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WHO: Wrathion, Anduin, Kaneki
WHEN: Early March
WHERE: Ke-Waihu
WHAT: Investigating wells and trying to make friends with a spooky snakey friend
WARNINGS: Potentially some discussion of child kidnapping, harm to children, and if a snakey lady friend might be... eating children.
Dead ends.
Nothing but dead ends.
Wrathion paces by the well, turning over everything he knows as he waits for the others to arrive.
Kaneki had said she was a mother looking for a child.
Children had gone missing, three daughters one son. No common location. All over the last ten days.
His theory about the dark water, too, may be amounting to nothing. It seems their slithering friend predates it by around a year -- divine punishment.
Frustrating.
She hasn't been witnessed eating these children, so there's a chance they are still on the right course, but neither have they any proof of anything else.
Frustrating. Wrathion handles frustration poorly. He likes to make clear progress, to plan, to work towards a goal -- but the goal is still unclear here. The path is forked, and he knows not which one they are taking
Are they helping a creature, or killing a monster? Are they going entirely down the wrong path, and will they imminently find out she knows nothing and has simply been in the wrong place at the wrong time?
Will children keep vanishing, all the while?
Having no solid lead is agonising, especially when time... continues to grow short.
He can only hope they don't run out.
WHEN: Early March
WHERE: Ke-Waihu
WHAT: Investigating wells and trying to make friends with a spooky snakey friend
WARNINGS: Potentially some discussion of child kidnapping, harm to children, and if a snakey lady friend might be... eating children.
Dead ends.
Nothing but dead ends.
Wrathion paces by the well, turning over everything he knows as he waits for the others to arrive.
Kaneki had said she was a mother looking for a child.
Children had gone missing, three daughters one son. No common location. All over the last ten days.
His theory about the dark water, too, may be amounting to nothing. It seems their slithering friend predates it by around a year -- divine punishment.
Frustrating.
She hasn't been witnessed eating these children, so there's a chance they are still on the right course, but neither have they any proof of anything else.
Frustrating. Wrathion handles frustration poorly. He likes to make clear progress, to plan, to work towards a goal -- but the goal is still unclear here. The path is forked, and he knows not which one they are taking
Are they helping a creature, or killing a monster? Are they going entirely down the wrong path, and will they imminently find out she knows nothing and has simply been in the wrong place at the wrong time?
Will children keep vanishing, all the while?
Having no solid lead is agonising, especially when time... continues to grow short.
He can only hope they don't run out.
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"I can, yes," Anduin replies, with a nod. He glances back down into the depths of the well, before casting an eye around their surroundings. Perhaps there is a rope somewhere in the farmhouse nearby?
"The levitation should last long enough to get a look around down there," Anduin explains, "but it's not foolproof. And it's not a flying charm. It will keep you off the surface, and it will slow your fall. But we'll still need to find a way to get you out of there one way or the other."
A beat.
"Well, you in the figurative sense. I suppose we will need to decide which of us will be going in."
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Kaneki looks back at Anduin, wondering about that - magic, perhaps? Or maybe a power like telekinesis, that could work too. Honestly, Kaneki should have asked them what their abilities were before they started this whole thing.
But when they point out the difficulties going down the well might pose, Kaneki glances back at it.
Okay. Okay...
"I can help with the rope, but then I don't think I can go down there." he doesn't have a rope, no. But- kaneki sighs as he accepts he does need to show his own abilities (so to speak), and from his lower back, four red tendrils emerge. And lucky for everyone involved, said tendrils can actually reshape themselves into something that looks like a thorny rope. It's kind of gross and Kaneki is aware of it, but it works.
"One of you can use this to climb down there, it won't break. But that means I will have to stay up here."
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His eyes narrow, wary.
Tentacles just tend to have a... bad association, and this is very tentacle-like to his eye.
"That," Wrathion points out, "is not a rope."
He's just saying. Note a rope. Just, for the recording. Just so we're clear.
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No. It most definitely is not a rope. But if Kaneki can help...
He reaches out a hand to lay on Wrathion's arm, the touch gentle and aiming for reassurance. (He had not been involved with the fight against the old gods but he had read the reports, at least enough to understand something of Wrathion's tension...)
"We will not need the help getting down," Anduin says. "But we may have the need to... Escape quickly." He glances aside to Wrathion, then back at Kaneki. "Would you be able to pull me out with those?"
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"It's not a rope." Kaneki agrees by simply stating the obvious just like Wrathion did.
"And yes. I would." Kaneki usually uses them to kill, but he has used them to save people before too. And has indeed used them to grab people before they fell onto their death, so this is something he is certain he can do.
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In fact, he'd much prefer Kaneki didn't touch Anduin with them at all.
He lets out a low growl of discontent, tongue running over his teeth as he thinks.
"You have control over them?"
Just to be clear, Kaneki, this isn't something you can... lose control of? There can be no accidents?
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For the record, he had been trying to step up and do this so you didn't have to, Wrathion. Just so we're clear here.
Taking a step forward, he puts a reassuring hand on Wrathion's arm. The well is too narrow for the pair of them to fit inside together. It will need to be one, or the other.
"I can go..." he offers, knowing Wrathion will likely protest anyway.
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And honestly, he doesn't want to try to justify and explain his abilities. People either accept it or not-
So the red tendrils pull away and they eventually fade away into dust, while Kaneki nods.
"We use something else." or "Or I can go down there on my own and pull myself in and out on my own." he can do that, he can use his own tendrils to do it. He doesn't particularly want to touch the black water, but- well.
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On the other, he suspects Anduin will judge him if he allows it without some effort.
His eyes dart to the hand on his arm, and Wrathion frowns in thought -- spinning them problem around in his mind.
"It's better you don't," he says to Anduin finally. "You can heal either one of us if something happens. If you're injured and unable to heal I'd be unable to help you."
He's not sure about Kaneki, but unless he's some manner of shadow priest it hasn't been... quite the ability skillset he's advertised.
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"Yes, alright," he replies. "Here. Ready yourselves." After a moment's hesitation, he takes a step back, before reaching out and casting levitate on them both. In a burst of energy, they will find themselves suddenly hovering a foot or two above the ground. "The well is wide enough. You both can fit down, provided you do not need to move around too much. Or you can decide amongst yourselves which one it will be and we can disable it on the other."
He glances between the pair of them. "I have another spell that I can use to pull you out as well," he explains. "But it will only work on one of you at a time."
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But it doesn't matter.
Being levitated is weird enough, but at least Kaneki knew it was going to happen, so he just tries to keep his balance. "You can decide." Honestly? The two of them know each other and trust each other - Kaneki is the outsider here. So it's a lot easier to just let them make the decision if that's something they want to do. Kaneki knows how to get in and out of the well without spells and magic if push comes to shove, so he is particularly worried about going inside.
he is more worried about what they will find there, but that's a whole other thing.
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Very technically, he could get himself out of the well if he wanted to -- but it would be showy in a way he doesn't want to really display just yet.
"If you can drag yourself out with those," we mean the tendrils but we're not sure the polite term for them Kaneki, "then you might have the best chance -- Anduin can pull you if that fails. The levitate will keep you from having to stand in the water, you can hover over it."
An active method, Kaneki can rely on himself, and a backup, Anduin can pull him with magic if for some reason that goes awry. That all seems the most reliable way to go about things.
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"It should slow your fall as well," Anduin says. "All you need do is -- jump. Though if it makes you feel uncomfortable..."
Kaneki is certainly welcome to lower himself down any other way on his own.
He offers a reassuring smile. "We will be right here, should you need any assistance."