36 metals ; homeward

[godsays]

[ private to marsh ]

Do you think your god - the new god - could use someone like me?

[ spam, cassel ]

[ He seeks Cassel out, after the conversation with Marsh, knocks at his door. Cassel is family; family is the first he's going to tell.

He won't be gone forever. Just for a little while. Just enough to get his bearings again. ]

[ spam, emperor ]

[ Lying idly in the Emperor's garden, brushing a soft leaf between his fingertips. ]

I'm going to go home.

[ This is stated somewhat tentatively. Not because he isn't mostly sure about the decision, but because he isn't sure how it will be taken. ]

[ video, locked to close cr; includes Cassel, Barbara, Iris, Bush, Chris, Anya, Charles, Morgana, Kelsier, Marsh, Vin, Emperor, possibly others I have missed, ask if confused ]

I'm going - home. To Scadrial. The planet where I was born. Years after I died, and I hear it's a little different now, but I'm going.

I'm don't think I'm ready for this - being a warden - yet. That's all.

I'll be back. This is more home to me than anywhere else has been.

[ locked to mistcast ]

If there's anything you want me to find, or find out, tell me now.

[ video ; open ]

I'll be leaving, temporarily. If you have business with me, we should conclude it now.

Comments

[private]

[fridgetothefire]

I do.

I don't think I could do it, even if it was different.

[private]

[godsays]

It feels a little cowardly.

[private]

[fridgetothefire]

Because the monsters in the wings here are so much scarier than leaving the best home we ever had?

[Yeah right.]

[private]

[godsays]

The only people I care about are here.

Leaving them to the monsters, that's what I worry about.

[private]

[fridgetothefire]

Yeah. And you're doing the scary thing. How is that cowardly?

[private]

[godsays]

I'm leaving people behind.

I don't think it is, I just - I hesitate.

[private]

[fridgetothefire]

It's okay to hesitate, for big things. It's sane.

[She has had to learn to hesitate, a little. To have a mode in between interminable planning and leaping on opportunities teeth first.]

I'll watch out for them.

[Ridiculous, maybe; she's the most defenseless of Zane's close friends. And yet. The promise is sincere as she can be.]

[private]

[godsays]

...I was going to ask you to.

[ He was. Really. She may not have powers, but she has that sharp, inscrutable cleverness. ]

Cassel, especially?

[private]

[fridgetothefire]

Of course.

You know I love him too, right?

[private]

[godsays]

Yes.

[private]

[fridgetothefire]

I'll do everything I can.

[She worries about him, these days. But that much is absolutely true.]

Anyone else? In particular, I mean.

[private]

[godsays]

...I don't know who I should leave Dani with.

[private]

[fridgetothefire]

Someone who needs a piece of you to hold onto.

I don't know if it would help Cassel or not.

[private]

[godsays]

Maybe.

He was the first one I thought of.

[private]

[fridgetothefire]

I can take her, if it wouldn't - work.

[Help.]

But I think you should ask. He knows how much she means to you - he'd understand, I think. That it means you have to come back. It's easier to have faith in people to be good to their animals, when you think they deserve it more than you do.

[private]

[godsays]

I will.