HAYAME ➳ PLEROMA (VOICE)

[warmare]

[One member of Pleroma has intentionally avoided Communion for months, but now... perhaps it can actually be of use. Now, she actually requires something that she cannot accomplish through strength or stubbornness alone, so-

A hard, cold voice barely comes through, mixed with an inexperienced jumble of vague (violent, dark) images until the words solidify as:]

Who amongst you has the ability to write?

I require a posting for the Achamite heads.

[OOC: please be warned there will be (cw: beheading) in this post]

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[warmare]

... Who just leaves a cut head on the ground in an alley?

[aquaveiled]

A person who was hoping someone else would have the misfortune of finding it some days later?

[ But okay, point taken. That's clearly not what's happening here. ]

I admit I'm a little surprised you hung onto it.

[warmare]

What kind of person...

[Days later? What's the point??? What kind of weak message is that...

And also-]

There is nothing surprising about it. I am a warrior.

[Surely she could tell.]

[aquaveiled]

[ Look sometimes you just come upon dead bodies. Wait until Hayame hears about the corpse room. It's a thing. ]

Yes, I could tell you were. It is good to hear you're feeling more like yourself.

[ As opposed to how down Hayame was the last time she was in Venera. Pro...gress? ]

On your star is it customary to take the head of your defeated enemy?

[warmare]

[What good are they doing in a room??? But also-]

You do not know what I feel like.

[Just... a reminder. What, did this woman think she knew her now, after one incident of forcing her magic into her body? She shouldn't be so familiar.]

It is so.

[aquaveiled]

[ Waiting for greater purpose, unfortunately. But that's neither here nor there. ]

Hm...You're right. I should say, it seems that you're feeling "better". Are you?

[ Either way... ]

What do you normally do with it?

[warmare]

[She is not dignifying that with an answer. Did this woman think she ripped a gem out of her chest to make small talk? To talk about how she was feeling?]

If it is taken in battle, present it to your lord. If it is that of a criminal executed, display it as a warning against others who think to commit the same crime.

[Simple and sensible.]

[aquaveiled]

[ Hmm...they don't have a lord, so. ]

Then you're planning on using this one as a warning, right?

[warmare]

This one and any others I take.

[aquaveiled]

[ Others. She's definitely working, isn't she? ]

How many do you think would be effective?

[warmare]

Surely at least three would make a more proper presentation.

[aquaveiled]

That would be a display for certain...

Though I do have to wonder if the Venerans will understand what you're going for?

[warmare]

That is what the posting is for.

[Why is no one getting that???]

[aquaveiled]

I mean...even with your sign. They may find it as a threat against them as well. You're there to protect them, aren't you?

[warmare]

[How? It will say right there on the goddamn sign who the threat is against, but more importantly...

People keep making this mistake.]

[warmare]

No. I am not.

I am here to hunt the servants of the Regent.

[aquaveiled]

[ Ahhh.

Right, yes...of course. Which is honestly valid. She figures there are several people equally if not more motivated to act to save their own homes than those of the people here. ]

So it wouldn't bother you if the Venerans saw us as a greater aggressor?

[warmare]

What do I care what the inhabitants of Venera think of me?

They are weak.

[aquaveiled]

It isn't just you, though. They may see you as a representative of all of the Pleroma. They weren't happy with the destruction that was wrought on their city the last time we were in town, I've been told.

I know that may not seem fair especially since we're the strangers in this land.

[warmare]

Ask me if I care what the Venerans think of “Pleroma”.

[aquaveiled]

[ Yeah she really doesn't come off much as a team player, does she? No trust falls here. ]

I'm not. Just mentioning that whatever we do affects one another. That's all.

[warmare]

I never agreed to that.

[Even if she'd had a choice-]

Disavow me, if you wish. It will be quite easy for the natives to understand who is who.

[After all... she's the only jinba here.]

[aquaveiled]

[ Disavow? ]

Ah...I'm sorry, I'm not trying to come off as scolding or anything.

[ Truthfully she's worked alongside much more ornery people. (But they also had to work with her, so trade-off.) ]

Regardless of whether any of us agreed to it, we're all representing one another. Our actions also affect you.

[ Likely to her dismay, but...Himeka won't keep hounding someone who would rather be left to her own. ]

Just take care of yourself, alright?

[warmare]

I care very little about what you people do, either.

[with her inexperience at communion in play it may be possible to sense a hint of the deep, dark pit of her emotions, but-]

Do not speak to me as if we are comrades. Call upon me if you are moving against the Regent or his lieutenants, that is all.

[aquaveiled]

[ That wasn't what I meant either, she thinks...but that's okay. Himeka's getting the impression that she may not be the best suited to communicate with this woman.

She hasn't given up, necessarily, but she won't offend further by probing into any inklings of her inner thoughts. That, she feels, would be most unwelcome. ]

Of course, I'll keep you in the loop.

[ With that, her side of the communion ends. ]