Voice

[manynames]

How long have you been here?

[The voice is serene and calm, deep and resonant. It begets a sense of safety and wellness, a shame there seems to be a constant, soft, subtle note of mourning to it.]

Even in the short weeks I've been here, faces have already come and gone. Is this world so transient?

[There's a soft sound, fluttering and shifting. Sounds like cloth perhaps? Feathers? Hard to tell]

It's one of the things that was not covered as well as I would have hoped from the pamphlet and the hologram at the bay.

I cannot imagine how many have been lost in such a short amount of time, if people come and leave again as quickly as I've seen thus far...

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voice;

[needssouls]

Me personally? Not long at all. Few months at best.

[She was glad this was voice right now, no important reason why she just preferred it... yeah.]

You would think something like that would be explained, don't you?

Re: voice;

[manynames]

I suppose it is all still by chance, who comes and goes.

But an explanation as to why it always seems so short would have been appreciated.

voice;

[needssouls]

Yes, extreme chance.

Who knows, maybe even those who have been here the longest don't really know.

audio;

[tevinteraltus]

[ Dorian certainly agrees, people have come and gone readily enough even since he's arrived here, barely a month ago. ]

Of course it's transient. Do you recall your abduction from your own world? I would assume no. It's all very fluid. If the path into this place is so easily overlooked, I would assume leaving is equally so, by whatever process it is this place uses.

It affirmed my assumption they mean to use us for something. If we, in whatever what is necessary, are found wanting, we are cast aside.

Re: audio;

[manynames]

To where, one would wonder.

Do we return home? To the state that we left it? In the state that we left it?

[He almost hopes not. It'd be nice to swing back into earth maybe a few hundred years down the road and hope the Council had changed it's mind but... that was hoping for a bit too much.

audio;

[tevinteraltus]

[ Though he doesn't know for certain, it would seem so. ]

Most likely. My friend has been trapped here before and we never noticed her absence.

Re: audio;

[manynames]

... I see.

[It sounds thoughtful, but there's a reason this is in audio]

What waits at home for you?

audio;

[tevinteraltus]

Personally? Being betrayed by someone I believed to be a friend, and...assuming my father's position in the Magisterium in the hopes of bringing about much needed change in my homeland.

...or getting assassinated in the process. It's all very up in the air, really. Why?

Re: audio;

[manynames]

[Gawd that doesn't make him feel better, someone here has to have something nice to go back to]

I had hoped to hear perhaps of good fortune waiting for some should they return home.

audio;

[tevinteraltus]

...oh, well. I wouldn't say it's bad fortune, really.

[ He chuckles. ]

It isn't a decent Tuesday in Tevinter without a good assassination.

Re: audio;

[manynames]

I'd rather hear that your life is kept safe, Dorian.

audio;

[tevinteraltus]

Ah...yes, well. I appreciate your concern, Azrael, but nothing worth winning was ever fought for from safety.

[ Help, I don't know how to handle people caring about me. ]