15 . JOHNUARY

[necrolord]

Who: John Gaius and company.
What: All around him, John's friends and loved ones begin to shed their skins. Also: Riteoir.
When: January
Where: Gaze and the new city.

Content Warnings: Tagged in headers as needed. Note all the usual warnings of this character.

Comments

[strongroots]

[ Ah- there was that other guy, wasn't there. It fits, though it's bizarre, but a lot of realities are bizarre in ways that Robby can't understand, so it's easy enough to go, ] Oh, [ in a way where he doesn't get it, but is pretending to.

Oh. Okay. ]

Real different worlds, [ is how he'll leave it, since--he's doesn't particularly want to pry. He gets that enough from other people with him and his dad. ]

--You got any feelings about this whole place? [ A safer topic, and he'll nod his head in direction of, well, the city in its entirety. ] Abandoned, doesn't look like there was a takeover. 'Cept the plants.

[ Are those the things people care to note when they wander into empty cities? ]

[necrolord]

[ Robby lets it go, and he can see the kindness of that; it's an unexpected moment of relief in a world that seems to love grilling him. John tips his head in acknowledgment of the safer topic, the ease of a common enemy in the landscape itself. ]

If there was a takeover, [ he says, mild as a man remarking on the weather, ] I'm sure it was very spooky. Pthumerian infighting, probably.

[ He tips a hand to the mushrooms, and Robby here retrieving them. ]

The kind of thing they send us to deal with.