⇨ THE EPILOGUE

[ringleaders]

Who: Everyone!
When: Day 61
Where: The Carnival
What: After all the rescues team return, it will be matter of tending to the wounded and getting the hell out of dodge. The Ringmaster can handle the fleeing part, but someone will need to look after those in the medical tent. Or, maybe, you just want to show up and ask what the hell happened.
Warnings: Some messed up consequences of faerie fuckery.

IN REPAIR↴ As the minutes tick past, all four rescue groups will eventually return. Everyone in the carnival is encouraged to help out, ensuring that the rescues and victims both are taken care of after the fact. You can tag in here as rescuers taking care of business around the carnival, victims recovering, or other workers checking in to see what's going on. This log is for general aftermath threads, made by anyone.

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[betheman]

He doesn't press for what 'would have happened', when Steven trails off. Instead, eyes shining with tears, he simply nods more firmly, smiling as warmly as he possibly can. "It is the least that I, the man Gongenzaka could have done..! I had been unable to stop the Queen...and when Yuuya called for you, it only ended in her attack after all..." he adds, grimacing. "...If there was any who could protect you from the worst, I therefore realized, it would be that which was responsible for all of our lives."

Gongenzaka sighs, in any case, smiling once again. "The worst, at the very least, has passed," he reassures the other. "What is important now, is recovery..! ...Preferably soon enough that you are not stuck in here, aah?" Gongenzaka laughs, tail rustling. For a moment, he moves to perhaps dab a tear away from the other's face- but he stops himself before he gets there, instead resting his hands at his front.

He then jumps, remembering what he still has with him. "Mnh- which, I suppose, brings me to this... ...it is a scroll which I, the man Gongenzaka, procured in Atlantis." He holds it forward, allowing Steven to at least see.

"...It allows a slight increase in natural recovery... ...At the very least, if your changes are akin to my own," he gestures, referring to his plants, "It could help those to grow back, hmm?"

[starseedling]

It takes a moment, and then it clicks. From the markets in Atlantis, right! He'd bought a scroll from there, too. He looks at it, and then back to his hand, and to the scroll again.

"...What do you have to do with it?" he asks. Better start there.

[betheman]

Gongenzaka spreads it out with care, while taking a somewhat more comfortable (to him, anyway- probably the only one who would agree in the room is Lion) seat. "For the most part, you should not have to do anything beyond relax- while it is certainly more effective with others joining in, I, the man Gongenzaka, would rather not ask you to tax yourself," he insists, shaking his head.

"As it is- I, the man Gongenzaka, shall be meditating, as I read from the scroll. The magic is within the paper- and I, the man Gongenzaka, shall be focusing my own energy to activate it as well!" he insists- admittedly unsure as to whether his own power will really boost it at all.

Though...he does pause, adding more. "...That said...if you do wish to join, you do not need to do more than follow along in meditation- copy my words, as I say them, if you can. I, the man Gongenzaka, do not feel it will be any less effective if you are not reading at the same time I am," he laughs, shaking his head in what he hopes is a reassuring motion.

[starseedling]

Steven is watching and listening as Gon explains, and he nods in the end with faint understanding. He's willing to try, for sure.

"Will it still work if I fall asleep?" he asks with a little smile. He's so tired, he can easily see that happening.

[betheman]

Gongenzaka laughs, and finds himself unable to keep from smiling rather widely at that. "Even if it did not seem as though you need it, I, the man Gongenzaka, would feel confident in saying 'yes'; meditation is...not for everyone, aah?" he notes, winking.

"In particular, Yuuya's attempts have been...." The man trails off, waving a hand. It's rather clear that the end of that sentence probably had something do with sleeping.

Regardless. "Should you fall asleep, we shall take it to simply mean you have been granted some well deserved peace from this, I should think," Gongenzaka determines. "Shall we begin?"

[starseedling]

"If sleeping is okay..." he starts, a little uncertain, but his tone becomes more firm. "Then okay. Let's give it a try."

He doesn't know if he needs to try to sit cross legged or what, but doing anything other than laying down seems like a bit much right now.

[betheman]

"Hmn! Absolutely...now." For the moment, if Steven is sitting up, he'll gently try to help the other into proper position. "I, the man Gongenzaka, can unfortunately no longer demonstrate the proper sitting position...but if you are able, crossing your legs is best. Naturally," he adds seriously, "If anything is causing pain, do not do this. Now...with your arms, it should be like this," he demonstrates, taking a position quite familiar to himself.

"Make certain you are comfortable- if you are comfortable," Gongenzaka explains, "It becomes easier to relax, and allow the energy to flow naturally."

[starseedling]

Steven pushed himself up. He can't really get into a cross-legged position right now, so he mostly just ends up having his legs out on the bed in front of him, bent into a gentle diamond shape. The hands part is easier. He nods.

"Energy flowing from where?" he asks, sleepily.

gettin super spirity up in here-

[betheman]

Ah- he looks almost as though he'd hoped Steven would ask that, beaming as he makes a few gestures. "In a sense, we draw from the energy of the world around us- perhaps tangently from Creation in fact," he theorizes, pondering that for a moment. "It comes of the earth, just as all life is due to return to it at some time. For this however..."

He makes certain that he is in position, nodding to convey that Steven is fine with how he sits. "...It is the energy which flows throughout your body, from the chakras of your spirit. It is what gives you life, and energy..." he explains, and perhaps he does so to help ease Steven into the meditative state.

"Flowing with our breath....Moving upward, and in," he breathes, inhaling deeply- "....and downward, and out," the man sighs, exhaling as well. He continues this in pattern. "It is as with all things....Back..." He inhales. "And forth...." He exhales.

"As the tides of the ocean...or the blowing of wind upon grasses..." He continues breathing, nodding for Steven to join. "...We feel this energy in the air we breathe, and feel how each part of ourselves moves, and relaxes, with it..."