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[ Angel Devil. ]
[  chatcube, or action. ]
[ if you're visiting the rose barn,
look for the door with the creepy bat-and-angel-wing sigil on it. Knock first! Or get zapped. ]

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[evening 18]

[endsjustified]

[ring ring. ring ring]

[finalbows]

<sub>[ here he is minding his own business and not about to drop a copy of Lord Avon's Jaylius Caesar on his face falling asleep reading, when an angry-eyebrowed cube shows up between his face and the book.


instead he starts and drops the book on them both. ]</sub>

[endsjustified]

[IT KEEPS RINGING ANGRILY BETWEEN HIS FACE AND THE BOOK]

[finalbows]

<sub>[ god fine
sits up in bed where he was reading.

picks up. ]</sub>

Yes, Lilylord? What is it?

[endsjustified]

Out of academic curiosity: does Rose heal by drinking their own blood? Or do they need to drink the blood of others?

[finalbows]

Oh, I've tested this.

A Rose can heal from another Rose's blood, but forming a closed circuit unto oneself, as it were, doeeessssn't work. It has to be another body. I haven't exactly experimented with our... less blooded population, in this regard, but I would also assume blood being present to be, ah, necessary.

[endsjustified]

...strange. So it's the consumption that matters as much as the substance, in your case...? Thank you.

[finalbows]

What do they say...? "It's the thought that counts".

[endsjustified]

Ha.

Well, that satisfies. I'll tell you if any disturbing implications of that come up.

Have a good evening, Angel Devil.

[finalbows]

Toodle-oo. _{[ mumbling, before the call's even cut: ] why'd he have to ring so ardently? some people just have a heavy psychic tread, i suppse...}

night 23 zzz

[catposting]

[ your hair's a different shade of red tonight. perhaps you recognize it. what you don't recognize is the dark, hidden-away room surrounding you; you're not trapped, just isolated. the Angel of Death wouldn't be caught dead in this casual attire, but somehow, this feels natural to you. it's more durable than it looks.

you're tense. a blank holographic screen appears in front of you. you know instinctively to tap it, to reveal the answers that you seek.

do you? ]

Re: night 23 zzz

[finalbows]

_{[ of course he fucking does he might be a matryoshka inside a dog rn but he's still a curious monkey ]}

Re: night 23 zzz

[catposting]

[ curiosity is such a powerful thing, isn't it?

colors flicker to life on the screen; voices fill the air. one voice in particular sends chills down your spine.

go here. ]

sometime day 22-23

[chasseurdebeaute]

[at some point--possibly not long before DokiDoki Demon's game, or perhaps they weren't found until well after--Angel Devil may discover that he can see the shaft of an arrow outside his window as he walks by. If he looks out to investigate, he'll see a little woven pouch hanging from a ribbon, tied to that arrow. It's been charmed to be water proof, the spell dispersing when the ribbon is pulled.

Inside he'll find the following letters:]

Angel Devil,

You make things around here a lot more interesting. I'd like to hang out with you some more.

((letter 1))

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[instead of a name there's a brief sketch of Angel Devil to indicate recipient. the face isn't detailed but the profile and the feathery hair are pretty unmistakeable.]

When you stop to look, you can always see me. But if you try to touch me, you can never feel me. Although you walk towards me, I remain the same distance from you. What am I?

((letter 2))

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Angel Devil,

Another way. I promise.

((letter 3))

---

Angel Devil,

Regardless of what you say, you still seem like a nice guy to me.

((letter 4))

day 25 morning

[catposting]

[ a voice message, carefully conversational ]

'sup, teammate. I'll be late to dirt gathering today; gotta test a couple of things in the mist. Cloverlord and the apothecary are with me.

Keep your mouth shut, please. Styx has permission to sheep-ify me if I'm not back by sunset, so you can make fun of me then. If anyone asks about chores while I'm gone, just make something up. Inconsequential, preferably. Get yourself another outfit, yadda yadda.

Counting on you. ☆

Re: day 25 morning

[finalbows]

_{[ The catcube vanishes with a little meow, and he's left dusting off fur. He scowls at one little banded strand held between his fingers... ]}

...if you die out there, cat, I'm telling the sheep your new name is fodder fiend...

-> later

[catposting]

[ a couple of hours later ]

All done. You didn't completely slander my perfect image, did you?

Re: -> later

[finalbows]

_{[ angelcube scrutinizing him, angie clearly trying to evaluate his state from that of the catcube... ]}

That depends on how many limbs you've retained.

Re: sometime day 22-23

[finalbows]

<sub>[ cool these are all cryptic and or bullshit. He's keeping them in a neat stack in his room barely peeking out from under some notebooks.


The picture goes up on the wall. ]</sub>

Re: -> later

[catposting]

[ just calls back ]

All of them. None of us got hit. And we got wolfsbane.

[ does. Angie even know about wolves, ]

Re: -> later

[finalbows]

_{[ he's Gonna soon, that's for sure. And from the name, no matter what it DOES, he would definitely say-- ]}

Oh, lovely. That should be of use.

Re: -> later

[catposting]

Yeah. The apothecary has it.

You're gonna need to keep hold of Teleute in the mist.

Re: -> later

[finalbows]

Ahuh?





Feed me that line again slower, cat?

Re: -> later

[catposting]

You. Will. Need. To. Keep. Hold. Of. Teleute. In. The. Mist.

Re: -> later

[finalbows]

Right. Well.

So is the plan to render a few unconscious, for this purpose...? They're actually quite delicate per individual form, I've intuited, so it'll require some finesse.