Hey, don’t rush it, lay down. You’re still quite pale, I don’t think you should be trying to get up just yet. Don’t worry, you’ll be fine. Pine took care of you. You just need a bit of time to recover from the shock, that’s all.
Elvarren? Oh, yes… I was expecting you to ask about that… But don’t worry, it won’t run away. Yes, I know about it. But… it’s complicated…. What I know isn’t much more than you do. I know we need to find it, but what it actually is… Well, don’t worry, we can discuss that over dinner. It’s going to take a while anyway. For now, let’s concentrate on you. You haven’t been entirely lucid since you came here. Do you know what happened to you? Did you get into an accident or something?
Hmm I see. Well, never mind, that’s behind you now. What’s important is that you’re with us now, so you’re safe. Well, as safe as you can be, anyway, with the Grey men after you.
Yes… I’m afraid we’ve all encountered them. We don’t know what they want but the fact that they open fire on sight isn’t very reassuring. Don’t worry, we haven’t seen any of them for weeks. That’s why we came to this mountain cabin. The less sightings of ‘superpowers’, the less likely that someone tips them off.
Oh, yes. Yes, we all have them. Though they’re so different that we prefer to refer to them as ‘abilities’. Some call them a gift, and some call them a curse but essentially they’re simply abilities, right? I wouldn’t call them skills because none of us remember learning them. Besides, how could you learn to control fire or to puppeteer living creatures?
…. Yes. I’m afraid we also share that… feature. We have to be very careful. If we let our skin touch another living thing we could take more energy than we need and…. I sincerely hope it hasn’t happened to you. We can find you some gloves if you don’t have any. Needless to say, please don’t touch any of the others. It may have… adverse consequences.
Well, I’ll let you gather your thoughts. Have some of the tea too. Pine said it’ll make you feel better. He’s very good with herbs. Hahaha, no, of course it’s not poisoned.
After all, you’re one of us now, right?
