We might be in a slightly larger cage in the Free Cities, but I believe the bars are still there as they are for you. Before it seemed like it was only a matter of time until they would conscript us, but with everything going on now?
[ Claude will let that thought go unfinished when it doesn't need to be for it to have the same impact. What transpired after they arrived back from Nocwich upended whatever balance was there in ways they likely can't see coming. All of them will end up as weapons before too long.
Kyle's next question does catch him off-guard ever so slightly, fortunately covered up by being timed with taking another sip of tea. He contemplates the other man over the cup's edge and yet another eyebrow is raised mostly to himself as he lowers it after. ]
I think that's the question we're all asking ourselves, isn't it? [ Some light stalling to think through that a little longer, but it doesn't bring him any closer to something concrete. ] If I'm being honest, I have a difficult time imagining any situation in which they let us or reveal any way to get home. Others have told me that occasionally those who arrive here can vanish and then aren't seen around again. There's someone in Thorne I knew through the Horizon but I haven't seen him in some time. His domain seems to have also disappeared. I can only assume he's among those who are no longer here.
[ It's not much of an answer, is it? Claude's not sure he has anything better to offer there, besides gently fishing for whether Kyle knows of this seeming phenomenon of those being brought here disappearing without a word. But - he also has something else to ask of his own. ]
Out in the hunting grounds. When you... [ He trails off. Hm. What kind of description can he use for Kyle seemingly appearing out of nowhere when they'd met, and then again during their fight with the beast? Might as well go for it. ] Your ability, to choose whether to appear. Is that something you trained in?
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[ Claude will let that thought go unfinished when it doesn't need to be for it to have the same impact. What transpired after they arrived back from Nocwich upended whatever balance was there in ways they likely can't see coming. All of them will end up as weapons before too long.
Kyle's next question does catch him off-guard ever so slightly, fortunately covered up by being timed with taking another sip of tea. He contemplates the other man over the cup's edge and yet another eyebrow is raised mostly to himself as he lowers it after. ]
I think that's the question we're all asking ourselves, isn't it? [ Some light stalling to think through that a little longer, but it doesn't bring him any closer to something concrete. ] If I'm being honest, I have a difficult time imagining any situation in which they let us or reveal any way to get home. Others have told me that occasionally those who arrive here can vanish and then aren't seen around again. There's someone in Thorne I knew through the Horizon but I haven't seen him in some time. His domain seems to have also disappeared. I can only assume he's among those who are no longer here.
[ It's not much of an answer, is it? Claude's not sure he has anything better to offer there, besides gently fishing for whether Kyle knows of this seeming phenomenon of those being brought here disappearing without a word. But - he also has something else to ask of his own. ]
Out in the hunting grounds. When you... [ He trails off. Hm. What kind of description can he use for Kyle seemingly appearing out of nowhere when they'd met, and then again during their fight with the beast? Might as well go for it. ] Your ability, to choose whether to appear. Is that something you trained in?