third. backdated to 4/july.

[eaglet]

[Connor has been perched in his window for some time, carefully observing all these noisy explosions down in the city. He has no idea what's going on, but nobody seems to be panicking, so...

Eventually, he opens up his journal to dictate.]

What is the purpose of these explosions? Does anyone know? Is this normal?

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[indirectcause]

Yeah, people can just wish for things. They don't have to pay for them or work for them or anything.

[eaglet]

There is payment owed to the castle. I have heard it once took more than its regular payment as well.

[indirectcause]

You mean more than just feasting on our delicious emotions?

[eaglet]

Yes. It once punished those who ask too much of it, causing sickness and headaches.

[indirectcause]

I guess you really can have too much of a good thing.

[eaglet]

Or greed and ungratefulness do not go unpunished.

[indirectcause]

It always has a way of coming round to get you, in the end.

[eaglet]

Yes... or to harm other people.

[indirectcause]

[That's probably not a healthy silence there]

That too.

[eaglet]

[Connor pauses too, wondering if that silence meant he was gearing up to say something else...

Apparently not...]

Are you alright?

[indirectcause]

[He can't really say he's fine, it's a lie, so instead he exhales]

Just still coming down from a lot of bad shit at home, is all.

[Yay that one works, take that, stupid loss]

[eaglet]

Oh... in that case I am sorry to have brought up any unpleasant memories. It was not my intention.

[indirectcause]

Naw, it's fine. They're already pretty fresh and there anyway, it wasn't anything you did.

[eaglet]

How long has it been since you have been home?

[indirectcause]

Just over a week.

[eaglet]

[Ah.]

For me, at least, it has gotten easier with time. Though now more things trouble me.

[indirectcause]

Yeah? I guess you'd come across things you haven't got in your own time a lot, that must cause some confusion.

[eaglet]

Yes. The state of the future also worries me, from what I have seen and heard of it here.

[indirectcause]

The world gets a whole lot more complicated, that's for sure. Even before it all went to hell.

[eaglet]

[uhhhHHHHhh that's the first time he's heard of it being that bad, he meant something entirely different.]

You... what do you mean?

[indirectcause]

Where I come from...uh when I come from, the world's...

Well, it's pretty fucked right now. I'm pretty sure we're facing the end of it.

[eaglet]

Of the world? How are you so certain?

[indirectcause]

Well, I don't know how the rest of the world is fairing, but where I live the dead reanimate. There's... well there's a lot of them and less and less of the living every day.

[eaglet]

[wh.....] What do you mean, 'reanimate'? They are ghosts?

[indirectcause]

No, they're still solid bodies. They just aren't the people they were any more. Just bodies that want to eat and do nothing more.