#sasster

"The last we spoke was a couple of sweeps or so ago, when he'd come to request I remove my gift from one of my former followers. Not the most pleasant of circumstances."

"He does not view us as friends anymore, I'm afraid, little light. I am forever fond of him, however, and to my heart he will always be an old friend."

Is this a problem with calling you by your birth name? …Does anyone still call you it?

"You are new to my grounds, and I sense you are not familiar with the way things flow here. I will not fault you when you want to learn of it."

> They crack an eye open to regard you again.

"It is still my name, but it is not right to use it while I am here, in this area most flowing with light."

^ If you were to peer around this place, you would see that a soft golden 'sunlight' pours in from high windows. Uncharacteristic of Alternia's sun, it is warm and comforting.

"Oh? A new visitor, what a wonderous occasion. You may refer to me as Lustrous."

> They lounge on an Altar at the back of their church and seem to have no plans to sit or stand to converse with you, though they do raise a hand to wave, deliberate and graceful.

"I think you already know the answer to that one, Mel..."

> He pauses for a beat before continuing.

"Oh, ah... I 'ave thought about this many times- there is so much I would do- but above all.. maybe it is a bit frivolous, but I would 'ave liked more than anything to fall in love."

No, I… I did no+ foresee +his life in my early sweeps.

Every+hing seems so simple, so obvious +o a wriggler…

He would…. no, he wouldn'+ unders+and.

He wouldn'+ unders+and, and would be deeply unhappy.

Bu+ +ha+ wasn'+…

-Alas our dreams, dull as +hey may be, rarely work ou+.