Audience: Harrowhark Nonagesimus

[probe]

Comments

[bonetiddies]

No, none of it was well thought out. I'd already told several others, so shutting me up wasn't ever going to be an effective strategy. But it successfully goaded me into causing a massive disturbance, so there's that, I suppose.

[probe]

For all the good that it ultimately did her. But I suppose the lot of you could have handled it worse.

[bonetiddies]

I thought it was a bit of a disaster, honestly, but apparently I am always overly negative.

. . . May I ask about your eyes?

[probe]

I said that it could be worse, not that it went well.

[just for clarity.

he exhales a sigh when she asks that, though.]

A new change, evidently-- one I could certainly stand to go without. Thus far, I have found no way to put a stop to it.

[thanks, he hates it.]

[bonetiddies]

A fair assessment.

Some of your features seem to have become more. . . pronounced, in recent weeks. Is that due to the passage of time, or is there some other reason?

[probe]

It may simply be time, yes. I have yet to truly isolate the reason behind it; all I am certain of is that it has proceeded in this way since before all of you arrived.

[bonetiddies]

Is it only physical?

[probe]

In my case, yes. It has been almost entirely physical.

[bonetiddies]

In your case. But in others. . .

[Others are having different reactions? Wrath seems to be having more trouble controlling herself from combusting; maybe that's the meaning?]

[probe]

...my situation is, perhaps, somewhat different. I believe I am more resistant to any other form of change.

[his arms fold, claws tapping on a forearm. there's a very faint, muffled sound as if it's actually crystal tapping crystal, through the fabric.]

I have experienced such previously, and it may well prevent it from being repeated once more.

[bonetiddies]

This makes sense. But it also makes me wonder the extent to which I ought to be worried about some of the others, as the weeks progress.

If you continue to transform, body and mind, what will be left?

[probe]

...so long as one has their memory, and knows who they are, they are always themselves. That is the core of the being, I believe-- without memory, we may turn out quite differently, but even with external influence affecting some change... if we are aware of who we are, there will never be a complete alteration.

[bonetiddies]

I think you must be right. [So where does that leave her dumb swiss cheese brain.] For all that my studies emphasize the soul, it is hardly immutable. I can. . . imagine waking up empty of any experiences, and filling oneself with new ones, and becoming an entirely different person that one would have been otherwise.