❂ fifteenth | accidental video

[gazingup]

[ Those are the sound of firm footsteps you're hearing. Footsteps that suit the steady movement of his stride, of the straight-backed and confident posture belonging to the one stepping down a stone-laden path of the City. Who could it possibly be? A new arrival? But how strange that a new arrival would be so unperturbed by the atypical sight

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1/A FEW

[shiningdown]

You left!?

AND THE APPEARANCE SETS IN....

[shiningdown]

Wait...how long were you gone for exactly? Your hair---

and....

[shiningdown]

You sound different.

ALSO

[shiningdown]

You seem different.

SHE IS GUESSING

[shiningdown]

Did you, by any chance, hit your head----hard---possibly more than once?

BECAUSE

[shiningdown]

That would explain...well, not much but it would be something to go off of.

audio ][ AND DONE

[shiningdown]

Tristan that is you, isn't it? Or is this another case of sharing faces...

1/ ?

[gazingup]

Yvaine!

Re: audio ][ AND DONE

[gazingup]

When did you return? Did you manage to leave with me and enter at a different point in the City?

[gazingup]

[ PAUSE, and then an alarmed voice ]

You didn't fall again, did you?

[gazingup]

... Wait.

Different? I'm not any different than from when you last saw me. Just minutes ago, you-

[gazingup]

It seems like I was the only one who left.

[ . . . ]

Which means I will need to be careful in the future.

[gazingup]

Yes, it's me. Tristan Thorn.

I didn't hit my head.

1/?

[shiningdown]

I didn't even leave to begin with, I--

[shiningdown]

And yes, yes you are different, very different, in fact so different that it's downright confusing.

[shiningdown]

Yes, that's what I said. You were the only one! Why, I've no idea but then---