Video 01

[killedwithlove]

Who: Cole and anyone
Broadcast: Fleet-wide
Action: Marvisa
When: Now until the next shuffle?

[Cole doesn't usually sleep, so waking up is very unfamiliar. He doesn't usually feel the cold or heat much, so the deep coldness in his bones is alien.

He jerks upright with a gasp, hands scrabbling at the back of his neck and then he vanishes in a puff of black-green smoke and reappears in the corner of the room, pressing himself back into it, staring around with wide eyes.]

Whispering, watchful, wakeful, wondering, where?

[He then spends a while patting things around him like the floor and wall, whispering under his breath.

In all honesty, he'll stay in that room until someone convinces him to leave and go elsewhere. It's not like he has to leave for any reason.]

Comments

[killedwithlove]

Most spirits live in other people's bodies. Mortals call them abominations, spirits in mortal bodies. Usually they destroy the person that was in there first.

[faithfulwisdom]

[Well. That sure is information. Finrod does a double take.]

I have never before heard of such a thing.

[killedwithlove]

... really?

[The idea of not knowing about abominations is strange.]

[faithfulwisdom]

Truly. The Valar and Maiar might be termed 'spirits,' I suppose; they do not naturally have physical forms of their own. But their powers are such that they may take them on, if they wish, without causing harm to any other.

[killedwithlove]

[Cole doesn't know what either of those things is. They're not spirits. Spirits don't have names like that.]

It might be similar. I don't know. I'm sorry.

[faithfulwisdom]

You needn't be; you have no more reason to know of my world than I have to know of yours.

[killedwithlove]

[Cole hums and shifts.]

I would sooner apologise when I don't need to than not apologise when I should.

[faithfulwisdom]

A sound policy, if one that is unfortunately rare, in my experience.

[killedwithlove]

People think an apology is a weakness. It's not. It's Compassion.