So Familiar a Gleam: Conclusion

[voidtreckermods]

Time to leave!

There is not much of the city left, but the park is holding together as those anchoring help those who are not voidtreckers through back to where they belong. Monsters continue to attack and a little further out there is a battle of hearts and minds being fought with the mass of colours and chaos.

Eventually, after the bulk of citizens had been evacuated everyone with SCA's on would hear Jin-Roh's voice after a few frantic beeps, as Chiff aligned everyone's SCA's. "We are almost done here, if you are with anyone not tethered to a voidcraft get them to the evacuation point, as quickly as possible."

Anan pulls out of the anchoring point to call out to any defenders in the park. "Come on! Anyone who isn't a voidtrecker! It's time to go."

Luckily those off fighting the entity headed the message and made their way to the park as Jin Roh spoke again.

"Everyone else get ready. When we call it you need to leave. If you don't have your SCA on then get to someone who does."

As the last people rushed to the park Anan calls out again, through her SCA and outloud to the park. "You need to unanchor, before you can evacuate. Everyone be ready."

She goes in again though, because there are some last people, those from the large battle, getting through as another message was called.

"Almost there. Be ready. On my command..."

Anan unanchored again. "Quick everyone unanchor."

"NOW" Jin Roh's voice came through strong on their SCA's. Hopefully those with SCA's would grab those without.

There is some outside help as well, the train pulls anyone who is unconscious or still under the entity's control, forcibly evacuating them. This includes Wei Wuxian, Lan Wangji and Zagreus.

Luggage Carriage

There has been a mass evacuation before and that was crazy enough but since then the population of the train has almost doubled and now it is an extremely tight squeeze as everyone crashes into the luggage carriage at the same time.

The train jerks and rolls as they enter into the void at breakneck speed and again as they seem to slow, rather than speeding off though the void.

There's a crackling from their SCA's. "Voidtreckers? Voidtreckers come in!" Anan's voice. "Please tell me you made it..."

There's only a few moments of signal and soon they are flying though the void again, away from the strange non-world, the entity sealed for now. To new adventures, but first hopefully some time to recover from all that has happened.

Comments

[essek]

Essek's eyes linger on the fiery feet for a subtle moment, just enough to find them curious. That was definitely something new to him - in his world he would have immediately assumed something fire genasi or kin related, but here it could be anything.

His eyes move to his tea again while he listens to the other man. At first, he thinks to refuse, this man was being overly generous and Essek was debating the level of propriety needed for situations such as this, but then his stomach turns over and makes a noise. Well, he has been neglecting taking care of himself in such manners.

"Ah, actually, if you don't mind," he reaches to take one, taking a small, delicate bite of the treat. He wasn't expecting it to be so sweet, so he makes a small face at it and sips some tea to balance out the flavor. "It's... very sweet. Not bad, I-... there are flavors to it I've not tasted before."

[dyingpro]

"I think that's the point of it, so you don't have to sweeten your tea. At least from what I remember from my fake life in Jinnjar. And the tea keeps the honey and the... er... peanut butter, I think? It helps them not stick to the back of your throat as much when you're eating."

It's weird remembering some things from a first-person perspective that Zagreus is sure he's never seen before. He tries to put it out of his mind for now, because thinking about it for more than a few seconds makes his head start to ache.

The prince notes Essek's eyes trailing down to his feet everyone once and a while, and slowly raises them a bit, wiggling his toes and letting the little flames flicker. "I've had them since birth. Inherited them from my father, in fact. I promise they won't burn anything as long as they don't stay in one place for too long. But I don't stand still often, so no worries there!"

[essek]

Oh, a biscuit to eat with tea, something sweet to balance the complex but typically unsweet flavors of tea. It's an interesting concept. He does it again, finishes the all too sweet treat before chasing it with tea. It works remarkably well.

When the man wiggles his toes though, explaining his feet, Essek can't help but feel a little guilty for being caught looking.

"Apologies, I didn't mean to stare, they merely are... ah, similar in aspect to features a heritage of people in my world would likely have," though he hasn't seen that aspect yet. Fire hair, fire hands, fire eyes, sure, not yet feet, though it wouldn't surprise him. "Is your father perhaps of the fire elemental plane? Or of similar ilk?" He didn't pry much, but the man seemed rather keen on sharing and one does not usually bring something up without willingness to speak on it.