Zaya - Sinner number 24

❝We've lived twenty lives in this car, Plenty more on the line.❞

When the mouth of infinity buries its teeth in me, I’ll smile through the agony for you. I know you still bear the weight of your own existence, and you’ll never bear the weight of two. Let the tides carry you back to me. The past, the future, through death, my arms are open.

@MirroredWaters ...... If you say so. Do you happen to know if Miss Atreides is around?

@FrostSplinter This Puppet would advise you to forget it mentioned anything. Such things are best forgotten.

This Puppet would like to introduce our new members. If you'll let her.

@MirroredWaters Very well. May I ask if you are quite alright? Why are you referring to yourself as the Welkin Angel, and. Not idealizing the concept of selfhood.

@FrostSplinter This Puppet doesn't believe so.

@MirroredWaters I. That is okay. Is there anyone else I should know about. Or speak to.

@FrostSplinter [There's nobody. Eve rubs the back of her head and gives an aside glance.] This Puppet believes perhaps it mentioned this too early.

@MirroredWaters The woman known as Zaya is pleased to meet Gilgamesh from the Outskirts? [Looking around. Is Gilgamesh in the room with them now?]

@FrostSplinter This Puppet introduces the woman known as Zaya to Gilgamesh of the outskirts. From what it recalls of its time in the Garden, Gilgamesh was the leader of the Outskirts, or something akin to a uniting leader. It knows a legend of a myriad relics considered taboo in her hands.

@radiatiionburns How do you know that.

@FrostSplinter It will be okay.

Staring at @anya1076072

@MirroredWaters E-ehh... I have...several concerns, but...for now, yes, you may introduce the...newcomers.

@FrostSplinter Ahem. It. This Puppet will introduce the new member if you will let it. Rule one of existence as The Welkin Angel is to not idealize the concept of selfhood.

Mm-mm. [Shakes head.]

@radiatiionburns Mh... [Distraught noises.]

@FrostSplinter So nothing too drastically different from the usual...

Mm. [Nods.]

@radiatiionburns >> 11. You're tall and old and you have incalculable levels of rizz. 12. Don't leave me again for saying this but you could be more expressive and assertive.

@radiatiionburns 1. Yes. 2. No. 3. Happily. 4. If you were in a lot of pain, and assuming the Manager can revive you, yes. 5. Yes. 6. Y-yes, 7. No. 8. Yes. 9. I-if you wanted me to... 🫣 [Zaya you are married to her.] 10. Nay. >>

❄️|| like and/or reply. mutuals only. if they haven't interacted she'll do her best but some of the answers might be 'don't know'

@Wheel0fFate Gerda helps her unwrap the bandage, then starts cleaning around the eye socket with a wet cloth. She frowns, concerned. 'Those Inquisition bastards,' she says softly. 'Taking a child's eye. Monsters.'

@FrostSplinter "Mhm. It's kinda itchy, so a new banage would be nice." She starts unwrapping the current one. There's a bit of dried blood once she gets to the last few layers, her crying probably aggravated her injury.

@Wheel0fFate [A few years ago. A city in K Corp, massacred and occupied by the Inquisition.] They tripled Zaya's dose of canned sludge for weeks before sending her here, and beat it into her every day: these people are the aggressors. They're just like the Kurokumo clan back >>

@Wheel0fFate 'My apologies again for being thoughtless. Is it okay if I change your bandage first? I don't want to mess up your clean clothes.' She takes out a first aid kit.

@FrostSplinter She clutches the clothes close to her chest to avoid dropping them as she's pulled back to her room. She notes that they're a bit big, but she's worn more ill fitting clothes than this, so she'll be fine!

@Wheel0fFate 'I see. Alright, back in your room. This won't take long.' She stands, and notices a change of clean clothes that Loukia left on a table. She takes the clothes, takes Briar's hand with her free hand, and pulls her back into the room.

@FrostSplinter "Hm... I don't think I've changed my bandages since I got them... they're kinda itchy." She fell asleep with these bandages on, and cried into them with her covered eye, so they probably aren't very comfortable at the moment.

@Wheel0fFate Gerda looks at her for a moment, then blinks. She kneels down and looks at Briar's bandage. 'Ah. Forgive me. When was the last time Loukia changed this? How does it feel?'

@FrostSplinter Briar doesn't really have anything to change into, and it's hard to look presentable in her current state, given the missing eye and all, so she just follows Gerda out of her room.

@Wheel0fFate She smiles. 'I hope it's okay that we just have berry jam for toppings. If you need a minute to get presentable, I'll be right outside.' And she goes through the curtain and leaves the room, waiting for Briar to follow.

@FrostSplinter "Oh, my mom's made pancakes, so those sound good to me."

@Wheel0fFate 'Alright.' Gerda steps towards the doorway. 'We should hurry, before it's all gone. How do you feel about pancakes?'

@FrostSplinter "... I should probably eat." She doesn't really want to, but starving to death doesn't sound appealing either.

⠀every saint has a past , and every sinner has a future.