MAEA
The silence was neither comfortable nor calm, but Maea weathered it with patience all the same. Her eyes softened once he broke it, sympathy written in every line of her pale face. She shook her head, sadly. "No," she simply answered. "There is no going back. What is done is done, and cannot be undone, as far as I know. But I don't know all the secrets of this world either, so... perhaps if you look, there might be some way for you to return. Others have tried, and failed, but... Caido is known to surprise."
Reaching up for her hair, she untangled a few strands of the ivory silk from the tree trunk behind her, and pulled it over her shoulder. Fingers combed through it absently as she studied his expression, measuring the pressure he was under, as if to try and determine how much more he could take today.
"Others have come through before you, yes," she confirmed. "Sporadically, over the past three hundred years or so, and with great frequency these past... oh, two years? Most seem to have arrived in the Hollowed Ground, before the barrier around it fell, though others have been scattered over other parts of the continent." She thought of Neron, of other outlanders she had met; it struck her that the device that brought them here might not be entirely reliable.
Reaching up for her hair, she untangled a few strands of the ivory silk from the tree trunk behind her, and pulled it over her shoulder. Fingers combed through it absently as she studied his expression, measuring the pressure he was under, as if to try and determine how much more he could take today.
"Others have come through before you, yes," she confirmed. "Sporadically, over the past three hundred years or so, and with great frequency these past... oh, two years? Most seem to have arrived in the Hollowed Ground, before the barrier around it fell, though others have been scattered over other parts of the continent." She thought of Neron, of other outlanders she had met; it struck her that the device that brought them here might not be entirely reliable.
I'm an angel bored like hell
And you're a devil meaning well
And you're a devil meaning well
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