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Arrien
Crew
PostPosted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 7:24 pm


Dusty'd found his guidance at last, unlikely as it was. Weeks of stagnation alone at the HQ, sitting and waiting for an answer to come - and months before that, really, acting out the pieces of his life as though they'd still mattered to him. And all along, the answer had been, well... what any television evangelist might have told him, if he'd cared to listen.

Life was funny like that sometimes, maybe.

The puzzle was purity - and the answer was faith. It was stupidly simple, but one of those things that you could only see so clearly once you knew what you were looking for. It was something that had mattered a great deal in the life Dusty had held before his Fa'e existence, but he'd been too focused on more shallow things. And because of that, he'd let the enemy get months ahead of him, while he...

He still didn't have a full answer. But Dusty had a good idea of where to get it, at least.

All his stuff was gathered up in his backpack again. He'd thanked the fairies very kindly for their help - or as kindly as he ever did, anyway - and was now sitting in the common room with his things on his lap, tapping one hoof nervously as he waited. Every time someone came walking by the path to the cottage, the Fa'e child pricked up his ears in anticipation, only to have his attentions fade as they passed on by. It was nearly one in the afternoon now - how much longer was he going to have to wait?!
PostPosted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 8:12 pm


While Mikhail was well aware that someone might already be at the HQ, it certainly didn't occur to him that anyone might actually be waiting. He was just figuring on stopping by for awhile, maybe an hour or two, and then going home. He wasn't feeling particularly sociable today, to be honest...not that he ever was, but you know. There was no reason for it, either, it was just one of those days; he'd gotten up on the wrong side of the bed, as it were.

The angel pushed open the door, ready to get this over with for the day and go back to watching nothing on TV. That sounded pretty good.

Meepfur


Arrien
Crew
PostPosted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 8:55 pm


The moment that the angel entered the room, Dusty surged to his feet. "Mik!" He must have cut something of a wanting figure - a bit unkempt, holding his backpack with both hands in front of his chest, a searching expression as he thought of how best to put his request. Greetings could be skipped, the deerkitten apparently decided, and proceeded right ahead with the most unlikely request ever to past his lips -

"I wanna become a Christian."

Mik, being an angel, was of course expected to have the perfect response to this desire.
PostPosted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 9:10 pm


Great, someone was already here. Just Dusty, though. It could have been worse! The deerkitten was just confusing, and became moreso at his very...enthusiastic greeting. What would Dusty be excited to see him for? Nothing, however, was as confusing as what came next.

The angel stared. And blinked. And stared some more.

"...what?"

Meepfur


Arrien
Crew
PostPosted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 9:19 pm


Okay... so Mik didn't exactly seem enthusiastic. Dumbfounded was the word that Dusty might use from the look on his face, actually. But that was all right. At least he hadn't laughed Dusty out of the room. Or called him a liar. Or walked out of the room, shaking his head.

Yet.

"Hear me out! I've been reading a lot recently, all right? I read the whole Bible and everything, cover to cover." Never mind that he'd skimmed some of the boring parts - a lot of the boring parts... and the book was mostly boring parts. He'd sat down and he'd read it, damn it! "And I watched some of the guys on TV, too, and looked online. So I did my research, right? I wanna become a Christian. You can help me with that, can't you?"
PostPosted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 9:29 pm


It wasn't that he didn't believe Dusty, he was just...surprised. Like, did-I-just-hear-what-I-think-I-did surprised. Once upon a time, he actually would have been enthusiastic to hear that out of someone, but given the confused state he was in in regards to his religion, it was a little bewildering to him that another Fa'e was considering it. Christianity and being Fa'e didn't exactly go together well, what with the reincarnation and ancient powers and all that.

"Well, yeah, but...why?" he finally managed to respond.

Meepfur


Arrien
Crew
PostPosted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 9:42 pm


If Dusty had been in a verbal charge before, this question brought him flat.

"... Because I need to," was the child's bare-bones, no-excuses answer. And when he realized that probably wouldn't be sufficient for the angel's curiosity, he licked his lips and gave it another try. "I uhm. I didn't tell you much about what happened that night, you know. And there's a good reason for that - someone's got ears out for me, I can't really talk about what I used to be without drawing attention. But it involves a Christian king under God, you know? And if I'm going to do anything except... I dunno, sit around for the rest of my life, I've gotta be that same sort of person."
PostPosted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 9:49 pm


"You need to be?" Mik puzzled over that response. "You know...what we are isn't exactly compatible with Christianity, right?" If he'd been doing as he said, he'd probably been able to gather at least that much. "It's kind of been a problem for me," he admitted.

Meepfur


Arrien
Crew
PostPosted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 10:11 pm


"From what I read," Dusty mused, "daily life isn't really compatible with Christianity. But that doesn't stop anybody else, so why should it stop me?" He grinned, but only briefly before nerves forced it away.

"Look, here's the way I see it. For me, at least. I don't need a God that's all-knowing, and I don't know if I'd even want one. I don't need someone to tell me I've been bad, and I really don't want one of those. But I do need to understand the place I've come from," he counted his reasons on his fingers, "I do need to do something to come closer to fulfilling my duties, and I do need to find faith to be... right with what I'm supposed to do. This is what I need for all that, and you... well." He gave Mik an obvious look. "If anyone should know about it, you should, right?"
PostPosted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 10:28 pm


There was a time when Mikhail would have been offended by such a statement, but he was long past it now. He knew by now that Dusty was right, and besides that, it didn't really matter why Dusty wanted to do this. Well, it did, but it didn't have anything to do with whether or not Mik would answer him.

As he thoguht about how he would, he sat on the couch - which he realized, belatedly, was broken. What the hell? Who'd broken the couch? And how?

...uh, right. Not important, Mik. "You go to class for a few months," he said with a shrug, "Get baptized. Get confirmed."

Meepfur


Arrien
Crew
PostPosted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 10:32 pm


That first bit slapped some shock into Dusty's face. A few months? He sat down again, following Mik's lead, and thought the matter over. Could he afford to wait a few months, on top of what he'd already done?

It was a show of great maturity that Dusty paused to think at all about what he was saying before he said it, and a show of desperation that he said it anyway. "So, uh. Is there any way I could kind of." He licked his lips, folded his hands in front of him, leaned forward. "Skip that first part? If say, I'm in a time crunch and it's for a good reason?"
PostPosted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 10:49 pm


"Um, well." Mik thought about it for a minute, frowning. "Technically you're under the age of reason year-wise, but I don't think that would fly." He was under the age of reason, having only just turned six. "Your guardian would have to be Christian, anyway. Raise you right and all that."

The angel furrowed his brow as an idea came to him. It was almost uncharacteristic, what he was suddenly considering. Almost rebellious. "Would you say it's...an emergency?"

Meepfur


Arrien
Crew
PostPosted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 11:00 pm


"Technically," Dusty pointed out in a haughty, offended tone, "I've got a few hundred years over my birth age already. And my Guardian isn't the same as my parents, so it doesn't really matter what she is or isn't," though he was pretty sure neither his mother nor his father were Christian, anyway, "and besides which, I'm pretty sure if you can get baptized just by wanting it if you die before you get the chance means that you can pretty much become a Christian at any time if you want to, and the rest of it is like saying you have to stay home on Sundays or you can't--

"Emergency? Yes!" Dusty's ears rose to their absolute apex. "Yes, I would, I would definitely say that it is an emergency. That helps something? You have an idea, right?" The child barely refrained from using the word loophole, but it was ringing loud and clear in his head. There was a way about this after all, there must be!
PostPosted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 11:09 pm


"In an emergency," he said slowly, knowing full well that what he was about to suggest was a little shady, "Anyone with the right intention can do it." Dusty wasn't about to die, which was really what the loophole was intended for, but he still couldn't wait. Fa'e things could be dangerous, anyway. It was close enough. Maybe.

And hey, he might not be a priest or anything, but he was an angel. That had to count for something, right? He'd probably find out whenever he next saw Ramiel.

Meepfur


Arrien
Crew
PostPosted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 11:17 pm


"There we go then!" And the deerkitten was back on his feet, filled with a tilted sort of energy, barely able to stand in one spot. "That's what we need to do! Let's do it!" Hopefully before Mik could start thinking about it too much, if there existed potential for him to think the better of what he was proposing. Or for Dusty to start thinking too much, if there existed potential for him to lose his nerve about what was supposed to be a very big decision about his life.

Of course, there was still one little hitch.

"So uhm. We need... water or something. Is that it?" At the risk of seeming ignorant after claiming all his mighty research, Dusty still had to depend on the angel for guidance. "I mean, there's water, and, uhm... I've never really seen one of these things before, you know. So."
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