RECORDING 7: THE THIRD WEEK.

[foundationmods]

A third week in this place begins, with less of your number among you. The final week completely covered by everyone's rations, though with proper meting out, you'll be able to make it stretch until after week 4. It seems as if everyone will have to go without a few meals here and there..

To make things worse, when you wake up - it's clear the Miasma has gotten thicker. Everyone, save those still protected either by their powers or items they brought with them, is now even more deeply affected by the curse. Arguments will be flaring up more, along with negative thoughts and feelings...and even more worrying Is that any magic that touches the house itself will corrode over time. If a barrier is put in place and touches the floor, walls, or ceiling, in half a day it will be completely consumed by the miasma and fizzle out. Spells or seals will also corrode, and even personal healing abilities have been halved.

The Temperature has dropped, just a bit - down to the mid to low 60's. Strange, isn't it? As before,the rooms have changed, so hopefully you kept anything essential in the static area.

25 of your number still remain.

...What new horrors await you this week?


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[dreamshielder]

I can imagine. It doesn't sound anything like Kirigakure. It was always quite miserable there due to the scars of civil war.

[Quietly, he closes his book.]

Forgive me for asking, but ... are you lonely then?

[Hard to miss the past tense there.]

[sageking]

Though it's a place that went through its own share of troubles, I could hardly think anywhere else could compare. Especially a place full of misery.

[ A memory came upon him. Of two people who stood nearby each other, watching people celebrate in a feast among the night sky.

"Why won't you tell people those words? At the rate you're going, not one person will understand you.

...You'll be all alone to the very end."

"I'm not alone. There's someone who I'm—" ]

...Hmph. And what's suddenly brought this question on?

[dreamshielder]

It sounded as though the people you were fond of are no longer around.

[He takes a breath.]

And sometimes being surrounded by people who aren't the ones you wish to see can be lonelier than simply being alone. [A beat.] At least that was my experience of it.

You don't have to answer if you'd rather not.

[sageking]

[ Gilgamesh considered his words carefully. Even admitting as such felt like it would be letting his guard down, but...in a way, what did it matter? Their time had passed.

They were really no longer among the living, so...he drew his gaze away to look at their surroundings once more.

Talking to Haku reminded him of one of those people. Though there was an absurd difference. No one could ever truly compare to Enkidu, after all. ]

You're correct that those 'people' are no longer with me.

[ He was too stubborn to acknowledge those words then, and felt too stubborn to believe in them now, so it's no surprise he had little interest in admitting such a thing directly. ]

And it should remain that way. The Foundation has been enough of a nuisance already by bringing us here; seeing more than one familiar face in all of this here would bring too great of a test on my patience.

[dreamshielder]

[An indirect answer then. After a moment, Haku nods. In retrospect, the relief he'd felt at seeing Zabuza at the Foundation seems nothing but laughable. Childish, really.]

Being alone in a place like this is decidedly for the best, even if that may be lonely.

[He lowers his gaze.]

Were these people your friends? [Do Kings even have friends? If ninja aren't meant to have that luxury, then maybe it's not so different for kings. Haku really wouldn't know.]

[sageking]

That's right.

[ It's hardly something he ever spoke of, nor did he hold much interest in doing so. It was a time where, even though he had barriers between him and most people, they were probably the thinnest they had ever been. Even if they were still difficult to break through; nigh impossible to do so.

But only Enkidu had managed to do it. Sidhuri wasn't counted a 'friend', though he had come to value her presence as well. ]

...Once upon a time, one of them was. But time takes its toll on all things, and with them, all who are destined to fall with it.

Knowing that, I understand having such things is no longer tenable for a person in my position.

[ At least, Gilgamesh wouldn't admit to others when he did end up gaining a bond that cemented someone as a 'friend'. ]