[walkabout] Duck? Rabbit, Duck? [backdated to the first week of April]

[capital_asset]

I'm beginning to feel like I'm monopolizing the network, but... two things:

One, I had another prophetic dream last night: The Manticore looming over a puppet theatre, making a skeletal marionette dance on the graves of the Third Reich.

Two, I think I've figured out who we're carrying around with us - or rather, whose soul. Have any of you heard of Koschei the Deathless?

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[capital_asset]

The Reich is the regime in charge of the soldiers who are after us. The prison camp we were imprisoned in at the beginning of the walkabout was theirs.

Koschei is a figure from one of this world's mythologies. He's a powerful entity in his own right, and impossible to kill by normal means because he keeps, or kept, his soul hidden away in a needle, which in turn is in an egg, which is inside a duck that's inside a rabbit that's held in an iron casket, and the entire conglomeration buried under a tree on an island that can appear and disappear using the tides... although if this is his soul, the location of the tree and the island are somewhat moot.

[goestoextremes]

... Oh, right, that.

True, we probably don't need to find that island with the tree when it looks like we already have that cascet here. The rest... sounds complicated especially if we aren't supposed to show our powers here or much of them anyway while everyone else's wathcing.

[capital_asset]

They're already watching us for signs of treachery as it is.