01 | voice

[longaevus]

It would appear that time is a more delicate entity than belief would have it.

[ Her voice is curious, if cautious. The sounds you would hear for someone being outside are audible - sounds of the forest, to be specific. Helen isn't quite certain as to how she arrived here - could Adam's portal's stretch so far? She didn't know, and she wasn't prepared to pose the question with more unknowns than that around ]

We're often told to be careful with it, for it may simply just pass. [ And doesn't she know it ] But what about when it stops?

[ Helen's speaking more to simple fill the gap until she's certain she's ready to ask something - and she knows what to ask, although she's hoping to see something other than this forest first (or that may become the question) ]

Or paused. Doing that may sound difficult in of itself but how would you restart it? One would hope so, lest everything cease. [ And she's seen that before, and it didn't go with time stopping.

But there. There it is. The edge of the forest and... something else indeed ]

Thankfully in this case it would seem that all is well, or at least that time is moving. [ All is not well when you're not where you should be ] But when? I'll forgo the where, [ For now. If you hadn't learned that she was new by her unfamiliar voice than this was your cue ] and settle for when. What year is this? [ It's important when you've extensively travelled ]

Comments

[longaevus]

It can provide guidance to what we should know - things that would be appropriate for the time.

[vengefully]

Most things like that tend to be irrelevant here.

[longaevus]

How so?

[vengefully]

I only meant that the more important questions would be where we are and how we got here.

[longaevus]

Oh, they likely are, but this I found necessary also.

[vengefully]

Well the year is 2013.

[longaevus]

Thank you. And for the where? [ Technically asked for it ]

[vengefully]

This place is called The City.

[longaevus]

The City of...? I assume that there's a what, or where with that? A location?

[vengefully]

That's all it goes by. This place is a differnet world from where any of us are from run by a few Deities.

[longaevus]

Is there proof of this being an alternate world?

[vengefully]

From the various types of people brought here.

[longaevus]

Such as? [ That could be anything ]

[vengefully]

The places they're from or even the the things they can do are sometimes what don't exist where I'm from or even fictional in some aspects.

[longaevus]

[ Do go on, she knows this story quite well ] Could it not be that, instead, they've simply gone unnoticed? That they could exist but the world denies it?

[vengefully]

What makes you say that?

[longaevus]

It's just a theory.

[vengefully]

Well that's one way to look at it.

[longaevus]

Do you know how many have been brought here? A total population.

[vengefully]

I don't know the exact number. It varies between new arrivals and people leaving this place.

[longaevus]

Then it could be possible that there are more here than anyone knows of, particularly if they don't greet themselves.

[vengefully]

True enough. Well unless you ask the deities themselves.

[longaevus]

I wonder whether I would hear an answer. For all that is unknown it makes me doubt it.

[vengefully]

Probably. The most we do know is in the guides that people have written up.

[longaevus]

How comprehensive are they?