∞ 48: Updating the calendar [written]

[chikaidestroyer]

My apologies to those who have been waiting on this, but I have finished a calendar for this new year we are in. I needed to make some adjustments to the calendar, and then this unfortunate incident delayed matters further.

If anyone would like one, please get in contact with me. I am Albert Silverberg, a strategist by trade, and I will ask again following the next New Feather cycle.

[accidental voice]

[muttered] This experiment can't end soon enough.

Comments

[Voice]

[chikaidestroyer]

Like I said, I don't see the point in explaining to you. Especially when an explanation will simply lead to you doing something idiotic again.

[Voice]

[wise_maiden]

... That was different. Since you and everyone else weren't being honest, we thought we could find some answers on our own, that's all. It ... didn't work well, and we won't be doing it again.

[Voice]

[chikaidestroyer]

Are you satisfied that you won't find your brother, then?

[Voice]

[wise_maiden]

...

I don't think he's anywhere I can get to... which makes it worse, in a way. E-even if this ... is a different ... world, h-he's all alone.

[Voice]

[chikaidestroyer]

And what if I told you that he's older than you right now?

[Voice]

[wise_maiden]

... That's...

[That takes her a little off guard, so she goes quiet for a few moments]

How... do you know?

[Voice]

[chikaidestroyer]

The same way I know that this conversation won't mean anything by the beginning of next week.

Suffice it to say, he is safer where he is than you are.

[Voice]

[wise_maiden]

...

[Quiet for a few moments, then, almost absently--]
... the clothes.

[Voice]

[chikaidestroyer]

Indeed.

[Voice]

[wise_maiden]

And...

It happened to you as well. But you seem... you know this place...

[Voice]

[chikaidestroyer]

Likely a fluke.

[Voice]

[wise_maiden]

I think... I was here a long time ago. I can't remember well... but when I was in the forest, some of it came back. I was ... hurt, and... in a cave, for a long while.

Do you ... know about any of that?

[Voice]

[chikaidestroyer]

This is a similar experiment to what brought you here last time. The same place, similar conditions, a different time. The time you're referring to happened months ago.

It should be noticed that, while you are not aware of it, you have never left this place since then.

[Voice]

[wise_maiden]

I... see.

[A long considering pause again, this is a lot to take in, after all.]

So... if I'm really am an adult while I'm here... how old am I, usually?

[Voice]

[chikaidestroyer]

[cough-mumbled almost completely inaudible] Younger when it comes to caring for oneself.

I believe you are around twenty-five.

[Voice]

[wise_maiden]

That seems so far away...