lunaecalamitas | i promise we'll walk across the moon someday soon

i promise we'll walk across the moon someday soon

FULL MOON CODA

The moon wanes, and retreats into the sky.

After a quick chat and a vote, the otherworldly wizards, their mentor, and their sage decide to hand Victor over to the Central government—to the young wizard who appeared later in the ordeal. As both a sage's wizard and Crown Prince to the Central throne, Prince Arthur is the ideal person to understand both the discriminatory behavior driving Victor against wizards and the political ramifications of his actions, both past and planned. He pledges to you to make sure that, even if you aren't around to see it, Victor pays for what he's done and then some, while respecting Tatara's wishes to avoid bloodshed. He'll manage his case, while making sure his uncle, Vincent, does not have too much sway, due to his relationship with the West. Ultimately, he'll be locked up for life, put to hard labor, and made sure his intelligence is not misused.

When the sun rises, everyone gets to work repairing the manor. The damage is pretty bad but not unsalvageable, and it's made a lot easier with the help of some of the other original wizards who trickle in as the day begins. So long as it hasn't been burnt into absolutely nothing, it's salvageable—hopefully your figurines are safe!

For the first time since you arrived in this world, things feel stable. The brittleness in the air is no longer there, and there's a serenity to the breeze and the sky. It's comfortable. As the previous sage and sage's wizards begin to go about their business as usual, they mention anomalies and other odd incidents they must take care of around the world, but it is nothing like what you initially remember. This is no longer a world a hair's breadth away from falling apart, and you fixed it.

Whether you noticed it in the chaos of the final fight, or you hear it from someone else, or you notice on your own in the days that follow, you will realize that your sage crest is gone. With the other wizards in place again, your job here is done. Quite literally. You are no longer obligated to Tatara or to this world. All that's left is to go home.

A day and time is chosen for the ritual, and you have a few days after the final battle before the ritual is ready. This would be a good time to wrap up loose ends before you go, perhaps for good.

And when the ritual is ready, you'll know.

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...Something infused with my magic, then. And maybe some blood or something for good measure.

The magic I use outside of this world was infused in me, so that should make it stand out, too.

The latter would not distinguish you from another similar such you who might have experienced the same history up to arriving here. [ the same childhood, the same experiments. same foreign magic, presumably. ] The former, though ... That would work, especially if you were to also still carry the mark you were given.

You seem to be getting ahead of yourself, though. You've already gone and assumed I will be willing, then?

You're the one who seemed interested in puzzling out a solution to the problem in your world. And if you happen to be available anyway, I'm trying to hunt down a lab full of all the freaks who used me as a guinnea pig, if you feel like going on a dramatic rampage.

It's just an offer, though. Not like some puny human like me can tell a god what to do.

You were one of those who took exception to my original intent, if I recall.

[ don't try to talk like his half-hearted, overly involved planning wasn't in part because he was entertaining ahito. ]

And so, your nefarious plot reveals itself. You wish me extant and available to oh so gently direct towards your enemies. My, how terribly bold children are these days. Just because I am a god of the End, you think I'll want to rampage at your behest?

What? No. Whether or not you come along, I'm making sure they're dead meat.

[He's extra confident he can do it now, too, thanks to how much power he's accumulated here.]

Like I said before, it's an offer from one lab rat to another. If you'd rather live your days in peace instead, that's fine too.

[ 'you don't know the first thing about peace. no man does.'

ah, it's always been the blind leading the blind, hasn't it? ]

... I don't think I was ever made for peace, really. It's a fanciful thought, but I know I would quickly tire of being some distant, unreachable entity. Given the nature of the world, the only peace I will find is if I removed myself from it.

[ he may be a planner, but all those plans are always meant to eventually become action one day. 'retiring' to some quiet hideaway in some unknown forest somewhere, and pretending it all matters naught to him...

'the dragon dreamed of a world that was more than endless solitude.' he'd really spoken far too much truth to day in that story those two months ago, hadn't he? no wonder he can't shake the man off. ]

I suppose, should I be around for it, I will keep your offer in mind.

You realize that just gives me more motivation to convince you, right?

[ a sigh. he folds his arms, watching ahito with a wan expression. ]

I will... not abandon it entirely, I think. I cannot. Even if I abhor the means by which it was done, everything that had led up to that point, and the selfish, self-destructive nature of humanity in general, in the end it remains that many of those who prayed to me did so for deliverance. They did so earnestly, with a desperate faith I would answer their call and avenge them, because they saw no other way anymore to make things right.

[ a people laid so low they would be desperate enough to call to their slumbering god that way, knowing full well his nature ... isn't it a miserable way to live? death can be a mercy. it is the only one he can offer. ]

But, of course... I have time. [ if he doesn't go ahead and enact the final boss plan still, anyway. ] If you really would have me be your method of reuniting with the others here, then I would recommend you start by making sure each of you carries something with my own power within it, and perhaps giving me something to identify and search you out by.

That is, of course, if you trust me to not do anything nefarious with it.

Sure. Hang on.

[He takes out a pocket-knife, casually pricking his finger to draw blood - gathering it into a pearl-like stone, molecules completely stopped, freezing it into shape. And, after a moment of thought - pierces a hole in it, just enough to thread a string through if desired.

He will hand over the Blood Bead(TM) once he's done.]

Will that do?

[Be scary about it all you like Robin; he'll trust you with his life. If that comes back to bite him in the ass, so be it.]

... that will be plenty.

[ takes... the blood bead™. ahito. ]

You realize what a competent mage can do with this, not just here, but in other worlds too?

Yeah, I heard all about it.

I guess you'll just have to make sure to keep it safe and out of the wrong hands.

Hmph.

Well, that's your beacon and personal token sorted. Who else were you planning on roping into this?

[ or is he just going to have to make marks of grima on a grand scale, and drop in blindly on each of them. dragon jumpscare. ]

I have a string that should tie me to Kurapika, and I'm assuming he should have it, too. Bruno, definitely, and of course I'm leaving something in this world, too...

[...Man. There's a lot of others he needs to account for, actually.]

[ a low, quiet laugh in the back of his throat. it almost more approximates the kinds of sounds he'd make as a dragon but... ]

You may want to move quickly then, just in case they haven't overheard the beginning of this conversation. I know Ginger and Mikaela intend to stay in this world, and they carry my mark as well ... but perhaps I should leave something more permanent here, just as a matter of precaution.

[ the thing is, he's still not particularly materialistic. hm. ]

Oh, is it confirmed you'll stick around, then? If I really need to hurry up and make sure everyone's got something.

I make no actual promises.

[ dryly, for obvious reasons. ]

Perhaps, though, I should think about tapping you for ... errands, of a sort, for all the work you will put me through.

[ in both establishing interdimensional travel, and sorting out an ending to awakening that isn't. the canon one. the one where both he and robin die and mumblemumblestuff. ]

[Shrug!]

That's fine by me. I was planning to help you out if you needed it anyway.

You realize many would advise you to be more wary of pledging your service to the Fell Dragon?

I think many would also have advised me not to give you my blood, but here we are.

Here we are indeed. [ a minute tilt of the head, evaluating. ] Well, it bears repeating: don't be so quick to agree to such things.

Still, if I do end up calling on you for anything, you'll probably find it familiar. Like stress relief, even.

[ hunting down mages doing shady experiments in ahito's world; putting the fear of god in extremist sects of a religion in robin's, what's the difference. ]

I won't just agree to anything, but I get the feeling that if you're bothering to call me over, it's probably something I wouldn't need much convincing to help with anyway.

[Robin is, after all, a big-brained strategist who surely knows where Ahito would be most useful, and would need the least convincing to participate.]

Hmmm.

Perhaps I'll just leave you with the warning to not get too comfortable. After all, I can't have any would-be zealots start believing that any random act of ... excess, let's say, is enough to invite my personal attention.

[ that way lies just as much trouble as leaving them to their own devices. ]

I mean, it's not like I'm planning to work for you forever or anything... I do have my own stuff in my world, too?

And if I'm put into a position where I'm breaking a promise from back home, that's going to be a no-go, too.

Were I more inclined to that sort of thing I could have taken and enforced your words as binding agreement earlier in this conversation. Perhaps it'll teach you to be more discerning of what you do and say around certain kinds of beings.

[ there are curses for such things, you know. ]

But fret not. I'm not that exacting a master. You'll be able to mind your own affairs.

[He's not just talking to any old Powerful Being though... eh, whatever. If he wants to keep being ominous about it, that's his prerogative.]

How kind of you.

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