Ruhr
03-05-2025, 05:37 PM
The world around them is slumbering, and Ruhr can feel it.
There is no slow rise and fall of the horizon, no heaving of the earth below them in giant restful breaths. There is no outward sign, save for the quiet. Ruhr feels it in the way the world spins by, and finds each moment outside of himself inconsequential.
Sentient life beyond his reach has all but vanished, and he wonders if it is because the Moon cannot reach them. They might see Her, but how would they know what She said? How would they know to follow Her commands, if there was not a Moonspeaker to tell them?
He considers this and more, staring at the celestial reflection in the water behind Claudia. Not until she speaks again does he shake himself free, not until she asks if they should check the caverns, if they should go underground.
“I’d rather pluck my own eyes out.” He answers bluntly, thinking that if there were one thing worse than being under the water it would be being under the earth.
Then, because he is not entirely opposed to the thought of an adventure, adds: “Have you ever been to The Mountain?”
@Claudia
an adventure!
There is no slow rise and fall of the horizon, no heaving of the earth below them in giant restful breaths. There is no outward sign, save for the quiet. Ruhr feels it in the way the world spins by, and finds each moment outside of himself inconsequential.
Sentient life beyond his reach has all but vanished, and he wonders if it is because the Moon cannot reach them. They might see Her, but how would they know what She said? How would they know to follow Her commands, if there was not a Moonspeaker to tell them?
He considers this and more, staring at the celestial reflection in the water behind Claudia. Not until she speaks again does he shake himself free, not until she asks if they should check the caverns, if they should go underground.
“I’d rather pluck my own eyes out.” He answers bluntly, thinking that if there were one thing worse than being under the water it would be being under the earth.
Then, because he is not entirely opposed to the thought of an adventure, adds: “Have you ever been to The Mountain?”
@Claudia
an adventure!