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Memory 06
Itempa's apologies on the new moon. (ref: BK 125) trivial negative
Description:
Oree's perspective, here.
Naha doesn't directly appear in this memory, but I think it's pretty safe to assume some things:
1) He does, indeed, hear. He even listens some.
2) He is epically furious about this.
I'm going to say he was more or less alone for this particular memory; he would be in the god realm, so there'd be others around, but none of them were important at the time. Also, based on what we know of him, I'm going to say he was in no mood to bother with seeming to have a physical form. He tends not to when he's particularly angry or unstable. So for this memory, Naha's only "form" is a non-physical hurricane/amoeba with a blindly dark nucleus and mind bending anti-physics.
Notes:
-RELATIVELY HIGH ON THE SCALE OF BRAIN BENDING. Naha has worse. Other gods could handle this one easily enough, I think. (Naha has at least one memory that would brainshank even Tempa.) But it is god realm, it doesn't bother with physical metaphors or other organizations that would make it more acceptable for human consumption, and "hearing" prayers is kind of not a human thing. On the lucky side, it's very small, and could be much worse in terms of actual action.
-NAHA GETS TO REMEMBER TEMPA NOW. It's an interesting way to start that off. Tempa is walking the earth as a mortal, and Naha is a free god again. He's also very angry, which he'll remember. He doesn't remember why though.
-I'm not giving Naha an explanation in this, just Tempa's remorse.
-PROBABLY MORE THINGS I'M FORGETTING. Naha gets a lot of FEELINGS with this without the motivation to hold a grudge. He's probably going to be prone to lashing out at Tempa until the anger passes. When it comes down to it, Naha isn't really thoughtful. He's angry and hurts still, and he'll want to hurt Tempa in return. Though it could be much worse if he actually remembered why.
Form: Flip book.
Uses Left: Unlimited.
Description:
Oree's perspective, here.
“What the hells are you doing up here, anyhow?” I asked. I could not muster the wherewithal to show him any greater respect. “Praying to yourself?”
“There’s a new moon tonight.”
“So?”
He did not reply, and I did not care. I turned my face toward the distant, barely there shimmers of the World Tree’s canopy and pretended they were the stars I’d heard others talk about all my life. Sometimes, amid the ripples and eddies of the leafy sea, I would see a brighter flash now and again. Probably an early bloom; the Tree would be flowering soon. There were people in the city who made a year’s living from the dangerous work of climbing the Tree’s lower branches and snipping off its silvery, hand-wide blossoms for sale to the wealthy.
“All that happens in darkness, he sees and hears,” Shiny said abruptly. I wished he would stop talking again. “On a moonless night, he will hear me, even if he chooses not to answer.”
“Who?”
“Nahadoth.”
I forgot my anger at Shiny, and my sorrow over Madding, and my guilt about the Order-Keepers. I forgot everything but that name.
Nahadoth.
[...]
“I have been attempting,” said Shiny, “to express my remorse to him.”
Naha doesn't directly appear in this memory, but I think it's pretty safe to assume some things:
1) He does, indeed, hear. He even listens some.
2) He is epically furious about this.
I'm going to say he was more or less alone for this particular memory; he would be in the god realm, so there'd be others around, but none of them were important at the time. Also, based on what we know of him, I'm going to say he was in no mood to bother with seeming to have a physical form. He tends not to when he's particularly angry or unstable. So for this memory, Naha's only "form" is a non-physical hurricane/amoeba with a blindly dark nucleus and mind bending anti-physics.
Notes:
-RELATIVELY HIGH ON THE SCALE OF BRAIN BENDING. Naha has worse. Other gods could handle this one easily enough, I think. (Naha has at least one memory that would brainshank even Tempa.) But it is god realm, it doesn't bother with physical metaphors or other organizations that would make it more acceptable for human consumption, and "hearing" prayers is kind of not a human thing. On the lucky side, it's very small, and could be much worse in terms of actual action.
-NAHA GETS TO REMEMBER TEMPA NOW. It's an interesting way to start that off. Tempa is walking the earth as a mortal, and Naha is a free god again. He's also very angry, which he'll remember. He doesn't remember why though.
-I'm not giving Naha an explanation in this, just Tempa's remorse.
-PROBABLY MORE THINGS I'M FORGETTING. Naha gets a lot of FEELINGS with this without the motivation to hold a grudge. He's probably going to be prone to lashing out at Tempa until the anger passes. When it comes down to it, Naha isn't really thoughtful. He's angry and hurts still, and he'll want to hurt Tempa in return. Though it could be much worse if he actually remembered why.
Form: Flip book.
Uses Left: Unlimited.