Oya looked about, she was still in shock that she had been dead just a short while ago. To her knowledge there was no one else in the hall, but this could just be a false sense of security that she had been lead to believe was true.
The blonde floated along. He was still in shock himself, trying to figure out if this was Purgatory. There was no one about, so no one he could ask. Not that many sane people would talk to someone who was missing most of their body.
Aqua eyes caught sight of another like him, a female. "Hello?"
Oya jumped, or what would have been a jump if she had legs or even most of her body, at the sound of another. "Y-you can see me?" She asked, having never before been seen by one she did not know.
He raised a questioning brow. "Yes... quite clearly." The aqua gaze was kept above her neck. Even in death he was still a gentleman.
"Are you sure?" She was even more shocked at this than she was about her death. Her teal eyes scanned his face, looking for a sign to say that he was just joking, only to find that there was none. "Nevermind. All this is just so new, so confusing..."
Aurel nodded. "I agree. Do you know if this is purgatory?" If he had had hands, he would have been clutching the cross that hung around his neck.
"Uhm, no I don't think this is." She said, still a bit confused as to why the two of them just happened to be there. "But this certainly isn't hell, nor heaven. I've been there, and both are much different from here." Oya ran her fingers through her hair. At least she was able to use an arm, even if the other was still missing.
He didn't waste his energy being envious of her use of a arm. Aurel had a feeling the rest of him would come along soon enough. "Then what is this? I hear people outside of my rooms, and birds, yet when I look there are none."
"I have no idea, maybe a memory of our past lives?" She suggested, knowing of the noises that she too heard. "You haven't seen a fox running around here have you?" She had left her room chasing a fox that seemed to be watching her.
"They are no memories. The sounds are very real. Maybe we are being confined for some reason." Her question earned a confused stare. "A fox?"
"I guess I'm just going crazy." She said, having picked up that he hadn't seen such a creature.
"Well for me they could be memories, I used to exist in a river in nature. If they aren't memories then they must be real, and we just can't see them."
"Or we're not allowed to see them until we finish..." He glanced at his 'body'. "...growing."
"That could be true." She said, glancing about the hall. She had just heard people in her before the fox had been spotted. "Or as another option we could be in an alterant dimension.. That has happened to me before."
"An alternate dimension?" He raised a brow. His human mind balked at the thought. Sure, there was heaven, hell and purgatory, but nothing else out there but that and Earth. Even the horns on Oya's head were dismissed as a peice of faux headgear.
"You don't believe me do you?" She said in a confused tone. "You don't know who I used to be do you..."
Aurelien tilted his head. "I don't even know your name. I am Aurelien L'Angelleno." Since he couldn't bow, he dipped his head in respect.
"It's nice to meet youu Aurelien, I'm Oya Triveni, a former river goddess." She smiled, bowing her head as well since she had no way to curtsie.
A River Goddess? Right... Aurel maintained a straight face. "Nice to meet you as well, Miss Triveni."
Oya giggled for a moment, "You still don't believe me..." She finally caught sight of the cross around his neck. "If you believe in him, why not a lesser god?"
"He is the One God." Aurel said. It would take a major shock to get him to believe now. He would... but it would take time.
"You're almost as hopeless as the humans that killed me..." She said sighing, once again running her fingers through her hair. "How should I prove it to you, that there is more than just him?"
Aurel shrugged, still floating in the air. "I do not know."
"Well if you had hands I would tell you to tug on a horn, but that seems a bit insensitive." She was thinking aloud, "A nibble maybe? I don't know if my abilities still work here..." She was of course thinking of the one that she used the most, a cleansing was the simplest way to put it.
He stared. A nibble? Him nibble on her? A red flush appeared on his cheeks. "Wha...?"
"Horn dear, horn." She said, embarrased that she had made the only other person that she had met in the afterlife blush. "What else would you nibble?"
His eyes dropped below Oya's neck and then jerked away. Oh yes, he was embarrassed. "Um..."
Oya giggled again, she could tell now why he was so confused. "It's okay, if I had a shirt I would be wearing it, as I'm sure you would be too." She said now reaching a hand out to touch Aurelien's cheek.
Had he had legs or a body he'd have jumped a foot. Aqua eyes stared at Oya, a bit wide in shock. So he really was here... The physical contact brought some of the reality down onto him.
She was able to feel another being, something else that was new in this world, bringing the reality of it crashing down on her. "I'm sorry, I'm getting out of line." Oya stated, retracting her arm.
Damn not having arms! He could do nothing to keep her hand there. Not for physical affection but for the grasp of something that was real. Reality in a unreal world. It was amazing how important touch was to humans. The small brush of hands against hands, clapping another on the back, comfort in it was integral to a human's balance.
Oya tilted her head slightly, "Is something wrong?" the look on his face confused her. The expressions of humans were still very new to her, but the one that was now on Aurelien's face was one she understood.
The new Shinigami blinked, shaking himself out of his thoughts. "No... I'm fine..." Aurel shook his head. "Have you been here long?"
"Are you sure?" She was still concerned. Even if she was comfortable with where she was, it was still slightly odd to see one that was just as nervous and confused as she was. "No, I've only been dead a week. How about you?"
"I don't know how long... or how I died." No... he didn't. He had come home from his work at a Church Charity at the Nagasaki Church. Built a fire and was standing to retrieve his book to read. Then a blossom of pain and darkness. That empty void between realms, and waking in his room.
"A shame, you look like you had a long life ahead of you." She said, floating so that she was next to him. "Care to explore?"
"Can we leave this Wing?" He asked, glancing down the hall. It was going to be weird to float like this. His mind wanted to tell his legs to walk.
"Oh, please. It's dreadful in here." She said, already used to the oddness of floating. It was still odd to look down and not see her legs, but the floating she could handle.
Ok, it was just like swimming... He told himself. "Well... no time like the present then." Aurel turned, heading down the hallway. Aqua eyes looked over the walls and the doors, hoping to see somebody. Anybody.
"Aye, I will agree with that." She said, following him down the hall. Her own teal eyes were fixed on him, he was the first soul to see her, and the only thing she had known to be kind... There was something different about this world.
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