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wizardmanor2024-04-06 05:28 am
troublereduction) wrote in wizardmanor2024-04-06 05:28 amFloor 2, Room 3
JOYOUS DAY
troublereduction) wrote in wizardmanor2024-04-06 05:28 am
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[ This is also one of the reasons why he did that. ]
Feelin' a little better?
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Oh... it helps? I didn't know that. Does it help with... all sorts of sickness?
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It might help a little, but I don't think it'd do much except provide some relief.
[ Which is one of the things that's been so frustrating about understanding the moon. They can purify those rocks, and maybe it's because those are just a small portion of whatever power the moon has. But when he thinks about Kurapika's curse and the farmer with the withered leg, it seems that whatever those rocks cause can't be so easily addressed with magic. ]
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[ Well, he'll try to remember that for the next time someone gets sick. There's still the North to explore - and the West. ]
Day... [ He runs a finger along the rim of his cup, pensive. ] I think the moon affects us differently than they do humans.
[ Kind of late in the game to deny being a wizard, so he just rolls with it. ]
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I think I know what you mean. [ Again, thinking of Kurapika here. ] Ain't sure if the mortals can even feel the—dread these rocks radiate. [ But that they all seem able to, as wizards. ]
...You said the moon used love? Why's that? [ He still remembers what Ginger said when he came back. ]
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[ The automatons powered by meteorite shards from the moon… ]
That’s what happened to Mika. I think - I’m not sure, but when we got back he said something so strange. “Maybe the moon is made of love.”
[ Bitter are the words. ]
And he’s never slept so deeply before. He usually doesn’t sleep at all.
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He told Phil before that maybe if you believe the moon is capricious, it wouldn't seem so surprising that something so beautiful keeps trying to end the world, every year. Funny how it suddenly feels relevant. ]
...One of the Central Wizards told me he ended up touchin' the rock 'fore they managed to purify it. No protection spells. [ Sounds great, doesn't it? ] Said that when he touched it, it felt like somethin' in him broke. A ton of pain, and then it just stopped like nothing happened. Now he's cursed.
[ Which, he doesn't mean to alarm Ginger, but he's trying to make a point that perhaps the moon isn't exactly trying to make them love it back. Instead—]
So maybe...what the moon does is—distort things. Like twistin' fate out of shape. And maybe 'cause we're wizards, that includes our feelings. [ They are, after all, beings who especially run off emotion now. ] If he didn't touch the rock, then I think there's still hope that he'll get out the other end without... [ And he knows Ginger doesn't like this word, "change", so he opts to say this instead: ] Awful side-effects. And he's basically runnin' an ungodly fever right now, so we can't say he's thinkin' straight right now either way.
[ Basically: the biggest worry will be if he's still like this once the fever's been ridden out, which is Day trying to tell Ginger to take this one step at a time. ]
...Though I do kinda wonder if, maybe, the moon can feel something like love.
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[ The moon can feel like love all it wants. He just doesn't want Mika to love it more than... Well. ]
But it would make more sense than whatever twisted thing this calamity is supposed to be. In most stories, in most worlds, the moon has watched the Earth for countless millennia - and the Earth and its residents have watched it back. When you're with something for that long, isn't it natural to love?
[ Or hate. Ginger wonders... who calls the moon a calamity? The humans - or the wizards? Who started this? ]
... Which Central wizard was that?
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Maybe it's because the moon loves this world that it keeps tryin' to come down every year. But the moon ain't ever supposed to come this close to what's beneath heaven, so it can only be a calamity. [ He voices it more like an idle thought, however, rather than something he particularly believes in. ]
It's Kurapika. He's got it handled, but it's pretty inconvenient when it kicks in.
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[ He's so stupid. He should have gotten them all out of there sooner. Or applied the protection spell sooner - just... anything sooner. Anything useful, instead of what ended up happening. ]
Why can't the moon come down? We say it's not supposed to - but where did we get that idea from?
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Well, mainly for the material fact that I'm pretty sure if one celestial body came too down close to all beneath heaven, it ain't different from a giant rock 'bout to smack into the earth now, would it? [ The literal answer, which is apparently somewhat relevant in this world, if Day hasn't misunderstood things. ]
But also...at least for me, where I'm from, the moon is also a goddess, and when the gods meddle with the world directly, what follows usually ain't good for anyone. [ The direct rule of the mortal realm by gods is forbidden for good reason. ] Any reason why you're askin', Ginger?
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[ He sounds reluctant now, but in an emergency, he wouldn’t hesitate. Not if it meant saving Day. Or Mika. Or… ]
I guess I just… don’t understand the fear of it. An unlikely planetary collision aside, I feel like there’s something big we don’t know yet.
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I think...considerin' what we've seen just chunks of the moon do—rot limbs, stir up ghosts, animate dolls and make them murderous—can you imagine what kinda nonsense the moon itself would do? And the people here have to deal with that every year. Kinda hard to blame bein' afraid of it, yeah?