When Seizhi Schwan opens their eyes for the first time - comes into the joyful realization that they have eyes, that there’s a them to have eyes and to open them with - it’s in a neat and sterile laboratory, and, for a moment, they have to shield those brand-new eyes against a terrible and awe-inspiring radiance. They blink the spots away and stare at the person who, they assume, brought them here; that holy (? unholy ?) light is gone, but it’s unnerving how they can’t seem to focus on his (???) face. He’s not the person they somehow came into the world knowing, the emerald-green serpent who is a river and a wish and a dream and a thousand of thousands of feet long.
“Actual, I’ve brought you here and bound you here,” the stranger says, “to help me find an old friend.”
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This is such an interesting dynamic to choose
Date: 2018-12-23 04:28 pm (UTC)“Actual, I’ve brought you here and bound you here,” the stranger says, “to help me find an old friend.”