un: yotsuba; text

[blindluck]

Be careful if you see anyone you recognize from home in the mists! It seems like hallucinating such things is possible here. It would be a shame if you tumbled into the River chasing an illusion.

If you've seen one, though, I'm curious: were they someone who already died in your world, or were they someone who was supposed to be alive?

[Listen. Nagito can't only put up a warning. He has to gather potentially sensitive information about it too.]

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[solitarynote]

[There are echoes of such things in his mind: the ringing of laughter, shapes that are there then fade. Better to stay away from the mist.]

We make things up. [He has experience with that, so agreeing with Nagito isn’t a far stretch.] And it’s a new place. Unfamiliar. There’s always… a safe spot.

[The city in the Cavern, the oasis in the Desert, their communal hut in the Marsh… was it because the Ferryman was near? Their light still kept scary things away.]

[blindluck]

I don't know about always, but the village does seem to be safe from hallucinations. [Nagito can't trust anything to be entirely safe.]

[solitarynote]

[Well, safe from hallucinations caused by the mist. Sunny wasn’t entirely sure these days when his mind was playing tricks on him.]

Do you think… we’ll have to cross there next?

[It did feel like they stayed in one place and then ‘continued’ forward into the more treacherous parts. Normally they followed the River but…]

The water is everywhere here.

[blindluck]

I think an especially mist-filled patch of marsh is a likely option! I also think the area with the fire is likely.

[Nagito does like to also scope out potential Crossing areas.]

[solitarynote]

[Yeah, both of those options sounded…]

Scary.

[And yet that would make the most sense, wouldn’t it?]

Fire would probably hurt. During a Crossing.

[blindluck]

Only during a Crossing! And probably only if you don't go with Ferryman-san. But that makes it important to look at now, because there's always the chance those of us who don't go with Ferryman-san will be traveling via that route.

[solitarynote]

[Oh, right… there were people that made the journey without the Ferryman. It wasn’t that Sunny had forgotten but… he didn’t understand the decision. The Ferryman was kind. They kept them safe.]

How would they go through that? It’s dangerous.

[blindluck]

I'm not sure, but we should probably figure it out beforehand, right?

[solitarynote]

Probably…

[Though that would still be scary, right? Sunny wouldn’t be wading into fire anytime soon. (And ironically enough, he was unaware that Nagito was planning/had already gone to do such when Sunny was watching his possessions…)]