[ All he can do is nod silently as he follows along, flinching once again as the child - him - continues to speak in wavering, anxious tones, small feet darting ahead as he criss-crosses obstacles on the ground only he can see. ]
I can't find anyone....It didn't—It wasn't like this before. [ Before? ] Our house, it's supposed to be right there...
[ But there's no need for him to describe the landscape around them, not when Eustace still remembers every scene from that day, brief flashes of memory resurfacing in his mind before he can quell them entirely. (How could he forget, when he's relived it in his own mind hundreds to thousands of times?) Gen gets them too whether he wants them or not, thanks to their shared Aspect amplifying the emotions and thoughts between them. Snow-covered ground, stained with blood. Ugly severed body parts that, when pieced together, still don't form a coherent whole. Charred wooden posts and scraps of metal that had once been whole houses, though what little remains behind barely gives that impression.
All the while, their small guide babbles to himself, panic wrapping tightly around every word. ]
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I can't find anyone....It didn't—It wasn't like this before. [ Before? ] Our house, it's supposed to be right there...
[ But there's no need for him to describe the landscape around them, not when Eustace still remembers every scene from that day, brief flashes of memory resurfacing in his mind before he can quell them entirely. (How could he forget, when he's relived it in his own mind hundreds to thousands of times?) Gen gets them too whether he wants them or not, thanks to their shared Aspect amplifying the emotions and thoughts between them. Snow-covered ground, stained with blood. Ugly severed body parts that, when pieced together, still don't form a coherent whole. Charred wooden posts and scraps of metal that had once been whole houses, though what little remains behind barely gives that impression.
All the while, their small guide babbles to himself, panic wrapping tightly around every word. ]
They have to be okay, please let them be okay...