Entrée de Journal Soixante-Cinq: Full Moon

[malfoy_purity]

[Draco has locked himself in his room. Deciding to avoid the wolves at all costs. After meeting Greyback, he has a healthy appreciation for staying out of the way of wolves.]

Merlin I will be glad when this whole mess is over. I mean what exactly is a ghost wolf supposed to do aside from scare you half to death?

Comments

[interpersonally]

Pretty much just that.

[malfoy_purity]

Hmm well it worked. One appeared right behind me when I went into the shop.

[interpersonally]

As harmless as they seem I'm not dropping my guard.

[malfoy_purity]

Why do you think I went straight back to my room, I'm not going out there again, no fear.

[interpersonally]

Hopefully, this only lasts for a few more hours. A lot of things seem to stop at the stroke of midnight.

[malfoy_purity]

I@m just hoping they don't walk through doors before then

[interpersonally]

Even if they do, they could remain harmless. Stay alert. And if they do attack, get as far away as possible.

[malfoy_purity]

No I planned on having tea with it whilst it clawed me.

[interpersonally]

Hilarious, Oscar Wilde. Stay safe.

[impetuous]

Merlin?

[No, Gwaine, your BFF is not here.]

[malfoy_purity]

Yes he's...he was a famous wizard in our culture.

[impetuous]

Sorry, I just— I know someone named Merlin. I thought you might be speaking of him.

[malfoy_purity]

Oh...young or old?

[impetuous]

Young.

[malfoy_purity]

Oh, you're one of them. Yes, there've been a few of you about.

[impetuous]

Them?

[malfoy_purity]

Hmmm there's been a few of you over the years that have come along and talked about a young merlin. He was even here himself once.

[supes]

Given what the castle usually throws at us, I'm surprised they're not corporeal.

[malfoy_purity]

I suppose we should be grateful for small mercies.

[supes]

Paradisa is usually kinder than it is cruel.

[malfoy_purity]

Were you here for those demonic things?

[supes]

I've been here for three and a half years. I've been here for a lot of demonic things.

[malfoy_purity]

Then I wouldn't call it kinder than it's cruel. I think the cruelty is far more pronounced than the kindness could ever be. I'm pretty sure someone dying outweighs having a few Christmas decorations.

[supes]

Let me rephrase that, then: Paradisa is not a person. It's a force of nature, and even if we consider it a sentient one, it's more like "Mother Earth" than a human being. It doesn't necessarily have the same ideas about morality or emotion that we do, and I think cruelty takes a certain kind of personality that I just don't see in this place –– if it were really cruel, we'd live in a hellhole all the time, instead of just a couple weeks a year.

I'm not arguing that Paradisa is great all or time, or that it's not prone to throwing miserable obstacles in our midst. Paradisa has done a lot of horrible things in my time here, and things that have effected me personally. But I'd be hard pressed to call Paradisa cruel when more often than not, the worst cruelties and transgressions committed here are by fellow residents. Life is just as fragile and important here as it is on Earth. Christmas decorations and material items have nothing to do with it; it's about what Paradisa does differently as an environment. It's more forgiving than nature on Earth, and in many ways, better -- there's no disease, no food chain, and there's an unprecedented abundance of resources that allows the entire population to live comfortably. You won't find that anywhere on Earth, or any other planet.

[malfoy_purity]

You don't think it does that so we'll be alive for the next bizarre painful thing it throws at us?