29 - Soya - Dictated!

[abittooandrogynous]

... Elucifur, it isn't nice to move me when I'm sleeping and forget about me.

[ Duke's voice hasn't changed much, but he sounds oddly more alive. Cheerful, in a slightly annoyed way, even. ]

... Did you get distracted by something...

[ There's a pause as he finds the journal - or the voices in it. ]

Has anyone seen him? Elucifur is Krityan, and he's said his antennae are an unusual color. He puts beads on them, I know that. Where did he find a cave....

(OOC: Duke is on a loss! He's a decade younger, won't remember you all, but is a generally much happier person. Feel free to find him near his room if you like!)

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[lightbranded]

Duke?

[Will yawns as he comes out in search of him. He blinks at the presence of a clearly younger version of his roommate.]

Are you well?

[abittooandrogynous]

Sorry?

[ Duke pauses, turning to look toward the voice. Did Elucifur leave him somewhere more familiar than he thought? ]

Lost, I think that may be the most of it.

[lioneyed]

Oh dear... did something happen to you too, Duke?

[lightbranded]

[Will hesitates, remembering his own experience with becoming younger.]

Do you remember the castle?

[abittooandrogynous]

Too?

[ There's more unfamiliar voices than he's used to asking about how he's doing. ]

Things happen to people often?

[abittooandrogynous]

... The imperial one in Zaphias, yes.

[ And now Duke is more unsure. ]

I don't know of any other ones, but if Elucifur did it wouldn't surprise me.

[lord_wizard]

[Duke...speaking in complete sentences? What is this madness?]

Who is Elucifur?

[lightbranded]

I'm sorry. I have never heard of Zaphias. This is the castle Paradisa.

[abittooandrogynous]

[ And he's not even irritated and speaking normally. Quite a bit of madness. ]

My friend. He's not human, but that doesn't matter at all.

[ He's really just quite happy sounding to have a friend. More madness. ]

[abittooandrogynous]

Oh.

[ Duke shifts his weight for a moment, arms crossing slightly as he thinks. Strange thing other than age, he actually uses body language- ]

That... doesn't sound like anywhere in the empire. or the guilds, that I know of.

[lord_wizard]

[THIS IS SPARTA

Something is definitely off, and he's starting to figure out what that is. Still...very curious]

I'm sure it doesn't. I can't quite say that I have seen him, however.

[abittooandrogynous]

[ Definitely madness enough there.

This is a thinking concerned noise. ]

.... I know he likes playing jokes but this isn't that nice.

[lightbranded]

I do not think it is.

[Will hesitates as he tries to figure out how to explain.]

This place... it exists outside of the worlds any of us know.

[abittooandrogynous]

[ Some silence from Duke, and then he's moving about for a moment, searching for something by the way he's moving his feet-

This spot of the cave floor has moss. He takes a seat there, and rubs at his head. ]

How does that work?

[lord_wizard]

It may be that it isn't that you are being tricked, and more that you are not where you think you are. Do you know where you were last?

[abittooandrogynous]

... Halure? Aspio was close enough to make sense for waking in a cave, as that's where it is. I don't think I would have slept through a trip to the Hollow or any of the Krene in the region....

[lord_wizard]

This isn't any of those. This place is called Paradisa.

[lightbranded]

This place is like another world. It draws people here from their home worlds and traps us here.

[lioneyed]

Well, yes, though particularly around here.

[A pause, then-]

You don't remember me, do you.

[abittooandrogynous]

... A lot of unfamiliar voices are familiar with me.

[ Awkwardly. Sorry, he... doesn't.

He wonders if he ought to feel bad for that. ]

[abittooandrogynous]

And... its not a cave?

[ Someone found the door to his room. ]

[abittooandrogynous]

[ .... Nope.

Duke needs to knuckle at his head a little more. ]

That's... something that sounds simple and is likely terribly complicated.

[ How would that work, even? Duke is trying to think of how to do a pick and snatch spell, and he needs things to be within arms reach to have them move with him. How much would be needed to reach across the distance between worlds, pick a human rather than the planet itself....?

He may just give himself a headache. ]

[lightbranded]

It is, that.

And there is something else you should know.

[abittooandrogynous]

Hmn?

[ He'll worry about this potential magical kidnapping in a little bit. ]

[lord_wizard]

...No.