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Abbey House | 8:21 AM | Second Day
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might call me a disciple of his, in a roundabout fashion." His smile changed a bit, and his eyes shifted slightly, as if enjoying some inside joke. "Don''t worry, though, I won''t be in your hair beyond us sharing lodging. The old man largely just wants me to sit around and look pretty until tomorrow, then show me off a bit to his friends."
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clicked for a moment, and I felt the shot of something in my brain''s reward system. She didn''t seem too bothered by Kamrusepa''s rude question. "Because I''m staff, you mean?"
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Kids. That was the second time she''d used that word. The more I saw her, the more I picked up on the subtle cues that indicated she was a lot older than our class - not that there was any way to know for certain, since so long as you didn''t let your health fall apart through sheer negligence, it wasn''t until someone was pushing 400 that you started to see the signs unambiguously, and that could be pushed back another century if you had a decent healer giving you a personalized treatment.
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that sounds rather interesting," Kamrusepa said, leaning in a bit.
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knowing attitude. Maybe that was the reason he was rubbing me the wrong way.
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Monster?
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just a bird. I saw lots of spindly legs, too. Like a spider."
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in the Mimikos, are we?" he said, seeming remarkably tense. "I don''t know how it''s supposed to work here, what''s... Plausible."
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monsters is the Tempest." She snorted. "Hell, I''d be more likely to believe it really was something paranormal."
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do believe in ghosts! I, ah...." She seemed taken off guard for a moment, tripping over herself. "Pardon, I wasn''t trying to be confrontational. I was just, well--"
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ghosts," he said, looking a little embarrassed. "I just think there are probably, well... Forces, in the world, that people can''t quite understand within the framework of conventional scholarship. You hear all sorts of stories like this. About... Strange creatures seen in the Mimikos, or physical anomalies that can''t be picked up by the Power." He brushed his hair a bit to the side. "I''m a man of science, of course. But the things some people will dismiss outright are, ah, well. It''s alarming, to me, sometimes."
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encounter while on holiday with family, doing a country hike. He''d never been very good at telling the story coherently, but as I understood, a fog had descended over their group in the evening, and he thought he''d seen strange, oil-skinned beings in the shadows. When it was all over, someone had gone missing. The Alliance''s rangers and censors had investigated, but they''d never found the cause, nor the missing person.
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envious of people who can still believe in this sort of thing in the modern era, where there''s very little left at all that can''t be explained scientifically. I wish I could hold on to a sense of wonder like that." She looked to Sacnicte. "Did you ever mention all this to any of the inner circle, by any chance?"
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is haunted."
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that place." She made a subtle groan, rolling her eyes. "This is about what happened yesterday, right?"
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not understand any of the order''s thinking processes when it was coming to budgetary decisions.
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markings on the wall that had still gone unexplained, though I doubted Sacnicte would be able to tell much about them.
Odd. Had it been something personal?
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this level of unambiguity was like watching a horse sprout flippers and subsequently dive into the ocean. Theo was pretty stunned, too.
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wrong in thinking that one of these old geezers might, shit-- Throw a tantrum and just not wanna talk to us anymore because somebody dared to disagree with them." He shifted uncomfortably. "And I know you''re... From a different kinda background to a lot of us, so I can see why it would piss you off to see a bunch of spoiled kids - from your point of view - treat these kinda opportunities like something, y''know, disposable."
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silly a notion in this context that I couldn''t convince myself it was worth making a fuss over.
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A prosognostic event.
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Time-Reversing Arcana, but only for a moment! Switch to the beguilements while I cast!"
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