undread | cloud

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.

[ 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.

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.]

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

[ eight weeks later... ]

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

You seriously think it could be the same thing here?

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

[ 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??? ]

[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!