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?

Comments

[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.