[ In the time following the raid on Achamoth, Gray has had more than enough time to think. As with the silence after an explosion, the shock of all that's happened washes over her, allows her to hit a reset button on her thinking. It gives her time to stop and step back and evaluate how she should think about Barnaby.
Even so, she isn't quite prepared when he contacts her out of the blue. As she sits at the entrance to the Seeker shrine, guarding the shard of the man Barnaby dissipated, it's hard to pretend that things are normal. Even though this is normal by this world's standards. Barnaby and Eustace are on opposite sides, and it's expected that people on opposite sides will fight each other. Despite that, it feels all wrong. What makes things especially difficult is knowing that something happened to Barnaby after his sabotage that left him different at the end of it.
There's a long pause before she responds, and when she does, there's a blunt despondency to her tone, a helpless grain of grief. ]
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Date: 2022-08-30 04:15 am (UTC)Even so, she isn't quite prepared when he contacts her out of the blue. As she sits at the entrance to the Seeker shrine, guarding the shard of the man Barnaby dissipated, it's hard to pretend that things are normal. Even though this is normal by this world's standards. Barnaby and Eustace are on opposite sides, and it's expected that people on opposite sides will fight each other. Despite that, it feels all wrong. What makes things especially difficult is knowing that something happened to Barnaby after his sabotage that left him different at the end of it.
There's a long pause before she responds, and when she does, there's a blunt despondency to her tone, a helpless grain of grief. ]
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