Twenty Ninth Wind

[bantorain]

Fooled ya!

I bet you all thought I was really dead, right? Well, one of the hibou pulled me aside and asked me if I wanted to participate in a curse BEHIND the scenes, so I agreed! They got me all made up like a corpse and gave me this pill that helped me breath without my chest moving! I was so convincing I thought I was a zombie walking along in the hidden back halways, ha ha!

Welp, I AM alive, so no worries, everyone!

Comments

[goesbythebook.livejournal.com]

A pill to alter her body's movements and make-up are hardly the same thing as dead. Should I give you instruction on the most basic of death god lessons to ensure you understand this? We certainly do not lack for time.

[thebloodyjuliet.livejournal.com]

...well, no. BUT SHE SEEMED DEAD. Those stupid mutant birds and their stupid pills.

And no. You're just going to force me to read that book and then kick me in the face or some rubbish like that. I'm going out.

[goesbythebook.livejournal.com]

Grell Satcliffe.

[thebloodyjuliet.livejournal.com]

...what.

[goesbythebook.livejournal.com]

You will review the training manual by day's end. Expect to be tested.

[thebloodyjuliet.livejournal.com]

But we don't have a training manual here.

...and I'm out at the moment.

[goesbythebook.livejournal.com]

We do. I have reproduced it and several other documents vital to the duties of a Death God, since there is little else to fill the time when we are not being cursed.

Failure of the test will result in punishment. And a retest until you get a perfect score.

[thebloodyjuliet.livejournal.com]

...................


I really must learn to distract you more.

[rapier-ex.livejournal.com]

Mr. Spears, can I step in and say something here?

[goesbythebook.livejournal.com]

Really.

If you must.

[rapier-ex.livejournal.com]

It was my fault...I volunteered to be given the treatment that fooled Grell. You should not fault him, as it was meant to fool even someone like yourself, Mr. Spears.

I accept full responsibility and implore that if anyone should be punished...that you punish me.

[goesbythebook.livejournal.com]

There is a flaw with your position, Miss Maxwell. You are not my subordinate. That person is.

Regardless of what you might believe, or what the behavior of certain others might indicate, we Death Gods hold our station with a certain pride. If those owls have found a way to trick even us into accepting a false death, then we must find a way to see the truth behind the trick. For us, to be unable to tell the difference between the living and the dead is perhaps the single largest disgrace we could suffer.

I am curious, however. Why are you defending him? Certainly his nature has become evident to you by now.

[rapier-ex.livejournal.com]

...Because I had a part in the trickery. And my Papa raised me to own up to what I do in life, good or bad.

[goesbythebook.livejournal.com]

I see.

Regardless, you cannot "own up" for the mistakes of another. Certainly not in this circumstance.

[rapier-ex.livejournal.com]

...but...

Please, Mr. Spears. Grell may be...well he's Grell, but I'm not about to let a light hearted prank be made into punishment for him.

[goesbythebook.livejournal.com]

Honestly. You fail to realize that you have absolutely no say in the matter, and I will not change my mind.

Whatever it was intended to be, it has become what it is, and must be responded to accordingly.

[rapier-ex.livejournal.com]

...very well, sir.