. . . The Hall of Mirrors is a pretty rough first impression.
[He'd had his own traumatic enough experience with those mirrors, and at the memory of it, his expression goes tight—maybe more noticeably, his glowing aura takes on a darker, stormy blueish tinge. It's not unlike the initial color it'd been when he'd been sulking about his lot before running into her, but there's a darker cloudy grey threatening in there. It's not a good memory, and it's even worse thinking about everyone else who stumbled into that situation brand new and unaware.
But, thinking back, Kadoc could say the exact same thing about plenty of other things he's been through in his six months here. The trials from Celliwig? Rough first impression. The whole minotaur thing? Ugh. At least there's a certain consistency to it all, and it'd explain the too-obvious forbidden books, too:]
My impression so far is that they trust us with more than they should. It's not so much that they're looking to throw us into these situations, just that they trust us to handle them the way the locals would when we're not locals. I'm sure everyone here grows up hearing about the Forbidden Library and tries to get in at least once, when they're like, eight years old. Or knows how to deal with fae tricks, or how to navigate the political situation. But they're pretty happy to just let us do our own thing. They rely on us doing our own thing.
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[He'd had his own traumatic enough experience with those mirrors, and at the memory of it, his expression goes tight—maybe more noticeably, his glowing aura takes on a darker, stormy blueish tinge. It's not unlike the initial color it'd been when he'd been sulking about his lot before running into her, but there's a darker cloudy grey threatening in there. It's not a good memory, and it's even worse thinking about everyone else who stumbled into that situation brand new and unaware.
But, thinking back, Kadoc could say the exact same thing about plenty of other things he's been through in his six months here. The trials from Celliwig? Rough first impression. The whole minotaur thing? Ugh. At least there's a certain consistency to it all, and it'd explain the too-obvious forbidden books, too:]
My impression so far is that they trust us with more than they should. It's not so much that they're looking to throw us into these situations, just that they trust us to handle them the way the locals would when we're not locals. I'm sure everyone here grows up hearing about the Forbidden Library and tries to get in at least once, when they're like, eight years old. Or knows how to deal with fae tricks, or how to navigate the political situation. But they're pretty happy to just let us do our own thing. They rely on us doing our own thing.
I'm still not sure how I feel about that.