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unknownseas2022-07-09 09:53 pm
visiblepattern) wrote in unknownseas2022-07-09 09:53 pm
some moments last forever, and some flare out with love, love, love [afterparty]
[So that all sucked really bad, huh.
Forrest had meant what he said about going to the clinic immediately after all of this, getting medical supplies ready and set up on hand to prepare to receive people - Dandy is the primary candidate for this, whether he likes it or not - but before he goes he grabs Rossiu for the briefest moment before sending him on his way. Sure enough, when the note comes in a few minutes it isn't in Forrest's flowing, delicate hand but rather something blockier and incredibly neat. If you've seen Rossiu's handwriting, you'll recognize it: ]
We're having a memorial gathering in the ice cream parlor in an hour. Feel free to attend if you'd like, or if you would prefer to not be alone.
[...It seems like as good a place as any.
There are some things set up, though not terribly many; the tables are set out and are perhaps a bit closer than they normally would be, but go ahead and make yourself some sundaes, pull up a chair, talk to one another, ruminate over whether Jason and Hagakure would have liked this (or whether Vholran wouldn't have, either way) - it's your night, to do what you want with.]
Forrest had meant what he said about going to the clinic immediately after all of this, getting medical supplies ready and set up on hand to prepare to receive people - Dandy is the primary candidate for this, whether he likes it or not - but before he goes he grabs Rossiu for the briefest moment before sending him on his way. Sure enough, when the note comes in a few minutes it isn't in Forrest's flowing, delicate hand but rather something blockier and incredibly neat. If you've seen Rossiu's handwriting, you'll recognize it: ]
[...It seems like as good a place as any.
There are some things set up, though not terribly many; the tables are set out and are perhaps a bit closer than they normally would be, but go ahead and make yourself some sundaes, pull up a chair, talk to one another, ruminate over whether Jason and Hagakure would have liked this (or whether Vholran wouldn't have, either way) - it's your night, to do what you want with.]
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...God also might not be the right name for her. She called herself Curiosity! Or, well, she was the curiosity. Of, uh, a whole thing.
[A whole planet.]
She said she loved me. I could sit here and pretend to be humble and all of that meteor crud, but I'm not gonna lie, I'm pretty dang special. Hell, I'm Dandy, baby! It's no shocker that lonely chick fell for my pretty baby face right away.
[Their feet stop outside of the door to Suite 2.]
I'm good with your plan, Joy.
You ready?
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Yeah.
[She manages the smile this time, even if it doesn't quite reach her eyes. Joy takes a deep breath before starting the prayer.]
Through your blessing, grace, and guidance, through the power of the light that streams from you may all my negative karma, destructive emotions, obscurations, and blockages be purified and removed.
[It's more of a prayer for the living than the dead, but that's fitting. That feels right, because Hagakure would want them to go on. Also she's not sure she knows any of the prayers in Chinese. Not anymore, anyway, and not in this particular her.]
May I know myself forgiven for all the harm I may have thought and done. May I accomplish this profound practice of phowa, and die a good and peaceful death, and through the triumph of my death, may I be able to benefit all other beings, living or dead.
sorry for taking 800 years just to send you this; cw: cultural insensitivity!
Phowa? Really? That's the word?!
It sounds like the priest who wrote that line really needed to sneeze.
What's that word mean, again?