Waver rather appreciates that Yin seemed to take in the information carefully and was attentive, rather than being distractible and potentially missing something. A sign of a good student, really, rather than the troubling sort. The mage would, of course, encourage her to think about what she wanted rather than letting the rest of them decide for her. Even if she wasn’t used to making them… That said, he wasn’t sure that the power to choose might not be taken from them in a place like this. It wasn’t their world, and the powers that ruled seemed unstable at best.
Her questions were still good ones, and he offered a small shake of his head to ease that potential concern a little. “For us, we seem to remember and remain largely unaffected by this place… Aside from some instances of an outside influence causing us to speak when we normally wouldn’t, or emotions being intensified.” Truths or stories shared despite a usual preference to not, paranoia and anxiety being intensified… And rarely more positive emotions like joy.
“The locals, however, are another matter.” Which was no less troubling, given they were people they got to know and interacted with on a daily basis. “This place seems to affect them more strongly… I’ve heard there was an instance at one point where they stopped trusting the arrivals and were less… welcoming.” He hadn’t been present for it, but it hadn’t sounded good.
“And sometimes when places that weren’t here before suddenly exist, the people act as though it’s normal and that it’s always been present when it clearly hadn’t. I have suspicions that whatever the process for bringing people back is at play, and causes them to adapt to the lack of what was here before by way of not remembering it until it becomes relevant… So what that means for those who were directly involved with something that was absent and then returned is a bit curious.” Which is why he suspected that perhaps not all the people here were leading the same lives as they did before the calamity.
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Her questions were still good ones, and he offered a small shake of his head to ease that potential concern a little. “For us, we seem to remember and remain largely unaffected by this place… Aside from some instances of an outside influence causing us to speak when we normally wouldn’t, or emotions being intensified.” Truths or stories shared despite a usual preference to not, paranoia and anxiety being intensified… And rarely more positive emotions like joy.
“The locals, however, are another matter.” Which was no less troubling, given they were people they got to know and interacted with on a daily basis. “This place seems to affect them more strongly… I’ve heard there was an instance at one point where they stopped trusting the arrivals and were less… welcoming.” He hadn’t been present for it, but it hadn’t sounded good.
“And sometimes when places that weren’t here before suddenly exist, the people act as though it’s normal and that it’s always been present when it clearly hadn’t. I have suspicions that whatever the process for bringing people back is at play, and causes them to adapt to the lack of what was here before by way of not remembering it until it becomes relevant… So what that means for those who were directly involved with something that was absent and then returned is a bit curious.” Which is why he suspected that perhaps not all the people here were leading the same lives as they did before the calamity.