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[errandry]

[ from the recording, the noise boils out of the speakers in a torrent of shrieks and chanting and drums. impressions are almost shockingly crisp: the vaulted ceilings, torches leering from the dark, carved idols with all their spines and horns. figures flicker in and out of focus as the recording darts past—stripped bare, every one. well, it's only manners in a cult to go naked to a ritual sacrifice, isn't it?

the tide of sound rises. they're shouting a single name. Esaimu, Esaimu, Esaimu—! ]



[ then, of course, the camera zeroes in to a figure on the outskirts. for a boy surrounded by naked women, he sure looks traumatised. ]

E... saimu...



[ meanwhile, very clearly from the present— ]

I'm totally gonna wreck the video on this thing. How'd it even get inside my mind?!

Comments

[aettir.livejournal.com]

I didn't even know any of those people!

[wind-magic.livejournal.com]

Well someone must have convinced you to go there, right? [Since you mentioned conning...]

[aettir.livejournal.com]

... well yeah, there was this girl—but that was different! Pretty sure she didn't even go in...

[wind-magic.livejournal.com]

So you got tricked by some girl.

[aettir.livejournal.com]

[ are you judging, Luc. stop that. ]

It was a shitty day and nobody expects the surprise cult recruiter anyway!

[wind-magic.livejournal.com]

[but judging is fun.]

....Is there even such thing as a surprise cult recruiter?

[aettir.livejournal.com]

[ not on this end!!! ]

She was a recruiter, she worked for a cult, she got people by surprise. It counts!

[wind-magic.livejournal.com]

But wouldn't you have to be interested in the cult for her to convince you to look into it?

[aettir.livejournal.com]

That's where the surprise comes in.

[wind-magic.livejournal.com]

.......You seem easy to trick.

1/2

[aettir.livejournal.com]

Wha—where the fuck is this judgment coming from?

[aettir.livejournal.com]

AND I'M NOT.

[wind-magic.livejournal.com]

[Judging without personal experience to back you up is so very fun.]

If some random girl managed to trick you into going to a place like that, I don't see how you couldn't be easy to trick.

[aettir.livejournal.com]

It was complicated! There was a lot of complicated stuff involved!






Not that a two-minute video yanked from my brain's a good way to make conclusions anyway, oi!

[wind-magic.livejournal.com]

A memory's a pretty good base to draw conclusions from, I'd think.

[aettir.livejournal.com]

Not when the rest of it lasted way longer!

[wind-magic.livejournal.com]

But I'm guessing you're not going to explain the rest.

[aettir.livejournal.com]

Not even if I spent a century buried alive for it.

[wind-magic.livejournal.com]

Well then, I don't see why I shouldn't use what I have to make conjectures.

[Pulling out the big gunswords!]

[aettir.livejournal.com]

[ ............. ]

Yeah, yeah. Whatever, think what you want.

[wind-magic.livejournal.com]

I will.

[aettir.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the warning.