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Bartimaeus ([personal profile] lapwing) wrote in [community profile] maskormenace2017-01-10 04:51 pm

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[On the network is what appears to be a young boy, about 12 or 13 years old. For a moment, he stares quite soulfully at the video output impossibly deep, black eyes, and then pokes at the screen with one fingernail.]

Not even a proper imp in there, how's that for you...?

[He pulls back and mimes clearing his throat. A voice far, far more booming than is fit for the child's face resounds across the feed.]

Right, broadcast. AHEM. This is just a friendly, non-suspicious question, inquiring on when the next coup or violent overthrow of this government is going to be. Not that I'm actually advocating it, I just know you humans really can't resist.

I'm pretty handy with a popcorn machine if anyone can provide good seats.
rathercommon: (old: unsure)

[personal profile] rathercommon 2017-01-29 03:35 pm (UTC)(link)
[ She's encouraged by that total shock - she thinks that might mean she's getting somewhere. Or, alternatively, it might just mean he thinks she's weird and it's a pointless question and she's wasting her time...Well. Regardless. ]

Go on. Let's hear it.
rathercommon: (old: pensive)

[personal profile] rathercommon 2017-02-01 12:08 am (UTC)(link)
[ Ah. She had responses to the other things, but the last one throws her for a loop. Because - yes. Yes, that one she understands well. Her eyes drop to her knees, and her throat tightens, and she offers a soft: ]

Yeah. That...I wish he were here, as well.

[ She takes a breath. ]

What's all that about your Other Place, though?
rathercommon: (old: unsure)

[personal profile] rathercommon 2017-02-01 12:16 am (UTC)(link)
Well - tell me more about it.
rathercommon: (old: curious)

[personal profile] rathercommon 2017-02-01 12:21 am (UTC)(link)
The Other Place here.
rathercommon: (old: unsure)

[personal profile] rathercommon 2017-02-01 12:40 am (UTC)(link)
Like - objects?

[ That does seem weird. The Other Place is so...non-physical. ]
rathercommon: (old: interested)

[personal profile] rathercommon 2017-02-01 01:34 am (UTC)(link)
Like - dead bodies?

[ That's both a little horrifying - that they'd suggest it - and...well, it's also potentially useful, frankly. ]
rathercommon: (old: curious)

[personal profile] rathercommon 2017-02-01 01:37 am (UTC)(link)
Oh.

[ Huh. ]

Would they stay alive in there?
rathercommon: (old: bossy)

[personal profile] rathercommon 2017-02-01 01:43 am (UTC)(link)
[ Gruesome. Well; no help for it. She nods once. ]

Well. Would you keep me alive in there?
rathercommon: (old: lecturing)

[personal profile] rathercommon 2017-02-01 01:58 am (UTC)(link)
[ Hands on hips - ]

He is not expendable. Anyway, you did challenge my will to do it. So here I am, volunteering.

[ And...rather hoping he doesn't say yes, and hoping he does, because the Other Place is remarkable, and also it'll probably kill her. ]
rathercommon: (old: unsure)

[personal profile] rathercommon 2017-02-01 02:03 am (UTC)(link)
[ She lifts her chin defiantly. ]

Are we? I hadn't noticed. Because that's how little hesitation I have in being willing to do this if it'll prove to you my trust in you.
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[personal profile] rathercommon 2017-02-01 12:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Of course it is.

[ She gives a little gesture of her hands and admits, a bit helplessly, like she herself isn't sure what to do with this - ]

You're my friend. I don't want you to think that's only true sometimes.
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[personal profile] rathercommon 2017-02-01 04:01 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Oh. It's not like the other Other Place at all. He's right about that. It's...easier in so many ways. The true Other Place had torn at her, battered her, the cacophony of consciousnesses overwhelming her own and threatening to destroy her. Here, now, there's nothing but her and him, and she knows him well enough to know perfectly well where he ends and she begins. Her sense of self is unthreatened here. And what a wonder it is to be in this place without that terror, without that need to defend herself - to only be able to stare about her at the colors and dazzling lights and wonder...

She turns her attention at Bartimaeus, then. There's fear in her, uncertainty. That overwhelms everything at first, as she asks him, feeling certain that he'll know - ]


Am I dying? Like last time? [ Her sense of self, the knot of essence that is Kitty - shapeless, unhumanlike - swirls with anxiety. But she trusts him, trusts that he knows and that he'll tell her. ] It doesn't feel like last time.
Edited 2017-02-01 16:01 (UTC)
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[personal profile] rathercommon 2017-02-01 06:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, thank goodness.

[ The fear goes largely out of her at that - there's a little left, a bit of but what if he's wrong?, but not much. Correspondingly, her ball of essence loosens, the ball becoming a cloud, looser and swirling in the open space. ]

It's easier, this Other Place. I know who I am. [ Though that's followed by a stab of worry, echoing around to fill the space. ] Though that's...bad for you, isn't it.

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