reverie overflow.

[vecna]

i still haven't put something less stupid here

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for sprezzatura

[vecna]

((ooc; from here))

[His brow raises, his smile goes lopsided.]

Am I not welcome in here? You can’t blame me for wanting to know more about—

[Everything, really.]

—this whole situation. The monsters that lurk in our heads. You must be hers. [A simple enough conclusion to make.] Are you dangerous enough to be kept under lock and key?

[velluminous]

Depends who you ask. [ most of them you can't! they're all in solitary, forever! she seems to find this extremely amusing... and mildly annoying, too. ] I've been keeping to myself for a bit, you know? Nobody likes it much when I come around. Makes a girl feel lonely.

[ she skirts around him, checking out those laced hands behind his back ]

But you came to me.

[vecna]

[Henry turns his head, glancing at her over his shoulder as she circles around to his back. His hands remain clasped. He considers, just for a moment, the wisdom in keeping his back to her; but let her sniff about like a curious dog, he supposes.]

I was hoping to see what the fuss was all about. Right now, I don’t see much more than a restless soul stalking around in a fire.

[vecna]

((ooc; from here ))

[His brow scrunches, ever so slightly. He did not mean to cut with that remark; sometimes, he cannot help it.]

I didn't mean it like that.

[He offers the scroll back to her.]

We all have things we regret leaving unfinished.

[velluminous]

[ didn't he? she can't tell anymore.

rolls the scroll back into a tube with the practiced ease of someone who's done this a thousand times. back into the overflowing bookshelf it goes]

I am going out of my mind without these things. I need to be engaged! I want to learn, for my power to grow.

[vecna]

[How many instances of magic are in that overstuffed bookshelf of hers? How many dangerous things just waiting to be unraveled...?]

Your options are limited in the prison. But you can try to learn from the others the same way you're trying to learn from me now.

[As much as she can garner from this one experience -- he isn't exactly sure how much she'll pick up, as assured as she was to make this technique her own.]

for sprezzatura. (again)

[vecna]

((from here))

Maybe I'm just trying to make an effort to understand you better. Why is that so offensive to you?

don't call me out like that. also 1/2

[velluminous]

[ she has no answer, can think of no excuse.

so she just ends up muttering, ] You want to know more about me. Fine.

[velluminous]

Remember bingo, when we first meet? I took two men on same day for that game, because I needed release, [ ew ] and it burned in me, thinking Basilisk might lose to—more affectionate blocks. [ and they sure DID lose!! ] So I slept with two men, and I do this also because my lover was taken to solitary, and I was lonely. Then other friends, also, poof, anyone ever close to me. Again, again, one after another. And now these men I sleep with are fond of me, and men I can't have are fond of me, and you are fond of me, and it would seem my fucking oni is fond of me also!

[vecna]

[He listens, and more and more his brows raise. He had not realized how… chaotic her relationships had been (or had never been) — suddenly, things start to make even more sense, now couched in context.]

That explains your reaction that day in the diner.

[She knows what he’s referring to.]

Why don’t you just tell them you don’t want any of it?

[A moot point with the oni. Maybe not the rest. And Henry? Well, he’s just trying to navigate this purple thread, apparently.]

for wilbur.

[vecna]

(( from here ))

Let me guess. With no barrier, the monsters got through?

Re: for wilbur.

[unfinishedsymphony]

Correct. And damage was done.

[vecna]

So... do you mean to say people have mixed feelings on Solitary as a whole? You're not overflowing with members?

for moon.

[vecna]

((from here))

Well, no, I don't like paying her compliments, either. But you have to admit that it is impressive, what she's done. Moving from dimension to dimension isn't an easy task -- imagine the energy needed to steal others away from theirs, and supplant them all into one spot.

[eggstinction]

If it is her own power that has done it. This realm is half a dream and the forms we wear here are too. I think it is more likely that she has taken advantage of the nature of this place and with only half understanding.

[vecna]

So you think she just stumbled onto this place one day? And happened to use it to her advantage?

[Well, that sounds. Familiar.]

for ori.

[vecna]

((from here))

[Canned laughter definitely belongs here, somewhere.

Lightly, purposefully, he skews the tone a little humorous-]

In case I have another headache?

[hearthwarming]

I mean, sure, but I can heal more than just headaches. And cast a whole lot of other spells...

[vecna]

Really? I just assumed all of your spells had to do with healing.

for shiro.

[vecna]

((from here))

I'm told the "internet" doesn't really exist here, though. But you seem to be functioning-

[Glance down at the threads all caught in her wheels.]

-relatively fine.

[parttimeai]

Relatively.

[ snorts ]

I don't need the internet, though. Not technically. It just makes it easier for me to hop around. I could live in — do you have TVs where you're from?

[vecna]

[He nods.]

Oh, yes. I'm not that far back. The last I remember, it was 1986, if that gives you any reference.

for his favorite feral tiefling.

[vecna]

((ooc; from here))

There’s no other solution. I have to change the world, because the world won’t change for me.

[Broken, broken, Henry Creel.]

Does this change things between us?

[velluminous]

[ "does this change things?"

she cannot bite back the incredulous laugh that bubbles out of her. misanthropic, violent, lying, unfeeling Henry Creel.

he kissed her. called them the same. ]

I don't know.

[vecna]

[She laughs and his brows pinch. He almost looks disappointed — would this not be the second time he’s tried to connect with someone, only for them to rebuff him? after murder realizations, too

But her answer isn’t “no”. “I don’t know” still exists degrees away from that.]

And your willingness to help me, are you unsure about that too, now?