.01 : [Accidental Voice + Action] : searching. . .

[archive_sky]

[Through the crow's eye, the back of a naked teenage girl can be seen - the girl is kneeling. A particularly perceptive person might pick up on the view of the village's edge over her nude shoulder, the angle suggesting that she is kneeling along the treeline to the north.]

My name is Ark. I mean you no harm. Where am I?

[...there's a several second

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[songofthedeep]

All right, Ark?

You couldn't hurt us if you tried.

You're in Sheol.

[He's making fun of her]

[archive_sky]

[The view in the crow's eye goes wonky as she grabs it by the neck - without turning - and gradually brings it around to her face. The crow of course protests this with an angry 'kyawk!' and the thrashing of wings.]

...where are you? [her voice is curious; she's speaking English now, same as the voice she heard, right down to a delicate echo of the accent.]

[songofthedeep]

The lake. South of your position about half a k.

[archive_sky]

Your voice is coming from this bird.

[songofthedeep]

Yeah, I've got one what's just like it.

[archive_sky]

A communication device?

[songofthedeep]

Catch on quick, don't you?

[archive_sky]

...how is the audio transmitted from one to the other?

[songofthedeep]

Beats the hell out of me. Call it magic, I dunno. It just works.

[archive_sky]

'Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.'

I'm sorry. I seem to be confused. What year is it?

[songofthedeep]

It isn't. That is to say, there's no real way of telling time here. Days pass, and I think we've agreed in general what month and day it is, but there are no seasons and there's no consensus on the year.

Congratulations, you've come to a place that exists outside of time.

[archive_sky]

Oh. I hadn't considered that possibility.

Why do you call it Sheol?

[songofthedeep]

This is a prison, and Sheol is what our captor calls it. Sheol is a hebrew version of hell. Supposedly, it fits because we're all dead and our captor is one of the angels of death who's keeping us here to play with us.

[archive_sky]

How did you obtain this information?

[songofthedeep]

He gave it out little by little. I was one of the first people here. I've been around a while.

[archive_sky]

Have you met him? Or have you spoken with him through the communication device?