A Few Minutes After Returning to Liminal Space

[naturaltwohands]

[Drizzt's flat annoyance filters through slightly despite his attempts to contain it.]

You must be joking.

[He lets out the equivalent of a sigh.]

How does one return to their true form after they have "received" one from the previous Jaunt?

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[reallymean]

Focus on the feel of your own body - the length of your limbs, your sense of balance, the way you're used to moving. Your mind knows the shape you're meant to be. You just need to block out all the distractions and find your way back.

Poke me if she would have used Princess, but I believe she wouldn't have. BUT I COULD BE WRONG SO...

[naturaltwohands]

[And now that he's been told a few times, Drizzt remembers to be polite:]

Thank you, Allura. It does not seem such a hard process--but I do believe I have to delay it now for the amusement of my friends.

[reallymean]

You're a good friend. I don't think I would be able to be quite so good-natured about it.

And if it makes you feel any better, as simple as the process is at its core, it's not unknown for one of my own people to get tangled up in a shift when we're first learning - and we are shapeshifters by nature, and rarely undergo such drastic changes.

[naturaltwohands]

It's either that or suffer the embarrassment many times instead of simply once. [He knows his friends, okay.]

It does help, truth be told--although I was quite unaware that you were a shape shifter.

[reallymean]

Well, it really isn't something one includes as part of an introduction. It would be too much like bragging.

[naturaltwohands]

[A filtering of amusement.]

Indeed, it would be. Did I meet you in your original form, then? Pardon me for being curious, but the closest we have are Doppelgangers, and you are nothing like one.

[reallymean]

Essentially. I keep to it as much as I can here in Liminal Space, unless someone seems truly disturbed by dealing with a person not of their own species. We shed enough of our identities on our Jaunts without voluntarily giving them up when there's not a need.

[naturaltwohands]

We lose ourselves far too often, even when we are still ourselves, I agree.

It is noble of you to change to a form to help others through their transition here. Although I must warn you to never take on the form of a woman of my race--it would cause alarm. If any drow show up, it should be me that deals with them.

[reallymean]

It's common practice for diplomats from my planet to alter their appearance to put others at ease - though usually, they were visiting other worlds, not meeting strangers at a place of convergence such as this.

And I appreciate the warning. I'll certainly keep it in mind if any more of your people join us.

[naturaltwohands]

I can see that being quite effective.

Also, do not contact them unless they seem friendly. Most drow would... relish the chance to kill someone that seems like a surface elf on sight.

[Since he's already warning her, MIGHT AS WELL COMPLETE IT.]

[reallymean]

While I'd prefer to avoid that, it's...not unfamiliar ground.

[naturaltwohands]

I'm sorry you've had to deal with such things.

[reallymean]

I expect it's an aspect of war common to many realities.

[naturaltwohands]

... That thought saddens me more than anything I have heard in quite some time.

[reallymean]

I'm sorry. Hopefully it isn't something we have to deal with again in the near future.

[naturaltwohands]

I hope the same. It is a fate I wish on no one.