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[undread]

Oh, yes. He was dead, but I brought him to life! But he's feeling shy today and doesn't want to speak on his own.

[residentmerc]

... He normally speaks, too?

[ he can't JUDGE he has a ROBOT CAT in his party, but ALSO ]

[undread]

Yes! Though everything he says is exactly what I'm having him say, as his life and animation is only a function of my magic.

[residentmerc]

... Doesn't that mean it's just stuff you want to say?

[undread]

I want him to be the Pâté I imagined, come to life. There's a slight difference there, I think.

[residentmerc]

So... he acts how you think he should if he had his own personality?

[undread]

Yes, something like that. I'm not entirely sure how the magic works. It's best not to examine these things too closely

[residentmerc]

... Not like I know that much about magic.

[ he USES it, but this is clearly very different from. the magic he knows. so moving on; ]

That other one still not responding, then?

[undread]

D? No. She's gone silent, annoyingly.

[she scowls at that, tugging a little on her hair.]

You see, she doesn't exist separately from me. Her soul is trapped in my body. So there's hardly anywhere she could go.

[residentmerc]

[ he is not as weirded out about souls being trapped in bodies as he could be, which is to say, he kind of takes it in stride, for Reasons ]

So she's still with you and she's either choosing not to talk, or this place found a way to silence her.

[undread]

Exactly. But knowing her, it's more likely the former.

[but it's not that hard to tell she's very worried about the idea that it could be the latter.]

[residentmerc]

... Well, if it isn't, it's probably temporary. No way they can keep us here that long.

[ eight weeks later... ]

[undread]

Surely not. Though we may need to find out own way out.

[residentmerc]

There's no may. No one who's gone through this much trouble to get us here in the first place would let us go that easily.

[undread]

Assuming it was intentional, and not some sort of... convergence of leylines.

[residentmerc]

Leylines? [ does it matter actually-- ] With all the info they've got posted up, doesn't seem like an accident to me.

[undread]

I don't know - maybe they're spying? There was an incident, recently. With leylines. Anyone close to certain epicenters was transported across the world. Various types of magic were no longer usable.

[residentmerc]

If they're spying and we show up, that's still not likely to be a coincidence.

[ but that is... interesting. he inclines his head because he wonders if that would be possible back home too ]

That was only people who were close to it, though. Right? Most of us weren't anywhere close to each other.

[undread]

Well. People close to certain points. But those points were scattered all across the world...

[residentmerc]

You seriously think it could be the same thing here?

[undread]

Well. It's the closest thing to this that's happened before... getting shunted away without my friends, no ability to find them.

[residentmerc]

[ he is briefly surprised that she is NOT a weird hermit who lives in the woods ]

Magic was probably involved, but I doubt any of it was an accident in this case. [ a pause ] You worried about them?

[ her friends... who are real and probably not talking rats??? ]

[undread]

[well. it's not a wrong assumption.]

No! If I don't think about any of the peril that they could be in or the horrible things that might happen to them, I won't have to be worried!

[residentmerc]

[ ... well that is very believable... ]

They've probably got each other anyway. Should focus on yourself first.

[undread]

...Yes. They probably all have each other, and I'm here all alone.

[tugging at her hair again, pulling out a few little clumps.]