Post the First!

[inhumanity]

[What appears on the Plane is an unnatural humanoid. He has red scelera, white irises, and a mouth full of sharpened teeth. Together with the 1700s clothes, the features make him look like a vampire of legend.]

[The man opens his arms up to the Plane.]

The openness of of the sky! The greatest of all Mother Nature's states! The bounty of light and life and energy and the endless dark—such dichotomy! Such scope! Such falseness. What's this? Why is there a ground beneath my feet? And why do I glow? I know I am altogether radiant in personality, but even so, that doesn't seem very natural, does it? And if you wish to imitate space, then why stick a forest in the middle of it? That may also be natural, but it isn't naturally here.

There's only one possible reason: you don't wish to imitate space. You are making a mockery of it. I won't stand for it, no, not for an instant. How dare you? How dare you try to put the majesty of the natural world into a 'machine' to insult it? And the scale of it! An insult to nature is an insult to yourself! This is unforgivable! I shall say unkind things about you at your wedding!

[He spins around, and the indignation transforms into a smile full of teeth. It might be a friendly expression. The voice sounds friendly.] Unless this is your defiance against the natural universe. That I can admire. Congratulations, sir or madame, on the indomitability of your soul.

[A pause and a tilt of the head.] I would like to know where I am. [He almost sounds normal now, even if he is apparently talking to space without hesitation. At the least, his tone is less theatrical.] This wouldn't be an experiment, would it? I had thought we were done with all that.

Comments

[lamb_of_gold]

I don't follow.

[inhumanity]

You don't know Peter Pan? [Jesus Christ he spent his childhood in a freaking laboratory and he knows who Peter Pan is, what is YOUR problem]

[lamb_of_gold]

I'm afraid not. [BITE HIM, CHRISTOPHER. BITE. HIM.]

[inhumanity]

[He might.]

[Christopher decides to make an effort to turn upside down, in the air, to explain. Mu's own fault for giving him this opportunity.]

It's a story of an immortal youth who kidnaps children to play with him in a magical place called Neverland. There is a pirate with a hook hand an an alligator that swallowed a clock.

[lamb_of_gold]

[You'll forgive Mu if he doesn't precisely look captivated. He sets Christopher down gently.] I'm afraid I don't have time for such things.

[inhumanity]

[Christopher lands in a handstand and flips back to his feet.] Too busy enjoying the bounty of nature?

[lamb_of_gold]

At the moment, no. Why?

[inhumanity]

I want to know the pastimes of my new friend. I love wasting time.

[lamb_of_gold]

I have very few. As I said, I am a guardian of Athena and her Sanctuary, and am presently responsible for training the younglings that have come to us. That leaves me very little time for myself.

[inhumanity]

Why are you wasting time here?

[lamb_of_gold]

I was, looking to eat, bathe and then sleep. While we're here, time does not pass at home.

[inhumanity]

[Christopher thinks about this for a moment.] Then it's impossible to waste time here.

[lamb_of_gold]

In a sense, yes.

[inhumanity]

Then I don't follow your logic.

[lamb_of_gold]

Just because I have the opportunity to dawdle does not mean I am required to indulge.

[inhumanity]

I see. Not to worry. It's fine if you're mad. I won't judge.

[lamb_of_gold]

I spent my youth sitting on my hands. I have no wish to spend my adulthood doing the very same.

[inhumanity]

I think you may have confused 'wasting time' with 'doing nothing.' Wasting time is more fun.

[lamb_of_gold]

I disagree. Life is a precious thing and should not be wasted.

[inhumanity]

Oh, well. Philosophical differences are inevitable between friends.