pc: kaworu

[sacredpath]

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[peripheries]

Then why did you ask?

[Just kind of slumps down... in the pew, one arm thrown over his face.]

[sacredpath]

I have no idea.

[genuine. she will let him slump, making no move to assist.]

I meant more... it was because you liked having him as a roommate so much?

[peripheries]

I spent nearly all of my life in a room by myself. When faced with the prospect that I could be alone again, I realized how much I like that he's there with me. And I didn't want to be there if I'm alone.

[sacredpath]

[oh.]

Why were you alone?

[peripheries]

Because my existence was to be kept secret from only a select few who knew what the future held in store. I was a trump card, many years in the making.

[sacredpath]

That explains so much of why you are the way you are.

[she says this glibly, but she doesn't mean it that way. if anything, it hits home somehow, even if she's not certain why.]

What did they want to use you for?

[peripheries]

[Well, he can't really argue with that. If he'd lived a life outside, more like the First Child, then he'd probably be different. Less like himself and more like her.]

The destruction of the human race and the end of their reign on the planet.

[sacredpath]

Ah. So when you say things like, it wouldn't be sad if all billion people died, that's because that's what you've been tasked with doing?

[peripheries]

That's right. Humans and angels are similar beings and yet we cannot co-exist. Only one species can survive on the planet and the other other must perish. If the human race survives, my people have no place.

[sacredpath]

Why can't they co-exist?

[peripheries]

[It's almost like a metaphor about how humans struggle to understand and exist with others.]

Because only one species can dominate. We are born to strive for our own survival and seek power. For an angel to touch our progenitor, Adam, would mean the instant destruction of Lilith's children, humans or Lilin as we know them.

[sacredpath]

[oh i see it's some bullshit.]

I wonder if that's true, or if it's only something they told you to believe?

[but she's thinking more about herself now than about him.]