BungieONI
Seven gremlins in a trench coat
- Location
- Lickwidget
- Pronouns
- She/Her
AHhhhhhhh yaaaay! Yes they are in fact people!"It is more complex. It is possible to give offense without intent, for innocuous gestures to breed unexpected response, but…" Xuan Shi shrugged helplessly.
Ling Qi understood, it struck at the uncomfortable feeling that had been growing in the back of her mind. Rather than imagining a confrontation with a strange spirit, she really should be thinking of them as people.
...Dealing with those was so much harder.
I am so glad Ling Qi figured this out. Thank you Xuan Shi!
EEEEEEEEEEEE OUR SON! YES GOOD!
I have a strong feeling she is making some kind of weapon talisman that is also an eye. Because she seems nerdy enough to go for that.It wasn't too hard to talk Li Suyin into setting up a meeting, and Xuan Shi wasn't much harder to convince. However, as she arrived at Suyin's workshop and opened the door, it occurred to her that she might have forgotten something. In the dim light of the workshop, more than two dozen eyes stared back at her from the opposite wall.
Suyin did not have any visitors.
They floated in jars, hung suspended between crackling metal prongs, and lay neatly stacked upon trays. Some were human, some were animal, some were even insect, or glittering things of gemstone and precious metal.
Below them was a line of eerily lifelike wax heads, each missing their left eye. One of the heads was melting slowly against the table, half of it carved away by some blast, scraps of wax and ocular tissue being cleaned up by the assistants. Of course, there were assistants, not timply the tiny mouse skeletons that scurried too and fro across the floor, but humanoid and human sized figures with the skulls of beasts, wrapped in spidersilk and garbed in the robes of servants.