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Emet-Selch ([personal profile] unnecessaryflourishes) wrote2021-08-08 11:16 pm

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[personal profile] funbreaker 2022-03-01 06:23 am (UTC)(link)
[ As soon as Thancred sees more of the city, he wonders what about it could have ever registered as familiar. Everything is three sizes too tall, gargantuan and towering over him in such a way that it's impossible not to feel as if the ghostly figures are looking down on him.

This isn't a facet of the Horizon itself, as everything in Strange's area had been sized appropriately. Does that mean that this is all borne from the desire of the person who created this place? Someone with a giant ego, perhaps?

Before Thancred can make any attempt to interact with the shades that wander around the place, however, he is approached by someone who actually has his face uncovered, and who addresses him directly. The figure is just incredibly tall as everything else here, though the paleness of his face invokes the idea of a ghost all the same.

Who do you have here, Thancred almost corrects, the riposte sitting on the tip of his tongue before he swallows it down. It would likely not do to be rude to someone in their own space, yet the urge had come up in him so readily. ]


... I'm only wandering through. [ His neck is already beginning to ache from having to stare up so much. ] This place is quite difficult to miss.
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[personal profile] funbreaker 2022-03-09 12:54 am (UTC)(link)
[ The jewel of the star? Which star, and why is it in the past tense? Thancred looks around once more, as if the other shades or the dark structures themselves might contain answers for him. Though while he'd felt drawn to this place from a distance, now that he's here he has little idea what to make of it.

Or of the man who looms over him. It is for the best that the stranger makes no attempt to bend down and meet Thancred on his level, in all honestly. That would likely only make him feel more like he was being condescended to, somehow.

Though when he's singled out in such a way, he finds himself on the defensive all the same, fists clenching at his sides. The way that man says you, as if it's an accusation, doesn't sit well with him. ]


What is that supposed to mean?

[ This man (is he a man?) seems to know something that he doesn't. Granted, Thancred's aware that isn't difficult to manage at the moment, but the imbalance is still enough to make dread weigh down in his chest. ]
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[personal profile] funbreaker 2022-03-31 08:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Souls marked by loss and sacrifice.

Thancred frowns, a hand lifting up to rest over his chest, as if his beating heart might somehow hold the answer for him. It is impossible to know what he might have lost or sacrificed when he can't find a single memory to hold onto, a single experience to anchor himself to. Yet he'd come here, to this ghostly city, and that apparently means something.

There is only one way that this stranger could say such things about him with authority. Yes, he could be lying, and yet Thancred must admit he doesn't suspect that. He can't say why, but he does believe he's decent at reading other people, and the towering man's words seem genuine. ]


... We know each other. [ It's the only reasonable conclusion to draw, yet no matter how long he studies the stranger's face, it becomes no more familiar to him. He heaves out a sigh, finding it more and more frustrating that he can't recall a thing now that he is in the company of someone who knows him. Are they friends? Enemies? Or something in between? ]
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[personal profile] funbreaker 2022-04-19 04:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[ They traveled together? Thancred frowns, brain still grasping at details that simply will not come. It feels as if this stranger (who is not actually a stranger) is telling him the bare minimum, and he can't determine if that's an attempt to not overwhelm him or if it's meant to get under his skin.

His neck is beginning to ache from being tilted up for this long, and that alone makes the claim a bit difficult to believe. Something isn't quite checking out here. ]


Were you this size when we did so? Surely that must have been a burden for one of us.

[ It would mean there was either someone too small for the world they were traveling through, or someone too big for it. Both could be problematic. ]
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[personal profile] funbreaker 2022-04-23 08:48 pm (UTC)(link)
I see.

[ All of this must have taken place outside the Horizon, in a time and place that Thancred cannot begin to conceive of, and straining to remember will only make him more frustrated. He still knows none of the details and this stranger-who-isn't-a-stranger doesn't see fit to share them with him. It would be a bit of a waste, given that it will all come back to Thancred as soon as he leaves this place.

Yet he also can't quite stop himself from asking questions as he continues to take in these strange surroundings and how they somehow manage to feel both foreign and familiar to him. ]


And you can simply... do that? Change your form at will, even outside the Horizon?

[ Yet this seems to be the height that the stranger prefers, if this is how he chooses to appear here. Somehow he suspects there is more to it than simply wanting to tower over others. ]
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[personal profile] funbreaker 2022-05-01 12:22 am (UTC)(link)
I see.

[ Thancred crosses his arms, tapping his foot against the unfamiliar ground beneath him. There is more he could ask, but to what end? Soon enough his memories will return to him and then he will be able to form a conclusion about this interaction, bizarre as it has been. ]

Well, if you have aught else to tell me while I'm here, feel free. Otherwise, I will continue to wander. And I expect we'll speak again, ere long.

[ He's not certain he should ask for a tour, or that he wants one at all. ]