RE: Cloudsea - The Chronicle of Alice Van Vaugen
06-22-2017, 09:33 AM
Alice walks over to the statue that is Qhen and the book. She's had a little bit to sort through her own thoughts, and now begins to sort through these.
Qhen. Pronounced Ken. An odd accent. Dhemon? Alice has no real reason to doubt that... She's met at least one Dhemon, and her curiosity had gotten the best of her. That one had rusty red skin, a series of long, thin, tube-like horns that curved down the back of their head like hair, and small, well kept claws. They are supposedly a varied species. But that's not the thing she's really concerned about. Everything they've said is unconfirmed, and likely to stay that way, without some form of third party... and even then, if that third party isn't trustworthy...
Alice sat down. It looked funny, just sitting down in a yawning empty white void, and it felt even funnier, but it helped her calm down. She was prone to bouts of what could only be described as 'fanciful paranoia'. Which is to say, she is capable of giving herself stomach pains over nothing. But this wasn't exactly nothing. They claim to be a bodyguard, and not a thief. Those don't have to be mutually exclusive. They also didn't properly get a chance to explain WHO had told them to watch her. The same party also referred to her as a Librarian. Librarian. >L<ibrarian. That's important. Not 'a librarian' but 'Librarian'. Capital L. It was pronounced with meaning and gravitas that Alice isn't certain that Qhen themselves knew they were lending it. Which... leads her to believe they don't know why she's called Librarian. Ugh. This would be easier if they were BOTH trapped in this weird void. Instead, she's trapped by herself, and Qhen is a rock or something.
What else does she know? ... They CAN'T be a bodyguard. Or they're REALLY BAD at it, or REALLY NEW. If they were trained, even if she got the literal jump on them... There's no way- Heck. She wouldn't have walked into the room like that! She would have just... knocked on the open door and asked if they were there- ... Then again, SHE might have shot at someone doing that.
Alice regretfully admits that without the ability to read minds, hearts, or stone, she wasn't getting anywhere with this.
Standing back up, she takes another look at Qhen. ... Until now, she didn't really get a good look at them, but they're not stone. They're just... grey. That is to say, she can still see through their skin, sort of... It's like they have a layer of skin, tightly stretched over an exoskeleton of mostly bones and some muscle. It's kinda unsettling. Or exciting. She cannot decide which. She loves to learn things, and now she sort of wants to learn about Qhen- Oh. It looks like the book is loose in their grip.
Hmm. The book. You know, if this was a trap somehow, it's a fairly inconvenient one for Qhen, it seems! Oh well. Alice would like to take the book. How do you feel about this?
Qhen. Pronounced Ken. An odd accent. Dhemon? Alice has no real reason to doubt that... She's met at least one Dhemon, and her curiosity had gotten the best of her. That one had rusty red skin, a series of long, thin, tube-like horns that curved down the back of their head like hair, and small, well kept claws. They are supposedly a varied species. But that's not the thing she's really concerned about. Everything they've said is unconfirmed, and likely to stay that way, without some form of third party... and even then, if that third party isn't trustworthy...
Alice sat down. It looked funny, just sitting down in a yawning empty white void, and it felt even funnier, but it helped her calm down. She was prone to bouts of what could only be described as 'fanciful paranoia'. Which is to say, she is capable of giving herself stomach pains over nothing. But this wasn't exactly nothing. They claim to be a bodyguard, and not a thief. Those don't have to be mutually exclusive. They also didn't properly get a chance to explain WHO had told them to watch her. The same party also referred to her as a Librarian. Librarian. >L<ibrarian. That's important. Not 'a librarian' but 'Librarian'. Capital L. It was pronounced with meaning and gravitas that Alice isn't certain that Qhen themselves knew they were lending it. Which... leads her to believe they don't know why she's called Librarian. Ugh. This would be easier if they were BOTH trapped in this weird void. Instead, she's trapped by herself, and Qhen is a rock or something.
What else does she know? ... They CAN'T be a bodyguard. Or they're REALLY BAD at it, or REALLY NEW. If they were trained, even if she got the literal jump on them... There's no way- Heck. She wouldn't have walked into the room like that! She would have just... knocked on the open door and asked if they were there- ... Then again, SHE might have shot at someone doing that.
Alice regretfully admits that without the ability to read minds, hearts, or stone, she wasn't getting anywhere with this.
Standing back up, she takes another look at Qhen. ... Until now, she didn't really get a good look at them, but they're not stone. They're just... grey. That is to say, she can still see through their skin, sort of... It's like they have a layer of skin, tightly stretched over an exoskeleton of mostly bones and some muscle. It's kinda unsettling. Or exciting. She cannot decide which. She loves to learn things, and now she sort of wants to learn about Qhen- Oh. It looks like the book is loose in their grip.
Hmm. The book. You know, if this was a trap somehow, it's a fairly inconvenient one for Qhen, it seems! Oh well. Alice would like to take the book. How do you feel about this?