nostalgia;

[abdicate_you]

Human worship disgusts me. It's selfish and pitiful, constructed around innate cowardice.

And still, my beautiful kingdom lies in ruins. While they crawl amongst themselves, fighting for scraps.

I can find no sense in it.

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[onlydancing]

Sometimes we have to give up that which we love the most. Without meaning or purpose. Without fault.

[abdicate_you]

Humans have made it so.

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[onlydancing]

Yes. It is our punishment for original sin.

[onlydancing]

But why must we bear the sins of our fathers? And our... mothers?

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[abdicate_you]

You were amusing to us, back in the days. You were less than the ground we walked; less even, than dirt and rot.

[abdicate_you]

Your sins did not matter before.

[onlydancing]

A world in which sin doesn't matter... Such a place sounds like Heaven.

[abdicate_you]

Yes. For those of power.

[onlydancing]

My existence has been powerless for so long that I wonder whether I ever knew empowerment at all...

[cordials]

So many words, not a crapload of sense.

[placeintheworld]

[He's just going to stare.]

Illyria.

[idolstolemylook]

An' yet you crave it. Guess the world's not the only thing not making sense these days, is it?

[abdicate_you]

Yet, you proclaim to have a god.

[abdicate_you]

Spew your ignorance elsewhere, vermin.

[onlydancing]

A god who cannot love me.

[abdicate_you]

[And so is she.]

You. She's met you multiple times. [Running through Fred's memories here, give her a second.] Lindsey.

[abdicate_you]

Because you are unworthy?

[onlydancing]

I have done many sinful things in my life. Sold my body on the street. Cursed God's name. Yes, many things...

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[abdicate_you]

The world used to change for me, at my every whim!

[abdicate_you]

I cannot walk like this! Out of time and out of place...

[abdicate_you]

And still, you live.

[onlydancing]

I have tried. Tried committing the greatest sin of them all, but I could not do it. Even something like that... failed me.

[abdicate_you]

[Staaaare.]

Humans are truly pitiful.

[onlydancing]

It is true that we are the lowliest of His servants. Yet, we were chosen amongst all the rest.

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[abdicate_you]

[abdicate_you]

You adapt! That is your sole, valuable skill.

[onlydancing]

Life in this world... There is so much greed and hatred, because the mind is wicked and the will free.

[abdicate_you]

Because your nature is vile.

[onlydancing]

Man was created for good! It is our actions that are sometimes evil.

[abdicate_you]

Actions are driven by intent, tied to the core of your very being.

[onlydancing]

But the one who has faith... shall be saved. We shall be saved even from ourselves.

[abdicate_you]

This is all that matters to you. Salvation.

[onlydancing]

For someone like me who is trapped in the darkness and will never again see the light, that is all there is.

[abdicate_you]

Then die. Don't waste the air you breathe.

[onlydancing]

I'm already dying. There is nothing more I can do, but wait.

[abdicate_you]

You leave your god nothing but a broken soul and a wilted carcass.

[onlydancing]

In Heaven... Perhaps He will raise me up again.

[abdicate_you]

In return of your prayers.

[onlydancing]

Yes.

[placeintheworld]

[The sad part. the very sad part is that he can't remember the woman's name before illyria. So he shrugs.] I guess she did.

She's there with you?

[cordials]

...excuse me, did you just call me a rat?

[abdicate_you]

Partially.

[Ripple, ripple, ripple - there goes her blue looks as she transforms into Fred. It's not like Wesley's here to get emotional about it.]

The rest is fragmented.

[abdicate_you]

I deigned to notice your presence. Higher beings would be grateful for less.

[abdicate_you]

Truly a god of humans.

[onlydancing]

Because in His son, Jesus Christ, He was human once.

[cordials]

That's because higher beings are dumb. Higher-er beings like you? Even more so.

[placeintheworld]

....Poor her.

[idolstolemylook]

Then you'll just have to walk different, won't you?