[ Boundary field? Gods? The stranger has promised to explain later, so Cardia accepts it as something she'll learn more about once things settle.
But then one hand reaches out to brush against that injury, and Cardia jerks back with a gasp, panic and alarm entering her eyes as she watches that limb instantly melt and dissolve and--
... Grow. For that matter, for as much as they seem to be flesh and blood, that had been clay, hadn't it?
It takes her a minute to reply, as bewildered as she is, but... ]
You make it sound so easy... but I...
I wanted to learn more. I wanted to feel someone's warmth and have adventures and laugh and live... I just don't know if I deserve that kind of thing.
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But then one hand reaches out to brush against that injury, and Cardia jerks back with a gasp, panic and alarm entering her eyes as she watches that limb instantly melt and dissolve and--
... Grow. For that matter, for as much as they seem to be flesh and blood, that had been clay, hadn't it?
It takes her a minute to reply, as bewildered as she is, but... ]
You make it sound so easy... but I...
I wanted to learn more. I wanted to feel someone's warmth and have adventures and laugh and live... I just don't know if I deserve that kind of thing.