the end of vigil

[inherpiety]

Keziah continues to routinely invite Junia to sing with her.

Today they are practicing the Third Angelic Rite.

And then - how rude! - the door to the music room opens.

But not to the hallway - and not to any visible hand - and there is a strong press of magical presence emanating from it, and a faint sheen of rainbow water droplets hanging in the air.

Comments

[inherpiety]

"- Um, there is a god there. And there's another world with a bunch of them but they aren't that good and one of them is bad. There aren't any most places though."

[pythbox]

Junia looks at her.

[inherpiety]

"Um."

[pythbox]

"You seem to be leaving things out," says Junia.

[inherpiety]

"Yeah, I just didn't realize till now that I'd left this stuff out and now I'm trying to - figure out how to not leave it out."

[pythbox]

"Take your time," she says, and waits.

[inherpiety]

"Our world, um, doesn't have gods in it."

[pythbox]

"How does it not?" says Junia.

[inherpiety]

"It just - doesn't?" says Keziah. "Um, there is a thing that is Jovah that does weather and stuff, just - it's not a god thing, it's another kind of thing."

[pythbox]

"What kind of a thing is it, then?" says Junia. She is confused, intrigued, focused, but not necessarily disbelieving.

[inherpiety]

"It's - Mom told me stories about the kind of thing when I was little so I would know what she was talking about later - it's called a spaceship? It's an - enclosed - giant - boat - thing - that goes in the sky, up where there's no air - you know how if you fly really high there's less air, if you go high enough there's none, and this is a kind of boat that can be there and move around there. And there's a machine on it, a smart machine that can hear and - make it rain and stuff."

[pythbox]

"How do you know?"

[inherpiety]

"Well, Mom told me, and I've seen it and talked to it - but it'll talk differently soon because now all the Bells are going to try to fix Jane and she's another machine but she's smarter than the spaceship and she sort of absorbed it and when she's working she talks through it instead of the voice it had before."

[pythbox]

"I do not understand this well enough to believe it," says Junia.

[inherpiety]

"I can't take you up there by myself because Mom isn't sure I won't teleport in front of people if she lets me be able to," says Keziah. "I don't know how else to explain it."

[pythbox]

"Maybe I will wait for your mother, then," says Junia. "Will she be a very long time coming back?"

[inherpiety]

"I don't know. It depends. Probably not all that long?"

[pythbox]

"Okay," says Junia.

[inherpiety]

"Or Dad can do it too."

[pythbox]

"Is your dad good at explaining? Or can he go to the... airless sky boat?"

[inherpiety]

"He can go to the spaceship, I mean. He's also kind of good at explaining though." [Dad, I'm trying to explain Jovah to Junia and I dunno how.]

[yovahs_kisses]

[Aha,] says Micaiah. [I'll be right there.]

[inherpiety]

"He's on his way."

[pythbox]

"Because of magic?" she guesses.

[inherpiety]

"Yeah, we can all talk to each other from far away. Mom will put you on the network too if you want."