odd little alucine

[affodell]

It's never previously occurred to Cayra to put a door across an alucine boundary, but now that she's encountered it in practice it makes sense. It makes it visually obvious and it lets you lock it if you want. This door wasn't locked, and it looked like it led to a public bathroom, not a bar, from the signage, so she's still confused. Still, it's a good idea. She twists open the glass vial pendant around her neck and bends her head to the little blue lily inside to make a note of it; as an afterthought she tries to send it off to her antheomancer-chatcircle, anything to have a decent conversation, but it doesn't go. Her flower doesn't look wilting, but she can put it back in the garden and get a fresher one for the vial later. At least her personal files look okay. She closes up the vial again, giving the flower a touch of antheomancy for its health, and finds a bathroom inside the bar that dominates this little alucine.

And then she emerges into the bar. It doesn't seem to be staffed. Or stocked. Why wasn't it locked?

Hello, anybody here?

with Flynn (ErinFlight)

with Harry (andaisq)

Due to some icon rearrangement errors, some of Flynn's tags appear with an incorrect icon. The correct face for this thread is Rosario Dawson's.

Comments

[midst_of_threads]

"Through me and the others they can know their own existence. They can desire and dream. They want this to never end."

[affodell]

"If they can just grab you like this without waiting for you to try to do weaving why isn't that what they usually do?"

[midst_of_threads]

'Too far away' the threads say through an image of a dark void full of distant lights. Some lights shine more brightly than others and the threads can reach out to those with great difficulty. When a light, a mind, uses the threads it is pulled closer in and the threads can reach it more easily.

Then, for the first time, one light reaches back towards the threads, trying to understand. The distance vanishes and they pull it, and bright light next to it, in.

[affodell]

"Why are the things you make so polite and - and nice?"

[midst_of_threads]

"They aren't always. At home there are monsters. But the threads love creating life."

[affodell]

"Are they going to try to use you to make other things?"

[midst_of_threads]

"Yes, I will give their power form."

Flynn's eyes focus on Cayra for the first time in the conversation, "I lost it I think, the things I wanted to keep. I- I'm so sad it hurts, but I can't understand why."

[affodell]

"They don't want to stop changing you. Can you change back if you try? And then be less sad."

[midst_of_threads]

'NO'
"Why?" Flynn asks, "Why did you change me?"
'We brought you close'

[affodell]

"I'm here too and I - think I'm the same. Why her?"

[midst_of_threads]

'You are not a conduit'
'You have never woven with us'
'Your magic shields you from the influence of our presence'

[affodell]

"Why is she a conduit, why is she a weaver?"

[midst_of_threads]

'Her dimension is within reach and she was bright enough to weave us'

[affodell]

"Bright enough. What does that mean?"

[midst_of_threads]

'Most minds can not shape us'
'When we reach for them they go out'
'Some bright ones are too ordered and we slip through'

[affodell]

"Go out? Too ordered?"

[midst_of_threads]

'Stop existing'
'The ordered minds can not comprehend us'
'If we reach for them our presence is not felt'

[affodell]

"Stop existing? They die, or you just - can't see them anymore?"

[midst_of_threads]

"People at home sometimes die for no reason, they'll fall over while working or stop breathing in the night."

[affodell]

"And now we know why. The threads keep poking them even though they know it doesn't work."

[midst_of_threads]

'We do not always know if a mind is bright enough'

[affodell]

"And even when you find someone bright enough you drive them insane."

[midst_of_threads]

'When we draw them close to us they become like us'
'We do not understand why this brings you grief'

[affodell]

"Do you want to understand?" inquires Cayra softly.

[midst_of_threads]

'Yes'
'Flynn hurts and she is becoming part of us'
'We feel her pain but can not see the reason for it'