The process takes a few days as from the roots of the Tree, Liem is reborn.
It’s a process that’s surprisingly quiet, like waking from a pleasantly long nap. And during that process, there are flickerings across his consciousness. Not all of them will be remembered, since they’re the sorts of dreams that are on the tip of your tongue, but one stands out a bit more.
He’s standing at the Tree of Life, looking up at the endless sea of stars that surrounds it, when someone steps up to join him. Gently, they place a gloved hand on his shoulder, and their one eye is full of sympathy and sorrow. They immediately feel familiar as one soul touches another. This is the person whose soul had been trapped within the creature.
“I’m so sorry,” he says first, and it’s clear he means it, deeply, but with just as much conviction, he says, “Thank you. Both of you. I didn’t want to hurt you or anyone else, but…”
Manon shakes his head as he withdraws his hand. He seems lost in thought for a moment as he looks down at his feet, but his eye comes back up to meet Liem’s without too much delay.
“This isn’t an easy connection to maintain, so let me just give you two things, since I- Well, I don’t know what’ll happen to me. One, I hope you got the image of the guy that was… I don’t know what he was doing, exactly. But my Shard got mixed up with a bunch of others. That’s the best I’ve got for that. But I heard someone else call him ‘Aetós’,” he says, then clicks his tongue. The connection is fading, so he pushes an image forward into Liem’s mind. A cache. “And you were using a knife, so go grab one of mine, if you want. Might be handy.”
His presence fades not long after that, since he doesn’t seem able to hold this strange form of Communion long… But when Liem awakes and frees himself from his sap-filled cocoon, he’ll have some new knowledge imparted to him. He can easily navigate to a place in the residential district of Springstar where he’ll find a fine dagger hidden behind some neatly displaced bricks that make a cavity. Let us know if Liem takes the dagger, and we’ll explain its further properties!
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It’s a process that’s surprisingly quiet, like waking from a pleasantly long nap. And during that process, there are flickerings across his consciousness. Not all of them will be remembered, since they’re the sorts of dreams that are on the tip of your tongue, but one stands out a bit more.
He’s standing at the Tree of Life, looking up at the endless sea of stars that surrounds it, when someone steps up to join him. Gently, they place a gloved hand on his shoulder, and their one eye is full of sympathy and sorrow. They immediately feel familiar as one soul touches another. This is the person whose soul had been trapped within the creature.
“I’m so sorry,” he says first, and it’s clear he means it, deeply, but with just as much conviction, he says, “Thank you. Both of you. I didn’t want to hurt you or anyone else, but…”
Manon shakes his head as he withdraws his hand. He seems lost in thought for a moment as he looks down at his feet, but his eye comes back up to meet Liem’s without too much delay.
“This isn’t an easy connection to maintain, so let me just give you two things, since I- Well, I don’t know what’ll happen to me. One, I hope you got the image of the guy that was… I don’t know what he was doing, exactly. But my Shard got mixed up with a bunch of others. That’s the best I’ve got for that. But I heard someone else call him ‘Aetós’,” he says, then clicks his tongue. The connection is fading, so he pushes an image forward into Liem’s mind. A cache. “And you were using a knife, so go grab one of mine, if you want. Might be handy.”
His presence fades not long after that, since he doesn’t seem able to hold this strange form of Communion long… But when Liem awakes and frees himself from his sap-filled cocoon, he’ll have some new knowledge imparted to him. He can easily navigate to a place in the residential district of Springstar where he’ll find a fine dagger hidden behind some neatly displaced bricks that make a cavity. Let us know if Liem takes the dagger, and we’ll explain its further properties!