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[pummelgranite]

"Persephone. Speak."

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[pummelgranite]

[ OK, that's kind of weird but- ]


So . . . ?

[purple_reign]

So I'm worried about my friends...? Like I always am.

[pummelgranite]

[ She sighs, and takes a long moment to reply. ]

That shit in the dream, the things I did . . . I think they really fucked him up.

[ It comes out flat, not really sounding remorseful, but certainly not sounding proud of it either. ]

[purple_reign]

[Oh. Oh hell. Inanna grimaces and reaches hesitantly towards her.]

But that... That wasn't us.

[pummelgranite]

So? It still happened to him.

[purple_reign]

But—no. I... I hurt him too. Why wouldn't he be mad at me too?

[pummelgranite]

Maybe he is. Maybe because I hurt him more. Dunno.

[purple_reign]

You didn't! He just— It just...has to be too fresh.

[pummelgranite]

[ She shrugs. ]


Still his choice.

[purple_reign]

...Are you really okay with this? Honestly.

[pummelgranite]

It's for the best.

[purple_reign]

People only say that about painful things.

[pummelgranite]

Fine. It's necessary.

[purple_reign]

[They suck in a sharp breath.]

Persephone...

[pummelgranite]

[ Urgh. Shit. ]


Sorry. Sorry, shit. Just- I- I need to be Persephone. I'm not going to let this place make me anyone else. And John- I- . . . I can't blame him, for not wanting to be part of this. Can you?

[purple_reign]

No, I know, I... It's hard. It's hard to have people that close, but I just—I thought... [They trail off with a frown, one hand pressed to their forehead in thought.]

But you said it was because of the dream. It was because of...who you are?

[pummelgranite]

The dream- it made him think about what I am. What I might be.

[purple_reign]

...You mean what people claim you are?

[pummelgranite]

[ She chews on her lip and thinks a long time before replying. Feelings are so hard and also the worst. ]


What I am. Inanna, I do destroy, and I'm not sorry. But I'm not afraid of myself either. You can understand that, can't you?

[purple_reign]

[They're actually pretty quick to nod in agreement.]

I wouldn't ask you to apologize for Ananke. I...think that I might have done the same thing. If I were in your position.

But I know that isn't all you are. You can destroy without being The Destroyer.

[pummelgranite]

Just- stop. Stop trying to tell me who I am! It's fucked up, being me. It's fucked up being all of us. Nothing will ever make this OK, and I'm not going to pretend it is! Who cares what Ananke thinks I am. I still get to say who I am.

[purple_reign]

[Inanna flinches almost imperceptibly, biting on their inner cheek while they hear her out. It's a long moment before they speak again.]

Then.....explain to me who that is. Who The Destroyer that you want to be is.

[pummelgranite]

I- I want sing for this world. And what I sing about, people might not like. And what I have to do, people might try to stop.

[purple_reign]

"We will be loved. We will be hated." Sounds pretty par for the couse.

[pummelgranite]

There's a little less competition at home. This is a bigger, weirder pond.