Ah, June, such a beautiful month. The warm weather is back and people wear less layers of clothes, especially girls. I could talk for hours about my time with Amelia, but I'm sure it would bore or annoy you. All I will say is that things are going well between us, although they could be a bit better. Our animal souls didn't really reach harmony yet, they kind of are bitter toward each other in some subtle. Like that time where I was making a meat sandwich and she stole one half of it as sound as I had cut it in two, causing an argument that looked more like a dog fight than a civilized debate. Heh, still working on that. It could be worse, I suppose.
On to more interesting topics for you guys. I've read all of your messages and I've studied on my own. I may not be trying to survive in Japan, going to other dimensions, fighting insanity or digging my paws in various dangerous tomes and myths, but I'm doing my best to do what I'm best, being the brain and coming up with theories. I think we all agreed that I'm better at that than at boarding boats. Not that I haven't gone on 'field trips' with Amy this month, but nothing worthy of mention. There isn't anything really exciting about the public library. On second thought, the occult section had quite a few creepy books, stuff way creepier than what you would expect to find in a public building, not that it really surprise me. That's actually the core of my next theory.
You see, before we discovered this cult, no one really was aware of anything being supernatural. Wizard, werewolves and ghosts were nothing but old fairy tales. Obviously, there were people that knew, likely those same people who wrote our classical fairy tales decades and centuries ago. Then, suddenly, everything shifts. Each of us become a spiritual being in some form or another within a short period of time. We learn that Chuthulu is coming from the Abyss to destroy the world and we delay it. Since that day, more people are becoming supernatural, it has gone from being unknown to being almost mainstream. Yet, as far as I know, nothing really has changed, other than a weakening of what kept this monster trapped. There is obviously a correlation between the strength of that barrier and our ability to perceive the supernatural, or rather, its ability to hide from us.
Imagine an house in the middle of a field. This house looks perfectly normal from inside out, but there are actually people from the future with invisibility tech working around the house. You couldn't see, hear or touch them. Maybe they accidentally bump into you at time, but all you feel is a quick rush of cold air. You could live decades in that house, raise a family and no one would ever be aware of the secret facet of your house. But, let suppose that they're starting to have power shortage and, every now and then, you can catch glimpse of them. Eventually, some people will take notice of them, and will enter this secret world. More and more will, then maybe eventually, someone will want everyone to experience this new facet of the house.
That person will purposely blow up the main generator, revealing the house as it really is to everyone. All its secrets and horrors are for all to see, and all to abuse. From there, things can only descend into chaos. I think the same thing is happening here. Instead of people from the future, we have mages, and instead of an invisibility field, we have some kind of spell keeping things shrouded in mystery. I think humanity, since its beginning, had to deal with those magical elements around them. After all, mages are humans, and logically, there are human ancestors in some way or shape. And if people became mages, so many of them for them to build a city of magic in the middle of the sea, I have to assume that the spell didn't exist at the time. There was probably a time, long ago, where many people could control magic, in whatever shape it presents itself, from its physical manifestations to its spiritual ones. Kind of like that old SNES video game, Chronos Trigger, where a magical floating land existed 12 000 years before Chris. Like Atlantis, it was annihilated when people got too greedy and tapped into something too powerful to control and magical things vanished from history.
The only difference is that here, magic vanished on purpose. This rift, this hole between Heaven and Earth, this Abyss, call it whatever you want, could be like a chain nuclear chain in an uncontrolled environment. You can't stop it, you can't or don't know how to make it cease to exist, so you try to slow it down. It was created by magic, it makes sense that one way to contain it would be to hide all things magical, to regulate its use within closed circles of initiated. For a long time, those people remained hidden. Mages, Werewolves, Sin-Eaters, Vampires, all those aware of the truth in some way, made sure it stayed that way. Even today, my clan makes sure to be as subtle as possible in their actions, even in a world where the spell is at its weakest. This tradition to hide is almost instinctual at this point. But time passed, and the spell weakened and figments of it became public in our literature, and now, in our lives. This cult may have been well intentioned, for all we know. Maybe they just wanted to reveal to the world the truth, for all to partake in its glory. We could just find a way to close to seal again, to return the spell to its original strength. Chuthulu would return to its state of banishment, people would be blissfully unaware of the truth once more and everything will be fine and dandy.
But think about it. If we do that, what prevents this from happening again in 1000, 2000 or 5000 years? I don't think they needed anyone special to do that. There is one thing they didn't have, though. All those groups of different species are in some kind of truce in the face of destruction, none of them are friends like we all are. We're unique in that we're the only group representing the supernatural as a whole able to trust and care for each other. What if instead of trying to hide everything behind fog again, we try to find a way to fix the Abyss those dumb ancient mage created? What if we entirely remove the need for a supernatural barrier? We're in 2012, we've come a long way since prehistoric times, surely we're mature enough as a species to see further than our plain old human body. I dunno, maybe I'm just too optimistic or naive, but it would be really great to live in a world where none of us would have to hide. A world where humans and the supernatural and be united. Think of the Union, but on a worldwide scale! Maybe its foolish, maybe it's impossible, but it would be awesome if we at least tried. Someone opened that hole, there has to be a way to do more than shrink it. Something really awesome! Love and tolerance for all, weeee!
PS: No more writing those messages after a burst of saccharine filled show.
PPS: Hey, Lizzie, you ok? You didn't write anything last month. You should, because otherwise I may just take the next plane to Japan and look for you. With Amelia. I will do it, I swear!
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