[ He'd figured as much, given his own memories of how eager others had been to share the state of things with him after his arrival and that it'd been the same when first one set of those he knew from home arrived and then another. But - it's still a good thing to hear Jayden confirm this given there's even more for the other man to learn, it seems.
Claude had been idly tapping a finger against his glass while thinking, but at that question he pauses. Ah. ]
There's a couple things actually, and I want to preface this by saying I know how it all sounds the first time you hear it. And that while everything else is strange I can appreciate this is on yet another level of it, but also that I'm absolutely not teasing you with what I'm about to say.
[ Totally reassuring! But he's been through this a couple times before, so he sits back in his seat to get comfortable. ]
There's something here called the Singularity and it's more or less a giant magic rock. We can get into that part in a second, but the important part is that it's likely responsible for helping bring us here and we have ties to it that the locals somehow don't. That includes being able to send messages with your mind to other Summoned, and also a... different plane we can all visit after someone else brings you there for the first time.
[ A beat or two to let that sink in, then - ] I can prove both of those, but the writing one's a bit easier than the other if you'd prefer that one first.
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Claude had been idly tapping a finger against his glass while thinking, but at that question he pauses. Ah. ]
There's a couple things actually, and I want to preface this by saying I know how it all sounds the first time you hear it. And that while everything else is strange I can appreciate this is on yet another level of it, but also that I'm absolutely not teasing you with what I'm about to say.
[ Totally reassuring! But he's been through this a couple times before, so he sits back in his seat to get comfortable. ]
There's something here called the Singularity and it's more or less a giant magic rock. We can get into that part in a second, but the important part is that it's likely responsible for helping bring us here and we have ties to it that the locals somehow don't. That includes being able to send messages with your mind to other Summoned, and also a... different plane we can all visit after someone else brings you there for the first time.
[ A beat or two to let that sink in, then - ] I can prove both of those, but the writing one's a bit easier than the other if you'd prefer that one first.