A New and Brighter Birth (OPEN)

Abasi

Grace is just weakness

Abasi watched with raised eyebrows as Oliver and Phoebe began to have somewhat heated words. He had thought if anyone was going to argue, it would have been him with one of them (for that was how it usually went), but this was a rather welcome change of events, for it gave him the position of observer, free to listen and consider what it was that was being said.

One one hand, he could see himself in Phoebe's position. He had once been considered a representative of the Gods when he had no power at all in their decisions and had fielded many complaints from disgruntled worshippers. He'd also frequently told people they had to take their time to develop relationships with Gods; Abasi sighed as he felt his resolve softening; being 'Abandoned' still stung, but perhaps it was right that he should work harder and longer for the Gods approval before giving up.

On the other hand, he felt Oliver's anger. Softened like his own after Phoebe's words, perhaps, but it was endlessly frustrating to be where they were. To feel slighted and to not know their crime. It was the emotional warring with the rational, he balled his hands into fists and forced himself to swallow his resentment.

"Then I suppose all I can do is try to serve the people here and hope the Gods notice." Abasi sighed and pushed a hand through his hair, wondering if he wanted to voice his idea. He decided to so he could see the reaction. "I get the impression from Loren that there is no unified tradition here as to what you do with your dead - and if there are times like this regularly, there must be many dead. In my world I regularly prepared bodies in different ways...I intend to, after Longnight, build a place where I could help people to mourn and preserve the bodies of their loved ones, to aid them in whatever afterlife they will reach. Perhaps the Gods will appreciate that."

Probably not Frey though, if what Phoebe said was true. "Ludo would be the right God for that, correct? What is a good offering to bring to Ludo?"

Or so I've been told