( given he has been in kenos for far less time, john's perspective is somewhat different — where trouble and conflict might have been sparse, intermittent, and atmospheric in their first few months here, the current generation of Shard-Bearers are now paying witness to its slow encroachment, just as one might watch a borderline of shadows slowly creep forward as the fire which kept them at bay died. springstar and highstorm, which might have once seemed like bastions against the unknown, now fall beneath its curtain and therefore victim to the chaos which reigned within. )
Roots, leaves, flowers, and the blasted cold — yes, the same is happening in Highstorm. Though I didn't come across anything like this...
( though perhaps that had just been a combination of good and bad luck on either side.
he wouldn't at all blame the man for not wanting to frequent the midnight city, though; the construction of the sociopolitical framework within which the Shard-Bearers interacted with one another and the locations available to them was not what any might call cut-and-dry, and it largely bent to personal impetus and one's unique situation. those newer to kenos, like john, might be able to get away with more freedom of movement than others, whose previous actions would mark them to Bearers of the opposing faction. regardless, with the cities under attack from their environment rather than their inhabitants, at least neither of these two would harbor ill intentions when there are more dire circumstances at foot.
if the oblique reference to alenroux was noticed by john (it was, of course), he doesn't pay any mind to it; his own involvement in that situation is such that he is more motivated than most to remain perfectly mum about it. he instead focuses on what's before them: ) A sound assumption. ( that the Blight was behind this was something he felt was without a doubt, though...
it makes sense that vander's thoughts would go to aetós. ) It's certainly a possibility that they might be involved, but based on the scale of everything - I would caution jumping to conclusions. ( from what he had managed to glean from the facility, it seems to him that aetós makes a tool of time, pulling out of it what they wish, but that seems magnitudes different than what they are standing within now. it would be more likely that the further intensification of the Blight might have been something they — or others — had a hand in, but otherwise...
he's about to say they should perhaps look around and try to see if there's a way out of whatever's going on — or perhaps some way to fix it — but he's cut off by a glimpse of movement out of the corner of his eye. based on where he's standing, a narrow alley cuts in-between several towering buildings to his right, leading to another backstreet parallel to this one. movement. it had been movement. someone had just walked across the narrow gap visible of that other street — the silhouette had seemed... small. a child? )
Did you see that? ( he asks sharply, beginning to gravitate in that direction. he's not necessarily sure; not everyone is as keen-eyed to their surrounding as an avatar of the Eye. ) I'm pretty sure someone just walked past. ( though, oddly enough, the area around them is still utterly quiet; he can't hear any footsteps beyond their own. )
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Roots, leaves, flowers, and the blasted cold — yes, the same is happening in Highstorm. Though I didn't come across anything like this...
( though perhaps that had just been a combination of good and bad luck on either side.
he wouldn't at all blame the man for not wanting to frequent the midnight city, though; the construction of the sociopolitical framework within which the Shard-Bearers interacted with one another and the locations available to them was not what any might call cut-and-dry, and it largely bent to personal impetus and one's unique situation. those newer to kenos, like john, might be able to get away with more freedom of movement than others, whose previous actions would mark them to Bearers of the opposing faction. regardless, with the cities under attack from their environment rather than their inhabitants, at least neither of these two would harbor ill intentions when there are more dire circumstances at foot.
if the oblique reference to alenroux was noticed by john (it was, of course), he doesn't pay any mind to it; his own involvement in that situation is such that he is more motivated than most to remain perfectly mum about it. he instead focuses on what's before them: ) A sound assumption. ( that the Blight was behind this was something he felt was without a doubt, though...
it makes sense that vander's thoughts would go to aetós. ) It's certainly a possibility that they might be involved, but based on the scale of everything - I would caution jumping to conclusions. ( from what he had managed to glean from the facility, it seems to him that aetós makes a tool of time, pulling out of it what they wish, but that seems magnitudes different than what they are standing within now. it would be more likely that the further intensification of the Blight might have been something they — or others — had a hand in, but otherwise...
he's about to say they should perhaps look around and try to see if there's a way out of whatever's going on — or perhaps some way to fix it — but he's cut off by a glimpse of movement out of the corner of his eye. based on where he's standing, a narrow alley cuts in-between several towering buildings to his right, leading to another backstreet parallel to this one. movement. it had been movement. someone had just walked across the narrow gap visible of that other street — the silhouette had seemed... small. a child? )
Did you see that? ( he asks sharply, beginning to gravitate in that direction. he's not necessarily sure; not everyone is as keen-eyed to their surrounding as an avatar of the Eye. ) I'm pretty sure someone just walked past. ( though, oddly enough, the area around them is still utterly quiet; he can't hear any footsteps beyond their own. )