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[thelightontheedgeofsleep]

*A certain being is sitting with his back against the well, reading a book with a plain red cover. He's humming tonelessly to himself as he flips pages and in general he seems exceedingly bored. A better distraction than the interminable tome would be welcomed.*

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[dee_lorean81]

Yeah -- you can get away with a lot when you're adorable. [she grins a little] Kind of why I've stuck with the "little kid" look.

[thelightontheedgeofsleep]

Whereas there is probably no one anywhere who would think the same of myself. Somehow I just don't have the knack.

Admittedly the hunger and the drowning and the cultists hardly help on that front. A reckoning will not be postponed indefinitely, you know. May the White go black and the sun be sunken forever. May the Bazaar and its servants be dragged into the sea. Roaring shall the drowned ones rise, and the Lorn-Flukes, and the Fathomking . . .

[dee_lorean81]

[Dee eyes him as he starts going on about White going black, the sun being sunk, people being dragged into the sea, etc] Yeah, those aren't exactly "cute" thoughts. I think you're better suited to being spooky.

[thelightontheedgeofsleep]

. . . and may they be dragged into mirrors that shatter behind them. Hmm? *He refocuses.* Yes. Yes, quite. The waterlogged bones probably doesn't help, either.

[dee_lorean81]

[Dee frowns] How many ways do you want them to -- why am I asking, you want them to die in all the ways. [she shakes her head] I wouldn't say so. But it's not exactly like you can get a makeover.

[thelightontheedgeofsleep]

'All the ways' sounds about right, yes.

[dee_lorean81]

Every way possible, and a few that aren't.

[thelightontheedgeofsleep]

In the Neath far more is possible, and yet it still is not enough. But rest assured, they will learn just how very upset with them I am. If they're not reduced to mindless wrecks by the time I'm finished, perhaps I shall consider forgiveness.

[dee_lorean81]

What are the odds of that? Either them actually managing to survive as something else than mindless wrecks, or you actually extending forgiveness. [her expression suggest they're not the kind she'd put a bet on]

[thelightontheedgeofsleep]

Very low. The ones I'm slightly more inclined to forgive are mostly the ones more likely to break, if nothing else--except possibly Mr. Iron. Iron despises the Bazaar for reasons of its own and spends most of its time quietly committing subtle or not-so-subtle sabotage. But even there the chance is very low indeed. There may be an arrangement for every reckoning, but that doesn't mean they can endure, and a reckoning will not be postponed indefinitely.

[dee_lorean81]

[Dee raises an eyebrow] He in charge of the Iron Republic? Because rounding up devils and repealing gravity sounds pretty sabotagey to me. . . Either way, yeah, didn't think they'd be getting off light.

[thelightontheedgeofsleep]

No, that's just an entertaining coincidence. Iron tries to ensure that the Bazaar gets nothing to inspire it--no adventures, no love stories, no one important. He, if 'he' is the right word, pays people to be boring, or at least unromantic. He promotes fighting rings in place of any higher calling so that he can sell people weaponry--and because he just likes fighting. The games of Knife and Candle, and if that name isn't a nasty poke at the Bazaar then what is?

[dee_lorean81]

[And that gets a head tilt] So. . .he thinks the best way to 'defeat' the Bazaar, if that's the right word, is to make everyone so dull it can't -- find anything interesting about them? Does it sort of -- feed on people being romantic and dramatic and all that fun stuff? Or have I got the wrong idea altogether? [frowns] And the games sound more like a poke at you than the Bazaar. . .unless reminding the Bazaar of you is the poke.

[thelightontheedgeofsleep]

The Bazaar is trying to find a solution for the disaster that is its life: it is in love with one of much higher station that is in turn enamored with one that can't stand it. Watching the lives of others is the best idea it could come up with for solving this. It is a Messenger, not a writer, but now it must write. Therefore it tries to create a story out of others' stories.

And yes, the jab would be exactly that. A reminder of what they did and what I seek to do. If the Bazaar had stayed Messenger none of this would have happened, after all.

[dee_lorean81]

Ahhhh, okay. . .so it's -- watching the drama of everyone else's lives and trying to figure out if any of it relates to its situation and if anybody has a solution. ...I suppose it finding a way to just ask humans about their love lives instead of sinking cities into the Neath to watch the chaos and hope for something helpful didn't occur to it. [she shakes her head] Your world, seriously...

Right -- if it had just sucked it up and talked to its love...what happens if said unrequited love interest comes looking for it?

[thelightontheedgeofsleep]

*Darkly amused* My world indeed.

Then a star comes down to Earth.

[dee_lorean81]

[noting the amusement] Eventually, anyway.

. . .I don't think that's going to go well for Earth.

[thelightontheedgeofsleep]

The Bazaar is infatuated with the sun. The sun is infatuated with another star. That star is probably infatuated with someone else yet. Neither the sun nor another star coming down would be good for the Neath.

[dee_lorean81]

[trying and failing to stop herself picturing the entire Earth on fire as the sun descends on it] Or anywhere else. Yikes. . .

[thelightontheedgeofsleep]

There is a reason that the Judgements do most things by Messenger. Stars wandering around whenever they felt like it would not be very pleasant.

[dee_lorean81]

Yeah, it's just -- not good for the universe in general. I wonder if anybody's noticed the Bazaar missing yet. . .

[thelightontheedgeofsleep]

It has been noticed, yes. Even stars don’t miss five thousand years of absence. Its time limit is very long by human standards, but to it seven cities is all too short. London is the Fifth, leaving it less than half its time remaining.

[dee_lorean81]

Time limit? So after it sinks two more cities, it has to go and face the music with the Sun? Oh boy. . .

[thelightontheedgeofsleep]

The Sun and a lot of generally disapproving Judgements who thought this entire thing a bad idea. Then there's the problem of Stone and the background Lawlessness of the Neath. All very much a mess, even if they manage to keep my story hidden--and I do not plan to allow any such thing.

[dee_lorean81]

Well, it is a bad idea, so can't fault them there. It doesn't sound like it's going to end well for the Bazaar, not matter what happens with the last two cities.