#gothlula

[askprophetbot]

hey didja know niko’s favorite crime is arson?

What is an ar-

NIKO LIKES ARSON TOO????

I LOVE AR-

Uh…

I mean, that’s nice. Arson is cool I guess.

[askprophetbot]

hey alula did anyone ever teach you what fire is?

What the F-

Calamus turns and stares directly at Alula from across the room

Alula Sighs

What the frick do you mean "did anyone ever teach me what fire is" Of course I f-

ALULA!

fricking know what fire is. I'm not a kid, and EVERYONE needs to stop treating me like one.

[askprophetbot]

oh shoot! erm is everyone alright? is the power back on?

The lights flicker back to life.

IS EVERYONE OK? SOUND OFF!

Diagnostic shows no errors. I'm fine.

All good here.

Alula and Calamus rush into the room, panicked.

MAGPIE! We heard the announcement and came to check. Is everything alright?

I'm not entirely sure, Y'see, most of our systems are still rebooting. As far as I know, the entire upper glen could be gone.

Yelling to the top of the stairs

OI SHEPHERD, WHAT'S THE VISUAL REPORT?

I report one humanoid figure. Appeared in a flash of blue light. Should appear on Camera 74 when they're back online.

Put Camera 74 up as soon as we regain camera footage.

Right on cue, the Camera Feed Reappears on the screen, showing a hooded figure, clad entirely in a dark green robe, in an otherwise empty glen.

Interesting... I don't recognize them. Not with that hood on at least.

Prophetbot gasps

IT'S THE PHANTOM IN GREEN!

Holy C:// Drive, you're right. I don't believe it. The Prophecy you received... It's true!

Wow. How original. A hooded figure. Even I could pull that off.

The hooded figure rotates to face the camera, sending a chill through everyone watching the feed.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

In a flash of blue light, the Phantom disappears

Somebody contact the Refuge. They need to know about this.

One of the other glenfolk in the command center pipes up.

"Sir, the refuge is not responding. Our communications arrays seem to be in working condition, but we have no signal to the Refuge."

Silver Gasps.

K-kip...

They are fine, I'm sure. They have survived this long.

Calamus sighs

Suppose I'm not going into work today then.

The room is silent for a few seconds.

Prophetbot, Silver, Meet me in my office in 10 minutes. I need some time to think.

Magpie leaves the room.

[askprophetbot]

hi alula ! whats your favorite!?

@enty-nt

My... Favorite? I'm not really sure what that means. I don't really have a favorite... anything.

[askprophetbot]

( @alulablog )

hi alula!! you’re like me but purple!!!

fish!!

Alula sighs

Oh. Hi.

Alula mumbles something under her breath you can't interpret

[askprophetbot]

….obnoxious? alula, from what we saw with niko, i don’t think you were ever obnoxious. you might’ve gotten excited easily, but… that was fine! i’m not gonna go on a whole “where’s the alula WE know?” tangent because like… why the fuck would anyone say that? are they TRYING to guilt trip you into pretending to be like the you we met? don’t they know that doesn’t do anything?

anyway, point is, even if you changed, that doesn’t necessarily make the old you bad. of course, we were there for a grand total of less than 6 hours, so what do we know, and maybe you think you were obnoxious, but… i sure didn’t.

and hey, i think you’re right that things aren’t going great, and it’s fine to not be happy and joyous all the goddamn time because as much as some people like to pretend they are, i don’t know a single person in the world who is.

don’t care what people say about you not pretending to be cheerful, tell them to piss off if you need to. just… survive, okay? sometimes it’s the best we can do.

…

…

…piss off… please…

[askprophetbot]

you pull off purple pretty damn well, alula! there’s… maybe one person i can think of who can do it like you, but not in that shade

really pretty shade of purple, by the way!

You... You don't mean it.

I don't like it. I'm going to change it.

[askprophetbot]

hey Alula, so, anyone can pull off a hood, but what's something only YOU could pull off? anything that makes you proud?

I...

I'm not... sure...

Alula turns away.

...Can you leave me alone please?