Audience - Wiš'adel

[holyspirits]

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[sarkazm]

Then what the hell are we supposed to do about it?

[holyspirits]

The rest of you? Nothing. There's nothing you can do except, I don't know, protect yourself from something we can't even warn you about? [ there's the frustration ] It's stupid.

[sarkazm]

[pulling at her hair a little, one hand threaded into it.]

Yeah, no shit! [it's SO stupid.] I'm not exactly enthused by the thought of just hanging around here waiting for things to change, either.

[holyspirits]

If anyone was, I'd be shocked. [ moving like they are going to grasp her wrist before bringing their hand back down ] We've got an idea what to look for now, at least. That's not much, it's--basically nothing, but if both of those guys had the same issue, it's a bigger point of reference than one person who everyone was half convinced had gone mad on his own.

[sarkazm]

Not exactly on his own.

[look, jq's disease theory made sense at first...

her eyes track that motion, tail flicking, but she doesn't call them out. this time.]

But let me guess, it's a point of reference we can't look into anyway.

[holyspirits]

You know what I mean. If it's a disease, then it couldn't happen to anyone else.

[ they shake their head ]

We can. But what's there for you to do? It's not like there's anything tangible to see besides that stupid tree. I guess you guys could theorize.

[ in a kind of. i know how much you enjoy theorizing tone ]

[sarkazm]

If I have to sit around and theorize I'm seriously going to lose my shit.

[she loooves hypotheses]

[holyspirits]

So, there you go. There's nothing for you to do. Maybe tell people to stop being stupid, but you were already doing that.

[ especially in trial ]

[sarkazm]

...fine. But you better not hold me responsible for anything that happens then!

[leave a sarkaz with nothing to do, and she will make her own trouble.]

[holyspirits]

[ okay now it's their turn to reach and tug lightly at w's hair. ]

Like someone putting love chocolate in muffins? [ the mirth is barely hidden in their tone ]

[sarkazm]

Like that!

[lmao. she'd do it back, but instead there's a second where she's kind of obviously squinting at their glowing outline trying to figure out if they HAVE hair.]

They'll never guess, either.

[holyspirits]

[ they do, but also the likelihood of grabbing their skin trying is very high. suffering is real. ]

Probably not, considering they didn't think twice about eating the muffins.

[sarkazm]

They just went right for it! Well, except the ones I had to... encourage into it.

[holyspirits]

Encourage? [ leaning forward a bit like. :o ]

[sarkazm]

Oh, the doc and I found a couple things poking around last week. One of 'em would supposedly make other people obsessed with something?

Sooooo I tested it out!

[holyspirits]

That explains why Jacopo was acting so weird about it.

[ ohhhh. although; ]

Right, you guys mentioned that in trial. You find items sometimes, and other times they're gifted?

[sarkazm]

I mean, Jacopo's a weirdo anyway.

[but that one was her fault yea.]

And apparently? I didn't know anyone was getting stuff like that handed to 'em, though, that was news to me too!

[holyspirits]

At least none of the items seemed too bad. [ shaking their head ]

[sarkazm]

We'd be a little fucked if instead of "here, get a clue," it was stuff like "get rid of clues".

[holyspirits]

[ produces a piece of wood from nowhere ? ]

Knock on that.

[sarkazm]

Fiiiine, fine--

[knocks on it.]

[holyspirits]

[ off to the void the wood goes back ]

Thank you. [ fake primly ]

[sarkazm]

Yeah, sure.

Did you just have that laying around?

[holyspirits]

No, but now that I think about it, I could've just used Siffrin's carving instead of summoning something new. [ pensive ]

[sarkazm]

Why wouldn't you show off a little, though...?