Afterlife Blues

[seeker-of-law.livejournal.com]

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[As Lawfer is heading back to his room one day after idly spending an afternoon doing nothing in particular, he stops dead in his tracks right in the middle of the 3rd floor hallway.  The shout is probably loud enough to be heard by anyone in their rooms.]

I'm... dead?!

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I have a theory to propose about the truth behind this place.  It is the world of spirits.  We are each of us deceased, awaiting the judgment of Hel.  ...Tell me why I am wrong.

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[naltorian.livejournal.com]

Well by golly, gee! [So much sarcasm.] Wouldn't the underworld have demons and the guy with the pointy stick?

[seeker-of-law.livejournal.com]

...Would that be your Shakespeare? I have not said this is Hel, either, nor Niflheim, nor Niflhel, nor any of the Nine Worlds. I have merely said we are deceased.

[naltorian.livejournal.com]

Niflheim? Niflhel? Are you a scholar?

[seeker-of-law.livejournal.com]

...

It appears the gods are not in favor of any meaningful conversation about the spirit realm this day.

I am not. Or, I have regained no memories suggesting as such. I am a warrior, perhaps a soldier, as I arrived with full armor or halberd.

[naltorian.livejournal.com]

Maybe the gods don't like how you phrase the questions.

That could be anything...depending on culture? That much I know of history.

[seeker-of-law.livejournal.com]

Scholars are in the habit of dualing as sorcerors if they wish to fight. It is more suitable. I confess it may be possible, but I have had little inclination towards such.

[naltorian.livejournal.com]

Maybe you should come hunting with me for anemoi. The more we collect, the more we remember just what the heck we lost.

[seeker-of-law.livejournal.com]

I have only just returned from such an excursion, but it is true; we cannot collect them quickly enough. Are you at ease with venturing into danger?

[naltorian.livejournal.com]

It feels natural. [She shrugs.] Maybe more than that.

[seeker-of-law.livejournal.com]

Then, perhaps you shall take greater care than my previous companions. It was an exercise in herding cattle.

[naltorian.livejournal.com]

Cows? Did someone run one off a cliff or...

[seeker-of-law.livejournal.com]

A figure of speech. That is to say, difficult to keep on the task at hand.

[naltorian.livejournal.com]

Why didn't you just say that?

[seeker-of-law.livejournal.com]

...Must you really be so particular about my speech? I assure you, yours is of equal strangeness to me.

[naltorian.livejournal.com]

Why thank you!

[seeker-of-law.livejournal.com]

...

I begin to suspect I am being mocked.

[naltorian.livejournal.com]

Now, why would you think that silly idea?

[seeker-of-law.livejournal.com]

Perhaps you may tell me.

[naltorian.livejournal.com]

I don't know. I mean that sincerely. I literally do not know. [And she's genuinely upset about it.] It really bugs me. And it feels...very wrong that I do not know...anything.

[seeker-of-law.livejournal.com]

......I... see.

[Lawfer is quite confused and falls into silence for a moment or two.]

You know who Shakespeare is, at any rate.

[naltorian.livejournal.com]

Yes...I do. [And it all so weird and it makes her head hurt for some reason, urgh...] I wonder if I'm a scholar...

[seeker-of-law.livejournal.com]

...I suppose now is the correct time to ask who Shakespeare is.

[naltorian.livejournal.com]

He's a famous playwright and poet. He wrote over fifty plays and a hundred sonnets. Poetry. He helped forward the English language into what it was in modern culture.

[seeker-of-law.livejournal.com]

...If my language reminds you of your language in modernity, then why do you find it intriguing?

[naltorian.livejournal.com]

...I suppose that's something we'll just have to ask my memories. Because--and I know you will find this answer annoying--I don't know.