Voice;

[mopirates_moproblems]

[James hasn't made a post since his first - in part because he's terribly lost. He has proper clothes, now, thanks to Favrielle, but it is still overwhelming to be in such a foreign place. His concern isn't so much the rationing, though that seems to be quite the source of anxiety for some he's encountered. What he wants is answers to the many and contradictory things he's been told since his arrival.]

I find myself at something of a loss, in this place, with so many people from such seemingly different times and places. It seems impossible that one person could have brought us here, and insensible that they should.

[That, though, is a subject he's sure has been at the center of many debates. What truly haunts him is what he heard from Peggy and Ariadne before.] I was led to believe that this place was a sort of afterlife, and yet, if I understand correctly, there are some here with ambitions to return to their homes. I do not see how such a thing could be accomplished.

[And that's it. No suggestions, he's just mulling. Aloud, and in public, which, he realizes now, is terribly unseemly.]

Forgive me. There is little purpose to these musings. Perhaps they are better off left unvoiced.

Comments

Voice

[bindsthedead]

I have traveled between Life and Death, but this wasn't what I expected to lie between them.

[And he isn't trying to kill her, either!]

And you haven't felt- different? The Dead here are different from the ones I faced before I entered this place.

Re: Voice

[mopirates_moproblems]

I -- see. I thought such abilities were only rumor.

[He is not. He has that going for him.]

I feel significantly better than I did before arriving here, considering.

Voice

[bindsthedead]

Then I must inform you that necromancers are entirely real.

And you don't feel any desire to devour the living. [The 'just checking' is implicit in her tone.]

Re: Voice

[mopirates_moproblems]

Should I?

Voice

[bindsthedead]

Well, it makes you rather different from almost of the Dead I encountered in Ancelstierre and the Old Kingdom.

Re: Voice

[mopirates_moproblems]

Neither is a place I'm familiar with...

Voice

[bindsthedead]

Ah... I'm sorry. Where are you from then?

Re: Voice

[mopirates_moproblems]

Most recently, Jamaica, though England would be the more appropriate answer.

Voice

[bindsthedead]

I'm afraid I haven't heard of either of them.

Are there any mages in your country?

Re: Voice

[mopirates_moproblems]

Voodoo nonsense, but nothing more than that. I take it magic means something else to you than to me.

Re: Voice

[bindsthedead]

Something far more than parlor tricks and stories told to frighten schoolgirls.

[And there's a haunted edge as Sabriel speaks.]

I have studied it for years.

Re: Voice

[mopirates_moproblems]

I see. Does it do anything, then, to help you fighting the beasts of which you spoke?

Re: Voice

[bindsthedead]

It does a great deal. Ordinary methods will not force them to stay dead.

Voice

[mopirates_moproblems]

I know that kind.

Re: Voice

[bindsthedead]

You do? How did you fight them without magic?

Voice

[mopirates_moproblems]

Without much success, in general terms.

Voice

[bindsthedead]

Fire works, and they cannot cross running water.

Utterly destroying their physical forms seems to work as well.

Re: Voice

[mopirates_moproblems]

I assure you, they have no difficulty with water, running or otherwise.