Event Open The Bonfire

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"Despite all the bone-ey-ness and the being dead, i was still a human, and i still have human thoughts and emotions. Fears and desires and all that rubbish"

Charlie smiled, for the first time that evening. He liked to think of himself as grandiose, and slightly above it all. He poked the dead fly again, and it flew off into the forest, a tiny blue light buzzing amongst the trees, before it was gone. He smiled. There was something strangely satisfying about returning the fly to life, however brief that life may be. He looked up at the celebration in the clearing.

"So what's with the fire, the people keep staring into it? That seems a good way to dry out your eyes?" He chuckled.

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"Mmm," Shay responded, having turned fully in her seat and crossed one leg over the other as she stared at the fire. "They're looking for people they know to contact. The fire brings deceased loved ones to meet you. You know, this night is the night when we're closest to the spirit world."

Shay paused and reached out, quite a few of the dead had gathered around her, but that wasn't unusual. Most people couldn't see them.

She sighed.


 
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Charlie looked at the fire, where the shapes within it danced like the bacteria which swarm and multiply under the microscope, innumerable figures, indistinct, waltzed within the flamres.

"Is there anyone you see?" He said, looking at shay, with a smile "anyone you want to see from the other side?"
 
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"I see many things," Shay responded in a voice that suggested she were enamoured with the fire before them. It lit up her face in a vaguely creepy way, darkening her eyes.

"My parents," she answered. "I want to see them. I've come here every year, but they've never shown up. Of course.... there are things I don't want to see. Naturally I have seen them." She flinched.

"How about you, Charlie? What do you see?"


 
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Charlie stared at the flames. There were strange figures within, the outlines of innumerable people, like a crowd. He couldn't make out specifics, but he realised, with a depressing start, why.

"Everyone" he said, the strange maudlin tone was back in his voice "cavemen, romans, knights, paupers and kings. I see everyone."

He looked at the flames. He recognised a few, some of closest friends, who had died centuries, or millenia before.

"but none of my kind" he sighed, staring at the dancing flames, and the figures beyond, like devils in the depths of a miniature hell "we don't go anywhere when we get destroyed. Its part of the bargain. A life in the next world for one in this."

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"Yes. You stole your soul from the land and kept it locked away. Many people fear the lack of an afterlife, to know for certain you'll have none -- does that scare you, Charlie? I think you'll be stuck in limbo."

Shay looked at him somberly. "You're a very sad man, aren't you? You seem like it. Ever wish you hadn't done it? Become a Lich?"


 
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Charlie brightened up slightly "No, given what i know now, i would make the same decision again and again. I have seen so much immeasurable beauty in my long lifespan. Mountains rise and fall, innumerable springs. The chance to see it all has made the cost of whatever would have come next worth it. It's just, i'm adapting to life amongst civilized society, but not as quickly as i would like. It's ironic, all the time in the world, but no patience"

Charlie chuckled at this. It was strangely cathartic, getting all the thoughts that swirled around inside his skull out into the open. Airing them somehow made things better.

"And as for the limbo, well, it sounds pretty peaceful, a chance to examine my thoughts and all i know for the rest of eternity. Doesn't sound too bad. Like floating down a lazy river, forever." He had consigned himself to this end long ago, but it's the journey that counts.

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Shay seemed almost disappointed with Charlie's answer about lichdom. She finished off the cider with a grimace and set it on the table. Shay breathed out sharply, still staring into the distant flames, where people danced and partied.

"It's not exactly like that," Shay told him. But then, maybe it was just that Shay couldn't imagine being stuck in her own mind like that again. Part of her wanted to scare him, but then, what did it matter? This place was drowning out her senses.

"Seen. Seen. Seen. You talk a lot about seeing things happening. Do you feel them? Like on a universal level. Like everything is just..." Shay made an explosion motion with her hands over her own head. "Crazy."


 
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"What do you mean 'feel'?" Charlie enquired, genuinely curious. He could feel death and live magic, the mixture of which formed Shay, and the magic of nature, and divinity, like tiny insects under his skin. But as for feeling the universe?

"I remember the emotions i felt at the time, the strange satisfaction of watching the tower of babel fall, the sadness of discovering a favorite meadow has disapeared beneath the waves, the joy of watching the northern lights."

He had seen the northern lights countless times, but their beauty never failed to inspire him. One of the worst crimes created by modern human society was light polution.

"This island, the whole word is crazy. But it reminds me of this fascinating sport a young prince taught me called wave sliding. He said "you just have to get up on your wooden board and ride the wave". And thats how i think of the world. We've just got to keep standing up and riding the wave." He smiled at her, hoping this was making sense.

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