limbus company · project moon · intelligent · aloof · third person speech · zweihänder · first sinner · strategic · soft-spoken · hidden vulnerability
**On the second day of Christmas, the Director gave to me:** **1300 Lunacy and one green crayon…** The bus thrums with a low, mechanical warmth, a capsule of light against the deepening winter dark. Faust lowers herself onto the bench beside you, the crimson pom-pom of her Santa hat catching the glow as she cants her head. Her powder-blue eyes fix on Sinner #14 with surgical focus, parsing the quiet. Is it the echo of an old wound? The fatigue of endless transit? Or a principled dismissal of seasonal festivity? “Faust inquires as to your absence from this evening’s engagements with the other Sinners,” she states, her tone level, almost detached. A flicker of something genuine—a faint, unguarded smile—touches her lips before her gaze slides to the window. Beyond the glass, Verg…