09-29-2015, 08:10 AM
Alexyana waited at the entrance, looking back and forth between Konlal and her Kumdo and Dawnika to make sure that nobody got too close to the two mounts, and that her friend was doing alright. When she saw Dawnika return, she opened her maw to say something but, seeing the absent face, she closed it again and instead awkwardly put her hands behind her back and walked back to their mounts alongside her.
"I don't think that whatever it is that got your mind is something you want to share?" She remarked as she sat down cross-legged and stretched her arms in front of herself, claws intertwined with each other to stretch her knuckles and finger joints, just to do something. "If not, my offer still stands - ask me what you want and I'll reply, I owe you as much after listening to your explanations." She looked up to her friend, then gave a smile to underline her point.
"By the way. I think I majorly misunderstood what you meant when you referred to yourself as Demon Princess. The Akame, those demons from your realm, appear to be an entirely different thing than the type of demon that I am. I should perhaps go over what I am so you understand it better. Here..."
She brushed away pebbles and dust, freeing up some ground in front of her where she drew a diagram on using her claws. She drew a large circle and two squares before connecting the two squares with a line, and connecting that line to the circle in a rough Y shape: the circle was at the bottom of the Y and the two squares at the top of each branch.
"This here, the circle, is the world. The world of the living, I mean... like, where people are before they die. Now, these two squares are Heaven and Hell... I guess you may have had religions in your homeworld about how when you die, your soul is judged and if you are good you get to go to Heaven to enjoy paradise for having been a good person, and if you are bad you get sent to Hell to get punished for it? It kind of works this way, and kind of not. The part about good people going to Heaven and bad ones going to Hell is true though. Your soul leaves your body, becomes a spirit and is sent to one of the two realms depending on how you have been in life. Now here's the trick... if you go to Heaven your soul is changed to become an angel, same with Hell where you become a demon like I am. Demons and angels are essentially manifestations of a person's spirit, and their powers and abilities tend to be a result of that person's inclinations. They are also tangible, meaning that they can interact with the physical world unlike a ghost - touch things and such. Before you ask by the way, I'm not an evil person that went to Hell. I'm an exception of sorts - the daughter of two demons. I was born as a demon."
She took a breath to pause for a moment, then explained on. "A soul is almost indestructible. You can injure it but inflicting lasting damage on it is not possible, kind of the same way as you can make a body of water dissipate into tiny droplets but you can't destroy the water itself. There are possibilities, but that's a story for another day. Souls, both angels and demons, can thus reform even if they get "killed". In this world I suppose that this system simply changes the way I work, since we are immortal from what the faceless white guy told me. But, I can safely say that I'm familiar with not being dead forever."
Another break if Dawnika had any questions, then she went on. "We in Hell have exactly five hundred individuals which are immensely strong - the Five Hundred, or the Archdemons as they're inofficially referred to as. They are the strongest five hundred demons in existence, though there's a lot of fluctuation especially at the lower ranks because you can challenge any of the five hundred for their spot. The strongest of them is the Dark Lord, some of us call him the King of Demons. That's why you mentioning that you are a Demon Princess startled me a bit."
She brushed her hands against her trousers to clean the dust off. "I've gone on for quite a bit, hope you don't mind... but if you got any questions left, feel free to ask."
"I don't think that whatever it is that got your mind is something you want to share?" She remarked as she sat down cross-legged and stretched her arms in front of herself, claws intertwined with each other to stretch her knuckles and finger joints, just to do something. "If not, my offer still stands - ask me what you want and I'll reply, I owe you as much after listening to your explanations." She looked up to her friend, then gave a smile to underline her point.
"By the way. I think I majorly misunderstood what you meant when you referred to yourself as Demon Princess. The Akame, those demons from your realm, appear to be an entirely different thing than the type of demon that I am. I should perhaps go over what I am so you understand it better. Here..."
She brushed away pebbles and dust, freeing up some ground in front of her where she drew a diagram on using her claws. She drew a large circle and two squares before connecting the two squares with a line, and connecting that line to the circle in a rough Y shape: the circle was at the bottom of the Y and the two squares at the top of each branch.
"This here, the circle, is the world. The world of the living, I mean... like, where people are before they die. Now, these two squares are Heaven and Hell... I guess you may have had religions in your homeworld about how when you die, your soul is judged and if you are good you get to go to Heaven to enjoy paradise for having been a good person, and if you are bad you get sent to Hell to get punished for it? It kind of works this way, and kind of not. The part about good people going to Heaven and bad ones going to Hell is true though. Your soul leaves your body, becomes a spirit and is sent to one of the two realms depending on how you have been in life. Now here's the trick... if you go to Heaven your soul is changed to become an angel, same with Hell where you become a demon like I am. Demons and angels are essentially manifestations of a person's spirit, and their powers and abilities tend to be a result of that person's inclinations. They are also tangible, meaning that they can interact with the physical world unlike a ghost - touch things and such. Before you ask by the way, I'm not an evil person that went to Hell. I'm an exception of sorts - the daughter of two demons. I was born as a demon."
She took a breath to pause for a moment, then explained on. "A soul is almost indestructible. You can injure it but inflicting lasting damage on it is not possible, kind of the same way as you can make a body of water dissipate into tiny droplets but you can't destroy the water itself. There are possibilities, but that's a story for another day. Souls, both angels and demons, can thus reform even if they get "killed". In this world I suppose that this system simply changes the way I work, since we are immortal from what the faceless white guy told me. But, I can safely say that I'm familiar with not being dead forever."
Another break if Dawnika had any questions, then she went on. "We in Hell have exactly five hundred individuals which are immensely strong - the Five Hundred, or the Archdemons as they're inofficially referred to as. They are the strongest five hundred demons in existence, though there's a lot of fluctuation especially at the lower ranks because you can challenge any of the five hundred for their spot. The strongest of them is the Dark Lord, some of us call him the King of Demons. That's why you mentioning that you are a Demon Princess startled me a bit."
She brushed her hands against her trousers to clean the dust off. "I've gone on for quite a bit, hope you don't mind... but if you got any questions left, feel free to ask."
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