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[poetwarrior]

While lots of human-style furniture is understandably meant for bipeds and little else, there is a K'da poet-warrior who is appreciating the chance to test out one of the chaise lounges in the Plaza, its cushion long enough to allow the entire length of the tiger-sized creature to stretch out comfortably, hanging his forepaws over the side.

Perhaps it's frivolous to spend his time this way when there are other things he could be doing, but he's been in the Nexus many times and never had reason to ask a question. That is no longer the case.

"Have you ever had cause to uproot yourself from your home and travel to places unknown, with no intention of returning? Did you encounter any difficulties that you had not expected?"

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[grantuseyes]

This really does cut to the quick of the ordeal, doesn't it? DID he intend to help others? Maybe once upon a time, before things started to get honestly deranged in dear Yahar'gul, the Unseen Village of his founding. To say nothing of the absolute, literal radiation of continued madness upon the questionable success of his Mensis Ritual.

When reassured that this is not concerning this mysterious Rom, Micolash relaxes immediately, his expression melting back to a sleepy neutral. But when Faris' question is asked, it's a great deal like the first time he was asked if he gets handsy with all Nexus strangers. The scholar looks perplexed and is thinking back as best he can, intent on giving an honest answer and searching his memory, only to find it hazy. Patchy. Impossible to measure how long ago it all was. Hours, centuries, days, minutes; what's time in the Nightmare Frontier?

"I-..." He starts, but then stops again, thinking once more. "I believe so. The Great Ones are always sympathetic in nature. Were I to become kin, surely I would behave the same?"

[poetwarrior]

Faris doesn't know the first thing about these Great Ones that the human keeps mentioning, but that seems like it shouldn't matter. "If becoming one of them is your goal, does that not include this? Whatever responsibility you intend to assume, you must do so in all its forms, yes?"

[grantuseyes]

"There is no way to predict if my thinking were to change. Vacuous Rom's behaviour was markedly different going from human to kin. She became singly focused on maintaining her veil and living in silence on the lake. And who am I, mortal and frail-minded, to question her motivations, her actions? She knows more than I do by her very nature.

"And what will change for me should I gain more eyes and ascend? What else will I see that I do not now? It is to ask someone to commit to something before unpredictable, earth-shaking change. I will not be the man I am now in so many senses of the word..."