[ mistletoe continuations ]

[meteorstorm]

For Ryuusei, Koyomi, Jiu Wu, Kamio, Nagi, and Ma Chao.

Comments

[westblockstory]

Who or what was he borrowing from?

[meteorstorm]

He got his hands on a Zodiarts Switch. To use one is to transform into something terrible. His body couldn't handle it, and he passed out before he could turn it off. He never woke up.

[westblockstory]

[softly]

And you blame yourself for that.

[meteorstorm]

I did what I had to in order to wake him up again. What I thought I had to do.

[ and then he was Very Disappointed with me and stresscoma'd again ]

[westblockstory]

"What you thought"? Sounds like someone didn't agree. Or you don't anymore.

[meteorstorm]

I realized after the fact that the method I chose wasn't worth the price I had to pay for it.

[westblockstory]

There were other ways?

[meteorstorm]

I don't know. I could've waited a little longer, instead of taking the offer I was given.

[westblockstory]

Which was?

[meteorstorm]

To make a deal with the devil.

[westblockstory]

That's very poetic of you.

[meteorstorm]

[ he'll spell it out, then ]

To make such a deal is to condemn an innocent person to death.

[westblockstory]

What, wouldst clutch at thunderbolts? He did well not to entrust you wretched mortals with them — it is true tyranny-fashion, to get rid of difficulties by sacrificing the innocent.

[meteorstorm]

You may find you'll lose everything in the process.

[westblockstory]

Oldest story in the book.

[meteorstorm]

And yet people still try to go for it.

[westblockstory]

Sometimes losing everything doesn't seem like the worst option.

[meteorstorm]

It is, if it means everything you've done up to that point became a complete waste.

[westblockstory]

Can't change the past that much. For good or for evil.

[meteorstorm]

That's why we do what we can to not make the same mistakes again.

[westblockstory]

Unless something you did in the past already wasn't a complete waste.

[meteorstorm]

It rarely works out that way.

[ okay we're just going to my cabin and I'm going to make you sit so I can get tea started :| ]

[westblockstory]

[very willing to sit and let you do the work :) ]

. . . you're quite the pessimist, you know?

[meteorstorm]

[ I don't trust anyone else with my tea, SO ]

I never said I was a bubble of sunshine.

[westblockstory]

Usually it's a ray of sunshine.