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paradisalost2011-11-02 11:46 pm
cloakand_danger) wrote in paradisalost2011-11-02 11:46 pm
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[Yuan sounds strangely pensive tonight.]
It's strange...when I think back to when I got here. It isn't just me that's changed, these four years. Some few of you may remember a time when the forest around the castle was impenetrable. Anyone who tried to go too far became turned around and emerged back at the castle, or if they were determined enough simply woke up in their bed. The mountains were distantly visible, but unreachable by any means.
It was...when did that change? The first we noticed, I think, was sometime after the castle turned into New York. Suddenly, the mountains were reachable, forming the edge of a barrier beyond which all powers and magitech began to fail. Suddenly, for the first time we had something almost like freedom in our new world. ...I wonder, how many now recall that first expedition? It was later still that we managed to expand the border - Raine Sage accomplished that, and how many even recall her? It'll be a year since she left in a few months' time. As an immortal - former immortal - I should be used to people coming and going and being forgotten, but it's so much faster here...
[He pauses, and regains his thread.]
And it wasn't until after that that we learned we aren't alone here. That there are people living in the Dead Zone, something we now take for granted...much like the outposts at the border to the Dead Zone, and those haven't been there long at all, relatively speaking. We've learned so much since then...and yet it sometimes feels like we know less now than we did at the time.
It's strange...when I think back to when I got here. It isn't just me that's changed, these four years. Some few of you may remember a time when the forest around the castle was impenetrable. Anyone who tried to go too far became turned around and emerged back at the castle, or if they were determined enough simply woke up in their bed. The mountains were distantly visible, but unreachable by any means.
It was...when did that change? The first we noticed, I think, was sometime after the castle turned into New York. Suddenly, the mountains were reachable, forming the edge of a barrier beyond which all powers and magitech began to fail. Suddenly, for the first time we had something almost like freedom in our new world. ...I wonder, how many now recall that first expedition? It was later still that we managed to expand the border - Raine Sage accomplished that, and how many even recall her? It'll be a year since she left in a few months' time. As an immortal - former immortal - I should be used to people coming and going and being forgotten, but it's so much faster here...
[He pauses, and regains his thread.]
And it wasn't until after that that we learned we aren't alone here. That there are people living in the Dead Zone, something we now take for granted...much like the outposts at the border to the Dead Zone, and those haven't been there long at all, relatively speaking. We've learned so much since then...and yet it sometimes feels like we know less now than we did at the time.