First Temptation ♆ Not in Kansas anymore [accidentally dictated/action]

[putuporshutup]

[Meg suddenly feels a jolt and finds herself spiraling through a vortex that seems impossibly large, yet claustrophobic at the same time. It is pitch black, cold, and dry. Thin, odorless air whips past her in all directions at varying breakneck speeds. She imagines that if she could lose consciousness, she would certainly be knocked out by now, but instead she just tenses, waiting. After what could very well have been seconds or years, she feels another jolt and the void is replaced instaneously with a softly lit, lavishly decorated ballroom - the cool parquet floor of which she is now face down on. She rolls her eyes and pushes herself up.]

Nice, Crowley. What in the actual fuck is this supposed to be? Miss Scarlet in the ballroom with the candlestick? Come on, you can do better than- what?!

[Meg sniffs and wrinkles her nose. No sulfur?]

This... this isn't hell. [Her voice drops to a low whisper and her eyes widen as she runs her hand along the wall.] This isn't even earth. [She chuckles to herself] And there's no damn way I'm in heaven.

[Meg cautiously approaches an open door and hears voices from down the hall. Curiosity gets the best of her and she calls out.]

Hello?

Comments

[putuporshutup]

Wouldn't put it past Him to just pop in and see how miserable creation is for a little entertainment. Never met the guy but I figure He's a bigger sadist than any kind of hellspawn.

[onlyanapple]

I only met Him before I Fell. Well, besides Him coming here. It always feels like He's playing a really cryptic board game with us that we pnly know half the rules for.

[putuporshutup]

Ah so you had your wings at one point and got to meet Charlie... groovy. Must make for an interesting perspective on things. A friend of mine used to be on the God-Squad. Doesn't sound like my kind of party from what I've heard.

[onlyanapple]

I Fell back when the Earth was new, when Lucifer rebelled. I can't say I remember much of it, but what I do remember was monotonously boring.

[A lie, of course, Crowley remembers every second of being an angel, and the empty place where his grace once was had ached ever since]

I still have the wings, at least. Just have a restricted flight zone, if you get what I mean.

[putuporshutup]

[Meg senses just a hint of the same melancholy she'd seen in a very recently fallen angel. She didn't imagine it was the type of thing that would ever completely go away.]

Yeah, I catch your drift. But if you ask me, our zone is where all the fun is.

[onlyanapple]

Oh, it's certainly fun, so long as you play by their rules. Now me...well, I bat for the humans. They're a far more interesting team to root for.

[putuporshutup]

Honestly after everything that's happened, I'm inclined to agree. I don't really fit in anywhere else, and life seems like the only cause worth fighting for these days.

[onlyanapple]

I'm so glad to hear you agree. It'd be a shame to be at odds with one another.

[putuporshutup]

I'd have to say that it would be. It's been a long time since I met someone like us that even approaches agreement on the topic.

[onlyanapple]

I only know one more back home. We're a rare breed, it seems.

[putuporshutup]

So it does. That last year I spent getting the royal treatment [Meg rolls her eyes, oozing sarcasm] from our kind actually made me miss people.

[onlyanapple]

[Crowley shudders]

I'm still trying to avoid that treatment. No doubt I'll have it coming to me oneday. But I'll avoid it as long as I can.

[putuporshutup]

That's precisely why I think I might just be content here for a while, which is may as well be a foreign concept for me.

[onlyanapple]

You'd be surprised, how easy it is to settling into contentment in this place.

[putuporshutup]

On that topic, what do people even do around here typically?

[onlyanapple]

Whatever they want to. They can wish for whatever they want, there are magical rooms to go into and there's a city, too. Really it's hard to be bored.

[putuporshutup]

Huh. I have been enjoying the wishing bit, but I should probably get out and explore because I certainly have been. Guess that's what happens when you lay low and keep to yourself.

[onlyanapple]

It's just one of the downsides, unfortunately.

[putuporshutup]

Well what do you do for fun?

[onlyanapple]

Generally, I make my own fun.

[putuporshutup]

[Meg likes the sound of that. Very much.]

Such as...?

[onlyanapple]

Toying with the others here, mostly. Got to get my kicks somewhere.

[putuporshutup]

Now you're speaking my language. Those are my kind of kicks.

[onlyanapple]

You know, Meg, I thought you might say something like that.

[putuporshutup]

Well, we might be from slightly different worlds, but I'd venture to say we've got more similarities than differences. You probably know better than I do though. You recognized me. I didn't think anything of it before because I assumed we were from the same place, but we aren't. So how is that possible?