Yet again, more pointless window dressing and over-the-top pageantry. By the time the arrangements were announced, Ciel had long emotionally checked out of this entire ordeal. She certainly doesn't look like she has any shred of sympathy for the prisoners, though she's wondered if she hasn't been granted permission in handling the shards thanks to being one of the two Kenomas directly responsible for the capture itself.
In any case, she doesn't plan to stick around. As much as she knows she should take responsibility for her actions and watch this all unfold until the very end, they know what's coming, and she'll be needed in the front lines. The memory of those at Venera showed enough, and as one of the Kenoma's heaviest hitters, she has no business gawking at the back when a dragon is threatening their keep. Besides, the Pleromas already succeeded in rescuing their own once. If they can't pull through for their dumbest hungriest brightest, then they deserve to lose it all.
So she plays her part, as she always had, as she always will. She doesn't come with just presenting the shards, however: when she joins her peers and the sacrificial lambs at the altar, it's with a box held in both her hands. The upper half is bright red, the bottom half is white, and it's tied together by a black ribbon, an eye-catching contrast against what may otherwise pass off as an accessory box of some sort. Wide enough to cover a third to half of of someone's lap with a height of an inch or two, it looks like it could contain at least two books placed side by side. Its rectangular shape reveals very little of its contents too, but it doesn't look heavy, at least not from how Ciel is carrying it.
The box is placed between the stakes that Abel and Himeka's physical vessels are bound to, atop the hay that is destined to burn everything it supports down to ashes. This is a ceremony, yes? Then let's make it ceremonial. It's clear with the way she leaves the box there and doesn't look back at either prisoners or the object she brought that it's meant to be fed to the flames along with the Pleromas, burning things with bodies is a relatively common custom no matter where one is from. And with the box placed, she withdraws and resumes her position at the square's side away from the 'main display', ready to leave at a moment's notice once the Pleromas begin showing signs of breaching Achamoth's perimeters.
When will the curtains finally fall on this ridiculous play that's already drawled on for far too long? Hopefully by today's end, if everyone fulfills their role as they ought.
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In any case, she doesn't plan to stick around. As much as she knows she should take responsibility for her actions and watch this all unfold until the very end, they know what's coming, and she'll be needed in the front lines. The memory of those at Venera showed enough, and as one of the Kenoma's heaviest hitters, she has no business gawking at the back when a dragon is threatening their keep. Besides, the Pleromas already succeeded in rescuing their own once. If they can't pull through for their
dumbest hungriestbrightest, then they deserve to lose it all.So she plays her part, as she always had, as she always will. She doesn't come with just presenting the shards, however: when she joins her peers and the sacrificial lambs at the altar, it's with a box held in both her hands. The upper half is bright red, the bottom half is white, and it's tied together by a black ribbon, an eye-catching contrast against what may otherwise pass off as an accessory box of some sort. Wide enough to cover a third to half of of someone's lap with a height of an inch or two, it looks like it could contain at least two books placed side by side. Its rectangular shape reveals very little of its contents too, but it doesn't look heavy, at least not from how Ciel is carrying it.
The box is placed between the stakes that Abel and Himeka's physical vessels are bound to, atop the hay that is destined to burn everything it supports down to ashes. This is a ceremony, yes? Then let's make it ceremonial. It's clear with the way she leaves the box there and doesn't look back at either prisoners or the object she brought that it's meant to be fed to the flames along with the Pleromas, burning things with bodies is a relatively common custom no matter where one is from. And with the box placed, she withdraws and resumes her position at the square's side away from the 'main display', ready to leave at a moment's notice once the Pleromas begin showing signs of breaching Achamoth's perimeters.
When will the curtains finally fall on this ridiculous play that's already drawled on for far too long? Hopefully by today's end, if everyone fulfills their role as they ought.