{Video | Crescent Moon}

[prince_of_the_moon]

Type: Video
Sender ID: crescentmoon (Sesshomaru)
To: Public
Subject: Answers. He seeks them.
Warnings: Sesshomaru being a grump.

{Silver hair flies in the wind and soft white fur is gently ruffled against a pale cheek. Sesshomaru is quite a striking presence wherever he goes, bearing the signs of his good breeding in the form of two crimson stripes on his cheeks and a purple crescent moon on his forehead. His ears taper into delicate points, too, and his eyes are the color of rich amber. When he speaks, he is accustomed to being listened to and obeyed.

Thus his first appearance on the network is dramatic, yet brief.}

Speak.

{His low voice brooks no argument and his expression is cold. He is difficult to read in the best of circumstances and his current predicament doesn't necessarily signify anything good.}

I am Sesshomaru, Lord of the Western Lands. What have you discovered about this world and the rifts?

Comments

[prince_of_the_moon]

Failure is common. {And Sesshomaru is just...bitchy. Sometimes. Apologies.}

[telepathicignorance]

Not sure if I'd count 'repeatedly outsmarting other people' as failure, but sure.

(If they failed, it was from a lack of preparedness, not being too prepared.)

(...Sidestep your friends didn't know you needed saving because you hid the truth from them out of fear.)

(But they're not admitting that.)

[prince_of_the_moon]

People are foolish. {He is unimpressed. Outsmarting men is easy to do in his experience.}

[telepathicignorance]

Doesn't change that I'm winning.

(Sorry Sesshomaru.)

[prince_of_the_moon]

For now.

[telepathicignorance]

That a challenge?

(Chris, no.)

[prince_of_the_moon]

It is a fact.

[telepathicignorance]

Sure, whatever.

(Chris is, unfortunately, an irreverent little ass.)

[prince_of_the_moon]

You will learn or die trying.

[telepathicignorance]

Been there, done that.

(Where do you think they picked up the paranoia and pessimism? It's all personal experience.

Personal experience they died for.)

[prince_of_the_moon]

And yet nothing was learned.

{Shaaaaame.}

[telepathicignorance]

For you, maybe.

(They learned a lot. Clearly, it's Sesshomaru who needs to experience just how bad things can get.)

[prince_of_the_moon]

{Does he?}

I have not died.

[telepathicignorance]

So you don't know anything.

(Are they always like this? Yes.)

[prince_of_the_moon]

I have visited the underworld. I know what awaits souls.

[telepathicignorance]

Probably better than what awaited me.

(They weren't allowed to die and stay dead. Even if it feels like they're a corpse walking.)

[prince_of_the_moon]

Your soul was not allowed to rest.

[telepathicignorance]

My enemies decided I was too useful to die.

[prince_of_the_moon]

I could help you.

But not here.

[telepathicignorance]

No thanks.

(What. Kill them now? It won't fix anything.)

[prince_of_the_moon]

Do you wish for peace?

[telepathicignorance]

I don't think death is gonna bring me any.

(They're pretty sure they're not bound for a peaceful afterlife anyway.)

[prince_of_the_moon]

Why would it be denied you?

[telepathicignorance]

I don't want to talk about this.

I escaped that place anyway.

(If freedom didn't bring them peace, the afterlife sure won't.

...Even when death is offered, some part of them still refuses to quit.)

[prince_of_the_moon]

Temporarily.

I can give souls peace. Consider it.