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𝖆𝖑𝖎𝖓𝖆 𝖘𝖙𝖆𝖗𝖐𝖔𝖛 ☼ ([personal profile] solmate) wrote in [community profile] abraxasnet2021-10-27 02:28 pm
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[personal profile] usilivat 2021-10-30 08:41 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Everything, everything, has been strange to some degree or another since he was dragged, naked and spluttering, out of fountain by an absolute stranger. So the dinner plate in front of him glistening and revealing three words is entirely in line with present experiences, and is met, initially, with a flicker of frustrated irritation, that gives way to— ]

Alina?

[ The more important thing to verify, though the words themselves sparked up questions of their own. ]
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[personal profile] usilivat 2021-10-31 04:30 am (UTC)(link)
[ Immediately, so quickly that they nearly overlap with her words appearing to him— ]

Where are you? Are you safe?

What's happening?
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[personal profile] usilivat 2021-10-31 09:13 pm (UTC)(link)
[ ??????????????????????

Perhaps it is luck that the question marks don't manifest as his actual answer. ]


Where is that? Who is Sam?
Are you safe?
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[personal profile] usilivat 2021-10-31 09:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Someone pulled me out of a well.

[ Written text doesn't fully capture how resentful Mal is about this event. ]

I'm in a castle. Thorne.
Are you safe?


[ Text also doesn't capture the increasing agitation around this question. Were Mal writing instead frowning over every thought, he might be pressing the point of his pen into paper hard enough to tear. ]
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[personal profile] usilivat 2021-10-31 09:28 pm (UTC)(link)
I haven't seen him.

[ Reassurance, but not a promise that he won't go looking.

However— ]


Where is the Free Cities from here? Can you draw me a map?

[ Is this method of communication set up for that? Mal has already lifted his plate from the table, begun the brisk walk back to his room. ]

Is the danger here Kirigan, or something else?
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[personal profile] usilivat 2021-10-31 09:56 pm (UTC)(link)
[ There is a pause here.

Mal considers all of what she's said. A portal. (What?) A desert between them. (Ugh.) Prison. Executions. (A bad sign.)

And mostly, he considers that it will be difficult to get to her, given all that she's told him. ]


I don't know. I can ask after her.
Is it safe to ask after her?
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[personal profile] usilivat 2021-11-02 02:15 am (UTC)(link)
[ That doesn't sound promising. ]

Is there no other way out but through a portal?
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[personal profile] usilivat 2021-11-06 03:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Don't come here.

[ Immediate, even without full understanding of what exactly the danger here is.

There's something. They'd left for a reason, even if he can't remember it. And the Darkling is here. That is more than enough reason to stay away. ]


I'll find my way to you. Once I get my bearings, I'll figure a way out. We found one before, didn't we?
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[personal profile] usilivat 2021-11-13 11:29 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm not going to die crossing a desert.

[ The first, immediate rebuttal. He's crossed harsher terrain, hasn't he?

But, in a more conciliatory approach— ]


I'll find another way. If you left before, you had a reason. Stay where you are. I won't try to leave without telling you first, I promise.

What do you mean, amnesia?