⇨ 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.

Comments

[lordofthering]

"Yes," the Ringmaster says, calmly at first. "Zangetsu brought back his soul and his body, and I..."

She... Wait.

"Oh, fuck," she says, standing up abruptly enough to send waves rolling across the lake. Of course, doing so immediately sends her reeling over with terrible gut pain.

"Oh fuck! What did I do...?"

[anti_nonsense]

"What..." Rita's eyes widen in alarm. That's not the reaction she expected. It's very much not what she wants to hear when asking about her dead friend.

"What do you mean, what did you do? What did you do!?"

[lordofthering]

She puts a paw to her muzzle, exasperated.

"...I had to leave to find your team, but when I came back I was so distracted by this business that I didn't recycle his body into the egg." Her tail thumps up and down in agitation. "Now I'm not even going to be able to fit over there..."

She exhales bubbles into the water.

"It's not especially time sensitive, but... ugh. The body is still laying there, and it was quite the mess... unless Zangetsu moves it somewhere else..."

[anti_nonsense]

At first, Rita's completely speechless. It takes a few seconds for her to react.

When she does, she just groans, "I can't believe this," as she runs a hand over her face.

She really doesn't want to picture what that looks like. Also, who the hell misplaces a dead body!?

"Can we do something about it? I mean, we can't just wait until you..." she gestures vaguely, because she doesn't know what she's doing and she won't say.

[lordofthering]

"Well, if someone could bring me the body and the grayish blue egg from my tent... I could probably do it here," she says. She sinks back into the water. "It was... very unpleasant to look at, though. So I would advise someone with a strong stomach."

[anti_nonsense]

Rita grimaces at the mental image, then sighs. "I'll call Zangetsu."

She doesn't know him that well, but he's the one who brought the body back in the first place. Shouldn't be that hard for him to transport it a little farther. She steps away, takes out her radio, and does just that. She stays on the radio and talks a bit, then puts it away and turns her attention back to the Ringmaster.

"It's on the way," she informs her. There's a pause then, as there were some other things she was considering asking... but maybe it should wait. "I'd better go find Syrlya and talk to him about making that announcement," she says instead.

[lordofthering]

"Good," she says, obviously relieved, exhaling steam from her nostrils. "I can fertilize the egg here, and then it can be cared for elsewhere. Having so much of his body returned will speed his growth considerably."

[anti_nonsense]

Fertilize it...? Rita makes a distinctly weird face at that choice of words, but it's probably best not to get into it. If it means he'll revive sooner, then... "Good," she settles on saying.

"I'll be going, then." She could wait to make sure the egg and body make it, but the longer she lingers around here, the more awkward it'll probably get. Zangetsu should be able to handle it, anyway. So with that said, she spreads out her wings and takes off, flying back towards the carnival tents.