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D's mind is a cacophony of things.
The landscape is shadow and darkness, and it is chilly and reserved where D sits in it; he feels like a simple young man. Quiet, soft, human. But behind the stoicism is a warm, sensual, and elegant sliver of something primordial and powerful. Embracing it is hypnotic, arousing, yet also a little horrifying.
Amidst all of this is something else, too: a craggled and old presence which can be heard on occasion cackling or chattering separately, the crusty voice belonging neither to D or the peculiar entity in the space.
The landscape is shadow and darkness, and it is chilly and reserved where D sits in it; he feels like a simple young man. Quiet, soft, human. But behind the stoicism is a warm, sensual, and elegant sliver of something primordial and powerful. Embracing it is hypnotic, arousing, yet also a little horrifying.
Amidst all of this is something else, too: a craggled and old presence which can be heard on occasion cackling or chattering separately, the crusty voice belonging neither to D or the peculiar entity in the space.
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I didn't. [ UNFORTUNATE. ] He did a good job hiding himself away.
[ Not that it was hard, given that they were all ant-sized. ]
The person it belonged to said he would take care of it though.
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A lot was happening.
[He understands. He doesn't blame Eustace for not being able to get anything back.]
You hadn't lost anything personal?
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Nothing that wasn't eventually returned to me.
[ Which, thank goodness, he'd probably go nuts without his gun. When you like dogs and guns more than most people...it's fine, probably. Sometimes people are just annoying! It's fine!! ]
Things are always happening around here though. [ Like Dokja DYING REPEATEDLY. ] You get used to it. [ ... ] Unless you're already used to it.
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I see.
[How many people lucked out like he and Eustace where they had their items returned without much suffering. Well, D did get turned into a child, but it's fine.]
I am, but that does not mean it isn't frustrating. You seemed to not care much for this place even when you were cursed. Is that still true?
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Was it that obvious though that he didn't like this place? He's losing his stoic touch. ]
I haven't had many good experiences here. It doesn't help that I was in a place similar to this one before I arrived, that liked to put people's personal business on display for everyone to see without warning.
[ He's tired man...he's so tired. ]
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Eustace has suffered so much here at Val's hands... D feels bad for him because he is one of the more similarly reasonable people.]
I hope things become better for you. [Smash cut to Eustace taking Dokja out.] The place you came from was this way as well?
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Similar in a lot of ways. Being forced to choose between two sides at war. Having a rock embedded in somewhere in your body.
[ Too bad he isn't Dark with his uncanny fourthwall meta-breaking abilities, he could make so much jamjar commentary right now. ]
Sometimes I wonder if we'll all end up in a third place just like the first two if we stick around long enough.
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Interesting.
[The Frontier was... a little like this in ways. No one really had shards embedded in them unless that was just a thing they were into.
But the warring of two sides? Yeah.]
Supposedly, if Zenith wins, that will be true.
[Ha ha.]
If we're all being deceived, there could be a third world we aren't aware of.
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But, that's interesting. ]
You don't believe in what either Yima or Cyrus is saying?
[ Personally, he doesn't think anyone with half a brain cell would have any good reason to trust the two, but there are some weirdos out there who are hopelessly devoted... ]
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Not entirely. It's more beneficial to harmonize. I simply prefer the outcome the Meridian believe. But I'm skeptical.
My world may even still exist. Dimensional travel and the altering of space and time are things familiar with my world.
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Are they? [ He sounds decidedly interested now, mental presence growing far more alert. ] Have you experienced them both yourself?
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Yes, on occasion.
[Not Eustace being interested like a NERD. Don't let them bond of being nerds like this.]
Before I woke here, I was trapped in a dream pocket belonging to a woman who had been bitten by a vampire and had been sleeping for thirty years.
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How did you end up there? [ Also: ] Was it her dream you were in?
[ That sounds wild...though maybe a little less wild than it once would have after everything he's been through in Kenos. ]
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It was her dream. She had created a dream within a dream. The town I thought I had traveled to was not real. When I attempted to leave, I was circled around to where I had started. The people in the town were those she knew from her youth, and they all knew who I was and were expecting me.
When I would sleep in the dream, there was another dream: a mansion full of humans and vampires having a ball. The young woman would be there dancing. She wanted me to wake her up, but doing so was only possible by killing the siring vampire. Her sire was someone I've spent a long time searching for.
So my only option was likely to kill her.
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Wow, what a story though. He isn't Dokja, easily sucked into tales of fiction in an attempt to escape the cruelty of reality, but Eustace finds himself interested all the same, alert even within the confines of their Communion. Maybe because it had been real, a lived experience rather than an invented one.
Or maybe D is just playing the long con and fooling Eustace into thinking he really is a fellow stoic. Who can say! Somehow, that seems unlikely. ]
Would you have, if you'd gotten the chance to?
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Congratulations, Eustace.]
I would have had to if I wanted to leave the dream for good; otherwise, she would have kept me trapped. But I arrived here before I had the chance.
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Fortuitous timing. [ Maybe. Maybe D is secretly a serial killer and would have had a great time slashing throats to escape from that dream. ] And what do you think of this place, now that you're here?
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...
[The pause lingers between their minds for a moment.]
Some things are similar, but a lot is different. Death has no discrepancy with whether or not people are finished with their business, but I wasn't finished with mine. So I would like to know if any of this is even the truth.
I can't say I enjoy being here.
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He finds that he's too tired these days to care much beyond the safety and well-being of those most important to him. ]
You think this is all an elaborate ploy, set up by some greater force? [ A god, a tyrant, whatever. ] Or is that there's some kind of veil being placed over eyes preventing us from seeing things as they really are.
[ Or something else; he's never really been the philosophical type. ]
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And then he will one day also accept fate maybe as he had done after ten thousand years on the Frontier.]
I don't know. It could all be true. But I would like to find out what is and what isn't as we're forced to go along. I would rather return to my own world, if possible.
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Is that why you agreed to join Meridian?
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Yes. Our goals aligned, but I harmonized for the benefits doing so provided.
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[ What else does D have up his sleeve past being sexy...... ]
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[He does not say what things are up his sleeve...]
Is it not what you did?
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To an extent. I didn't have any magical talents I needed to get back though, so I stayed unharmonized for several months.
[ He is just a normie.... ]
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