He's far from home and still not happy

[foreshadower]

I may have had my passing moments of boredom, my dear, but what I have experienced pales in comparison to the levels you're displaying right now.

Yes, yes, you're inspired. Good show, really. I'm glad to see you enjoying yourself at my misfortune. This is hardly a partnership, and bribery won't be sufficient to make me pleased. None you could propose, and by the by, you couldn't afford me if you had the imagination to do so. Now, why don't you find someone else to inspire you, and leave me be, yes? It's not as if I'm asking you for Paris.

Comments

[clement]

You are particularly susceptible to homesickness, Shade. [:c] Is there nothing that can be done to help you?

[foreshadower]

Other than returning? Of course not.

I should hope I don't make a point to express it too often, outside of a realm like this.

[clement]

I do not consider it undue complaint. I --miss Odym, as well.

When you come to feel safety in a place, it can be difficult to leave it.

[foreshadower]

Odym would be your home, would it?

I'm afraid it's not the complaint of safety. It's that there is simply no other place for me to live.

[clement]

Not the planet of my birth, but the planet of my heart.

[the most ridiculously attentive] Can you elaborate?

[foreshadower]

What, you wish me to describe Opal? It's love for it that keeps me there. No other city would feel quite like home, and nor would I allow any other to take its place.

Now, tell me of Odym.

[hexappeal]

Really? I make wild demands all the time.

[foreshadower]

And how does that work for you?

[hexappeal]

Pretty swell, usually. It's all in how you ask, I figure.

[foreshadower]

Mm, and I doubt asking to go home, no matter how nice, will get me nowhere.

[hexappeal]

No, I'm afraid you're stuck with me and the City.

Too bad.

[foreshadower]

The former is much more of an enjoyable prospect than the latter, if I may be honest.

[hypnosymphony]

She's trying bribery now? [ sob he's amused, SORRY MAN ] That seems a pointless endeavor to embark on.

Sadly, inspiration only encourages them, I find, and protesting does hardly anything. I suppose all that can be done is to endure.

[ who is ridiculously chill about everything? yes this guy ]

[foreshadower]

Endure, yes.

That is something I'm quite good at, you understand? It does not make me any less impatient to leave this arrangement.

[hypnosymphony]

I know perfectly well what you're like, but I sincerely doubt you'll be left alone any time soon - much to your chagrin.

Perhaps a holiday is in order? Somewhere you haven't been before. [ there are apparently new countries! he's curious, anyway. ]

[foreshadower]

Such as the new countries? I suppose if I must do something with my time, they would suffice.

[hypnosymphony]

You'll have something new to write about, at least! I understand at least one nation has unusual mythology, which might or might not make for interesting listening.

[foreshadower]

Perhaps, perhaps. There may even be something to discover from such mythology.

It would be a diversion, at least. I grow bored in the City, it's true.

[hypnosymphony]

It's promising!

Well, when you're immortal, I suppose your life is all about diversions. Though you'd have more knowledge of it than I would, I suspect.

[foreshadower]

Diversions, curiosities, the occasional murder attempt from a family of archenemies. It bleeds together after a while, I will admit.

The point is not to dwell too often on the past.

[hypnosymphony]

How exciting! Although you could probably do without the murder attempts - but you're doing excellently, so I won't pry.

Doing that tends to drag on you, I find! You're not exactly able to get that time back, so there's not much use worrying about the things that have already happened. Unless you're a time-traveller, of course - but then that opens up a whole other world of problems, I've heard.

[foreshadower]

I'm an immortal, Fiddler. I should hardly think anyone is capable of killing me, and the few times it may have been possible were terribly botched.

[ Let's not get into the whole he can someday time travel and travel through space and all that bullshit, it's just going to confuse everyone. ]

[hypnosymphony]

Still, murder attempts are unpleasant! Though I suppose for you, they'd be nothing more than another type of diversion. [ shrug. he'd worry more about you if you weren't functionally immortal.

time travel solves nothing, it just produces more complications, apparently. also a giant space cloud of shadows or something? what was up with that. ]

[foreshadower]

A vexing diversion. [ That was the shadow cancer!!! The time travel saved him, and was unnecessarily complicated who's surprised?? ]

Regardless, it's nothing to dwell upon at the current moment. I doubt I will find one of them in this particular realm.