[ look, the last time kaveh left alhaitham unsupervised, he toppled a government. the look that kaveh gives alhaitham as the topic slides by is of faint, abject suspicion. but he allows it as he turns the latest question over in his head, again and again, like a dog with a bone. ]
Long enough. Please, anyone else would have taken three times as long to walk through the corridors of your convoluted logic to figure out where you are and when you are. Better yet, they wouldn't even have bothered to try. [ kaveh leans back. if a motion can be petulant, this is what it exudes. but aggravation aside, alhaitham's consistent steadiness in the face of the shifting unknown has always been something kaveh has reluctantly drawn strength from, for better or for worse. the world upends, a new dimension opens up, people apparently can't die, and alhaitham still has a book in hand. there wasn't a lot you could complain about that.
kaveh stretches, pulling his head from side to side as he works out a tense kink from the knots of muscle along his neck. ] Is there anything that isn't odd about this city? It's obviously designed for a population that is no longer here, the signs of life seem to evaporate at a very specific time not too long ago in the past, and it's as if time stopped there. There isn't enough dust accumulation anywhere to suggest the natural flow of time, even in places where a population wouldn't necessarily clean on the regular, like on top of a chandelier.
[ the chandelier is a long story. don't @ at him. ] Moreover, there's a rumour that people don't die here. You haven't been looking at your device, have you?
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Long enough. Please, anyone else would have taken three times as long to walk through the corridors of your convoluted logic to figure out where you are and when you are. Better yet, they wouldn't even have bothered to try. [ kaveh leans back. if a motion can be petulant, this is what it exudes. but aggravation aside, alhaitham's consistent steadiness in the face of the shifting unknown has always been something kaveh has reluctantly drawn strength from, for better or for worse. the world upends, a new dimension opens up, people apparently can't die, and alhaitham still has a book in hand. there wasn't a lot you could complain about that.
kaveh stretches, pulling his head from side to side as he works out a tense kink from the knots of muscle along his neck. ] Is there anything that isn't odd about this city? It's obviously designed for a population that is no longer here, the signs of life seem to evaporate at a very specific time not too long ago in the past, and it's as if time stopped there. There isn't enough dust accumulation anywhere to suggest the natural flow of time, even in places where a population wouldn't necessarily clean on the regular, like on top of a chandelier.
[ the chandelier is a long story. don't @ at him. ] Moreover, there's a rumour that people don't die here. You haven't been looking at your device, have you?