GHH 5 | orb

[steelhearted]

[Your handsome prince is a bit peaky-looking as he addresses the orb from a horizontal position. A bit green, too. Still, there are things that must be dealt with.]

How many of us have ended up somewhere unfamiliar, precisely? Are any of you who've been relocated in trouble? I hope I'm not the only one hearing odd voices in my sleep, either.

[A grimace. One eye cracks open.]

And. Fennel. Please.

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[yumemi_no_ou]

...what sort of voices?

[steelhearted]

It changes. Speaks in riddles--it almost sounds like it's more than one person, but addresses itself as 'I'.

The only thing I can think is that perhaps it's being warped on purpose, to make it impossible to trace. And it seems...concerned.

[For lack of a better word.]

[yumemi_no_ou]

Concerned.

... you talking about the midnight orb-er? [[and he makes a face at himself. Orber? Really? Ug.]]

No picture, talks worse than Snow on a bad day, only comes out at night and seems to be some sort of batshit local?

[steelhearted]

Yes. [Relief. He's not insane. 'Worse than snow' doesn't make much sense to him, but he figures it's some kind of expression...?] Is this something that happens often?

[yumemi_no_ou]

Hell if I know. It's been doing that a few times, at least. I slept through it a few times, so haven't any idea how many time's it's actually done that.

[steelhearted]

I see.

[A grimace.] And there's no idea who it could be? Or what, I suppose.

[yumemi_no_ou]

No one I can reach... Too damned many of those here... [[there's a slight scowl as he says that, but it fades]]

[steelhearted]

In dreams, you mean?

[He taps his bottom lip.] Is there any way to keep track of these orbs? How many there are, who has them, where they're located, that sort of thing.

[yumemi_no_ou]

Yeah. In the Dreaming.

And I have no idea. Hell, I'm not even sure where people get these things...

[steelhearted]

Perhaps that's somewhere to start. Find out where they come from.

[yumemi_no_ou]

...and how do you propose we do that? Ask around?

[[His tone makes it pretty clear what he thinks of the chance of that working...]]

[steelhearted]

Why not? Has anyone tried?