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[horrifictie]

greetings citizens.

behold: the city speaks! it is a raven that appears in my mind's eye, without a voice and yet with speech all the same. cool cryptid shit. im a superstar prophet now.

do you have any questions you want to ask the city? i'll ask them for you. no lame questions and only one a person! cant waste my new friends time with TRIVIAL mortal concerns.

[ ooc: this is related to harry's new power and questions will be relegated to the mods for answers. there might be a response delay while I wait for the mods to respond so just keep that in mind! ]

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[watermemory]

I hadn't thought of it that way?
Where I come from, we do try to respect the spirits that inhabit the spaces around us, it's only
What they consider "being treated well" might not be the same as what we think.

[horrifictie]

yeah that makes sense.
im pretty sure cities hate it when you liter, if that helps.
the raven told me the lost souls help the city grow, so they don't mind them being here!

[watermemory]

Haha, I'd imagine! But... that is reassuring, I think.

Might I ask you how you are speaking to it? It's not a possession, is it?

[ PRETENDING... TO ASK THAT CASUALLY... ]

[horrifictie]

no not at all!
i close my eyes, call to it, and it appears to me in a vision.

[watermemory]

I see!

[ saying this, he casually threw a rock behind his back slumped over boneless in his seat. ]

You speak of such things so casually, like it's a given.

[horrifictie]

i could do something similar back where im from.
it wasnt so direct
the breeze would lead me to hidden secrets
the rain would expand the world to my eyes
the shivers of the city spoke in cryptic whispers.

[watermemory]

If only all such beings were so talkative...

[ would things have been different, if he'd been able to talk to the bridge spirit? Impossible to know, now. ]

What did your city want, then? Was it so friendly as this?

[horrifictie]

the city wanted to be protected.
to be kept on earth
to love and be loved
i think jigoku-cho feels the same

[watermemory]

...
I only hope we can fulfill that wish, then, in return for sheltering us.
The same for your home, too.

[horrifictie]

i hope so too
my home is occupied by forces that would see to punish it for revolution decades ago
but one day we will be free
and then we will return to the world

[watermemory]

I understand. My country's been at war since I was little. We're at peace now, but I can't help but wonder what my capital city would say, if it could talk.

[ ...wait. ]

[ he doesn't understand actually. ]

"Return to the world"?

[horrifictie]

yes.
we do not belong to the world.
we belong to the moralintern.
moralist international for long.
that is the body that occupies our home.
it is both political and religious and perhaps even more.