Video - UN: ashfalls

[doomedtheworld]

I don't understand it.

[It's probably pretty late at night when she shows up on the video feed. She's looking better than she did right after the fight anyway. Her face on the video is still bandaged but the bruises and wounds that were visible before are almost entirely gone. She could be fully healed but she'd declined most healing, opting just for enough to keep her alive and deciding to rely on her pewter and Allomancy for the rest.]

This world has everything. The air and the skies are clear, the water is clean, things grow freely here. It isn't perfect, maybe, but it's still a place where people can just live.

[She frowns, but as melancholy as she seems her voice still sounds hard. She's not just lamenting what happened, it could be said she looks like somebody trying to work out a puzzle.]

So why would somebody want to destroy it like that? No matter how hard I think about it, I can't make any kind of sense about it.

Or maybe I was just naive to think somebody like that couldn't exist in a place like this too.

[She shakes her head, sighing, and shakes her head before cutting off the video though her expression still looks as troubled as before.]

Nevermind. I'm rambling.

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video; un: ROCKET

[beatupgrass]

'Cause people are dicks and they want things to be in their image or they want all the people they don't like gone or something or other.

But mostly it's 'cause they're huge dicks.

[doomedtheworld]

Except it doesn't make sense to try to make a grab for power if there's nothing le--

[And she stops, because she remembers that username and the voice but the last time they'd talked it had been, well, only voice and now.

Before she can stop herself.]

Are you a cat?

[beatupgrass]

Then they build it up in their own image or some shit. Megalomaniacs are weird.

[He gives her a response and then rolls his eyes. He's getting better at this.] Depending on who you ask and the time of day, I'm any number of things, all right? Don't make a thing of it.

[doomedtheworld]

[Well, she can't say much to that. That was pretty much was Rashek did when he created the Final Empire wasn't it? She lets out a quiet breath.]

He really wasn't anything special, was he...?

[But then there's the rest and she gets the feeling she'd make a mistake somewhere. She's still curious but....]

I didn't mean anything by it. I've just never seen... someone like you.

[Most people here still seem to be human.]

[beatupgrass]

Yeah, yeah, I get that a lot. Apparently, all the people from cute little talking animal communities are still asleep.

[He's naturally dry and sardonic, but also so used to this he can't even be annoyed.]