a tip.

[withascroll]

[ A scroll unravels from the vine. The writing is light, yet clear and plain to read with little identifying quirks. ]

You went far, but not far enough. Want rid of your fears? The walls are gone, so take what's yours.

Comments

[rueandwolf]

Do you mean those phantoms...?

[withascroll]

Do I?

[rueandwolf]

Don't turn the question back at me. [She's a bit snappish, given the stress of having not!Poland and her not!not!sisters pop up occasionally to torment her.]

[withascroll]

You are troubling yourself, not I.

[rueandwolf]

What fears I may have by this situation have never manifested themselves in such a way before I was kidnapped.

[withascroll]

She wouldn't like that term.

[rueandwolf]

How about stolen? Or captured? Held captive works as well. Very much against my will.

[withascroll]

You can think up different terms for the same thing as much as you like.

[rueandwolf]

Yes, all day. I hope she hates all of them. It doesn't make what happened less true, and it doesn't mean I'm tormenting myself because I certainly can't make false versions of my friends appear.

[withascroll]

You seem certain.

[rueandwolf]

I'm not saying what the phantoms said aren't fears I have, simply that I can't manifest them as this place is.

[withascroll]

It's only made them public.

[rueandwolf]

I certainly didn't want them to be. Or are you going to spout nonsense about how we should all be closer and more open with each other, too?

[withascroll]

That's not my duty.

[rueandwolf]

Good. I don't suppose you'll tell me what your duty is, though, aside from making cryptic statements and telling us to go find things. I assume you mean whatever was keeping us in the gardens is gone, and we have to go beyond to take back something that will get rid of the phantoms properly, but you could stand to say it in a straightforward manner. Or maybe you can't.

[withascroll]

If that's how you see it.