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[dream_is_a_wish]

[The video feed comes on, and Figment is fluttering in one of the apartments. He sets the mirror down and peers into it before nodding, certain that it's on.]

I...I'm sorry about what's happened! It's, no one's fault. But these witches they're old magic; some of the oldest kind! But I know we can beat them and save the Kingdoms.


But we have to work together.

[He plop down on the desk that the mirror is propped up on.]

I know that some new people just got here. And, I...We need people to train them! And everyone. Progress City was more about science, but I know there's gotta be books in the library about these ladies and The Dreamfinder always said, knowing is how you get better.

But we can't train in the castle...it's way too dangerous, so we have to go to safe places in Main Street. The Blacksmith for Warriors, Heroes and Machine classes. The Opera house is totally empty, so fairies and monsters, can...you guys go there?

[He taps his chin in thought.]

Mystics...oh! Mystics, you guys can go to the Magic Shop!

That leaves the Princesses...Miss Eleanor, do you think the basement of the Emporium would be open?

[He sits up.]

The Sanderson Sisters are too strong right now. They've, already hurt a lot of people and a lot of you guys but we can't give up. We can beat them and save Main Street!

Comments

[blessedarethebookmakers]

Firstly, Eleanor Shellstrop, I refuse to believe you are hell's favorite anything! I don't know how terrible you may have been in life, but I am quite sure you were not some mass-murdering despot, a slaver or someone who stepped on billions of others, forcing them to live in misery to sustain their own greed. Yes, you may have done regrettable things but they are just raindrops in an ocean of potential evil.

And even then! Those drops are nothing to the kind, compassionate woman I have come to know. It's a learning process, you know. How to be good. How to shuck off all the temptations of the world and accept the hardships of living a straightforward life, but I have seen that in you.

[he sniffed, wings twitching a bit]

And well, I can't let myself believe that. Not when everyone else is... not when I'm the only... [he shook his head and centered himself] I simply can't dwell on that now. There's simply too much else going on.

[az_shrimp_horny]

[Whoa! Her eyes got as wide as dinner plates at him full naming her. It felt like she was being scolded... And she kind of was... By an angel no less. That was a whole new level of weird for her. But she listened. He wasn't wrong. Of course he wasn't. Not entirely, at least.]

I mean... There is a statue of me in a museum in hell. [She shrugged.] But I get you. And... Thanks. I just hope the Judge sees things the way you do. In our universe, only the stuff you do while you're alive counts. It's the whole 'moral desert' thing. If we know we're in the Bad Place are we being good because we're good people or just because we want to get to the Good Place... But that... Doesn't really matter here.

[She sighed, shaking her head at him.]

Aziraphale. There may be a lot going on, but you've gotta stop questioning yourself. You're one of the best people here, and not just because you're an actual angel. She had to have some reason for making you the way you are. Instead of questioning it why don't you just try to be the best you you can be?

[blessedarethebookmakers]

I mean of course there would be, dear. It's psychological. They're saying, look at you, you're already bad. Why not be worse? But anyone can build a statue. So don't put too much thought in it.

[the same happened in their universe as well, for better or worse. He sometimes suspected the latter but he wasn't one to criticize]

Do you think She did? [he was never quite sure.] Sometimes I wonder... Not that she made a mistake, of course. She is as infallible as she is ineffable... [which opened so many other doorways. If she made him the way she was, did that mean he had no choice? Did that mean Crowley had no choice? Were the others struck down due to her Great Purpose?

He pushed those thoughts from his mind, buried them deep]

I will try. Of course I will. It isn't easy for me but... well... it's fortunate for me that I have people looking after me.

[az_shrimp_horny]

[..... What did she say about questioning?!

She smiled.]

Damn straight. Crowley and I will help keep you in line.