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[worldeating]

[The video feed flickers to life, and there is a man with dark hair gazing at the "screen" for all to see.  There is something decidedly serpentine about the incline of his head, the way his lips are almost curled into a snarl, exposing a flash of white teeth before he speaks

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voice;

[manskirt]

[ cheerful. ]

It seems you still have your voice though, doesn't it? Even with all the humiliation.

[ he's...not contesting that part. ]

voice;

[worldeating]

[Alduin's like a bucket of rainbows over here, yup.]

No. [Blunt, too.] It is not the same. The words you hear now are transient and weak -- it is not my [a pause as he actually has to think of the word. He hates how this place has replaced his tongue for something else entirely.] Thu'um. My power is stripped from me, and that is the worst of all the transgressions.

voice;

[manskirt]

[ given the circumstances, it's understandable. anders doesn't experience many colors other than blue, himself. ]

...Your power. [ well. he knows a little about that. ] I take it you mean your magic? [ this isn't thedas. people mention it so freely. ] ...You're not the only one who's experienced something like that.

voice;

[worldeating]

It is not the same magic that mages wield, but you may think of it as such if it helps you understand. [so... condescending...] It is the language of dragons, and the ability to wield the words of power. My Voice.

voice;

[manskirt]

[ how...helpful. ] So you have...special dragon language magic. It's not as though I haven't heard that before.

Perhaps you aren't speaking it now because all of us littler people wouldn't be able to understand it if you did.

voice;

[worldeating]

[man there is no way of saying that I used to yell magical dragon words very eloquently, okay]

I speak the words well enough, [to illustrate this point:] mal kiir. But they lack effect.

voice;

[manskirt]

[ why not just come out with it and say it? oh, that's right--because you know it's ludicrous. ]

So it is a spell. Just...a special dragon spell. [ to be fair, he's heard crazier. ] Why is it always dragons?

voice;

[worldeating]

[shut up we are a proud and ancient race of angry shouters]

[He clicks his tongue a little (woah that's different), before responding.] And what do you know of my kind?

voice;

[manskirt]

You mean aside from all the fire-breathing and the bone-crushing and the dragonling summoning?

...No, that about sums it up.

voice;

[worldeating]

[The curl of his lips] Then you know nothing at all. Or the so-called dovah of your lands are very simplistic in their nature.

voice;

[manskirt]

Simplistic, maybe. But not simple at all. Nothing ever is, when it's repeatedly trying to kill you. [ but it was so much more fun when it went after fenris instead. ] I mean, I never understood what they were saying when they shrieked bloody pain down on all of us. Was that the special dragon magic? Because it smelled.

voice;

[worldeating]

[why can't you boys just get along?] I know nothing of the dragons that you have encountered; whether they possess a Thu'um is beyond me. Perhaps it was only the sounds of an animal they created, or perhaps it was a language. Likely an insult.

voice;

[manskirt]

Well, the insults were entirely mutual, I'll give you that. If dragons have their version of Andraste's Flaming Arse and various other dwarven epithets too vile for polite company. ...Sometimes sounding more like belches than like actual words. [ isn't this getting along? no one's threatened anyone bodily harm yet. surely that has to mean something. ] We weren't sitting down to have tea and comment on the weather, if that's what you're getting at.

voice;

[worldeating]

I was not assuming anything. [Though you can't see it, he's staring at this bracelet contraption, the source of this voice, with a faint frown. Why can't everyone speak plainly like other dragons? Irritatingly enough, this is going to take some getting used to.]

Though I do wonder if this dovah thought you too talkative.

voice;

[manskirt]

This 'dovah' wouldn't be the first to think so. You know, I get that all the time? 'Why won't Anders shut up' or 'why won't Anders stop whining' or 'why won't Anders not talk about the plight of the mages?' And also 'I wish Anders was funnier,' but mostly I think they don't appreciate my sense of humor.

Re: voice;

[worldeating]

I believe it is simply your incessant speech that they do not appreciate. [Out of all things to zero into (because he feels as if he has to latch onto SOMETHING out of all that):] What plight do these mages suffer?