Weird audible note in a bottle and shark bait.

Okay.

He takes the silver coins. Then looks up into the sky to assess where the sun is.

If he is trying to figure out the time, then it's either mid-morning or mid-afternoon given the angle, hard to tell without knowing where the North is.

… Ugh.

"I don't suppose anyone left a compass around for me."

The shark bait starts glowing again.

Anthony pokes it.

It stops glowing when poked.

He looks at the water again.

Is the shark fin moving. Does it look made of plastic.

The shark fin is moving, circling exactly the area he needs to swim if he were to reach the bigger island. It does not look plastic, if Anthony has any experience identifying shark fins, it will look real.

Anthony does not have any experience identifying shark fins! However, looks vaguely flexible and/or doesn't shine glossily in the sun andor – is moving, actually – is probably sufficient for him to deem it not plastic.

He pokes the silver circlet.

"The Legendary Circlet of The Mind! It grants you the power of telepathy!"

The circlet glows while the head-voice says this.

He sighs at it but puts it on.

!

He feels his mind expand beyond the confines of his tiny-tiny skull in a way that makes him think of the voice that has been speaking in his head. Far away (very far away) he can feel the presence of other minds, some in his reach and he can at least recognize that one, that is Evan.

– He reaches out, gently.

It feels less like creating a connection and more like if someone opened a tunnel to let his mind reach through. There are no obstacles and now he can just speak with his mind and be heard.

There is also a sense that Evan can do the same, and in fact, by opening the connection, Anthony alerted Evan that it exists.

Test.

– Anthony?

Do you have any idea why the fuck I'd be on a desert island and why there is a bloody headset thingy that gives me telepathy

No? You disappeared after getting hit in the head – creeping darkness.

I, he explains, am on some small island in the middle of nowhere with a seemingly-magic treasure chest and also a shark in the water and was wondering if you would punch the person who drugged me, if applicable.

If they drugged you they also got me, points out Evan.

I don't know how this thing works so if I drop off it might not return.

It's been about two hours. Since you disappeared. If you were wondering.

Feels like less than ten minutes, here, since I woke up.

Apparently this thing can't do nodding.

– Can it do pictures? As in, can you see what I'm showing –?