Phase 2 - Of Hymns & Religion

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♪ BGM: The Other Side of Memories

"You sing beautifully."

Lyner!?

"Do you sing like this often?"

...I'm not that good at singing, so I have to practice...

"You're being too hard on yourself. You were great."

You don't have to lie to me... My Songs don't help anybody. I'm not like Claire... People need her... And I always get in the way... I'm nothing but trouble.

"... So you and Miss Claire grew up together?"

...Yes. Unlike me, Claire can do anything she wants. Just like the concert today... People can count on her when they need her. I joined the Church and tried my best to become a candidate for the Holy Maidens. But, as a Class-D Reyvateil, I couldn't even find a partner. So when the Bishop ordered me to join the Singing Hill mission, it made me so happy. I actually felt like someone needed me.

"But I do need you, Aurica. At the Singing Hill, when I was about to fall...you saved me with your Song Magic."

...

"Don't act like this. You never got in my way..."

...Why are you so nice to me?

"... Huh? Me? Nice? ...I'm just a normal guy..."

No, you are...

"..."

...You're really kind.



[A.) Action / The Church of Salvation:

♪ BGM: Pulse ~Elemia Arrange~

Aurica found out at some point that there was a church in Mayfield, and that their main day of doing things was on Sunday. Curiously, she decides to get dressed and head there on the first Sunday she's here. Unfortunately, it seems she missed the Mass already, not that she knows what that's about. After admiring both the exterior and interior for a little, she'll move to sit on one of the pews and rest her head on her thumbs, both hands clasped in some manner of prayer.

Though, if she's not doing that, chances are she'll be checking out the whole place, observing with wonderment. Or maybe just sitting on the steps outside.]

[B.) Action / 458 Stone Street / Housemates:

♪ BGM: Malta Living

"Uhm..what kind of religion do you have back where you're from?"]

[C.) Action / Outside & Inside 458 Stone Street:

She'll be outside in her usual Mayfield attire, or indoors doing some housework. She'll then close her eyes and begin to sing in a hushed sort of voice:

Amakami o, kakemau, tama sasayaki yueba,
       (If the spiritual murmurings that soar through the heavens were connected,)

Kanmuribi furimichite, nanihito yuki orinase;
       (the crown of fire would completely descend and interweave the happiness of everyone;)

Samidare no, aimi o, tada nagaruru koe wa,
       (The voice that merely drifts in the indigo sea of an early summer rain,)

Utsuroi sakanagi o~boroge na furusato no ne;
       (is the changing, reversed, and faint sound of your birthplace;)

Kanade narifuku gaia, sora ni hibiki ainaseba
       (If the gaias that we are playing resonated together in the skies,)

Tobekaku, inori no uta matoite;
       (they would be clad in the soaring song of a prayer;)


Yasuragi no oka, namida no garasu, kioku no hako omoi no hi,
       (The hill of peace, the glass of tears, the box of memories, the monument of feelings,)

Hitoe ikue no, utsurou kiito, tamashii no ne musubitsunagu;
       (the single and multiple blank silk threads that tie and connect the roots of the souls;)

Tayutau, mu no umi, shourei no kazaiki,
       (The swaying ocean of nothingness, the breath of wind of the spirits,)

Tokeyuu, mandara ni, utai no miko are.
       (The dissolving and tying mandala, and in there, the singing priestesses.)

After that, she'll either go back to whatever she was doing or sing something else. Unless of course she's interrupted or otherwise distracted.]

Comments

[wise-king.livejournal.com]

In a way, Aurica, I do. [And yes, he cheats on names. He knows what his rat knows.]

[dclassreyvateil.livejournal.com]

[keywords to Rat King lol]

!

You...you know my name? [She blinks multiple times, her chest caught in breath.]

[wise-king.livejournal.com]

Consider it a psychic ability.

[dclassreyvateil.livejournal.com]

[Aurica blinks some more.] Eh? What's that?

[wise-king.livejournal.com]

If I have to explain, I'll pass. What are you doing here?

[dclassreyvateil.livejournal.com]

[She was curious, but something about the lack of information intimidated her enough to be dissuaded, though she couldn't place it. Then she remembered something her not!parents talked about before, as well as other people she met. Well, if we have things like talking rats and kings, I guess it takes all kinds of beings here.. A thought perhaps a bit too ironic.]

I heard there was a Church here, and I wanted to visit it. There are Churches back where I'm from.. [She glances to the ceiling and windows, murals and glass paintings likely adorning them.]

[wise-king.livejournal.com]

Catholic churches or....?

[dclassreyvateil.livejournal.com]

[Her gaze shifts back to you.] Catholic..? No, we had the Church of Elemia for a religion.. [She glances to the floor and pews to her side before looking back again.] This Church...sort of reminds me of back home, in a way. It feels very similar.

[wise-king.livejournal.com]

I do say that sounds quite a bit like heresy.

[dclassreyvateil.livejournal.com]

Wha.. heresy? It was my religion there.

[wise-king.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, many would say that's the wrong religion.

[dclassreyvateil.livejournal.com]

... [If there was one thing she could hold incredibly strongly to, it was her faith, if not in herself then in what she believes in.]

Not in my world. It was the only kind of religion there. There were people who could have been called 'heretics' back there, but that wasn't us. [What's with this guy...?]

[wise-king.livejournal.com]

Your world is not this world though, is it?

[dclassreyvateil.livejournal.com]

[((I hate to say it but everytime I look at that picture I see a pokeball in your hand o.o lol))

♪ BGM: Beleaguer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J80_1RUPAxM)

[...Oh. So that's what he's getting at...!

Her eyes opening as she realizes, she takes a step back, an arm moving towards the chest of her Mayfield clothes. It is then that her view catches a large cross hanging on the wall behind you. It's nothing at all like the statue... It feels both ominous and oppressing, even if it fills her with an unknown sorrow.

She releases her gaze, and looks back to you.]

...But, if people just come from different worlds here, it shouldn't matter, right..?

[wise-king.livejournal.com]

If that explanation helps you sleep at night, please go ahead and believe it.

[dclassreyvateil.livejournal.com]

[She regains her composure, moving forward again, at that. She still feels endangered, though.]

People..won't hurt me for that, will they..?