Terre Haute expedition: Camping Day 1

[lord_wizard]

[It's been a more or less uneventful day of travel for the expedition team. Not unexpected for the first leg of such a trip, and with any luck, it will stay that way.

As the sun starts to get low in the sky, Felix signals the group with a sharp whistle to stop, shortly after he feels the change. They've entered the Dead Zone. That sudden loss of power for anyone used to that sort of thing. Not an easy thing to adjust to, at first.]

"We've crossed into the border of the Dead Zone now. We should stop here for the night. Those of you with experience, help set up camp as needed. And I recommend a few of you working out a watch schedule. You never can tell what might be out here."

SET UP | CAMPFIRE | IN THE NIGHT

Comments

[inafadingcrown]

You needn't be; it is a sacrifice I chose to make when I decided to accompany this expedition.

[signedlefthanded]

At least you can adjust to it. Is it terribly different?

[inafadingcrown]

It is. Imagine the loss of your sight- or some other sense you have had all your life. It is much the same.

[signedlefthanded]

[That's actually a good analogy, and Violet nods.]

I'm sorry for all the questions, but we've nothing like your people back home, but are all of your people like that or are you just exceptionally good at it?

[inafadingcrown]

Pray, do not apologize. Were our positions reversed, I would ask twice as many questions.

I would say both statements are true; it is not an uncommon gift among the Eldar, but I am also among the most powerful. [Not bragging. Just stating facts.]

[signedlefthanded]

[She gives a slight nod.]

Does that make you good or bad? Or susceptible to each?

[inafadingcrown]

[She laughs softly at the question, ducking her head.]

It makes me a dangerous foe; it speaks nothing of morality. I am as I choose to be, nothing more, nothing less.

[signedlefthanded]

So it makes you powerful, but power isn't good nor bad then? [Granted those with power in her experience have been either bad or just idiotic.]

[inafadingcrown]

Precisely so. It is a tool that may be wielded for good or ill.

[signedlefthanded]

Do you think people can be wholly bad? [On the subject of it.]

[inafadingcrown]

I have met none yet and I have lived long. People are seldom so simple.

[signedlefthanded]

[She sighs.]

It seems that way.