EXECUTION III

[faentasy]

Execution

Like clockwork, the melody calls you together for the execution, although the circumstances are perhaps a bit better, if you can even call it that. Those who choose to attend will see an odd sight: two winged beings present in a magical bubble: one is Lucifer of course, six wings folded like they were much of yesterday and the other is a cream colored mourning dove, Nageki.

The mirrors and scenery is much like it was the week before, but—the air feels slightly heavier today? Maybe today is just a day for oddities.

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EXECUTION

[faentasy]

[oversaw]

[ A single night isn't enough time to sift through thousands of years of memories, nor to properly work through the emotions this trial has surfaced. Still, he won't ask for more time. What he's had is more than most.

So when it's time, he just. Comes in quietly. There's no need for excess words here but he would like to offer one thing. An apology. ]

I'm sorry to put you through this.

[libirdian]

I'm not the one you need to apologize to.

[ For an executioner, Nageki seems strangely unarmed, only carrying a book omnipresent with him since last week: Night on the Galactic Railroad. Nothing about his tone seems to betray any sort of nervous energy, nor is his gaze anything but frigid. ]

Because I've been thinking of another end to this.

SPECTATING

[faentasy]

[hellochildren]

[The parrot's hangover head has lessened since Saturday-evidenced by the fact that he's out of his room today-but the sight inside the execution chamber has him raising an eyebrow.]

Vhat is going on...?

[incompletely]

I'm not sure.

[ He. He has such a bad feeling about this, oh god. ]

What are you planning, Nageki...?

[gemuinemanagement]

I don't like this
I don't like this at all

[Nageki, please don't do anything stupid.]

[adorabilities]

That's... what I'd like to know...

[vogelfrei]

[ Nageki's proposal is... probably the first time McGillis has shown any overt emotion during these executions? Because he's actually loudly commenting from the peanut gallery here. ]

Are humans really worth this to you?!

[ Bird supremacy!! ]

[purefuries]

[ He's got a point? Like. Honestly. ]

[sempiternel]

[ SHE AGREES WITH EVERYTHING!! BIRD SUPREMACY!! ]

Mister Nageki, please don't...!

[biqe]

Nageki...

[mirrite]

[Beside Phil, he shifts, his hand reaching up for the hilt of his gunblade...

If anything happens, he will try to break that bubble.]

[crimson_flamel]

....

Re: SPECTATING

[eternaljune]

--! Is he an idiot?!

[goldencave]

[ Norton... Doesn't like going to these. At all. Making innocents do the executions is cruel, he doesn't want to completely break. But for some reason, when he passed by the staircase that leads to the execution room, he heard someone scream... Nageki's name?

He comes in late to see Hamelin talking about "parts to play?" ]

The hell's going on in there? [ He looks over to Nageki and Lucifer... God, the bastard made the bird do it?! ]

[hellochildren]

He's trying to sacrifice himself for zis fickfehler!

[heroicact]

Nageki...? Nageki, please -- don't do this, not this week, not like this.

Don't--

[Jack actually runs up to the very edge of the magical bubble, green eyes round and panicked. He glances frantically between Hamelin and the two.]

You will raise a hand to stop this if it goes awry, will you not? If it is not a part of...

[begrimed]

[ Hamelin doesn't usually pay attention to bystander commentary but today is just a day of weird things happening all around. ]

It has to keep going, Jack.

[eternaljune]

This is a mistake...Lucifer already decided his fate! What's the point of testing the odds for someone like that?!

Someone stop him!!

cw allusion to emeto

[vogelfrei]

[ Looking back in after the explosion was a mistake, actually. This is... not a very clear view and McGillis finds himself stepping closer to the bubble even though all those feathers and all that blood already tell him all he needs to know.

Fuck. Fuck, fuck, fuck. He didn't know Nageki too well and he knows it is odd of him to feel viscerally sickened by the sight in front of him, but there was some part of him that really wanted to pin hope and idealism on this world of sentient birds. A nice fantasy, a far-away land populated by the things he loves the most... Not without strife, but still...

It had been unfair to harbor those thoughts about someone else's real life, and still. McGillis thinks he might actually throw up, this time. ]

[mirrite]

[He reacts on pure instinct when that explosion goes off, shoving Phil and Tenn to the floor and throwing his own body on top of them to act as a shield. Marcus knows, logically, what just happened. He knows what grenades do, much less in such an enclosed space, and he has to close his eyes against the wave of nausea that assails him, warring with the sense of grief rising in his chest.

He's not sure how long he stays like that - how long he forgets to breathe - until the burning in his lungs reminds him that he needs oxygen and he sucks in a few deep, gasping breaths that end up being more akin to sobs than anything else.

And that's all he can manage for the moment, half-sprawled on top of Phil and Tenn with his head still spinning and his heart thudding so loudly he's sure it must be audible...]

[kowashi]

[ Koto watches the explosion unflinchingly, as gory as it is. She's just frozen in on spot, horrified and upset in tears. But it's Lucifer's execution, witnessing a growing void of darkness and nothing that would swallow up everything... Destruction beyond compare... Why is that something that resonates so deep...?

She just collapses on the floor a mere moment after Lucifer is killed. ]

[edamamepon]

[ Just screaming, sorry everyone. ]

This isn't your stop! Nageki!

[mathodical]

[ does he need to get you to look or walk away because he can and will drag makoto away-- ]