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[challengesworld.livejournal.com]

[When you are an angel who has yet to entirely catch up with human invention, many things are completely mysterious to you. Like teapots, or telenovelas, or comic books. Angels didn't need stuff like that, but Cheriour decided that if he is going to be here, he is going to learn all he can about these things.]

Um, hello. Yes. I have some important questions. You see, I found some things in the city, and I want to know what exactly what their purpose is. I'm not terribly well informed on inventions, and people are the best source of information, so, erm, here I go.

First of all, umbrellas. What a strange name. Um-brell-las. Brelly-ums. Erm, what do they do? Are they weapons? Because I stabbed a chair in the tower with one, it's pretty sharp...but why do you need the cloth for it? I don't get it.

Second, what do you do with those weird blowing things that you often find in bathrooms? The ones that spew hot air in your face. Are they used for cooking? Like, if you hold one over food, it gets it hot. But why would you cook in a bathroom...?

And last but not least, please elucidate the meaning of this very odd thing I found on the bathtub yesterday.

[There's a squeaking noise.]

What is the purpose of having a small yellow rubber duck?

[Today's derpiest angel brought to you by Things-That-Don't-Make-Sense-In-Cheriour's-Head.]

Comments

[parslunae.livejournal.com]

....

If it is simple you wish, then you may call me Yllit.

[challengesworld.livejournal.com]

Yllit? All right then, that's fine with me. Yllit is a good name. One I've never heard before, but good all the same.

[parslunae.livejournal.com]

Is there such a reason to deem a name "bad"?

[challengesworld.livejournal.com]

Yes, if you were named Evil Badperson McPeterson, for example. Though I have never encountered anyone like that. But that aside, names do have power. If I know a demon's true name, for example, it gives me an advantage.

[parslunae.livejournal.com]

A..."demon"?

[challengesworld.livejournal.com]

Yes. Opposite from me, they're beings who serve Lucifer and spread evil in the world. I sometimes neutralize them if I find one possessing a human being.

[parslunae.livejournal.com]

...I do not understand what you are trying to say.

[challengesworld.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. Okay. Let me put it into simple terms.

[He clears his throat.]

I'm a good being who looks out for the good of the people. Demons are bad beings who want for people to suffer. If I find a demon, then I kill him.

Questions?

[parslunae.livejournal.com]

By that definition is not any being who wishes suffering upon another a "bad being"--"demon"?

[challengesworld.livejournal.com]

Not necessarily. And believe me, I am an expert on this. For demons, they are above human beings in terms of abilities and ways to turn people on another. They can possess people, plant ideas in their heads, the like.

But people...they don't have abilities or powers where I come from. But they can cause just as much damage with words and violence, if not more.

[parslunae.livejournal.com]

...You really believe such creatures could exist? It sounds beyond the realm of possibility.

[challengesworld.livejournal.com]

...

[He'll just be cocking his head at you like a curious bird now.]

Well, I exist, and I'm such a being working for the power of good. Should I stop believing in myself?

[parslunae.livejournal.com]

Aside from your...eyes...you seem Qui'sol to me.

[challengesworld.livejournal.com]

...What is a Qui'sol? Is that something bad?

[parslunae.livejournal.com]

Qui'sol short for Qui'amsol. It is our word for those like you--"those who walk in sunlight".

[challengesworld.livejournal.com]

Ah, I walk in the sunlight, that is true. But I also walk during the night, midday and twilights, too. Also midnights. I love midnights.

But I suppose you can't?

[parslunae.livejournal.com]

I am Ublit--a child of moonlight.

[challengesworld.livejournal.com]

Child of moonlight? How poetic, almost. So the world of the night is your home?

[parslunae.livejournal.com]

It is the time in which we thrive, yes.

[challengesworld.livejournal.com]

So that is why you're out and about so late. Hmmm. Now it all makes sense.

[parslunae.livejournal.com]

Is it of interest to you?

[challengesworld.livejournal.com]

Everything is of interest to me. That's just the way it is for me.

[parslunae.livejournal.com]

I...see. You are one who seeks knowledge.

[challengesworld.livejournal.com]

Yes, like all angels, I take pride in knowledge.

[And he then raises the rubber duck and squeaks it.]

...Which is why I want to know what this is.

[parslunae.livejournal.com]

...What is that?