IC INBOX - PHANRIFT

[founderinglight]

one for sorrow, two for mirth
three for marriage, four for birth
five for the truth and six for lying
seven for sickness, eight for dying
nine for silver, ten for gold
eleven for a secret that shall never be told
twelve for the moon, thirteen for the sky
fourteen for the accursed unable to die
and fifteen for my heart's last desire
a new day's dawn, reborn in fire



Izunia Lucis Caelum
Keystone Station Room #11
Network @elevencrows

Comments

[founderinglight]

If you'll excuse the entirely too apt metaphor, your case is more like someone living in a cave for years and then coming out to the sun. You have to deal with normal emotions again and you're getting sunburnt before the paleness goes away.

[motherfucking_ghost]

[Church frowns and watches Ardyn to make sure that's an okay thing to say instead of a punchable thing to say. You good soft boy?]

[burninglight]

[Ardyn blinked once or twice as if something about the metaphor rang familiar...but ultimately, he didn't seem too upset by it.]

...I suppose it's not a terrible way of phrasing the matter. Adjusting to the light takes time after living so long in darkness.

[founderinglight]

It was both a constant pain and your one constant in the world. I can't blame you for always falling back on it even if I don't understand it.

[motherfucking_ghost]

Insert dawn metaphor here, to keep the metaphors a-coming. Even if it's gonna get literally less lit here as winter comes. [With a gentle ribbing to Ardyn.]

[burninglight]

Mm...do love the dawn metaphor, at least.

[founderinglight]

Well, we're not at all polar, so it'll keep coming even if it runs later.

[motherfucking_ghost]

...I'm...sorry, I understood all those words individually, but together you just said a load of gibberish.

[burninglight]

It means we're at a point on the planet where we'll lose only a few hours of sunlight as oppose to entire days.

[founderinglight]

Thank you.

[For a space guy you don't know shit about astronomy, Church.]

[motherfucking_ghost]

Oh. I thought--I didn't know what was running and what your dumbass nickname for me had to do with the metaphor...

.........Wait, there are places you can't see the sun at all for days? [the sun never set on blood gulch]

[burninglight]

Nowhere I've ever seen myself, the obvious exception aside.

[ten years of darkness and all]

But it does stand to reason--spherical planet, sun at a particular angle, you're bound to see a few places nearer the northern and southernmost points that are lacking in regular daylight hours.

[like iceland]

[founderinglight]

Months, even, depending on the location. And they get the same amount of time without a night in their summers.

[This isn't that hard, do you want a diagram.]

[motherfucking_ghost]

Oh, I'm super familiar with places that get eternal sunshine, and I'm not talking about Florida. Poor Florida. I just didn't know that--this is a common phenomenon? On planets? Places that just don't see light? What the fuck.

[burninglight]

...I feel like I want to point out the irony of you questioning that, but I'm also aware context rather matters in this case.

[founderinglight]

Any planet with an axial tilt.

[Pause.]

That is, any planet that spins any way other than straight up and down relative to its orbit.

[motherfucking_ghost]

Yeah, I know what that means. Tilted axis.

[burninglight]

Either way, it doesn't seem all that strange. Is there something odd about it to you?

[founderinglight]

I've learned to make no assumptions.

[Some people can always be stupider and his brother married one.]

[motherfucking_ghost]

You know the entire time I was in the gulch the sun never set? So, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, sure, I get that. Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem all the time? Bizarre. When not, y'know, caused by supernatural magical malarial forces. Is this really the point we're gonna get hung up on right now?

[burninglight]

What do you mean it never-

[god what the fuck.]

...you know what, never mind, you're right and this is all silly.

[founderinglight]

...Hypothetically possible in a tidally locked polar region... There'd be a matching spot on the opposite side that never saw sunlight at all.

[Where Ardyn gives up, Izunia sees an interesting thought experiment, and hums to himself as he puts a few more lines on his sketch.

...The woman in it is another Lucis Caelum if the cheekbones are any indication.]

[motherfucking_ghost]

Yeah, and daylight savings was only three minutes. But you're right, it's silly. Not...the word I would've specifically used for it, but silly, and it's only gonna get worse from there.

[burninglight]

Wh-

...No, no, I'm not going to ask.

[founderinglight]

...That is at least top ten stupidest things I've ever heard.