Network - 03

[graveyounglady]

Who: Mercy Graves
Username: mercyme
Warnings: Discussion of the wax tablet on the TDM.

To the Gentlefolk of Other Worlds,

This is Sister Mercy Graves. Do you believe in fate? That your truth may be written and set before it has happened? I have come across a most peculiar and troubling object at the museum that has recently opened its doors.

May the spring bring life to you and yours,
Mercy Graves

Comments

[musicdied]

Briefly.

[She shrugs one shoulder almost dismissively, as though the entirety of the experience hadn't been deeply disquieting.]

They could have been useful if they were less unpredictable. And also less evil.

[A brief pause before she admits:]

They were better than the elves.

[graveyounglady]

[Mercy makes a bit of a face at that.]

Elves. Strange word folk got for them. They were right unsettling. Kept coming back after I thrown them out. But at least they didn't actually do anything. Did they?

[He hadn't done anything to her or the others living in her apartment at the time.]

[musicdied]

They stopped coming back if you burned them.

[Or...look, let's just leave it at "her apartment got experimental" and skip the whole talking about elf dismemberment part of the conversation.]

They watched. And probably reported back to someone. I didn't hear about any tiny stabbings, but that doesn't mean they did not happen.

[That's a joke. Mostly.]

[graveyounglady]

... Hadn't actually considered that. Me'n Aelwyn pulled one apart at ADI, but there weren't nothing to find inside. Said she'd seen something like them before, and I reckon those were more dangerous. Direct danger, anyway. Who do you think they were reporting to?

[musicdied]

I don't know.

[She grimaces slightly, like the admission pains her.]

But it would be a waste of creepy little voyeur dolls if they weren't reporting to anyone.

[graveyounglady]

... You don't got stories of spirits who're making mischief for the sake of it? No bullycants or frog-chasers?

[musicdied]

I have never heard of either of those things, but we do have stories about mischief spirits.

[She lifts one shoulder in a small shrug.]

They're just stories. I don't think things here are going to be that harmless.

[graveyounglady]

Frog-chasers been known to steal little 'uns who go down by the lakes at night. Wouldn't call that benign, either. You sure the things in your world ain't real, though? Seems like a lot of folks here brush off real things happening as superstition or something else. That's part of what ADI does, right? Convincing them it's nonsense. Maybe you got something like them in your world?

[musicdied]

We did. But things got too big for them to cover up.

[She kicks at a small chunk of ice, sending it skittering over the pavement.]

It's hard to hide a giant hole in the sky swarming with monsters when everyone has a cellphone. And that was before most of their records got leaked.

[graveyounglady]

[Mercy's brows rise.]

That sounds like a god sending thier wrath down. How- Did the place that happened get wiped out?

[She's having trouble envisioning alternatives, really. They're nearing the museum at this point.]