[Braxiatel walks through the rain with an umbrella in one hand and a cup of tea in the other. He is taking more care in keeping the rain out of his tea than he is in keeping it away from his clothes, and for a moment he even sticks his head out from under his umbrella to look up at the clouds. When he speaks, he is speaking to himself, his voice like smoothed glass.]

That's an awful lot of oil going to waste. And in such a way. [His smile is made of irony, and he looks down at the stars still under their feet despite the rain.] How the old symbols are reformed.

[With the skill of the absurdly well-balanced, he switches his cup to the hand holding the umbrella, opens the library door, and steps inside.]

[After a moment, he pops his head back out again.]

Oh, one thing: have there been any odd deaths lately? I'd be interested to know.

[Then it's back in out of the rain.]

[Axel appears on the Plane in the midst of one of the rain-showers. If you could call it rain. Whatever the hell it is, it soaks him in almost one second and makes him look like one of those terrible punk kids who cries at prom and has his makeup running.]

Are you kidding me? [He practically screams as he yanks his hood over his head.] Agh! I hate snow, but rain is worse. It's wet and it gets into everything and— [He looks down at his fingers and sniffs experimentally] ... Oh, GREAT. Not only do you decide to rain on all of us, but it's dirty or something, which is so hard to wash out that I might as well just get new clothes.

[He shakes a fist at the "sky", then waves dismissively.]

You know what? Screw this. I'm going home.

[But before he can drop from the Plane, he stops in his tracks and turns his head slowly to the right, as if hearing something that's not there... ( [ cut for character death ] )

[ooc: let me know if i did it wrong ): thanks. I figured Darksniffersense would tell him that whatever he's perceiving is just an echo of a memory and not actually real.

Unfortunately, the Plane is neither Zexion nor the Axel clone so that approach didn't work.]