the essential Saltes of humane Dust | Glowfic Constellation

from-the-deeps

She laughs some. "So what's you guy's deal? Joseph mentioned necromancy?"

with-lilies-and-with-laurel

"He's the only member of this party who's never died! Dying's unpleasant, I don't recommend it."

from-the-deeps

"I can imagine. Does your necromancy only work on humans?"

I-am-not-resigned

"I don't know, we haven't had any non-human specimens to experiment with. Unless Curwen ever...?"

Amity Sanders

across-time

"His earliest experiments were on animals. Across species, the process is - similar enough at the roughest stages, but not at all similar at a finer scale. I'm sorry."

from-the-deeps

She rocks back a bit. "It's okay. Worth trying."

I-am-not-resigned

"But that suggests we could develop resurrection of non-humans. If I didn't have his work to start from I would still have done my best to bring Eliza back."

with-lilies-and-with-laurel

"Eliza is me, Helen is a pseudonym I'm using because my original identity is legally dead."

from-the-deeps

"That's good! Did you just - recognize I wasn't moving normally?"

I-am-not-resigned

"Yes. Aside from having a thorough understanding of human anatomy, sometimes people who have had something go wrong with the resurrective process move--unusually."

from-the-deeps

"Huh! Nah, that's not what's up with me. I'm not human. Should probably work on passing a bit better..."

I-am-not-resigned

"It's the joints, you have a much greater degree of flexibility than most human tendons will allow."

with-lilies-and-with-laurel

"What are you?"

from-the-deeps

"A shoggoth. We're shapeshifters. Aquatic, originally."

with-lilies-and-with-laurel

"Oh, neat."

from-the-deeps

And her face is a boy's.

"I think so!"

with-lilies-and-with-laurel

"Oh, fun! Which one are you really?"

from-the-deeps

"Big gelatinous mass. I'm not sure anyone has ever tried to sex one of us. I tend to just be fine with whatever shape I'm in?"

with-lilies-and-with-laurel

"Oh, I see. I'm sorry if I'm--nosy--but I just found out that things like this were real when someone pointed a gun at my head and suddenly I was naked in my fiance's cellar and there's so much I don't know."

from-the-deeps

"Nosy's fine! I was pretty bad about humans at first, even growing up around some..."

with-lilies-and-with-laurel

"If you have any questions that haven't been answered yet, feel free; I don't mind nosy."

from-the-deeps

"That'd be neat! Though I know most of it by now I think... Except the stuff people don't wanna talk about to kids and teens, I guess?"

with-lilies-and-with-laurel