Belle: Glares at Avrey Why? The brand was a reminder. If you don't have a reminder of the lesson, what is the point of it? The brand reappears on Shai's skin, indelible.
Avrey: b-because it’s cruel to leave someone with a mark they’ll h-have forever!! She learned her lesson! Whatever sick l-lesson that was… casually traces a hand over his arm
Belle: Sighs Not a sick lesson. And she needs to learn. She needs to remember her lesson.
Avrey: n-no! She remembers it enough in h-her head!! She doesn’t need it m-m-marked on her forever! tears up a bit.
Estee: looks down sadly
Belle: Sighs Sometimes that isn't enough. I know you have a mark of your own, Avrey. And you, Estee. I am a demon. I have knowledge of all things. Especially stuff I shouldn't know.
Avrey: a-a-and just because I was gonna do something stupid I-I should be fucking reminded every day?? It hurts e-enough!! creates a rift in spacetime, causing the universe to quake as he disappears
Estee: god damn it… that’s my fault.
Belle: Sighs No, it's mine. But… I'm telling the truth. The truth hurts. She follows Avrey to apologize, but she doesn't take the mark off of Shai. She brings Aria with her.
Someone else joins the chat. Idk who, really.
…Someone…: Hey. What's going on here?
Estee: follows, grabbing Belle’s shoulder. No. It… it really is. He was gonna… join me. If you know what I mean. I kind of maybe made his, uh, conditions worse when I gave him the ability to see me. That, and a scar on his eye that also blinded it. It really is my fault, and he’s really dangerous when he’s upset. Believe me, I’ve seen it. You don’t want to go after him.
Epsilon: and mow the lawn and grate cheese and- oh hello new person!! Are you edible?
business
Maia: I have a mark. please don't give me another. She pulls off her right glove to revile a blackened hand, and half her arm It's constantly expanding.
language
Shai: looks from her arm to Belle I- But- You can't just- draws a shaky breath I need water.
Shai has left the chat
Aeteha:
What does water have to do with anything?
language
Tyr: She was starting to drown. In the air. So she needed a big enough body of water to sink down and shift to an eel.
Belle: Looks at Maia I know the ones with the magic immediately anyways. It's a sort of… aura. Not like what most can see. The aura I see is… unique to demon energies. Goes to Estee I shouldn't have reminded them. For that, I must apologize. They cannot kill me, nor I them. In the end, it is only friendship and trust that I need to gain back. Turns to Tyr Tell Shai… tell her that I do this to everyone that finds blood sorcery interesting. It's a… discouragement factor, of sorts. But… she inhales deeply, then holds the breath for a minute. When she exhales, she just looks worse. I need… I need to go. She leaves after Avrey anyways.
The Half-Life (Who was Someone): Ah… I see. She is a little hard to understand, because every word is accompanied by faint echoes of their past self.
Avrey: is busy angrily flattening broken dimensions with his rage and fear, laced with crippling sadness. why!! Why d-did any of this have to happen!
Estee: sighs and retreats back to her win dimension.
Epsilon: to half-life. you sound funny
Half-Life: Offended So do you, but I didn't comment, did I? Gods, what happened to manners?
Belle: Attempts to calm Avrey down.
Epsilon: backing away I was only observing! Is that a crime? What had happened to this country?
Epsilon: winks I heard that on the teevee thing.
Avrey: noticed Belle and only becomes more destructive. Leave.
Half-Life: TV? I didn't think people watched that. And this country is not America. We aren't even close to America.
Belle: Growls Not quite just yet. I wanted to apologize, but I'll fight you if you try anything.
Epsilon: giggles I’m not talking about merarica! Though I have been there when I’ve visited people in sleep paralysis… very nice place I guess
Avrey: sighs, closing his eyes. what do you want.
Half-Life: Confused now Huh?
Belle: Sighs I wanted to apologize for what I did… and say that I couldn't do anything else. I am bound by Covenant Law to mark people who find blood magic interesting.
Epsilon: I’m a dreameater demon. But sometimes I accidentally wake people up and then they see me. I have a lot of awesome drawings of me in psycioriacictary offices!
Avrey: huffs. that s-sounds like a dumb ex-excuse.
Half-Life: She growls like the Undead Being she is: long, low and unnatural. I know your kind. I do not like most of your kind.
Belle: Sighs It's not an excuse. It's a problem that needs to be fixed. I could be force-faded if I don't comply.
business
Maia: sitting down and playing with the ball of blood, observing and shaping it I've seen Epsilon in a dream before. it freaked the heck out of me.
Half-Life: I'm sure it did. Glares at Epsilon.
Epsilon: chuckles. Sorry about that! cute smol grin I have to be in my spooky subconscious form in order to eat
Half-Life: Sighs You are… difficult. I naturally don't like dreameaters because that's all I am: a dream. At least, that's all I was. I don't remember… She loses her focus, then shakes her head.
Epsilon: sniffs her. You are not the dreams I eat. no offense, but you might taste yucky. tilts head what do you mean?
Half-Life: I- I don't know what I mean… I… I think I'm a Shade, but… I… do not remember…
(Note: Half-Life has amnesia, and is Undead. She is an amalgamation of all of her incarnations.)
language
Tyr: playing with Mister and talking to him in various different Seafarer tongues to see which ones he understands
business
Mister: chitters in return to them all
language
Tyr: moans in Whale, a long, haunting call Try that.
Tyr: I would give you some Jellyfish, but that's not possible here. I can't shift, and you wouldn't be able to reply anyway.
