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thecrossinglogs2025-03-16 03:51 pm
thecrossingnpcs) wrote in thecrossinglogs2025-03-16 03:51 pm
closed | an eye for an eye
WHO: The Wraith, Shepard, and Soo Won
WHAT: A conversation
WHERE: In and around the Dunes
WHEN: Sometime after The Wraith's sighting in the Desert
WARNINGS Nothing for now, will edit as needed.
[The journey out here takes some time; it turns out the map was not as straightforward as it appeared (and it didn't appear that straightforward to begin with). But, ultimately, it leads out to a cave that will be familiar to Lyn: it's the same one she came out of when she found herself lost, with the iconography of an eye drawn on its inside wall.
Within the cave is a wraith. It is large, with unnaturally long proportions, as if something took it by the head and by the feet and stretched. Its right eye is much, much larger than the other, making it appear almost cyclopean at some angles.
This wraith, like all of the others sighted before it, does not speak. It merely watches, though its gaze has a very different quality than the others like it: curious, dissembling, and intelligent.
There is a book propped up on a stone inside the cave, away from the winds and the heat of the Desert. It is opened to a middle page, where words appear as if by an invisible typewriter:]
Hello.
I see you found your way.
You're persistent.
I thought you might be.
WHAT: A conversation
WHERE: In and around the Dunes
WHEN: Sometime after The Wraith's sighting in the Desert
WARNINGS Nothing for now, will edit as needed.
[The journey out here takes some time; it turns out the map was not as straightforward as it appeared (and it didn't appear that straightforward to begin with). But, ultimately, it leads out to a cave that will be familiar to Lyn: it's the same one she came out of when she found herself lost, with the iconography of an eye drawn on its inside wall.
Within the cave is a wraith. It is large, with unnaturally long proportions, as if something took it by the head and by the feet and stretched. Its right eye is much, much larger than the other, making it appear almost cyclopean at some angles.
This wraith, like all of the others sighted before it, does not speak. It merely watches, though its gaze has a very different quality than the others like it: curious, dissembling, and intelligent.
There is a book propped up on a stone inside the cave, away from the winds and the heat of the Desert. It is opened to a middle page, where words appear as if by an invisible typewriter:]
Hello.
I see you found your way.
You're persistent.
I thought you might be.
no subject
Allynbee folds her arms again, though there is less tension in her body language. She's listening. Wary, but listening.]
And what's the goal? Some of us are on the back foot and I want to make sure when I talk to everyone, that I'm giving them correct info..
no subject
Remembering.
no subject
[Allynbee looks over the responses of The Wraith, mind spinning.]
Are we going to become like you if we keep giving up our memories? No, wait-
[For a moment, she looks away from the creature before out of the cavern, and out into the sands. Allynbee can feel her mouth dry and her heart pounding.
How fast can she get back to the group?]
Did the Ferryman do this to you?
no subject
The Crossing did this to me.
To all of us.
[The Wraith seems to study her, turning a bit in place to focus its apparent "good" eye on her.]
Your Ferryman doesn't lie.
But they only exist for a single purpose. They have always existed that way.
They don't know anything else. They'll never know anything else.
no subject
What do I call you? Do you have a name?
no subject
[The Wraith's form sways a little again, though this time more subdued.]
You can call me whatever you want.