- ic inbox -

[pikuni]

WELCOME TO THE SALTBURNT NETWORK

USERNAME:
GOOD STAB

text ❖ audio ❖ video

Comments

[pikuni]

We share a lot of commonalities. The blood drinking. Our strength. Our hearing, our smell.

My smell is different, I think. I can smell history on people, in bits and pieces. Things that are stored in the blood and spirit.

[laozu]

I heard of claws and shapeshifting into bats and the ability to use one's mind to influence another, too. But, we are in a land unlike mine. Nobody looks like me, or has heard of the things I talk of.

You smell history... in blood and spirit? That sounds beautiful, and painful, and powerful. I wonder what you would smell inside of me!

[pikuni]

If I can do those things, I have not learned yet. But this other thing I understand. Only one other person here looks like me and understands the things I do. We are all displaced. But it must be more lonely to just be you.

I will sniff you one day, if you'd like. I think outside of this village. It has made me less than I am.

[laozu]

I am relieved to know you have someone like that, Good Stab. As for me, I am good at making friends. I'm friendly, and this is a remarkable, albeit strange, new place for me to explore.

Outside of this village — will we be our whole selves again? I have only known this place, and my limited self. When you are all you are again, you'd be welcome to sniff me.

[ for his own curiosity's sake, too... how much of mo xuanyu is left, besides the body? ]

[pikuni]

It is very strange isn't it. I have never wanted to visit this place, or the place that is like it back home.

I think so. I was all me before we came here. If I leave, I hope I am all me again. I do not want to think this place has robbed me of something that I can't get back.