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[Exploring is okay, but right now Sollux doesn't really feel like doing that. He's found himself a perch on a broken-down wall with a good view of the island. It's not a bad place. But it's pretty boring with no internet.

Despite the fact that he's sitting up high and one might think he was pondering the mysteries of the universe, or escape possibilities, he's got his phone open and is poking at the guts with a microtool with intense concentration.

Perhaps you'd like to interrupt him?]

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[Cordelia, on the other hand, was still exploring. Her clothes were a rather odd choice for doing so, but they did not seem to encumber her all that much.

In particular, she was exploring the path leading up to a broken-down wall, whereupon she spotted Sollux. She closed the distance, the other person didn't seem to be a shadow, after all, and probably was just another abducted person she hadn't met yet.]

Greetings, I don't mean to intrude, but I spotted you and-

[All of a sudden, her right hand flew to her mouth as she spotted how Sollux actually looked like.]

What in the heavens are you?!

[So much for politeness...]

[He looks down at her as she addresses him, his four horns quite visible against the sky, no doubt. At her exclamation, he snorts and gets to his feet, deliberately jumping down from the high wall to land not far from her.

His eyes spark with electricity, his body limned in blue and red light as he catches himself with his telekinetic abilities. In a moment, he's landed light as a feather. He grins, showing off a mouth crowded with about twice as many pointed teeth and fangs as it should have.]

I'm a troll. And you're a rude human, did I get it right?

What-No! I'm sorry!

[Cordelia caught herself from the surprise (never having seen someone with horns before...other than grossly mutated things, that is) and waved both her hands in front of her, as a assuaging gesture.]

I apologize, I didn't mean it like that, I just never saw a ... a troll before in my life!

[His grin shifts to a less threatening smile. He nods and shrugs, raising his own hands]

Well, that'th no big deal. Tho yeah, I'm a troll, a mutated one, but thtill.

[The smile, oddly, hadn't threatened her much - nor the abilities he had shown - as she was used to magicians. Still...]

Mutated...?

[Well, probably in a very, very, very different way than her, that's for sure.]

Uhm, we didn't have a good start, due to my blunder, for which I really am sorry. My name is Cordelia. I'm a ...new arrival.

Are you a troll mage, then?

Yeah, motht trollth you thee won't have ath many hornth. Among other thingth that are methhed up about me.

[He shrugs again]

I'm Thollukth Captor. Uh, Thollukth with an eth...

Actually, I am a mage. Mage of Doom, to be prethithe. Which bathically meanth I'm badathh and deprethhing and will probably die horribly thometime thoon after I get out of here. Are you a mage, too?

Really? Well, I don't think the horns are too bad, I wouldn't call them messed up. I was just surprised originally.

So you're Solluks? Nice to meet you. I'm a kind of mage, yes, but nothing as special as your kind, I think. [Which, technically, was a complete lie.]

But I sure hope you won't die horribly, if you know, I'm sure something can be done to prevent it, right? [That part she meant, and wasn't a lie.]

[He shrugs] Well, I don't know about that. But I'm here inthtead of there, and that'th going thome wayth towardth giving me hope. Thooner or later I'm sure I'll get out of here, though, and then who knowth?

Well, there's always hope then. I admit, I like it better here than home, too, so that's two of us.

[She tried a reassuring smile]

If there's a way home eventually, who says you'll have to take it?

Yeah, it'th okay. The Thity wath more interethting, but at leatht there aren't any curtheth here.

[He shrugs] If there'th a way, I have to go. My friendth need me.

Oh, I understand. I would go too, then.

[Too bad she didn't have any friends at home that needed her. She kinda envied Sollux a bit for this.]

I haven't noticed any curses here, true. A cursed city sounds troubling...

The curtheth in the Thity were more annoying than anything, really. Like turning into animalth for a few dayth and thtuff like that. I don't mind leaving thothe behind, but I wish there wath more to do.

That sounds like a very strange place, that city you are talking about.

I suppose we can explore the place, but I really haven't found anything else to do, that much is true. At least it is somewhat peaceful, outside of those shadow attacks...

Yeah, it wath really thtrange. The godth liked to fuck with uth, but the retht of the time it wath okay. [He is a little downcast, missing some people who were left behind there, but at least Karkat and Eridan are with him]

Ekthploring ith okay up to a point. But you can only do tho much of it.

The gods themselves interfered? [That seemed to surprise her]

Did those in the city have to fight them to drive them off? How did you make it?

[She was clearly thinking more along the lines of Zeus reaching down and causing trouble than about displaced gods making things nasty for a game's inhabitants]

Fight the godth? No. I don't think that wath really pothhible. But they did make dealth with them, thometimeth.

Deals?

That sounds really troubling... I'm glad you made it through that alright.

It wathn't that bad. I'm not blind and I have my powerth becauthe of dealth with the godth. Tho I'm not about to complain.

[Cordelia nodded, somewhat uneasily. Trying to change the topic, she tried to ask something that had made her wonder for a while.]

If I may be so frank, might I ask what you were doing to the artifact?

[She was, of course, talking about the phone...not that it was easy to tell.]

[Blinks] What artifact?

The one you were holding and fiddling with. I found one like that as well, earlier, shortly after my arrival.

Oh. That'th not an artifact. It'th a communication devithe. A phone.

So...it is a kind of crystal-ball, I take it? Somewhat similar to those a diviner uses?

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