[HEY, KARA. It won't be until a couple of hours later, but North will track him down until she finds him in the kitchen. Immediately getting to the point:]
That you woke up somewhere else, the darkness appeared when you played... something. [ he doesn't know what a cassette is supposed to be. ] There were puzzles you had to do to get back.
There was a native of that world who was corrupted by the darkness, and you found a way to cure him.
[giving him a look that basically screams "one question at a time???"
but—]
"Revenge isn't the only purpose of darkness. There's another reason…to save someone. To save someone, you must save yourselves. Return to where you once came, and find a clear path." [very... verbatim.] That's what the recording said. As for how the darkness manifested...
[a brief pause, as if she's trying to find the right words.]
It screwed with our vision, for starters. I couldn't see shit through my own eyes, but from what we did get to see as a group? Hands. Lots of them. Missing a finger on the right ones.
[she wiggles her right pinky to illustrate what she means...??]
[ he doesn't remember any place at the gateway that week that would do that... they must have been somewhere else, then. it would be really nice if the universe were a little more clear about these things.
oh well. moving on, then. he leans against the counter, frowning. ]
We had to solve a word puzzle. [... Yeah.] Once that was done, the darkness keeping us separated disappeared — and I could see through my own two fucking eyes again.
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w2, sunday.
Shess said you wanted to talk to me.
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Yeah - about when you encountered the darkness. Can you tell me what happened?
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There was a native of that world who was corrupted by the darkness, and you found a way to cure him.
And... a recording.
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[ he shrugs. ]
Anything more you can tell me.
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but—]
"Revenge isn't the only purpose of darkness. There's another reason…to save someone. To save someone, you must save yourselves. Return to where you once came, and find a clear path." [very... verbatim.] That's what the recording said. As for how the darkness manifested...
[a brief pause, as if she's trying to find the right words.]
It screwed with our vision, for starters. I couldn't see shit through my own eyes, but from what we did get to see as a group? Hands. Lots of them. Missing a finger on the right ones.
[she wiggles her right pinky to illustrate what she means...??]
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Hands - like the ones that stop Lune and Sol from speaking?
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Something like that. They weren't identical, though.
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[ that's probably possible with this magic stuff, right? ]
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[She doesn't sound entirely sure about that, for Reasons. She'll namedrop Akane, at least, since she confessed to it yesterday.]
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[ there are other senses you could have used!! ]
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[android senses are different? it's fine.]
All I could feel was the room trying to boil me alive.
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[ he doesn't remember any place at the gateway that week that would do that... they must have been somewhere else, then. it would be really nice if the universe were a little more clear about these things.
oh well. moving on, then. he leans against the counter, frowning. ]
So how did you get back to the rest of the group?
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Then where did the... hands... come in?
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