[Video] Week 40 - Thursday Evening

[wisdom_of_hounds]

[The video flickers on, water blurring the feed a little.]

Gods below... [A mutter and then Atticus is flopping over on his side to look down on the camera. He's shirtless, laying in the grass in the woods somewhere getting rained on but grinning so wide he must not care. Anyone that knows him will note that he's got his tattoos pressed firmly to the earth beneath him which accounts for the relief in his voice.]

So... uh... [And it takes him a moment to decide what's safe to talk about on the video. He's a little addled after more than a week in Nowhere.] How much trouble has my hound been causing?

[A smirk. Yeah he was going to sprawl out in the grass anyway but there's another reason he's on the ground.] Missed you too, Akito.

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[wisdom_of_hounds]

Eight days... [He sighed, shoving a hand through his damp hair.] Felt like a month.

[The latter part of that was the real question and he'd had more than enough time to consider it fully. It had been stupid and desperate. He hated leaving Granuaile not just because it was Granuaile but because it meant there was no longer a Druid to protect Gaia. And it meant he had failed as a teacher once again, leaving her to deal with the fallout from his actions without her.

Had he made the wrong decision in faking his death? In faking hers? If not for his need to cover his own ass she could have gone to Brighid or Flidais and perhaps they would have recognized the need to train more Druids finally without Aenghus Og to poison their thoughts against it. That opportunity was lost to her now though.... because of him.]

Planets don't necessarily affect planes... I left some thing unfinished, left a lot of people in harms way because of me. I just... had to at least try.

[rhapsoidein]

Yeah.

[It felt like a month for her too, to be honest. At least Oberon had Akito to distract him. Genesis... didn't have anyone. Just her apple orchard. It wasn't that she didn't make friends here, but there just weren't enough people to connect with. And she was never one to make a lot of friends. Just a few really close ones.

But at least Atticus told her what was going on.]

I've heard that when some people return to the pods, it's like they never left home. Which is... weird because they're technically still in the pods. I could be wrong, but... that's what it sounded like.

[That's what she thought she remembered from Jane, anyway. But she never met the woman prior to her waking up, so she didn't know if time actually passed or not for Jane.

She sighs and brushing her own damp hair away from her face.]

It's the only way I can explain the time differences I keep hearing between people, anyway.

[wisdom_of_hounds]

Yeah I heard that... I think there it's just that there's no discernible passage of time. Last time we were there it was a whole group of us but when there's no one else. [He shudders a little before flashing her a sheepish smile again.] I know, I know... It's my own damned fault.

And I didn't have Verdana there either. [He flops back into the grass, relishing the contact with the planet.]

[rhapsoidein]

Well, no, I meant for those at home. Like, if I go home, time may not have passed and if you went home, time may not have passed. I'm not sure if it's true or not, that's just what it sounds like though.

[So he'll see his friends again soon, right? And she'll be back where she started, though hopefully not degrading still. She chuckles as she watches him flop back on the grass and crawled down next to him on her stomach. Oberon decided to join in the other side.

She's going to need a shower and some new night clothes after this. Dirty feet and her tank and shorts were getting muddy.]

Well, now you do, so rest up so we can get you home.