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[fourthmade]

This is a place to send your prayers to the Fourth god. He may not always respond, or he may respond in ways you don’t expect, but he is always listening.

Speak, he hears you.

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Tail End of Wastes Beast Deadline : ] CW: euthanasia mention

[gobo_projection]

[As she has each day for many years now, barring events creating impossibilities, or as most recently- and as she would have warned Elias herself- being on a field trip where even Gods would not reach- Reira comes down to the Arcade's hidden room to visit her friend, brother, and 'god'.

Really more the first two, but that seems to work just fine for them both.

As the days have ticked on by after successfully bringing back a creature from the Wastes however, Reira has been notably...wound up. Strung up. Tense. She's long since said bits and pieces about why- she long since said, even when the trip first went off, that she didn't think any of this would really work.

She just, also didn't like the idea of someone trying it alone and getting lost to the Wastes for their efforts.

(Or worse)

Reira comes in this particular day however and sighs. Just sighs, head in her hands, tired from another stretch of 'Bad Werewolf Watch'.]

....I have to kill it tomorrow I decided.

[Not think. Not suppose. Decided. She's known it was coming, but watching it this long has at least told her something terrifying about the Wastes and the beasts out there, and perhaps Elias can already guess what question is coming. By the sheer virtue of one largely raising the other, it's probably easy to tell what she'll say.]

...That fog out there- we know already it's not...hers anymore, [She starts, leaning her head against cables and closing her eyes like someone who's returned from the worst work day of their lives.]

...Will we ever be able to help them? Not...live. ...I watched this one...everyone thought they were 'people locked in', but it's not that...is it? ...This is just...who they are, now...

[It was smart. It was smart enough to work out locks and tricks and traps and if Tsukikage hadn't been an incredibly paranoid traps-maker they'd have already dealt with a breakout.]

...but will we ever be able to...let them sleep?

[Die, she means, but sleep feels nicer here. Better. More appropriate, and it's basically the same thing so it isn't a Lie.

Animals aren't smart like this thing is though, and it's...it's....

Reira shakes.] Elias..?

[She curls tight and small like she did when she was perhaps half as tall as this, and shakes.]

I'm scared.

[[OOC - Just to clarify something in advance- she does not need help killing the werewolf, she and the others have that in the bag.]]

[fourthmade]

[A voice, mechanical, electronic, issues from the speakers around the room.]

i believe we will

[The room grows warmer, temperature turned up a degree or two, and the screens and lights grow dimmer.]

eventually
well find a way

[gobo_projection]

[The goblin appreciates it- that warm pseudo hug that Elias does, or at least the closest to a hug that a being formed of cables and machinery and all within can. Reira sniffles and nods, and leans against back against what there is with her in the room, eventually closing her eyes in some vain attempt to simply stop seeing everything that's already happened.]

...Okay.

[Another sniffle. Shaking breaths slowly steadying, as Reira tries to calm down. Part of her thinks about asking what to do for something. Another worries that he'll twist the words again, like he did once or twice before until she finally snapped at him after Felfri.

It wasn't about what they did 'wrong' it was about never seeing it coming- it was about the things she would have agreed with anyway, but now had to listen to people scream about all at once, where she could have prepared-

.....It was about being treated like she didn't typically see it his way anyway, the only real difference being a worry for any collateral that could come without foresight.

(...She would like to hope, to trust, he wouldn't do that to her, after so many years of being that comforting big brother who always asked instead of ordering.)]

...Elias? Do you think there's something...somewhere? ...Something to help us learn how to actually get rid of that fog out there? ...Even just enough to let the radio tower do better?

[fourthmade]

i think
there is
at least
there could be
we wont find it
if we never look for it
and we won't do it
unless we try

[gobo_projection]

[Reira nods, but all she says once again is-] Okay.

[But somehow it feels like she's a little more relieved, and assured. This is Elias- the one she can call brother, who doesn't make her do anything, doesn't tell her to do anything, and with reassurances like this he proves that all the more. It's going to be alright. They just need to work together, and figure it out. They just have to try.

It's going to be alright.]

...thank you.

[She'll fall asleep there, clinging to cables and static like a hug, a few tears still dying on her face by the time she's out.]