[ @LeadSatern ]
Sophie's walked these corridors a hundred times, a thousand times, so much that she's lost the need to count. It's the same old masonry, landmarks. Not much of a surprise until she finds someone sprawled out on the ground. "Hey. Hey, wake up buddy."
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... the other end of the horizon while knowing there isn't. Time winding on without sense or scale. Great. She stabs her knife into the sand and leaves it steaming there.
"Okay, so you just... hang out. Do you ever have to eat? Sleep? Take a piss?"
Sophie nods, nods, nods her head, because it’s the only thing she thinks to do as she collapses in the sand. Right. There’s also a real chance she won't ever leave. And if she doesn’t she'll just be hanging out here with Ryale forever. Stuck wondering if there's anything on ...
Ryale purses her lips and nods. "It's not a very convenient place to be." That'd be the understatement of the century, if only time worked like that in this dimension. Of course, there were perks to finding yourself beyond the reach of the laws of causality, but Ryale... +
... the hardest thing she's ever done. There was that patch behind the manor, where the garden used to be. She'd dig their graves there, digging until she keeled over from malnutrition just to wake up and continue anew.
Assuming she ever left Eternity. "You've been stuck here?"
"Well shit."
Getting stuck outside of time seemed like a serious problem but she wouldn't know just how bad it was until she left. Assuming she ever left. Already, Sophie wondered where it might spit her out, if she'd be returned to the smoldering remains of home. It'd be ...
For just a moment, Ryale offers an empathetic grimace before her sunny disposition returns. "Ooh, that's not really how this place works. Sorry." She gestures out at the vast infinite nothingness around them, back where she came from. "You just kinda walk around looking for... +
@SPXRKINGFISTS / i don't wanna deviate too far from canon for my own sake but there are some places where i really do say we'll just pretend this is legit