[It's strange, if he allowed himself a moment of conceit he'd think that the people all around this town weren't .. quite right. They looked normal, more or less, aside from this running around flaunting individuality the way everyone seemed to be, but something was ... missing, that he's used to. What was it? Some sense he currently lacked, muted by his arrival? The way their eyes were glossy but without any true light to them, like a beast or creation instead of a proper person?
He didn't dwell on it for long, doing so set him on edge in a way he couldn't quite define and didn't much like. It's easier to simply assume they are in fact all normal if antiquated and with some extremely bizzare habits.
But it does mean when someone who fits far better what he expects of people turns up, he takes immediate notice. Erichthonios has no such gifts for aether sight or soulsight, but he needs neither to see a gleam where these people otherwise lack, faintly luminant violet in the evening's shade, and an outfit far closer to what he's used to than ... quite frankly what he's currently dressed in.
No mask.
He could forgive it, nobody else had one. But as Hythlodaeus draws closer and speaks, he's studied briefly with narrowed thoughtful eyes, and then the young man all but sags with relief upon reaching the conclusion that this stranger is in fact, what he's hoping for. Whether or not this was Etheirys, at least one other person is as displaced as he is!]
I have never been so glad to see another soul than right now. [..well not quite true, recently there was that tricky bit with Themis' boundless help BUT--] I had thought mayhap it was some other part of the world, I haven't every location memorized of course, but that wouldn't change the stars--
[There's a sudden pause, mouth snapping shut with a click of teeth. No, there's a way things are done and he's being rude, Hythlodaeus introduced himself, he needs to do the same, and no amount of strange circumstances allowed rudeness.]
Erichthonios. As new as the morning to this place; as charming as it is here, is it too much to hope that you might know a way back to civilization?
[He doesn't mean that in a disparaging way, Solvunn is an adorable little town but it really is Country Bumpkin against ... pretty much any place he's ever been.]
I appreciate a stop in in spite of hiatus!!!
He didn't dwell on it for long, doing so set him on edge in a way he couldn't quite define and didn't much like. It's easier to simply assume they are in fact all normal if antiquated and with some extremely bizzare habits.
But it does mean when someone who fits far better what he expects of people turns up, he takes immediate notice. Erichthonios has no such gifts for aether sight or soulsight, but he needs neither to see a gleam where these people otherwise lack, faintly luminant violet in the evening's shade, and an outfit far closer to what he's used to than ... quite frankly what he's currently dressed in.
No mask.
He could forgive it, nobody else had one. But as Hythlodaeus draws closer and speaks, he's studied briefly with narrowed thoughtful eyes, and then the young man all but sags with relief upon reaching the conclusion that this stranger is in fact, what he's hoping for. Whether or not this was Etheirys, at least one other person is as displaced as he is!]
I have never been so glad to see another soul than right now. [..well not quite true, recently there was that tricky bit with Themis' boundless help BUT--] I had thought mayhap it was some other part of the world, I haven't every location memorized of course, but that wouldn't change the stars--
[There's a sudden pause, mouth snapping shut with a click of teeth. No, there's a way things are done and he's being rude, Hythlodaeus introduced himself, he needs to do the same, and no amount of strange circumstances allowed rudeness.]
Erichthonios. As new as the morning to this place; as charming as it is here, is it too much to hope that you might know a way back to civilization?
[He doesn't mean that in a disparaging way, Solvunn is an adorable little town but it really is Country Bumpkin against ... pretty much any place he's ever been.]