heisrisen: (hand in the shadows)
the Emperor of the Eighty Worlds ([personal profile] heisrisen) wrote in [personal profile] bodilesswarrior 2014-07-27 06:09 pm (UTC)

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...the way he was on the mirror barge.

[It's statement and question at once; letting her know how much he knows, his degree of familiarity, what she can skip and where to continue. But it's seeking confirmation too: is he the same, that creature and the one she remembers, the one she suspects. And of course, as the words leave his mouth, spurred by the only strong association he has with the word, something sharper and more troubling is laid bare, like the shed skin of a monster waiting in the road, heavy with implication.]

There was no flood announcement.

[Plain and grave. Whatever it is, however it is, isn't that simple.]

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