' The Bureaucracy is no more, and thus, we are both unemployed. We are being hunted down like animals. We Guides need to band together, create a new Bureaucracy or something else completely. I am open to suggestions, but giving up and going to hiding for the rest of eternity is not an option.' you say.
The black-haired man laughs, and puts the axe back down. ' A noble goal, but don't you think getting together will just make it easier for the Council to find us? And, if you haven't noticed, the pull is gone. I used to get, what, fifty, sixty pulls a day. Now, nothing.' You open your mouth to speak but he waves you silent. ' Look, I know the whereabouts and have talked to some of us survivors. They're afraid and in shock. You won't get them to come with you. But, but, don't give up yet. What we need is one of the older guys. Azrael, Hermes, Anubis, the Valkyries. They're tough, a few angels won't bring them down. And more importantly, they're smart, and know when to run.'
' Go on.' you prompt when he stops. The Guide rolls his eyes and grunts, but continues anyways.
' Find and bring one of them to me, and I'll summon everybody I know. I'll be, uhh, I'll be staying here' he pulls out a pen and a piece of paper from somewhere and writes something on it ' here, in this address. I know some witches in this city. It's their house. I'm sure they won't mind me staying there for awhile.'
He pushes the note into your hands and promptly jumps out of the window. He quickly turns into just a distant dot, and then disappears entirely.
How long did they keep you in the Infernal world? The news about the pull being gone is even more troubling, though. That would mean changing the power granted to the Bureaucracy itself, and the Council would need for that atleast half of all Psychopomp sou... ah. That explains the lack of bodies in the Underworld.
Have they given the power to their own angels, then? If so, for what purpose?
You have no idea where to find the old Guides if you'll do what the black-haired man wants, though. They are famous, and sometimes even hated, by the pantheons they left for the Bureaucracy. The Pantheons might be able to tell you. Just waiting for them to appear in the Stream could also work, though.
Of course, you could just seek out other normal Guides in the Stream and see if they would be easier to convert to your cause.
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