Intro thread: the hair of his head began to grow again after it was shaven
The door leading to the outside of his room is green. He doesn't remember it being green. Maybe it's a trick of the light? Anyway, it doesn't matter.
He extends his flow to the brass doorknob, twists and pulls, then pushes off with his flow again, on his feet, to send him and Damjen through the door.
That is so sad.
He does not elect to use the curtains. He prefers to awaken by natural light. And it will get him started back on the path of having a diurnal sleep schedule. He doesn't know whether or not Kandrad would like it, but he hasn't experienced it before, so he supposes he'll find out tomorrow.
He unceremoniously flops on the bed and is asleep soon after.
Kandrad is confused why Damjen was saddened by him telling him that, but it doesn't seem urgent to address.
Hm. He wonders whether or not the Hearthkeeper would be upset by his flow and smoke empathic powers, given that the eye magic mindreading upset her. She seems to value other people being able to keep 'privacy', the ability to keep secrets. But she was able to detect Damjen doing it and stopped him, whereas he used both of his empathic powers on her, and she did not block it. So he's unsure.
He'll talk about it with Damjen tomorrow. Despite having his sleep interrupted, he feels great. Full of energy. It's probably the fact that this is the only time he's been allowed to hold supernatural levels of spiritual energy in his body without needing to use it or dissolve it. He always hated having to do that.
He passes the time doing nothing.
The lights are closed, but he still knows the shapes and positions of all the entities and objects in the room from his active flow senses.
Hm. He decides to check out the bathroom. What's it like? He uses his flow to baffle the sound of the opening door, if there is any. He isn't very good at making sound baffles, but it will have to do.
There is a bathtub with a showerhead, a sink, a toilet, and a mirror. And more of those lanterns for lighting, of course.
He closes the door behind him to prevent the light from leaking out.
This is a lot of objects and he has no idea what their purpose is. He looks at the mirror.
Oh, it's. Him. He thinks. The entity is making all the same movements he does. And he thinks he looks like him, based on the shape of the face. He moves his flow onto his face to confirm. Yes.
It's kind of unsettling him so he's going to return to the bedroom and sit on his bed. It's softer than the old one he has. He feels like bouncing on it but it would make sound that would wake Damjen up. So he just breathes quietly.
...okay, what Damjen said about the dark making it easier to sleep was right. He does feel like sleeping now. But going to sleep means letting go of his flow technique, and he wants to be able to tell if anyone enters the room. Yes, he heard the Hearthkeeper say that no one could enter their room without their permission, but that only applies once they've claimed the room. This has not yet occurred, he thinks.
He decides to breathe out some smoke and pull it into a very long string, then move the string with flow around the walls, floor, ceiling, and doors of the bedroom, fixing it in place, then attaches the string to his leg. There. If anyone pulls on the string, it will pull on his leg.
He then, somewhat reluctantly, goes to sleep.
When they awake, Kandrad's books are sitting on the table, alongside a note.
It is now early morning. Sunlight streams in through the window, revealing a large garden outside.
Damjen and his companion who did not introduce himself,
I have completed the work necessary to block Damjen's eye magic. He will be unable to read the mind of anyone who does not knowingly consent, nor will he be able to look inside the body of anyone who objects to this, which a few people have. The librarians are grateful for the opportunity to copy these books, and expect that they will be of interest to many people. They may request another look once they've finished etching the plates for the illustrations, to confirm their accuracy. I have spoken to several of the refuge's habitual cooks, who would be happy to meet Damjen's companion and teach him some cooking. He may meet them in the kitchen around sixteen o'clock (two hours before dinner customarily begins).
The Hearthkeeper
Kandrad awakens first, having already slept earlier in the night, and having exerted himself less. He extends his flow to scan the room in the same way as before...there are objects on the table he doesn't recognize.
He bolts upright and leaps off the bed in an initiating stance, before realizing it's their books. With paper on top. From a distance, he picks them up using his flow and rotates them, trying to feel if they feel heavier or lighter than they expected. They weigh fine.
He brings the paper towards him so he can read it.
Hm. He wants to go and meet them and learn Cooking Magic, but he doesn't want to leave without Damjen. He awoke in part because light has begun to stream in from the windows. So he'll wait for him to wake up.
Damjen awakens about half an hour after sunrise, still groggy. His sleep schedule is all out of whack, and he feels the dried sweat on his skin. Ugh.
"Good morning. Oh, I see they've brought back the books."
He reads it.
Sixteen o'clock. Hm. Assuming dinner occurs around sunset, and assuming sunset is eighteen o'clock, then it seems they tell time the same way here. Or it's that translation effect again. Speaking of which, he should bring his pocket watch out with him to synchronize with the local time. The...time dilation...might have caused it to go out of sync. There aren't any clocks in the room, so he'll have to use the pocket watch to tell time.
"Do you want to go to the kitchen and have breakfast?"
"Okay. I'm going to go shower and change. I recommend you do that too. Do you want to go first?"
No. He entered the bathroom and it was full of white and metal objects he did not comprehend. And also a thing that had him in it.
A thing that..."Oh. That's a mirror. It reflects light that's in front of it. It's not like, a you, it's just a reflection of you, an image. It's just light. And I can show you how to use the bathroom."
He will enter and explain the toilet, shower, bathtub, and sink. Does only cold water come out or can he toggle it to have hot water too? His clan...well, former clan's city house had a central boiler, so it did, but the rural estate was older and water had to be boiled each time for bathing.
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Oh. "Most people do not want to look at other people naked. It's a thing, and people can get very emotional about it. Only people who are very close to each other typically don't mind."
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