[round 4] ~WEB COMMUNICATIONS~

[15unknowns]

If you need to talk to the Stewards, speak near a spider and a cobweb will appear, projecting the voice of whichever one deigns to answer...

Or you could just go track one of them down like a normal person.

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late in the day, Tues.

[yonosoymaria]

What did you mean by "hundreds of years"? What have you, or what has your Lady done to us?

[If a low hissed whisper can also sound hollow and disconsolate, it does here and now.]

[15unknowns]

[He hears it. There's a chuff of air that could almost seem to pass through the cobwebs if it weren't very clear that these only transmit sound.]

She created you. At least, what you are now. [He sounds very proud of that on her behalf.]

Don't worry, Fast. You won't actually live that fucking long.

[yonosoymaria]

Telling someone they'll lose a game isn't very sporting of you.

[Sarcasm: the last refuge of the damned.]

"What we are now" wouldn't happen to have anything to do with the lack of proper sunlight, would it? Or the live food?

[15unknowns]

Oi, I'm just sayin' a century's a long time! [but judging by his snickers the dig was still intended.]

Nah, though - well, eh, you're half right. But a lot of this is just the old bat's taste. He's a bloodsucker, that ain't like you and me. Old monsters like that weren't created by Our Lady. Never bothered to ask how he came to follow her.

[yonosoymaria]

[Hopefully the sound of Eric catching himself against the wall doesn't come through the web. He didn't strike it, at least. There are so many questions, and he's reached the one whose willingness to answer is as a coin-flip.

It's easy to let himself ramble a bit while his head stops spinning.]

She must be astonishingly powerful to draw in one of that kind and keep him an obedient subordinate, especially if she's... mm. Two-and-a-half languages and I can't find a word for what I mean, "newer" sounds as though she was created and "younger" is too... mundane?

But - wait, you said "like you and me". You were human once, too?

cw because this steward is kind of a pig

[15unknowns]

Uh... I guess? Not that it matters. I was born for Big Sis. I don't give a SHIT about normal humans.

And I get what you're saying, but it's whatever. Her kind lives long too. But obviously she's awesome.... powerful... and fuckin' hot! That's why we follow her. [He may rightfully assume that the younger steward is in fact the only one with that last particular reason for following her.] She's a commander and a matron... and she knows exactly how to pull people's strings.

[yonosoymaria]

Someone who creates life would have to be all of those things, wouldn't she?

[This is either going to blow up in his face or keep the brat talking and he doesn't know which. Might as well just go all in, just in case it doesn't work.]

But I'm not sure I understand. If you're solely hers, and not a normal human, are we who were brought here the same as you now?

[15unknowns]

The differences are strictly individual. Maybe it's just cause you're from different worlds. You're clinging to some shitty memories, instead of accepting your lives here... I was born in this world. Don't really remember what it was like before, it was a long fucking time ago.

[yonosoymaria]

It's that we weren't born here, I think, we grew up clinging to memories to tell us who we were. If you didn't, you're lucky. When you put it that way... just leave John out of any plans you have to ruin my reputation now that I'm gone, and... I have no reason to go back, he never wants to see me again and I've got no one waiting for me there.

[15unknowns]

[He's pleased to hear this.]

Heh. Well then! Maybe I can do you one better........ if I feel like it. I think you'll fit in just fine.

[yonosoymaria]

Just... just keep it in mind. Thank you.

[He doesn't walk away, but leans back against the wall, and slides slowly down.

What kind of devil's bargain has he just gotten himself offered?]