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eastbound2022-02-03 04:42 pm
chemlocked) wrote in eastbound2022-02-03 04:42 pm
un: 2ndmass; video
[ Ben had spent most of the night reading the information he'd been given after he recovered from making his way to the lighthouse. It hadn't offered nearly enough answers to the questions swirling in his head. About how, and why, and where everyone else was.
Or if he was even really here or was this some nightmare game of the Espheni to keep him distracted when his unit and people needed him most?
That thought keeps creeping into his head, along with the glimpses that seem as if his vision is darkening, and he can't find proof if it's real. Not enough to calm the thoughts in his head. ]
Hey. I was brought here by Enam? That's the name, right? I somehow washed up on the beach. Name's Ben Mason. I'm with the 2nd Mass out of Boston.
Truth is none of this makes sense. I want to believe it's a game, trying to make me believe it's real but it's only doing the opposite.
[ He hates putting this out there, but if it is all a dream, then would it matter?
There's glimpses of the wall behind him, soft reflections of light from the shards and bits of mirror in the room behind him. The pain of touching those shards without a cut driving him to reach out. again but he's started this video instead of trying again. ]
I think I'm seeing things. Hearing them too. Nothing seems right. Doesn't seem real either. Hell, maybe I'm just losing my mind.
[ Or his mental connections with the Overlords has screwed up his brain. Could be that too.
He sighs, rubbing at the back of his head and fighting the urge to rub at the top spikes he's keeping hidden behind his jacket's collar. ]
How do you know the world's real when nothing's right?
Or if he was even really here or was this some nightmare game of the Espheni to keep him distracted when his unit and people needed him most?
That thought keeps creeping into his head, along with the glimpses that seem as if his vision is darkening, and he can't find proof if it's real. Not enough to calm the thoughts in his head. ]
Hey. I was brought here by Enam? That's the name, right? I somehow washed up on the beach. Name's Ben Mason. I'm with the 2nd Mass out of Boston.
Truth is none of this makes sense. I want to believe it's a game, trying to make me believe it's real but it's only doing the opposite.
[ He hates putting this out there, but if it is all a dream, then would it matter?
There's glimpses of the wall behind him, soft reflections of light from the shards and bits of mirror in the room behind him. The pain of touching those shards without a cut driving him to reach out. again but he's started this video instead of trying again. ]
I think I'm seeing things. Hearing them too. Nothing seems right. Doesn't seem real either. Hell, maybe I'm just losing my mind.
[ Or his mental connections with the Overlords has screwed up his brain. Could be that too.
He sighs, rubbing at the back of his head and fighting the urge to rub at the top spikes he's keeping hidden behind his jacket's collar. ]
How do you know the world's real when nothing's right?
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but I don't think it's rude to ask.
I know a lot of mind magic. telepathic stuff. minor teleportation. some spells that help in a fight. those kinds of things.
plus I have a hell hound named fluffy. he's magic too.
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[ Maybe not the best idea but definitely educational. ]
Whoa. Okay then. That's all natural to you?
Like literally a hell hound? Like from Hell? Don't they drag people to Hell? I mean, in the legends.
[ Because definitely nothing he could imagine was in his world but then five years ago he wouldn't have believed in an alien invasion either. ]
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but yes. all my magic is natural for me.
who says fluffy isn't going to drag me to hell?
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I feel weird asking people where they're from since I'm still working out where I am but is that normal for your people?
[ Not as if the things he can do are normal for him, after all. ]
You're kidding, right?