[ It's a guess at best, but... Well, not every plane follows the same rules. Suns that rise and set in a matter of minutes; black stars against the night sky; buildings that appear as organic as they do constructed; entities that can be rent in two and trapped in books or communicate through a tooth. Beings who can read someone's entire life like a book. And if forests can walk in his domain, feed on flesh, who's to say they need sun, necessarily, elsewhere? ]
In my—[ hesitation accompanied by a halted gesture, consideration of his words, because there is much John could say and much he'd rather not ]—time, I've encountered rituals for any number of reasons and purposes. Summoning from another world, for example. [ His masked face tips towards a shoulder, something in the shadows across it almost seeming to mimic an arched brow despite its lack of features. ] Seems the most relevant.
[ Saying that, though, if there's as much a mess as it sounds like across the deck... that might not help them. There might be locations for a ritual to have been performed, and it's equally possible there's somewhere else aboard the vessel that would be just as able to host one. ]
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[ It's a guess at best, but... Well, not every plane follows the same rules. Suns that rise and set in a matter of minutes; black stars against the night sky; buildings that appear as organic as they do constructed; entities that can be rent in two and trapped in books or communicate through a tooth. Beings who can read someone's entire life like a book. And if forests can walk in his domain, feed on flesh, who's to say they need sun, necessarily, elsewhere? ]
In my—[ hesitation accompanied by a halted gesture, consideration of his words, because there is much John could say and much he'd rather not ]—time, I've encountered rituals for any number of reasons and purposes. Summoning from another world, for example. [ His masked face tips towards a shoulder, something in the shadows across it almost seeming to mimic an arched brow despite its lack of features. ] Seems the most relevant.
[ Saying that, though, if there's as much a mess as it sounds like across the deck... that might not help them. There might be locations for a ritual to have been performed, and it's equally possible there's somewhere else aboard the vessel that would be just as able to host one. ]