handwritten text; day 6?

[bearshermark]

sweet lily of the hidden valley:

I have healing magic

[Then, after a few minutes, he decides signing it might be a good idea, in case this works as he's been told]

-Eleven

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[bearshermark]

I have sailed on the sea before, but I haven't heard of ships that can sail between the stars.

[That's going to take some time to sink in]

And yes, the Void is meant to be a dimension between life and death. I thought that was where we were, here.

[darkeststars]

Between life and death... Hm. Give me a moment.

[ Several minutes pass before Eleven gets another message. ]

Don't know that I feel anything out of the ordinary hovering between those two states around here. Plenty of the living, and some energy of the restless left behind. Then again, the local walking corpses seem to have no presence in the Force at all, so it's still possible my senses deceive me and you have been sent somewhere just off-course from your destination.

[bearshermark]

[Both possibilities are terribly alarming in their own rights]

I hope we can find a way back in either case.

[darkeststars]

Even if I have to spend 20 years building a comm relay from scratch to contact my people, I will get off this rock.

You are certainly free to come along in such a case. But I doubt it will come to that.

[bearshermark]

[Erdrea will not survive 20 years under darkness. His handwriting is a little less steady when it comes]

I appreciate the thought.

[darkeststars]

[ He frowns at the output on the other side of this strange contraption. Is it the technology on the fritz, or...? ]

Don't get all doom-and-gloom on me now, I speak only in hypotheticals. You're not the only one who would rather be home yesterday, believe me.

[bearshermark]

I know. I'm just worried. I haven't thought much about it until now.

[darkeststars]

[ This is probably the place where a normal person would say something reassuring. ]

Well. All the more incentive to head to work, collect plenty of bribes and be on our way straight out of here, I suppose. Even if I expect half the place would be better burnt down instead.

[ Oops. ]

[bearshermark]

[Uh]

I hope we can rid this place of at least some of the undead before we leave.

[That's what he means right]

I want to help, but my own world needs me, too.

[darkeststars]

I doubt if we will make much of a dent either way. Seems the city is infested with slavers as well as moving corpses. I hear the merchant fat cats sailing in later this month are slated to bring even more 'merchandise'.

[bearshermark]

[What. Although he shouldn't really be surprised given the purpose they were brought in for, he still is]

That's awful.

[And though he tries, really, what more is there to say about such an abhorrent practice?]

[darkeststars]

Unfortunate that fire is so hard to control. Hm, maybe a localized lightning storm. Conspicuous, I suppose.

[bearshermark]

You can do fire and lightning magic with the Force?

[Perhaps their powers are similar after all]

[darkeststars]

Electricity is a specialty of mine, and many of my discipline. Fire is done the old-fashioned way: With things that go boom.

[ It's probably just as well Eleven can't see the grin he directs down at the quartz. ]

Do your powers encompass such things? Or only healing of the body?

[bearshermark]

I can channel lightning through my weapon still, but I do have fire and explosive magic as well.

I can also sleep things sometimes. It doesn't always work.

[darkeststars]

How useful.

Well then, let me ask you a question. If I were to invite you to a very theoretical shenanigan or two sometime in the near future, where we might separate some theoretical slavers from their theoretical heads, would you be amenable?

[bearshermark]

I don't know about heads, but I'd be willing to help free any theoretical slaves.

[darkeststars]

Hmm. Noted. That's all right, the heads I can certainly take care of.

I'm sure you and I will be in touch again soon enough. I will let you know what else I hear and I just suppose we shall see what happens, yes?

[ As the kids say, murder and mayhem await. ]

[bearshermark]

Yes. I'll let you know if I hear anything as well.