{Video | Crescent Moon}

[prince_of_the_moon]

Type: Text
Sender ID: crescentmoon (Sesshomaru)
To: General Public
Subject: Since communicating is so easy, why not make use of it?
Warnings: TBD

What do you value most? How far would you go to protect it?

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[emet_sulk]

Very well.

[ He switches the video feed on, finally revealing his face. Dressed in a waistcoat and shirt, he looks almost unremarkable save for the wing of white in his hair and the 'pearl' in his forehead. A snap of his fingers conjures a hovering miniature of what is clearly a habitable planet together with a humanoid shape. ]

When a living creature is born, the star grants it a soul from the aetherial sea - the Underworld, as I know it. [ A small orb of light rises out of the planet and goes into the humanoid shape's breast. ] Then when the creature dies, this soul returns to the star, and to the Underworld. [ The orb rises out of the humanoid and goes back to the planet as its form withers. ]

However, my star has been sundered into fourteen shards: the Source and thirteen reflections of it. The people's souls, once whole and dense, are now a fraction of what they originally were.

[ A flash of light hits the planet and it multiplies itself accordingly, forming a ring of translucent copies. The humanoid shapes notably now have a variety of features representing the various races of the modern world. They, too, are faded compared to the original. ]

I'll spare you the details of the Rejoinings themselves. When they occur, however, the copies...collapse, I suppose you could say, into the Source.

[ Seven of the faded copies burn, freeze, crackle, wither, and are sucked into the Source which grows brighter and more defined with each one. ]

That is all there is to it. The cycle of life and death remains forcibly separate for each shard until it is rejoined to the Source.