[Good, okay. He expected Keith to understand, at least for now. It makes this slightly less difficult. It was always going to be rough for him, but agreeing to no discussion beyond the facts right now is at least one less thing off the 99 other problems he's got.]
Man, where do I even start…
[He lets out a shuddered breath and smooths a gloved hand through his hair on one side as he thinks. His hair is a bit more in his eyes these days, but he still keeps himself well groomed and away from mullets. For so many reasons… anyway, right, basics. Focus Lance.]
This place is called Trench. Well, the city is, anyway. The world is Deer Country, because it was sort of "born" from this place called Deerington. [Wow, this really is a lot. He heaves a breath and focuses on lining up the basic facts and knocking them down, following one thread of information to the next. It helps him disconnect from his turmoil as it's a rather robotic task.]
Anyway, Deerington was a nightmare. Literally. Those god beings I told you about? They're called Pthumerians, and they can make half Pthumerians with humans. A half Pthumerian little girl ended up being really powerful and couldn't control it- [His breath hitches there because that hits close to home. He shakes his head and continues.] She was having a nightmare she couldn't wake up from and lots of people got pulled into it from different worlds and trapped there. Then the nightmare collapsed and from her power it created this new world. And a lot of us were brought from there to here just about four months ago.
But it's been like centuries or something since this place was created, so I guess we showed up late, or some weird time dilation thing happened. I dunno, man. It makes my head hurt. But we're here now, and there's Pthumerians and half Pthumerians all around, and blood magic, and I've got no idea how or why more people like you show up here, but the way you came is the same. You were reborn as a squid thing and we're called "Sleepers" because that's what we were called in the nightmare so I guess it stuck. Also, word is there's no way home.
[He lets out another long breath and stops there for the moment to give Keith a second to take that all in. That was the extremely simplified version of everything, of course. Julia, the little girl having the nightmare turned out to have been dead for most of the time they were there if not the whole time, and it was a whole… convoluted and confusing thing that would take hours to explain.
He considered briefly about telling Keith he'd also been in the nightmare, but he knows him well enough to know he's not ready to learn he forgot over two years. Or rather, that he got a "reset" of sorts, since his body is clearly back to what it was before and he's not almost 24 anymore. Also, it's a painful subject for him and he'd rather not go there right now.]
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Man, where do I even start…
[He lets out a shuddered breath and smooths a gloved hand through his hair on one side as he thinks. His hair is a bit more in his eyes these days, but he still keeps himself well groomed and away from mullets. For so many reasons… anyway, right, basics. Focus Lance.]
This place is called Trench. Well, the city is, anyway. The world is Deer Country, because it was sort of "born" from this place called Deerington. [Wow, this really is a lot. He heaves a breath and focuses on lining up the basic facts and knocking them down, following one thread of information to the next. It helps him disconnect from his turmoil as it's a rather robotic task.]
Anyway, Deerington was a nightmare. Literally. Those god beings I told you about? They're called Pthumerians, and they can make half Pthumerians with humans. A half Pthumerian little girl ended up being really powerful and couldn't control it- [His breath hitches there because that hits close to home. He shakes his head and continues.] She was having a nightmare she couldn't wake up from and lots of people got pulled into it from different worlds and trapped there. Then the nightmare collapsed and from her power it created this new world. And a lot of us were brought from there to here just about four months ago.
But it's been like centuries or something since this place was created, so I guess we showed up late, or some weird time dilation thing happened. I dunno, man. It makes my head hurt. But we're here now, and there's Pthumerians and half Pthumerians all around, and blood magic, and I've got no idea how or why more people like you show up here, but the way you came is the same. You were reborn as a squid thing and we're called "Sleepers" because that's what we were called in the nightmare so I guess it stuck. Also, word is there's no way home.
[He lets out another long breath and stops there for the moment to give Keith a second to take that all in. That was the extremely simplified version of everything, of course. Julia, the little girl having the nightmare turned out to have been dead for most of the time they were there if not the whole time, and it was a whole… convoluted and confusing thing that would take hours to explain.
He considered briefly about telling Keith he'd also been in the nightmare, but he knows him well enough to know he's not ready to learn he forgot over two years. Or rather, that he got a "reset" of sorts, since his body is clearly back to what it was before and he's not almost 24 anymore. Also, it's a painful subject for him and he'd rather not go there right now.]