. Like they're actually definitely considering doing so, now.
However, it's clear the idea's still bugging them - they end up hovering in a circle through the open area of the room, exactly like someone might pace out of frustration.
The only reason they haven't sputtered or scoffed about this is purely because their voice is provided magically, of course.]

- If I do this, you must ask me no favors for a very long time, you realize.

[abnormalizes]

I promise. This is important to me.

[And it's clearly not going to happen without her insisting on it.]

[demondelic]

...

Fine.
But only because of the importance it holds to you.

[Evangeline > bunny. Any bunny. Even if the bunny is, in fact, The Sun.

They float closer, peering down at the rabbit in her arms... and it turns its head to peer at them right back, locking its on eye on them and holding completely still.
Not that Purple understands that kind of body language. It's a miracle they understand any body language at all, frankly. But anyway -]

You do understand my speech, do you not? You understood it clear as day when the Court ordered your death, after all.
Fleeing into the sky so Red could not catch you.

...

[Yeah, no, they can't do it like this. They just can't look at the rabbit as they do this -
Not only do they end up closing their eyes, they even turn their head away entirely.

However...]

... Your death was necessary as part of everyone's paths to reincarnation. If you did not die, you would be trapped, alone, surrounded by the wailing spirits of the dead.
But you clearly do not understand this.

And so, I... apologize. For assisting Red in your destruction.

[abnormalizes]

[They did it! For a minute Evangeline thought they wouldn't, after all.]

I'm proud of you, Purple.

[demondelic]

... For apologizing to a rabbit?
Look - I can hardly tell if it has registered such an apology.

[It's still staring at them. ... But it's also, like, actually eating instead of nibbling, now.]

[abnormalizes]

No, it relaxed a little bit. Look, it's eating properly now. You did a good job.

[It's subtle, but it made a difference!]