[Boy, nothing doubles down on that sentiment like people taking it literally.]
I'm not volunteering.
[He's not terribly fond of Greg, but...well, he doesn't have to be to work together. Wouldn't be the first time. He raises an eyebrow at the game board and watches the demonstration. Okay, then.]
You would know, wouldn't you?
[He couldn't resist. Still, he recognizes an invitation when he hears one.]
Okay. So we need Lucretia back. We saw the curse, we saw the thorns, and if she's not on the volcano, or in it, then she's probably pretty close to it. We need to- I don't know, break the curse, wake her up, something - but we need to get there first.
[...hang on.] But Mira said she'd found a tunnel that bypassed the Cursed and got close. That's probably the best way to go, because the other side of the wall looks like a zombie apocalypse.
Speaking of the Cursed...you said they gravitate towards Relics. They're on the north side of the island... [Wait. Wait. Something doesn't quite click, but he feels like he might have hit something here. Maybe.] ...you said near the relic Angus used. But Papyrus found the book underwater, in the caves. Either those caves span really far north, or...
[...or...]
[They'd seen it in the videos - the group from the Starblaster - including Lucretia - had divided the Light of Creation, whatever that was, into the Relics. It sounded a hell of a lot like they'd made them.]
[Lucretia was a chronicler - a historian - according to the hazy post-Candlenights memories. Sure, he wouldn't put it past her to have made her Relic a book, but...one of a series of pulp detective novels for kids? When one of the Relic-related disasters he'd described to her so long ago had involved a Relic falling into the hands of a child? The specifics didn't fit. And if the job of the Reclaimers was to bring back Relics that had fallen into the wrong hands, why would she ever let hers leave her sight?]
[And Angus had thought she was hiding something - that she wasn't destroying the Relics as they were being brought in. And the existence of the baby Voidfish in this universe had been confirmed - by the physical manifestation of the universe, who had also spoken static to people who should have been able to hear the words behind it, goddammit Greg - so she's definitely hiding something-]
[And Greg had described the book as having captured the Relic's light. That didn't make it a goddamn Relic itself-]
[Fuck Greg's aversion to direct questions; he has to know.]
The book - Caleb Cleveland and the Imaginary Island - is it a relic?
no subject
I'm not volunteering.
[He's not terribly fond of Greg, but...well, he doesn't have to be to work together. Wouldn't be the first time. He raises an eyebrow at the game board and watches the demonstration. Okay, then.]
You would know, wouldn't you?
[He couldn't resist. Still, he recognizes an invitation when he hears one.]
Okay. So we need Lucretia back. We saw the curse, we saw the thorns, and if she's not on the volcano, or in it, then she's probably pretty close to it. We need to- I don't know, break the curse, wake her up, something - but we need to get there first.
[...hang on.] But Mira said she'd found a tunnel that bypassed the Cursed and got close. That's probably the best way to go, because the other side of the wall looks like a zombie apocalypse.
Speaking of the Cursed...you said they gravitate towards Relics. They're on the north side of the island... [Wait. Wait. Something doesn't quite click, but he feels like he might have hit something here. Maybe.] ...you said near the relic Angus used. But Papyrus found the book underwater, in the caves. Either those caves span really far north, or...
[...or...]
[They'd seen it in the videos - the group from the Starblaster - including Lucretia - had divided the Light of Creation, whatever that was, into the Relics. It sounded a hell of a lot like they'd made them.]
[Lucretia was a chronicler - a historian - according to the hazy post-Candlenights memories. Sure, he wouldn't put it past her to have made her Relic a book, but...one of a series of pulp detective novels for kids? When one of the Relic-related disasters he'd described to her so long ago had involved a Relic falling into the hands of a child? The specifics didn't fit. And if the job of the Reclaimers was to bring back Relics that had fallen into the wrong hands, why would she ever let hers leave her sight?]
[And Angus had thought she was hiding something - that she wasn't destroying the Relics as they were being brought in. And the existence of the baby Voidfish in this universe had been confirmed - by the physical manifestation of the universe, who had also spoken static to people who should have been able to hear the words behind it, goddammit Greg - so she's definitely hiding something-]
[And Greg had described the book as having captured the Relic's light. That didn't make it a goddamn Relic itself-]
[Fuck Greg's aversion to direct questions; he has to know.]
The book - Caleb Cleveland and the Imaginary Island - is it a relic?