dokkalfheimr: (10.)
Freyja, Queen of Nightmares ([personal profile] dokkalfheimr) wrote in [community profile] unknownseas2021-02-06 04:50 pm

And we're all adrift together through the cold mist, 'til we're lifeless together

[The preparations hit differently this time.

Last weekend was at least an attempt at being festive, even with the light supplies they have; at being joyous, at giving people at least one nice thing to look back upon before things inevitably took a turn for the worse. And now two people are dead, and instead of trying to figure out structure placement and how best to keep everyone entertained and occupied and well-fed, the preparations now are given to much more practical purposes.

Large amounts of bottled water from the machine. Bagels and bread and muffins, light starchy things to avoid forcing anyone to keep meat or seafood down after seeing a corpse. Fruit for the sake of providing energy. Avoiding including bananas for any reason. Quietly pulling aside one of the first people she sees with any experience in the matter and asking them to help her make tea.

Once she's got one of the tables at the party zone set up and the tea is on its way to being prepared, she'll set around letting people know; the invitations are simple, written in Freyja's broad, elegant handwriting:

I think another gathering tonight would be beneficial. Not to celebrate, but to remember; perhaps more importantly, to ensure that no one is alone if they don't want to be.

Tonight is hard. There is nothing further to do but get through it.]
calx: (Seventeen)

[personal profile] calx 2021-02-07 03:41 am (UTC)(link)
Yes. My memory is not eidetic, but is fairly good. I'm also used to sketching subjects that don't linger too long for one reason or another.

[ He doesn't seem to mind being snooped on, though it does cause him to pause his work. ]
Edited (autocorrect dont betray me like this) 2021-02-07 03:55 (UTC)
conceivesfrenzy: (72)

[personal profile] conceivesfrenzy 2021-02-08 12:00 am (UTC)(link)
Huh. Like studying monsters or wildlife or whatever?
calx: (Thirty-Two)

[personal profile] calx 2021-02-08 02:20 am (UTC)(link)
Yes, but I have studied people on occasion.
conceivesfrenzy: (52)

[personal profile] conceivesfrenzy 2021-02-09 04:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh? Have you found out anything interesting, then?

[ like how humanity is the real monster or something??? ]
calx: (Eighteen)

[personal profile] calx 2021-02-09 08:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Many interesting things.

[ Gee thanks for the explanation Albedo. ]

I study what interests me, the who or what or in between doesn't matter. Before I was taken to this place, my subject was an individual from another land who had stumbled into mine. I performed various experiments on him but in the end, it seemed all the differences between him and the humans of my world came down to unique properties belonging to his person. There were not for instance extra organs or blood made up of an entirely different substances.