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[worldeating.livejournal.com]

[The video feed flickers to life, and there is a man with dark hair gazing at the "screen" for all to see.  There is something decidedly serpentine about the incline of his head, the way his lips are almost curled into a snarl, exposing a flash of white teeth before he speaks.

The man's voice itself is low, surprisingly so, for such a face;  almost as if there is the perpetual rumbling, the sound of gravel, at the back of the throat.]

Zok bein. Even my own tongue does not come to me as it should, as naturally as I breathe.  Instead my mind is filled with the muddled words of this foreign language, and my body weak.

[He then scoffs – the dry, humourless kind that could pass as a hiss.]

Who encases me in this prison of flesh, rips my Voice from my throat and takes away my wings? These "gods"? Meyye. I know nothing of these so-called gods.

[Man, he's just a bundle of sunshine, isn't he?]

In defeat, I have done nothing to warrant humiliation.

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[bearswitness.livejournal.com]

You don't say. How original.

[worldeating.livejournal.com]

What answer were you waiting for?

[bearswitness.livejournal.com]

I wanted to know what you wanted explained to you, but now I've stopped caring so don't bother with that.

[worldeating.livejournal.com]

Tch, the answers I seek cannot be explained to me. Unless you, of all here, know how to leave this place.

[bearswitness.livejournal.com]

I have difficulty imagining anyone that's found a way back would stick around.

[worldeating.livejournal.com]

Yes, it is something that must be taken up with the gods themselves. They will know my displeasure.

[bearswitness.livejournal.com]

Who do you think it was that changed your shape?

[worldeating.livejournal.com]

You think that alone is enough to leash my tongue?

[bearswitness.livejournal.com]

No but I think it will make asking nicely something of an exercise in futility.

[worldeating.livejournal.com]

'Nice'? I did not speak of entertaining kindness.

[bearswitness.livejournal.com]

Oh extrapolate a little wouldn't you. Why would creatures strong enough to bring you here and bind you answer to any demands.

[worldeating.livejournal.com]

Perhaps these gods are wise enough to avoid meddling in the affairs of another. It is a dangerous game they play, on... principle alone.

[bearswitness.livejournal.com]

Well if you insist on going ahead with this then do be sure to let me know when. I'd like to secure good seating.

[worldeating.livejournal.com]

You mock me, but you have not stated that you will do more than just stand idly by. You accept the fate handed to us? This is why jul is weak.

[bearswitness.livejournal.com]

I don't even know how to spell that to ask what it is.

[worldeating.livejournal.com]

Mankind.

[bearswitness.livejournal.com]

Rest assured, I'm not of mankind.

[worldeating.livejournal.com]

[That is enough to spark an interest within Alduin, however faint.] Then what are you?

[bearswitness.livejournal.com]

The Witness.

[worldeating.livejournal.com]

Your title? Or your name?

[bearswitness.livejournal.com]

Both I suppose.

[worldeating.livejournal.com]

[That still doesn't tell him very much, unfortunately.]

And how are you different than man?

[bearswitness.livejournal.com]

I'm older.

[worldeating.livejournal.com]

That is an insignificant difference. What else?

[bearswitness.livejournal.com]

Well that's a little private isn't it.