withoutasign: (look to the stars)
Signless ([personal profile] withoutasign) wrote in [community profile] caughtinanetwork2012-03-02 07:59 pm

Sermon Two

[Signless has chosen his location carefully; when he turns on the video function, there's a wall of water behind him, and a school of brightly colored tropical fish swimming past. He's very clearly in the bubble again.]

My friends, today I want to talk to you about fear.

[His voice is low and soothing, his story-telling voice.]

I have known great fear in my time. In my world, the color of my blood was a source of fear, something that drove me into hiding for a long time. Then, when I dreamed of the world that could be, rather than the world that was, I was afraid again... afraid that I would never see what I knew we were capable of come to pass. I was afraid to speak out, afraid to make a ripple in the still, stagnant waters of our society, and tried instead to live my meager little life underneath the notice of the highbloods.

But then I saw what my silence was doing, what those in similar positions were suffering, and I knew I could not stay silent. I could not sit idly by while our world rotted away from its very core, while its corruption bled away the talents and very lives of so many trolls who had done nothing beyond being hatched the wrong color. I could not wait for another to come along and demand change, or I would wait the rest of my life. I needed to cast aside my fear, to find a reserve of strength within me, and rise to what my world needed me to be.

[His voice falls, becoming hushed and soft, almost painfully honest, and he looks down, his cloak hiding his eyes.]

I was terrified. Casting off fear is one of the most difficult things I have ever done. Fear is something I knew, its cold comfort as familiar to me as my guardian's face. It would have been... easy to live my entire life in fear, I thought.

[He looks up then, and his eyes are burning, his voice strong once more.]

I thought that fear was a cloak to hide me, but it was a chain I wore around my neck. When the fear was gone, when I made the decision to cast it aside, I have never felt so free in my entire life. It was how I imagine it must feel to wake up one morning with wings, and look out the window into an endless sky. When the fear was gone, I could breathe a deep breath for the first time in my life, and look to the future not as an ominous, foreboding thing, but as a path bathed in light and redemption.

I am not afraid any longer, Vatheon. This is my home now, and it is worth fighting for. I will not be driven out of my home again. I will not let fear control me.
aim_exorable: (SUMMONER... ♐ My heart is in my hand)

[privatejack]

[personal profile] aim_exorable 2012-03-04 05:21 pm (UTC)(link)
D --> Someone simply managed to get through an encryption I had set up for a private conversation
D --> It's nothing important


[Which is to say he doesn't want to traumatize you with details, Nepeta.]
bestestfurrend: (h33h33)

[privatejack]

[personal profile] bestestfurrend 2012-03-04 05:23 pm (UTC)(link)
:33 < well if anyone is reading this they purrobably got bored ages ago
:33 < also when equius says its nothing impurrtant it usually means it is and hes trying not to talk about it XPP
aim_exorable: (don't judge ♐ As we dance to the)

[privatejack]

[personal profile] aim_exorable 2012-03-04 05:26 pm (UTC)(link)
D --> ...I'm sure he does.
D --> I still feel it would be rather foolish of me
bestestfurrend: (what about now?)

[privatejack]

[personal profile] bestestfurrend 2012-03-04 05:33 pm (UTC)(link)
:33 < purrleaaaase?
aim_exorable: (lineface ♐ I will set the mirror up)

[privatejack] 1/4

[personal profile] aim_exorable 2012-03-04 05:39 pm (UTC)(link)
aim_exorable: (lineidk ♐ I ache for the touch of your)

[privatejack]

[personal profile] aim_exorable 2012-03-04 05:39 pm (UTC)(link)
aim_exorable: (admit nothing ♐ Do you feel all alone?)

[privatejack]

[personal profile] aim_exorable 2012-03-04 05:40 pm (UTC)(link)
D --> ...
aim_exorable: (uh ♐ Feels like I'm wearing down)

[privatejack]

[personal profile] aim_exorable 2012-03-04 05:41 pm (UTC)(link)
D --> *Pets AC*?
bestestfurrend: (oh you silly)

[privatejack]

[personal profile] bestestfurrend 2012-03-04 05:44 pm (UTC)(link)
[And up on the island, whoever is around the campsite just heard Nepeta squealing happily.]

:33 < *ac purrs much much louder as shes petted!*
:33 < *she rubs her fluffy head against darkl33rs hand and bats at him with a paw*
aim_exorable: (admit nothing ♐ Do you feel all alone?)

[privatejack]

[personal profile] aim_exorable 2012-03-04 05:57 pm (UTC)(link)
[He feels so dumb right now, tempted to just dump the SFC in a trash can and continue running from Mindfang.]

D --> *I*
D --> *Darkleer pinches her ear*
D --> *since it is quite rude to bat at the person petting you*
D --> *In an entirely imaginary context*
D --> *But rude regardless*


[What, what, he's not good at this, he never said he was!]
bestestfurrend: (you never purrlay with me)

[privatejack]

[personal profile] bestestfurrend 2012-03-04 06:06 pm (UTC)(link)
:33 < *ac only meant it in the most purrlayful of ways*
:33 < *she curls into a ball and stares sadly up at him with her large kitty eyes*
:33 < *and purrs apologetically*
:33 < *her paws are all curled underneath her so there will be no more batting if hes nice enough to continue petting her*
aim_exorable: (unimpressed ♐ Say it's me that you)

[privatejack]

[personal profile] aim_exorable 2012-03-04 06:13 pm (UTC)(link)
D --> *A certain Archeradicator has had more devious weapons thrown at him than large kitty eyes*
D --> *So they are unaffective*
D --> *But since the feline has learned her lesson, he supposes he can continue petting her*
D --> *Also this is still extraordinarily silly*
bestestfurrend: (with a flick of my tail)

[privatejack]

[personal profile] bestestfurrend 2012-03-04 06:21 pm (UTC)(link)
:33 < *yay more pettings*
:33 < *the kitty stretches out on the STRONG archeradicators lap in hope of a few head scritches too*
:33 < *and is sure that he is having at least a t33ny tiny bit of fun isnt he??*
aim_exorable: (tinker ♐ A beauty calm and clear)

[privatejack]

[personal profile] aim_exorable 2012-03-04 06:42 pm (UTC)(link)
D --> *This is one Archeradicator who admits positively nothing*
D --> *Now does the small feline want head scratches or not?*
bestestfurrend: (this is pawesome)

[privatejack]

[personal profile] bestestfurrend 2012-03-04 06:45 pm (UTC)(link)
:33 < *she rolls ofur a few times*
:33 < *purring and flailing around with her tiny adorable paws*
:33 < *yes yes she most certainly fur sure does!*
:33 < *and offurs up her head fur them*
aim_exorable: (soft ♐ So you think I'm alone?)

[privatejack]

[personal profile] aim_exorable 2012-03-04 06:55 pm (UTC)(link)
D --> *Smoothing some of her messy hair from her face*
D --> *He scratches her right behind the ears*


[Still silly.]
bestestfurrend: (chibinep)

[privatejack]

[personal profile] bestestfurrend 2012-03-04 07:22 pm (UTC)(link)
[On the contrary, Nepeta thinks this is adorable and Darkleer is going to get pestered to roleplay with her more forever.]

:33 < *ac purrs so furry furry happily*
:33 < *these are the bestest head scritches efur!*

:33 < h33h33 thank you darkl33r X3
:33 < youre the bestest too!
aim_exorable: (interest ♐ I need your discipline)

[privatejack]

[personal profile] aim_exorable 2012-03-04 07:32 pm (UTC)(link)
D --> I'm glad you enjoyed yourself then
bestestfurrend: (good meowrail best couch)

[privatejack]

[personal profile] bestestfurrend 2012-03-04 07:38 pm (UTC)(link)
:33 < i did!
:33 < youre really furry good at it you know!
aim_exorable: (ponytail ♐ May all evil stumble)

[privatejack]

[personal profile] aim_exorable 2012-03-04 07:40 pm (UTC)(link)
D --> I'll trust your judgment then
D --> Thank you
bestestfurrend: (and then I'll pawnce!)

[privatejack]

[personal profile] bestestfurrend 2012-03-04 07:44 pm (UTC)(link)
:33 < no no thank YOU
:33 < *gives darkl33r the pounciest of hugs until the next time they talk*