[audio; all the locks ever + open]

[swatwithdragons]

[Lance got back home on Sunday night, and now it’s Monday he has a bunch of things he needs to say to people-at various points during the day/evening. For those who spoke to him not long before he left? He sounds worlds better. Calm, and not in a weary faking-it sort of way. Tranquil.]

Comments

[ghostlighter]

... Wait. So do you actually work there, or what?

[ghostlighter]

If he could do that, why hasn't anyone tried redirecting it back to their own world?

Uh... because that doesn't seem like it should happen? If destroying one somehow broke death, then why did destroying another fix it? Unless something else broke after that.

[swatwithdragons]

You ever tried redirecting your course when you can't see the destination? Noah was outside the city.

Yellow Springs was the city of death. Destroying it broke death. Babylon was the city of life. Destroying it balanced the imbalance that was caused by Yellow Springs' destruction.

[ghostlighter]

He still had to find it. How did he do that, and why can't we do the same for some other world?

[ Pause of thought. ] I don't buy that. Something must have changed.

[swatwithdragons]

He planted it.

Actually, it makes sense. Set of scales, Babylon on one side, Yellow Springs on the other. One weight goes, it takes the other weight going to even things up again.

[ghostlighter]

Planted what?

[ That is actually... sort of a painfully familiar scenario, only in the one he's familiar with, there was no middle to maintain things when they got out of whack. ]

Then what's the point?

[swatwithdragons]

The spell. For people to find.

Of what part?

[ghostlighter]

... Oh. [ Now he gets it. ]

Of having them. If it's just going to even out anyway without them, why are they so important in the first place?

[swatwithdragons]

It's balanced. That doesn't mean it's in good condition. A plane without wings is balanced, but that doesn't mean it's going to fly.

[ghostlighter]

Thus the apocalypse?

[swatwithdragons]

Thus the apocalypse. Though it may have started before Noah's death, that's ... when it started really go downhill.

[ghostlighter]

Breaking death would do that. Man, I can see why you needed a break from the city now.

[swatwithdragons]

That happened a year ago. Early July. Only the tip of the iceberg, really.

[This is so depressing.]

[ghostlighter]

A year ago? [ He's still not used to the calendar change. Involuntary time travel sucks, okay? ]

[swatwithdragons]

Well, the zombie invasion was a year ago. The fall of Babylon was in December.

[ghostlighter]

December. That's nine months ago. [ Good job, Chris, you can do math! ]