And now the Bird Word

[helborn]

[The 'voice' that shows up on the network is rough and scratchy, as if it's more croaked than anything.]

'And then you had to go off and disappear like th -'

[Casper's 'voice' responds.]

We've gone over this and - wait, we're on the network. You're on the network.

... Shit.

'Well, would you look at that? Now I can tell people how much of an idiot you're being.'

You would even if you couldn't speak.

'I mean, probably.'

... I'm sorry about him. In advance, and in general.

Comments

[helborn]

It's not your fault. And I was born with weird... stuff... about me, but I didn't know she was my mother until about a year and a half before I came here.

Sometimes I worry about you, kid. The fact that you could understand me didn't clue you in?

... Look, I didn't even know the gods actually existed and neither did you.

[flatteries]

To be fair, being able to understand an animal could have a lot of different reasons than being the child of a god. [ Especially with all the weird stuff that's going on across all of the worlds they've visited.. Inigo has learned this much. ]

So was your life still a little more normal before, even with the slightly strange things?

[helborn]

Magic isn't really a known thing in my world... but yeah, mostly. I could talk to ghosts, but otherwise it was pretty normal.

Talking to ghosts isn't normal.

I said 'otherwise'.

[flatteries]

I have to give Bob some credit here. Magic is fairly normal where I come from, but I don't think I've ever heard of someome speaking to ghosts.

[helborn]

I mean... I knew that was weird but I thought maybe everything else wasn't real since I'd never see any evidence of it.