silent, in the trees [open]

[necrocabbage]

Characters: Trahearne, open to everyone
Date: Early February
Location: In and around the Dreaming Bridge
Situation: There's a quiet plant guy lurking around. That might be a little weird.
Warnings/Rating: Nothing yet


A. During the day - outside the Dreaming Bridge
When he's not busy with other matters, Trahearne has been spending some time right outside the Dreaming Bridge building. He mostly walks around the outside of the Quayside wing, though sometimes he makes a circle around the Breakwater wing as well, to cover all his bases.

What exactly he's doing out there might not be immediately obvious. When he's not just walking around, examining the dirt and peering under bushes like he's looking for something, he's been leaving little pieces of jerky in specific, tucked-away places. Trahearne later returns to check to see if the jerky is gone, but even when it's disappeared, he seems to keep walking away with nothing to show for the endeavor.

Whatever kind of animal Trahearne is trying to lure out hasn't yet revealed itself, but he's certainly patient enough to continue trying.



B. At night - in the Dreaming Bridge lounge/lobby
Trahearne hasn't been sleeping well. Tossing and turning is one thing, but after the first night when he kept waking from terrible nightmares, he decided that persisting in a useless endeavor would only end in disturbing his roommates. The idea of having to explain what he was seeing in his dreams to two complete strangers wasn't just unappealing, he knew that it wouldn't help matters any. He'd still have trouble sleeping, and he'd still wake them with it, whether they knew what was happening or not.

Instead, he's taken to slipping out of his room after the others are asleep, taking with him a small pile of books on the Planes that he's obtained from one of the local libraries. Trahearne then curls up in one of the more comfortable chairs in the public lounge, reading by the light of a lamp, up until he dozes off or simply can't see straight anymore. Whether he's found awake or asleep, he's always gone before sunrise, either to get breakfast or to return to his room to prepare for another day.

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[necrocabbage]

Trahearne scooted in closer to Leo to get a better look at the small screen, watching the pictures with clear interest. This particular device didn't seem much like a yimo, but the images were still in crystal-clear color. "Amazing," he murmured. "It's still hard to believe that this technology is so widely available. Seeing these feels like standing in the same room."

He recognized Klaus in a few of the pictures, but the rest of it was entirely new. Even the mushroom person didn't much resemble a sylvari, like he had expected. It's the picture of the cityscape that makes Trahearne truly stare at the camera, leaning in to try to get a better look at all the detail. "This is... I've never seen a place like this." It wasn't only the people - though that was a large part of it - but the tall, square-shaped buildings, and a stylized metal device with wheels that he didn't recognize as a car. Not that the sheer variety of pedestrians wasn't remarkable. This was a wider range of different types of people than he had ever seen, even in Aifaran, though it's the dragon creatures that gives him a shiver. No one in the picture seemed to be paying those any attention at all.

"Thorns and brambles," he breathed, "You truly are from somewhere very different from my home. One of my roommates said as much himself, but this... this gives me a great deal of perspective."

[iseeall]

"Haha..if I had a bigger screen like a computer, I'd be able to show you the pictures better." But Leo was pleased that the tree man seemed fascinated by them. "I will say that Hellsalem's Lot-that city-is strange and terrifying even for me as just a normal human, but like it's still amazing to see. You wouldn't think so many strange things would be able to live peacefully together."

Well, Leo couldn't say perfectly peacefully, as he was part of a secret society that prevented the entire world from being destroyed by the idiots that occupied the city, but well, it still was miraculous they'd survived this long. "I mean, I bet if I saw your world I'd be surprised, though you sound like you have humans already."

[necrocabbage]

"Is it the amount of variety that makes it so terrifying?" Trahearne asked curiously, taking a step back to give Leo a little more space. "It is quite heartening, to see that so many different kinds of people can get along that well. There's only one city on my world that's nearly so cosmopolitan, and it's... had its fair share of difficulties, but bounced back from them stronger than ever." Of course, Lion's Arch was also more openly seedy than any of the other major cities, but that had more to do with the pirates running the city than anything else.

"Perhaps you would be surprised by some of it. None of the cities look much like yours, or even much like Aifaran. But there are plenty of humans, yes. There's five different races that I would count as the most prominent, but there's other intelligent beings that live in smaller settlements."