[ it sure emotionally feels like we are in week 5. what embroidery is it this time!!! cloud's hanging around the. church? memorial? thing? that place. kind of messing with some flowers ]
Yeah. I'm fine. [ he doesn't sound like he's lying. he doesn't sound like he's, you know, thrilled either, but. you know. ] You? Earlier, you looked...
[ well, it's normal to be mad, but he doesn't think it's normal for laudna to look mad. ]
... Yeah. [ he doesn't think it matters specifying it was the monster; the cruelty is still there. ] Can't say I liked the kid, but no one deserves to go like that.
Children like that... they may not get along with everyone well, but I like them. Most places I've been, I've been the one who everyone hated and wanted to drive away. But sometimes there would be a child who thought the idea of meeting the terrifying witch who lives in the woods was exciting; they might hope to see something scary or want to curse the ones who are cruel to them. And then I'd get to have a bit of company for a while.
[karma reminded her so much of that dynamic; he was always fairly sweet with her.]
I really do adore children. They're much more willing to think creatively.
[ he says it a little distantly, but he'd say the same thing about people in general anyway. ]
But I get it. They're a lot less likely to be stuck on the same shit their parents are. They're... less biased. [ there's a pause ] Though I don't know if fourteen's that much of a kid.
[ this is bias from living in a dystopia ignore him ]
[this is what everyone says to her when she explains why she likes kids - that they don't. it's fine.]
Enough of one. [not in some sense where you must be protected, but just in the sense where you haven't become a jaded adult just yet.] But those are just my feelings about it. I don't want to dwell on them.
It's the Sun Tree. It's quite beautiful, actually. So this is that version of it. I'm trying to remember that it looks like this now, not dead and awful like it was back then.
So it was evil and dead, and... it got better? [ looking at the pretty tree, which is not evil, and thus i cannot make the snow white trees joke ] What happened?
[no, it's just a tall pretty tree with autumn leaves all in the branches.]
I'm not sure it was ever actually evil. That's just how I remember it. Because that's how I died - I was hung from it. [cloud was very nice about delilah stuff so she will simply just tell him things, but her tone is very casual.] Many people were hung from it. Many terrible things happened there. But I think all that time, it was simply dead, like me.
And then some better people found it, and took care of it, and it recovered over a long period of time. And now it's beautiful, and people stroll under the branches and little children play in the park beside it, and they don't even know to be afraid of it. Isn't that a nice story?
[ im sorry getting this lore right before memshare is hilarious. i am fed all the laudna lore ]
So that's how... [ well! her tone is casual so he doesn't know if he should make a big deal out of it but he is kind of obviously shocked. it takes him a while to respond ]
... Yeah. I guess it's nice. That despite everything that happened with it, it recovered. [ he doesn't know if it's morbid that people don't know. it's sort of like some of the things they've seen on their travels, isn't it? it's nice to see it recover even after tragedy. ] But you...
[ it's nice that nature recovered, but it doesn't erase the people lost. except laudna isn't quite lost. hmm. ]
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week 1; sunday
anyway, where is cloud. after the execution laudna is just around i guess? doing a little embroidery.]
...Hello. Are you alright, after yesterday?
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Yeah. I'm fine. [ he doesn't sound like he's lying. he doesn't sound like he's, you know, thrilled either, but. you know. ] You? Earlier, you looked...
[ well, it's normal to be mad, but he doesn't think it's normal for laudna to look mad. ]
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...I don't like that woman. What she did was cruel.
[it's not really her fault, but she has never claimed to be rational about her grudges.]
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Children like that... they may not get along with everyone well, but I like them. Most places I've been, I've been the one who everyone hated and wanted to drive away. But sometimes there would be a child who thought the idea of meeting the terrifying witch who lives in the woods was exciting; they might hope to see something scary or want to curse the ones who are cruel to them. And then I'd get to have a bit of company for a while.
[karma reminded her so much of that dynamic; he was always fairly sweet with her.]
I really do adore children. They're much more willing to think creatively.
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[ he says it a little distantly, but he'd say the same thing about people in general anyway. ]
But I get it. They're a lot less likely to be stuck on the same shit their parents are. They're... less biased. [ there's a pause ] Though I don't know if fourteen's that much of a kid.
[ this is bias from living in a dystopia ignore him ]
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Enough of one. [not in some sense where you must be protected, but just in the sense where you haven't become a jaded adult just yet.] But those are just my feelings about it. I don't want to dwell on them.
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[ embroidery, obviously, but. yknow. he is bad at subject changes ]
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It's the evil tree from my memories!
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.... Why is it evil?
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It's the Sun Tree. It's quite beautiful, actually. So this is that version of it. I'm trying to remember that it looks like this now, not dead and awful like it was back then.
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I'm not sure it was ever actually evil. That's just how I remember it. Because that's how I died - I was hung from it. [cloud was very nice about delilah stuff so she will simply just tell him things, but her tone is very casual.] Many people were hung from it. Many terrible things happened there. But I think all that time, it was simply dead, like me.
And then some better people found it, and took care of it, and it recovered over a long period of time. And now it's beautiful, and people stroll under the branches and little children play in the park beside it, and they don't even know to be afraid of it. Isn't that a nice story?
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So that's how... [ well! her tone is casual so he doesn't know if he should make a big deal out of it but he is kind of obviously shocked. it takes him a while to respond ]
... Yeah. I guess it's nice. That despite everything that happened with it, it recovered. [ he doesn't know if it's morbid that people don't know. it's sort of like some of the things they've seen on their travels, isn't it? it's nice to see it recover even after tragedy. ] But you...
[ it's nice that nature recovered, but it doesn't erase the people lost. except laudna isn't quite lost. hmm. ]