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[saltofthesea]

I don't know if anyone's asked this before, but I'm curious. What are the gods like where you're from? Or other supernatural stuff? How normal are they?

I come from a place where it isn't weird to meet a small god at least once, and no one says things like ghosts and demons and spirits aren't real because they very observably are. But I've heard that's not necessarily true in other worlds, and there are plenty of people who'd count as supernatural here too.

You can also just share your favourite legends or myths from back home. Those are always neat to hear.

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it be like that sometimes...

[happydreamed]

Thank you. I would like to get to know my coworkers better, after all.

[saltofthesea]

It'd be nice to get to no more about you too.

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[happydreamed]

I hope I won't bore you, in that case.

[And indeed, the next time they're on a shift together and there's no patients waiting to be seen, Kantera approaches Lark.]

Is now a good time?

[saltofthesea]

[ At the time, Lark is putting away some of the materials for potion-making. ]

Oh, yeah. Just give me a moment to put these away.

[happydreamed]

Of course. Do you need any assistance?

[saltofthesea]

No need. I'm almost done. [ He stows away a few more vials.] There. So...

[ He's a little curious what he's going to be told about. ]

cw: unreality stuff from hereon out

[happydreamed]

Indeed, so.

...Let me ask you something. Have you ever had cause to doubt that what you were experiencing was reality?

[saltofthesea]

[ What does it say that this conversation is opening with that question, or the fact Lark pauses for a moment like he genuinely has to think on this. ]

As in, "I can't believe this is happening", or, "Oh, this definitely can't be happening"?

[happydreamed]

Closer to the latter, with things not working the way they ought to, or events not being consistent with each other... That sort of experience.

[saltofthesea]

...No, but I think if something like that did happen I'd be worried about Fair Folk being involved.

[happydreamed]

A good explanation, and honestly, preferable to the truth in my case.

-The world I come from is someone's dream. And myself, a creation of that dreamer's mind.

[saltofthesea]

[ There's s moment where you can tell it's slowly sinking into Lark's head. ]

...Wait, then how...

[happydreamed]

How am I hear, speaking with you now? An excellent question. Would that I had an answer for you, but I do not.

[saltofthesea]

...

I guess weirder things have happened here, still.

[happydreamed]

It seems to me that to this place, a dream is just another 'world' someone can be pulled from.

[saltofthesea]

How did you know it was a dream?

[ Not that he disbelieves Kantera, more like...trying to figure out how things got from Point A to Point B. ]

[happydreamed]

Because the dreamer told me, and as he spoke the world started falling apart around us.

[It was Pretty Definitive.]

[saltofthesea]

[ ... ]

Yeah, I guess that would be pretty unquestionable.

[happydreamed]

There were signs beforehand that made more sense in retrospect, knowing that, but that reveal was fairly unambiguous.