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[el_desheredado]

Do you know what a miracle is? It's one world's intrusion into another one. Most of the time we exist peacefully, but when we do touch, there's cataclysm.

Like any faithful priest, faithful revolutionaries also believe in another world. Where revolutions break out spontaneous and leaderless, and the soul's talent for consensus allows the masses to work together without effort, automatic as the body itself.

And yet, if any of it should really happen that perfectly, I would also have to cry miracle. A revolutionary miracle.

The saint whose water can light lamps, the clairvoyant whose lapse in recall is the breath of God, the true paranoid for whom all is organized in spheres joyful or threatening about the pulse of himself--these are witnesses to miracles.

And yet I feel that I have witnessed a miracle too. That by the united will and wishes of the people of the City, of its own Cityzens, the oppressors have fled--have been made to flee in the face of the united will and wishes of the people of the City.

Now peace can settle into all the corners and windowsills of the City.

Now the first of the work is done and the real work can begin.

[ooc: Onward and upward! ...right? Or is it more parabolic? Time will tell...]

Comments

[as_damaged]

And what real work is that?

[el_desheredado]

This part's all us.

If someone wants to go home, we're gonna work on that. If someone wants to stay, we're gonna work on that. We're gonna get the barriers working better--so if you want to come and go, you can do that too.

The curses are done for, that's for sure.

And there's rebuilding. But we can do that too.

[as_damaged]

You make it sound so easy.

[el_desheredado]

I know. And it isn't. But we got this far, after all.

[as_damaged]

I guess that's something. More change than I expected to see, to be honest.

[notscrapmetal]

That empty page we get to fill, the blank canvas, the wild blue yonder. Take your pick.

[as_damaged]

You've got a long way to go, to prove you're any better than the last bunch.

[notscrapmetal]

On principle I hope what we've got going on is a start.

[as_damaged]

What you've done so far is breed chaos. I'm willing to accept that sometimes things get worse before they get better, but it'll take more than your word to prove it.

[recognize_an_opportunity]

I know there's no such thing as a miracle.

[el_desheredado]

I guess you just believe in freak occurrences. That's cool too, man. What I witnessed was a miracle.

[recognize_an_opportunity]

Whatever it was, I question whether 'peace' is really coming to the City.

[el_desheredado]

It is. Much as we can manage it.

[recognize_an_opportunity]

And how're you gonna manage it?

[notscrapmetal]

What would you call it, dude?

[recognize_an_opportunity]

I'm not sure yet. It depends on what comes out of it.

[notscrapmetal]

A stickler through and through.

[hexuality]

Rebuilding, then? Glad I get to do that in at least one world.

[Because a year ago she was in a war and the City pulled her back the second in finished. This has some level of closure, at least.]

[notscrapmetal]

Call it practice, huh? Then you'll be a two fold veteran for revolution and restoration.

[hexuality]

I'd like to get a proper night's sleep in before I lift my wand again, thanks.

[But.]

The deities are gone?

[notscrapmetal]

I hope that's a request we can grant.

Gone.

[Video]

[destinedtobeunpopular]

I'll do whatever I can to help.

[Video]

[el_desheredado]

Thank you--I remember you said you'd help. And my promises to you won't be soon forgotten either.

[Video]

[destinedtobeunpopular]

People are going to want details. And to know exactly what's happening.

[ He's trusting you guys less and less so you can be sure he'll be pushing for it. ]

[Video]

[el_desheredado]

I know. If there's one thing the "deities" didn't give you, it was information.