Therapy Session Take #1

[perfecttune]

WHO: Mari and you (OTA, characters are free to interact with others as well)
WHAT: Mari is hosting a therapy session! Come if you would like, or if you want to argue against it feel free to show up as well! This is more informal than it seems although she did invite some guest speakers.
WHERE: One of the large buildings that was most likely a common area for everyone, or just a super large bedroom.
WHEN: After First Crossing
WARNINGS Talk about death and violence, specific CWs will be in the text.

A message goes out on the server from Mari: Sorry for the delay everyone! I thought it best to wait a bit till after the meeting Kel thoughtfully put together for all of us! If you would like to come for the Therapy Session, please come to building X. If you would like to bring anyone or anything along please do! Special guest speakers/appearances include Makoto Naegi, Daniil Dankovsky, and Soo Won.

Mari put her tablet down and went back to straightening the chairs she was able to gather in a circle. Surely this would be welcoming? This way they could all see each other and seek comfort if needed... but just in case, she had set up private areas using curtains as a makeshift divider in case others felt the need for a one on one talk...

It still felt strange to her to not have refreshments so she had cups filled with water just in case, surely even if they didn't need to drink it still helped to make the session feel welcoming?

As people filtered in she would call out a greeting. "Welcome and thank you for coming! If you feel comfortable taking a seat please do so! There are also refreshments over there."

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[protectorofkouka]

Soo Won wasn't sure what compelled him to say that either and he shared a momentary lapse in composure that hopefully went unnoticed. His surprise was quickly overshadowed by curiosity and his eyes widened. "A spirit sword?" As a warrior himself the idea was intriguing. He wondered what it would be like to live on as Hak's weapon. It was a pointless thought though and he quickly pushed it aside, although it lingered at the edge of his mind.

"I see. It's fortunate that your kalyke," Soo Won carefully pronounced the foreign word as respectfully as he could," was there to advise you. How did you communicate in that form?"

[hasapoint]

"That's the shape of it. A blessed artifact - usually a weapon, almost always a sword - with a human mind and soul voluntarily trapped inside. This preserves their skills, their knowledge, and their judgement after death," she says easily. Need would prefer to share a memory to explain for her, but of course she can't here.

There are a lot of things she doesn't remember directly about the kalyke. There were more of them when she was alive, and when she was new to the sword, but she thinks they were just about unique to her people, whoever those had been. Others might stumble upon the method but those were one-offs, basically. To exist in that form is not something easily borne.

"But a sword isn't a living thing. It doesn't have eyes, or ears, or the ability to sense the world at all. So a kalyke needs a form of mind-magic that lets them touch the thoughts and emotions of other people, and use their senses. Their bodies too, just not all the time. Two people with this magic can speak to each other over great distances."