Where Angels Dare to Trod

[unfallen]

Islington is walking along the ship.  It is a steady pace.  But slow.  If people didn't know better, It would like like It was floating or gliding.  If you run, It will walk.  If you stop, It will continue Its pace.  Never changing, never pausing.  As if by walking, it can change something about this place.

It's garments seem to be made of light itself.  As It goes along, It is humming an ancient tune: The Lyke Wake Dirge (As sung by Benedict Cumberbatch)

And that's the interesting thing about this particular Angel: It seeks neither to offer help nor the counsel of others. It is simply walking.  Perhaps It is measuring the ship, perhaps It is weighing the integrity of the people gathered.  Whatever the reason, It continues on Its journey.  Simply walking....

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[heartofasun]

"It clears my mind sometimes." Especially since she promised Captain Picard and Dylan that she wouldn't make too much of a mess. And turning into a miniature sun in the aboretum seemed like the best compromise. As opposed to playing a game of cosmic Go with Q. So, she would play his game for a while. Until she got bored. This universe wasn't nearly as fun as hers. And she still had plans. Things that needed to be done. The Perfect Possible Future.

[unfallen]

"Meditation. It is a lost art in an age of such technology."

It gestures around them. To mean not just the ship, but the entire time period.

[heartofasun]

"Not lost. Not if you know where to look." Trance had studied this universe. Watched it grow. It was not unlike her own, or the many other universes at her fingertips. Metaphorically speaking. It was useful.

[unfallen]

It sighs heavily.

"Time was... you didn't have to look for it. Nor should I have to look for it."

As an angel, It knows where to find such people. But it doesn't want to search.

[heartofasun]

"With growth comes change. Life isn't stagnant. It weaves, changes, gestates. Comes in different forms, different ideas." Trance didn't understand. Her entire world view, her entire reason for being, was about change and searching.

[unfallen]

"If you are a creature who needs growth and change, you are correct. If you are created for existing. Created to be the catalyst that brings growth and change to others, you are incorrect."

These things are simple to It. Though, there is a healthy dose of arrogance involved.

[heartofasun]

"Life, the universe, is change. Nothing is stagnant." Trance furrowed her eyebrows, watching Islington. Except him. He was stagnant. She didn't like it. "The universe is life, ever changing, ever evolving, from one thing into another, yet not changing at all. "

Trance talked to him as if she'd talk to a child, or a pet. After all, whatever he was, he was a child compared to her. She needed to look out for him.

[unfallen]

Oh she had no idea. He was aeons older than most of the universe. One might even say he helped to create it.

"Yes the universe is, however the Creator and those who aided with the creation are not."

[heartofasun]

He was adorable. And clearly did not understand the universes cycle of creation and destruction. "Not true. Nothing is outside the influence of life and the cycles. Not chaos, death or life itself. Or those who created them. How can those who create understand their creation if they are not tied to the same influences?"

[unfallen]

It chuckles. "We create the influences, they must abide by our wills."

It thinks the concept is rather simple to understand, so does not attempt to explain further.

[heartofasun]

"Clearly our universes are bound by different rules."

Trance tried to point out logically, to the child. She still thought he was wrong, but sometimes you couldn't argue with stubborn children. She was friends with Harper, after all.

[unfallen]

It just smiles. It knows what it means when creatures start to talk like that.

"Some rules, indeed are different by design. Other rules are the same throughout."

[heartofasun]

Now she remembered why she ran away. Most of her family were idiots and their ideas about the universe puerile and downright nasty. And then there was Islington. She didn't know much about him, but clearly he hadn't visited that many different universes.

"Often rules change by perspective and intention."

[unfallen]

"You are misguided. It is not the rules that change, simply the interpretation of those rules that changes."

Really, It has been around long enough to know these things.

[heartofasun]

Trance leaned over and gave him a cute little kiss on his cheek, and then reached out to pat him on the head, before skipping off. There might have been a little giggle in there.